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A Tribe Called Red

Categories, Music

Tribal calls, big bass, hip hop beats and manipulated vocal samples all come together in A Tribe Called Red's energetic musical work-outs.

Mikill Pane

Categories, Pop and rock

A protégé of star jazz drummer Seb Rochford, Pane comes across as a kind of Ghostpoet/Mike Skinner hybrid. He’s full of downbeat, self-deprecating tales, all set to a banging post-dubstep backdrop.

Cloud Control

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Signed to Infectious, this Sydney quartet play their stompy, bass-driven, stripped back guitar-pop, packed with multi-part vocal harmonies. They're hooky but quirky, and pitch up somewhere between The Shins, Beach Boys and Animal Collective.

Slow Magic

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Dreamily woozy, synth-dappled glitchtronics from the headliners who will find favour with fans of Purity Ring and Washed Out.

Thumpers

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Thumpers might not be producing house music, but we'd venture that you could have a fair boogie to their guitar-led melange. This sort of optimistic and adventurous indie is a field in which, until now, America has had the upper hand. Not any more – thump...

Sin Fang

Alternative rock, Pop

Sindri Már Sigfússon, the founder of Icelandic band Seabear, wheels out his long-running solo project. The latest Sin Fang album, 'Flowers', is a slowly unfolding, lushly electronic alt pop record which will go down well with fans of Sindri's compatriots...

PVT

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Australian, Warp-signed electronica trio PVT (formerly Pivot) show off their fondness for melodies, guitars and post-punk/pop as well as glitch, post-techno/house and nu-disco. They've got a new album out called 'Homosapien', which showcases yet another...

Wolf People

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

A raw, exceedingly groovy, slightly proggish psych-blues sextet, Wolf People are seemingly as fond of Captain Beefheart and Johnny Harris as Cream and The Animals. They play from their terrific new album, ‘Fain’. Typically bearded and check-shirted they...

Visage

New wave and post-punk

Whales In Cubicles

Categories, Pop and rock

Moody indie art rockers.

VV Brown

Soul

You may remember Brown from her debut album 'Travelling Like the Light', which mixed bubblegum punk 'n' soul up with summery doo wop and '60s R&B. Well, she's back – but not as you last saw her. After cancelling the release of her second album, Brown...

Fight Like Apes

Categories, Pop and rock

The muddled rock of this Dublin crew comes complete with a yelpy lady and what sounds rather like a cantankerous drunk uncle on vocals.

Akron/Family

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Rated highly by Michael Gira of Swans (always a man of taste), these pan-American avant-gardists deliver an intense and joyous, genre-defying, experimental take on neo-folk, art rock and psychedelia. They're here to play, with much swapping of instrument...

Foxes

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Headlining newbie Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, is NYC hipster label Neon Gold's latest signing. Touting her new EP 'Warrior', her music is a gorgeous collision of yearning harmonies and glitch-fangled indie. Should find favour with fans of Florence And...

Portugal The Man

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Ramshackle, lo-fi, country-popping hairy men hailing from Alaska, but now based in Portland, tout their delicious distorted blues rawk a la The Black Keys.

Hooded Fang

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

This very exciting Canadian foursome bash out lo-fi garage-punk, which is getting gnarlier every time they release an album. They're here to promote their third album, 'Caves', which is out only a year after the brilliant 'Tosta Mista'.