unsigned/Alex The Great

The intro to Oh Mandy was enough to win us over to this band. This has potential to become an...

unsigned/Fantastic Plastic

There's a buzz building around Guillemots and no wonder. Their brief is to make popular music interesting and fresh, and...

Nomadic Music

This is one of those singles that could only be by a new band - and a band who demand...

Universal Music TV

We don't pretend to fully understand the Schnappi phenomenon, but it is undoubtedly fascinating. It's a four year-old girl singing...

unsigned

This band really caught our ears for the usual reason (or not that usual sadly) - they've got at least one really...

Exceptional

It's dance music but not as we have known it recently. Retro but fresh, full of energy and not pigeonholed...

Transistor Project

It's a hard time for the dreamers but it's an even harder time for the career pop songwriters. The silver...

Phonetic

This is most exciting record you could dance to we've heard in a long time, especially as it's all live...

unsigned

Expatriate are an Australian band who fit in well with that's going on in the UK right now - they...

Universal Denmark/Island

Since we last featured this, Island have committed to releasing Hush in the UK and we're delighted that If I...

Megaphonic

This featured in the season finale closing montage of The OC, causing it to leap from #98 to #32 on...

Universal Island

Unsatisfied is a deeply satisfying piece of songwriting - the best Nine Black Alps track yet. We keep hearing it...

unsigned

Stockholm's The Tourettes are so called because the singer has a mild form of Tourettes. They're managed by Teenage Fanclub...

Fader/Wichita

Great reactions when we featured this first time around. It's his most commercial track and it provides radio with a...

Buddhist Punk

Mattafix are intriguing for several reasons. They describe themselves as Massive Attack fronted by Shuggie Otis. That's a great description,...

Org/The Lab/Universal

Stimulator are led by singer Susan Hyatt (Pillbox) and guitarist-producer Geoff Tyson (who was in the terrifying Snake River Conspiracy)....

Mute

This band get better and better and could be about to get a lot bigger. Ooh La La is their...

Data

Like Lola's Theme and Groovejet, this started life as an instrumental and was a massive club record without a vocal....

Gusto

With Uniting Nations' last single Out Of Touch, we ran it past the RotD team, then we waited until there...

Blowout

Shortly after we first featured Skin And Bones, we heard it played on the PA between bands at a gig...

Wurdamouth

Freshwater Hughes managed Joss Stone until recently (the split was apparently amicable - she came to the end of her...