ID

Wire Daisies are a class act. Our music editor Joe Taylor wanted to sign their publishing (in the end Mike...

unsigned

Brief history of Alexis Strum's career: signed first as a songwriter by Mike Sault at Warner/ Chappell, then as an artist...

Relentless

The buzz on this track is simply too big for us to ignore - thanks to messageboard regular Urban is...

S-Curve/Virgin

Fountains Of Wayne are masters of charming, concise, good old-fashioned pop songs as Hey Julie proves once more. This is...

Lookout

"Rock at its finest,� and "alternative bliss," raves Rolling Stone. Their sound is an exciting marriage of Motown and pop...

Poko/Propaganda

More proof that Finland really rocks, Bitch Alert are incredibly young, great live and impressing all the key rock press,...

Jive

Here's an exclusive preview of the new R Kelly double album Happy People/U Saved Me which is released on August 23....

J-Did/V2

We almost couldn't believe this was British when we heard it first - it's just too good. A breath of fresh...

Festival Mushroom (Australia)

Scribe is the most credible New Zealand hip hopper. Not Many is being heard week-in-week-out by millions of British record...

Rabid

We first saw this lot at the Swedish Grammis - they won an award and accepted it wearing monkey masks...

unsigned

Oyebanji Adebunmi, or Banji for short, is a poet and songwriter based in Lagos, Nigeria. He's licensing his material in...

City Slang/Labels

No soundclip. We loved Lambchop in the early days but more recently had assumed they were catering to their existing...

Chinese Pop

When we last featured Ivory he was unsigned and we described him as Madness to Mike Skinner's Clash. One bidding...

Festival Mushroom (Australia)

Eskimo Joe's A Song Is A City is an excellent rock album with major international appeal and at least three...

Poptones

You is the essence of new band excitement distilled into under two minutes. Apparently, Thee Unstrung's gigs are the essence...

Data

This track could prove pivotal in dance music for two reasons. The Shapeshifters track is what we'd call a Southern...

Source/Virgin

We featured this back in April as it was part of Orange mobile Try campaign. It's now C listed at...

Island

This was the B side of Keane's first ever single (on Fierce Panda), and it was this, more than the...

unsigned

Claire is 17 year-old singer songwriter from Croydon who will inevitably be bracketed with Avril Lavigne but is clearly rootsier...

unsigned

Bet you thought you heard all the versions you need to hear of this song, right? Think again, because Allison...

unsigned

Kalgren are from Minneapolis and they've been together less than a year. Waiting For You is songwriting of real class...