LA duo Deap Vally are touring the UK this month, having been heavily tipped by the NME and stacks of music blogs for a big 2013.
Clock Opera's consistent approach to alternative pop is remarkable, and when performed live you realise it was worth the wait.
This Canadian solo artist is something of a music machine, with at least six albums in the last couple of years.
If Donnie Darko writer/director Richard Kelly turned his hand to music then it may well turn out something akin to this Danish artist.
The term ‘multi-instrumentalist’ has never been so accurately utilised than when describing the Portland-based solo artist, Luke Wyland.
Forget that this quartet is known to make masterful remixes of the likes of Metronomy, Everything Everything and Marina & The Diamonds.
Breton finally released their ‘Other People’s Problems’, painting soundscapes of electronics soaked in ambient introspection.
Can't pronounce Michael Kiwanuka's name right now (it's 'my-kal')? He won the BBC Sound Of 2012 so you'll pick it up soon enough.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Edinburgh Zoo might have a pair of pandas but they just sit there and eat. Free Swim have a panda that plays bass. In your face Scotland.
LA five piece pop into town to play last year's debut album. Be warned, they have a reputation for taking the roof off venues.
The most talked about band from Liverpool in a long while are heading down south – if you like WIld Beasts get ready for the buzz.
We Have Band are ready to drop their second album and are heading to Brighton to play it loud – The Recommender will be there.
Throughout the last decade we saw the evolution of the music blog -no longer online vanity projects, they're now among the best places to locate new music.