RCA Victor

Appropriately for a band that's just signed a major label deal, there's a pleasing momentum about Amber Run, the new...

Relentless/Cinematic

Azealia Banks, Angel Haze, A$AP Rocky. You barely need venture beyond the letter A for proof of New York's undisputed crown as...

Warner Bros. Records

Being something of a melting-pot outfit themselves, comprising former members of Brit-rockers The Paddingtons and Boston-via-Portland's the Dead Trees, SKATERS'...

Parlophone

We don't wish to boast about how long we've been supporting Luke Sital-Singh, suffice to say his first RotD feature included...

Hassle Records

There's something touchingly unambitious about Lonely The Brave's Facebook description of 'five men trying to be something to someone', as if one...

Republic Records / Island Records

For a time during the spring it became impossible to accurately measure the heat on Ruen Brothers because they appeared...

Island Records

Powerfully articulating the case for permanently appending the word 'Dutch' to the phrase 'DJ and super producer' is the Netherlands'...

unsigned

The temptation, when introducing an artist about whom no information has been released except where they are from, is to...

Chess Club / RCA Victor

We first witnessed the tiny tornado that is Karen Marie Ørsted, better known as MØ, kicking up the dust at Austin's...

Parlophone

Best known for his uncompromising Kanye West collaborations on the Yeezus album, in particular Black Skinhead, Paris-based DJ/producer Gesaffelstein makes beautiful,...

unsigned

For a band apparently determined to make themselves completely invisible to Google, French-Irish electro-pop duo 'R' are doing a pretty...

unsigned/Hospital Samples

We Prefer It In The Dark is the impressive debut from brother and sister duo Bat and Ball, whose sparse and jagged...

Positiva / Virgin EMI

There was a time when the pinnacle of achievement at the age of seventeen was passing your driving test first...

Linn Records

'Critical acclaim' is such a well-worn press release platitude as almost to have become white noise. Which is a shame...

unsigned/Rising Tide Music

First featured in the RotD weekly magazine back in April, unsigned singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Stevens continues to enjoy a phenomenal...

Hide & Seek

Are you an ad creative looking to instantaneously stir feelings of warmth and nostalgia in the hearts of middle-aged, middle-income...

unsigned/Once Upon A Time Records

The anticipated explosion of angry punk rock, lit by the blue touch paper of tough times and Tory cuts, never quite seemed to...

Relentless / Karma Artists

With official remix credits that read like a BPI top sellers report (among them Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, Bastille, Ellie...

Fools Gold

Of the three names she selected among to be professionally known by, Nanna Øland Fabricius definitely chose the right one, because...

True Say Recordings

We can't work out whether the whooshing sound at the beginning of Thumpers' new single is someone blowing up a balloon...

unsigned/Ignition 45s

Smelting Gish-era Smashing Pumpkins with the gnarly lyricism of Time For Heroes and the indie-disco danceability of Take Me Out, all in...

Universal/Island

We've had one eye on Tennessee-born Brooklynite LOLO ever since she surfaced on the blogs in early summer, the switch...

Ministry of Sound/Defected

Last seen on these shores providing the iconic remix for Nightcrawlers' Push The Feeling On, legendary house producer Marc Kinchen...