Warpaint

Warpaint weave intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals, and driving post punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between psychedelia and intimacy....

Dinosaur Jr

I Bet on Sky is the third Dinosaur Jr. album since the original trio – J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph – reformed in 2005. And, crazily, it marks the band’s 10th stu...

Sharon Jones and the Dap-kings

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have come a long way since their humble beginnings nearly a decade ago. On April 6th, 2010, Sharon Jones & the ...

The Walkmen

“The detachment you can feel throughout our younger records is gone. We felt like it was time to make a bigger, more generous statement." When describing the new album,...

Frightened Rabbit

For Scott Hutchison, the songwriting inspiration can come from anywhere. From a Scottish sitcom about a larky soldier who’s served in Iraq. A break-up, his own usually ...

Jens Lekman

Tracey Thorn wrote a song that reached Jens in the early stages of his new album, I Know What Love Isn't. In her song she sang "Oh Jens, oh Jens / your songs seem to look...

Efterklang

The band consists of the 3 childhood friends Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen & Rasmus Stolberg. Performing live Efterklang is joined by sweet and talented people like Pe...

Daughter

The London-based trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella, collectively known as Daughter, has signed to 4AD worldwide, outside of North America. On the stren...

Poliça

Minneapolis continues its golden run of producing quality talent with the first project to arrive out the Gayngs collective, the super slick electronic pop-soul outfit Po...

Matthew E White

Like all of us, Matthew E. White was born into a constructed world. His unfolded out of the mingled sands of Virginia Beach and Manila, the youngest son in a family that ...

Palma Violets

For a long time if you wanted to hear the most exciting new band in Britain, you knocked on a tall black door off the Lambeth Road. An aging British Rail building - part ...

The Leisure Society

Double Ivor Novello nominees The Leisure Society are to release a brand new album, Alone Aboard The Ark, on April 1 through Full Time Hobby. The album...

Savages

Savages' intention was to create a sound, indestructible and musically solid, written for the stage, designed with enough nuances to provide a wide range of emotions. Sav...

Dawes

While the city of Los Angeles has been both an inspiration and a home to the four members of Dawes, they found themselves traveling East last fall to record their third a...

Ed Harcourt

There aren't many well-dressed English gents in their mid-30s with six albums (one of which was Mercury nominated), a greatest hits and US tours with the likes of REM and...

Caitlin Rose

If you fell in love with Nashville’s Caitlin Rose and her garlanded 2010 debut album, Own Side Now, you were in good company. Led by her golden nectar voice, an irrepre...

Allo Darlin’

Allo Darlin' are many things. They can turn a room in a famous punk venue into a joyous, jumping, sweaty, pop-mosh pit. Or bring a room of 500 to hush...

PINS

Formed in the final few months of 2011, PINS began to cause a stir with their debut release - the moody Eleventh Hour backed with the punchier Shoot You - in spring 2012....

Ethan Johns

I don't mind you grinnin' in my face," sings Ethan Johns on "Morning Blues," the second track off his new solo album. "I got a shuffle and a shake, a little noise to make...

The Staves

The rise and rise of sibling trio The Staves over the last 18 months has been nothing short of meteoric. Their debut album 'Dead & Born & Grown' received near f...

Wolf Alice

Having debuted on Huw Stephen's 'In New Music We Trust' on BBC Radio One, North London's Wolf Alice are set to release their debut single on 11th February through Chess C...

Widowspeak

Widowspeak is an American band comprised of Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, known for its dreamy, western-tinged take on rock and roll. Their self-titled debut was...

Bo Ningen

Brought into the world kicking and screaming, Bo Ningen arrived when Taigen and Kohhei’s post-rock bands played on the same bill in early 2007. It was bad news for thei...

Laish

LAISH, indie folk heroes from Brighton, have Danny Green writing and singing songs infused with a delicate grit,. Green’s voice is like no other, from a deep and warm b...

Mark Mulcahy

Mark Mulcahy is from Springfield Massachusetts. Yes, that Springfield. He has been coming to play the UK for many years and is so so happy to do that. He has not had an a...

Heartless Bastards

Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic col...

Cayucas

Cayucas: Pronounced "ky-yook-us", is the monikered homage to a sleepy little seaside town in San Luis Obispo County, California. That town, Cayucos, has hardly changed in...

Marika Hackman

There’s a violence to the countryside, encapsulated in the sumptuous prose of D.H Lawrence’s in which metaphors engorge and heighten into states of pure ecstasy. A fa...

Cass McCombs

Humor Risk was recorded in various homes and studios in California, New York, New Jersey and Chicago, and was produced by Cass McCombs and Ariel Rechtshaid, with whom he ...

