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You could, perhaps, put it down to youthful exuberance, but Italy’s The Pier have little regard for rules or convention. Formed by three childhood friends – Gabriele Terlizzi, Davide Pasculli and Danilo De Candia – as a high school band in ...

Ah, summer camp. Roasting marshmallows around the campfire, fighting over who got the top bunk, making tie-dye t-shirts. Heady days, right? But Austrians Dora De Goederen, Tamara Leichtfried, and Viktoria Kirner did something far more constructive with their ...

Originally from Antwerp with Portuguese roots, Salomé Dos Santos created the moniker Blu Samu with reference to her love for the color blue and her fascination with samurai culture. Although both elements have no relevance to the urban culture and the slick ...

Dreamy synth-pop. That pretty much sums up Vendredi Sur Mer’s sound. Inspired by the Gainsbourg murky pop heritage and the 80s French synthpop/coldwave golden age, Charline Mignot travels the listener into a deep, sensual and oneiric dream. Her music is ...

The Hungarian garage punks Dope Calypso remind us that as long as you have plenty of attitude, volume and writing skills everything else falls into place. Using these elements to the fullest, their music is a sonic pop-punk smash that bursts through the ...

Formed in 2013, Ulysse are a trio made up of Arnaud Duynstee, Benoît Do Qang and Julien Gathy. After enlisting touring drummer Martin Grégoire last September, the group finally feel like a proper band. They’re a sort of Soulwax for the internet age, an electro ...

Based in Athens, Greece, The Blue Square is the duo of Radim (Vasilis Sourais) and Radical (Christos Volotas) who have come together with a shared passion for sample-heavy, cinematic sounds in the mold of Flying Lotus or Wax ...

Never has a band been named more suitably! Beach Beach are, simply put, a beautiful Mediterranean beach, sun, joy and fun – the perfect musical postcard. Originally from Mallorca but settled in Barcelona, the band crafts effervescent pop treasures, ideal for a Sunday morning in a Mallorcan cove.

Rough-and-ready punk rock has (sadly) become somewhat unfashionable lately, what with the plethora of bedroom pop and glacial R&B artists hoovering up acclaim and column inches. Dutch four-piece St. Tropez didn’t get the memo though; they resolutely plough their own furrow of what they call � ...

If Brian Wilson had grown up listening to My Bloody Valentine albums, he would have been a member of Baywaves. They're the group that played on Laura Palmer's walkman when she died in Twin Peaks. Young and cheeky, the courageous and inspired members of ...