Fader/Wichita

We're Saul Williams converts since seeing his SXSW show (thanks to Nizlopi for insisting we attend). Saul is part rapper,...

Drowned In Sound

Martha's last two singles (which we loved) have been impassioned, if not confrontational. When The Day Is Short is positively...

Sanctuary

The new Robert Cray album is not something we would have expected to grab us, but we gave it a...

Idaho

Nerina Pallot has one of our favourite voices of the moment - her voice lights up any song. She's an...

EMI

A confession: we really didn't get Kevin Mark Trail at first. But we listened to his album with an open...

Sony BMG

We weren't 100% sold on the first two Tom McRae albums although many of our friends in the media were,...

Son of Sam (Spain, France)

Chili Chili is a wickedly infectious Latin dance record and we're bringing it to you first, exclusively. We wouldn't be...

Warner Bros

Missy is properly massive in Australia (she has two ARIA nominations) and it's easy to hear why - talent, tunes...

Unsigned

The Birkenhead Fleetwood Mac return with their second independent single and it's another intelligent, subtle, harmony-filled pop record that goes...

Positiva

Robert Clivillés of C&C Music Factory took a six year break from the music industry after the other 'c' (David...

Universal

Cassius first hit the UK top 40 in 2002 on Blacklist/Edel who subsequently signed him on to Universal Island. Kanye...

Unsigned/Religion Management

What a striking sound from 22 year-old Finn, Astrid Swan. The orchestration is by another Finn, Jimi Tenor, and striking...

One Little Indian

His cover of The Clash's Janie Jones will at the very least make your ears prick up and might just...

Available to sign

We rarely find time to listen to whole albums by artists we've never heard of, and on this occasion we...

Atmospheriques (France)

You'll recognise this from the long running Peugeot 407 advert (the one with the wind up cartoon cars on the...

Columbia

We've been championing Switchfoot for the best part of two years now. Dare You To Move is the follow-up to...

Involved Productions

We've been championing this track for ages and it's finally due for release. It's starting to pick up support too,...

unsigned

We first featured teenage singer songwriter Claire in July of last year. Now her career is moving up the gears...

Copenhagen (Denmark)

This lovely track was a recent no 1 on MTV Nordic. We heard it and fell for it before we...

Catchy Tunes (Scandinavia)

We were given this track at SXSW. We could sing it after one listen and we have been struggling to...