Golden Fable

‘I’ve always liked the idea that we as humans each have a tailored set of principles with which we try to navigate our way through life. When a bird first begins its ...

Golden Suits

Golden Suits is Fred Nicolaus of the band Department of Eagles. He wrote or co- wrote with Daniel Rossen many of the group's best known songs, including "No One Does it L...

Merchandise

Merchandise is a band fighting against the easy categorization reserved for abbreviated biographies. The project is equal parts punk misanthropy, maudlin balladeering, fi...

Evening Hymns

Evening Hymns are sung from the cathedrals of talls trees. They capture the spirit of moments, of friends around a bonfire on a foggy beach, the crunching of snowshoes in...

Indians

Indians are from Copenhagen. Indians' universe is magical, full of fables and (painful) love. Indians' music is dreamy, with roots in the psychedelic folk, and fingers de...

Teleman

Teleman are a new three-piece who have emerged from the clatter and chaos of London to present their debut single ‘Cristina’, a gently propulsive song showcasing lead...

Night Beds

Welcome to the sound of Winston Yellen and Night Beds, who in one stunning ten-track debut album Country Sleep, have shown that there is plenty of life left in the world ...

Birthday Girl

Ewan Johnson met twin brothers Martin & Fran Baxter whilst living in Leeds. Blending beautiful melodies with simple arrangements and a dark lyrical thread, Birthday ...

Diana Jones

Singer-songwriter Diana Jones brings the inspiring sounds of old-time Appalachia music to her new CD, recorded at The Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee. Featurin...

Money

East India Youth

East India Youth - who is responsible for the love-lorn synth pop of ‘Looking For Someone’ and the chemically-dazed rapture of ‘Heaven, How Long’ from the stunnin...

William Tyler

Impossible Truth was born on tour as William Tyler was reading two books with an odd kinship while on long and lonely Midwestern drives: Barney Hoskyns’ Hotel Californi...

Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs

“Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs came to our attention supporting TOY earlier this year. Perfectly channeling mid-70s NYC art punk in the back room of...

Futur Primitif

Futur Primitif is the new project from songwriter and singer Daniel Lefkowitz, former member of American indie-folk gentry The Low Anthem. Daniel (voice/guitar) is joined...

El Perro Del Mar

We are happy to announce that El Perro Del Mar’s new album PALE FIRE will be released on November 12th throughout Europe (Germany November 9th) and November 13th in Nor...

Deptford Goth

Daniel Woolhouse describes his music as, “sitting somewhere between real and synthetic,” but the emotional impact of his musical alias Deptford Goth is about as human...

Doug Paisley

The Canadian singer-songwriter began his career playing straight bluegrass. His album 'Constant Companion' is a quiet wonder, fairly soft rock that wouldn't shake any lif...

Dutch Uncles

Isn’t it great to see a young band growing the old fashioned way? Three albums into their career, Manchester’s Dutch Uncles, a group who pitched their tents firmly in...

Landshapes

Landshapes debut album Rambutan is released on Bella Union on June 17th. First single In Limbo, with its stunning video, proves a triumphant opening salvo. “It’s alwa...

Fossil Collective

‘Tell Where I Lie’ is the debut album from Fossil Collective. The long awaited LP from Leeds multi-instrumentalists David Fendick and Jonny Hooker has been a long tim...

Houndmouth

Houndmouth is comprised of four musicians from New Albany, IN, across the river from Louisville - hence 'From the Hills Below the City.' Matt Myers (guitar/vocals), Katie...

Julianna Barwick

Hauntingly beautiful and unique, the music of vocalist/composer Julianna Barwick has garnered tremendous critical acclaim from three independent albums, which she recorde...

Parquet Courts

Parquet Courts is a band from New York City. At the center of the group is A. Savage, who at this point is known for his collaborations with projects like Fergus & G...

Duologue

In today’s fast-paced world time is precious. Some bands deserve your time, and this is one of them. Duologue are the antithesis of pop music’s current disposable cul...

Valerie June

Valerie June is a self-taught musician, singer and songwriter whose achingly beautiful vocal coupled with a stunning and emotive amalgamation of folk, blues, gospel, soul...

Ralfe band

Filthy Boy

Filthy Boy, who hurtled into 2013 with a Palma Violets support slot the same night Zane Lowe declared them his Next Hype on Radio 1, signed to Stranger Records at the end...

RM Hubbert

Solo guitarist from Glasgow, Scotland signed to Chemikal Underground Records. A prolific live performer, Hubbert has supported the likes of Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Em...

