Name: Enemies Where They’re From: Kilcoole, Ireland When They Started: 2007 Genre: Post-math rock For Fans Of: And So I Watch You From Afar, Adebisi Shank,...

Where groups like LCD Soundsystem have brought electronic music into the rock shows, few electronic music DJs have experimented with bringing rock 'n' roll into the...

With a combination of super-cuteness and sassy lyrics delivered with style, young dancehall deejay and singer Tifa has shaken up the scene in her native Kingston and...

Both on her own and as a member of indie hip-hop cohort Doomtree, Dessa has a reputation among critics and the people who actually matter as a steal-your-breath amazing...

Name: Little Green Cars Where They're From: Dublin When They Started: 2008 For Fans Of: Arcade Fire, Postal Service, The Shins Sounds Like: Earnest indie...

Bosnian Rainbows is a strange and mysterious creature, even as genre-bending indie bands go. Two fifths ex-Mars Volta members, it's nevertheless a new band, but formed...

Name: Cashew Chemists Where They’re From: Singapore, baby When They Started: 2011 Genre: Indie Rock For Fans Of: Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, She &...

Name: As They Burn Where they’re from: The Paris suburbs When They Started: 2007 Genre: Progressive Metalcore Most Similar: Meshuggah, Gojira Sounds Like:...

South by Southwest is cool and all, but Festival Nrmal is crazyvilleawesomesauce. Every band in the world is going to be in Austin next week for the big music industry...

Name: Las Ardillas Where They’re From: San Juan, Puerto Rico When They Started: 2000 Genre: Garage Punk Most Similar: Admittedly, Davila 666 and Los...

Coachella is the Pitchfork or even the Vice of music festivals, magisterial yet pompous and over exposed enough to become an irresistible target. On the one hand they...

Zuzuka Poderosa's bio is a lot like the story of global bass music itself. The Brazil-born, Brooklyn-based bass vocalist is inspired by baile funk but her music has...

Name: No Rome (Rome Gomez) Where They’re From: Manila, Philippines When They Started: 2013 Genre: Electropop Most Similar: Toro Y Moi, Blackbird...

Name: Bentcousin (Amelia and Pat Innit) Where They’re From: Brighton, UK (Now based in London) When They Started: 2011 Genre: Indie pop Most Similar: Scott...

Name: Ricsárdgír (pronounced Richard Gere) Where They’re From: Budapest, Hungary When They Started: 2007 Genre: Anti-indie Most Similar: Mister Bungle, Ween,...

DJ producer and songwriter and Isabel Gonzales Toro, known as Isa GT, is basically the creative equivalent of a salad spinner, with tons of vitamin packed projects going...

Barely formed in 2011, Malaysian indie pop band The Impatient Sisters don't even have a single out yet, but they have played with Zee Avi and opened for The Jezabels....

Name: Soosh (Soroosh Khavari) Where He's from: Glasgow, Scotland by way of Iran When He Started: 2011 Genre: Post-dubstep/beatmaking action Most Similar:...

The sound of Melbourne’s Alpine couldn’t be more polished and precise but the indie pop six piece’s co-frontwomen Lou James and Phoebe Baker insist their songwriting...

The band is up on stage bashing out what could be a punk addled Chuck Berry cover. (It's that good.) It's the first song of their set and they've been at it for awhile...