Eyes and no eyes

"Eyes & No Eyes met at art school in Brighton and developed a shared passion for explosive noise, surreal lyrics, driving motorik beats and free improvisation - whil...

Bob Lind

Totally inimitable and unique, Bob Lind writes, sings and plays guitar like no one else – and he’s been doing it for more than 40 years. It began in 1966, when the 23...

ICHI

ICHI, from Nagoya in Japan, takes the notion of a one-man band to new limits, combining his quirky handmade instrument inventions with steel-drum, ping- pong balls, toys,...

Seventeen Evergreen

San Francisco based duo Seventeen Evergreen reflect the west coast spirit of five decades of Psychedelia and the various flavors evident in their fogg...

Rachael Dadd

Experimental folk multi-instrumentalist RACHAEL DADD is one of the busiest artists we've encountered. Living her life between Japan and England, she is constantly touring...

Crocodiles

San Diego, CA’s Crocodiles signed to Frenchkiss Records and released their third full-length album, Endless Flowers, in June 2012. While following in the footsteps of t...

Daniel Norgren

Daniel Norgren is a Swedish songwriter from the tall woods of the north. He’s working through a very small indie label called superpuma records and has been doing so si...

Frontier Ruckus

The band has played a thousand-some-odd shows in the past half-decade—across the States and Europe, as well as behind venues, after-hours, aside dumpsters till all requ...

Broken Twin

Black Yaya

Black Yaya is David Ivar, Frontman and Writer for Herman Dune. David Ivar wrote entire sets of songs for his new record and thought of them as a totally different but equ...

The Graphite Set

Lily Buchanan AKA The Graphite Set is an East Lothian raised, London based, musician and artist. Her debut EP ‘These Streets’ featuring guest guitar from Katherine Bl...

Trembling Bells and Mike Heron

To coincide with Hux Records’ release of Incredible String Band ‘Live at Fillmore East, 1968′ album, original ISB band member, Mike Heron is tea...

Jessica Pratt

To say that Jessica Pratt is an old soul would be a vast understatement, says Jenn Pelly of Pitchfork. “The young San Francisco singer/songwriter’s deeply intimate fo...

Braids

Braids, the Canadian experimental pop group who released Native Speaker in 2011, have reinvented themselves in the making of their second full length. After 18 months o...

Tiger Cats

Tigercats are a band from East London who make pop music with guitars, keyboards and drums. After previous band Esiotrot shambled to a halt, songwriter Duncan Barrett sou...

Anna Von Hausswollff

It begins with the sound of a church organ, an arpeggio played on the lower notes, a melody teased out in the higher register, before a snare drum bea...

WALL

Influenced by artists such as St Vincent and Patti Smith, WALL takes her lead from women with a strong sense of identity, using her unique formula of layered production a...

Evans the Death

Evans the Death is formed of 2 brothers and 2 friends and lives in London. We enjoy eating pizza, watching films, getting hammered and playing music as loud and as well a...

Pokey Lafarge

Pokey LaFarge is on a mission, encouraging audiences worldwide to think differently about what it means to celebrate musical traditions: “It’s not retro music. It’s...

Damien Jurado

Maraqopa, population 2. Damien Jurado's newest collaboration with producer Richard Swift drops us into a brutal and benevolent landscape. The bold strokes and new turns t...

John Murry

John Murry comes from Tupelo, Mississippi and he’s William Faulkner’s grandson or nephew or something. He used to hang out at the juke joints of folk who’d record f...

King Khan & The Shrines

Imagine Roky Erickson backed by the Sun Ra Arkestra or Wilson Pickett and The Velvet Underground, or picture the love child of Anubis and Kali. King K...

Woodpecker Wooliams

“Assuming various personas to deliver her astonishingly dark, heartfelt, and resoundingly odd compositions, [Woodpecker Wooliams] leaves much of the...

Strand of Oaks

All of the songs Timothy Showalter writes as Strand of Oaks are based on true stories. And in Strand of Oaks songs, lovers get divorced, murder John Belushi’s drug deal...

Angel Olsen

After her highly-acclaimed debut Strange Cacti landed in the hands of listeners, it became very obvious the special presence Angel Olsen offered to listeners. She had a f...

The Barr Brothers

One of the first Christmas presents that Brad and Andrew Barr received were two pairs of red boxing gloves. They set up a makeshift ring in their basement in Providence, ...

Serafina Steer

Serafina Steer’s new Rough Trade Shops Album of The Month and Jarvis Cocker produced album ‘The Moths Are Real’ is out on CD, LP and download on January 14th, 2013 ...