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Alma

Based in

Finland, Helsinki

Style

Electro, Pop

Finnish singer-songwriter Alma is not your average pop princess, but a hardcore, kick-ass pop sensation. She’s a true born-in-the-late-’90s girl, with unique looks, a bubbly-yet-edgy personality, sassy attitude and razor-sharp songwriting skills. Alma’s songs ...

Gurr

Based in

Germany, Berlin

Style

Rock

With their guitar-heavy music, Gurr embody the West Coast sound, with comparisons being drawn to the likes of Surfer Blood and Best Coast. This sound is undoubtedly a remnant of Casablanca’s time studying abroad at UC Santa ...

HMLTD

Based in

United Kingdom, London

Style

Punk, Rock

Shock tactics are nothing new in music, but it's rare to see a band back up the bluster with brains. London six-piece Happy Meals Ltd – now stylized as HMLTD – have certainly ruffled a few feathers, but there's a depth to their art that sets them apart from ...

Jacques

Based in

France, Strasbourg, Paris

Style

Electro, House

Tout est magnifique ("Everything is wonderful"), boldly states Strasbourg-born and Paris-based producer Jacques's first EP, released on his up-and-coming label Pain Surprise. His claim is to be taken very literally; for the young, bizarre, hilarious ...

Rejjie Snow

Based in

Ireland, Dublin

Style

Hip-hop

Alex Anyaegbunam or Rejjie Snow as you know him, has been rhyming since he was a kid in Dublin. When the opportunity came to go Stateside for a soccer scholarship, the then 17-year-old headed to Atlanta and found himself falling for music. He later moved to ...

shame

Based in

United Kingdom, London

Style

Rock

This is how it starts. Youth and anger have always been a heady combination, and London five-piece Shame are no exception. These brash post-punks wield their instruments like weapons and turn teenage angst into venomous, pointed lyrics that are mature beyond ...

Shitkid

Based in

Sweden, Gothenburg

Style

Pop, Rock

You can get a pretty good grasp of Shitkid’s vibe just from looking at the artwork of her forthcoming debut album. Retro to the point of parody, it looks like it was cribbed from the early 1950’s; even her Midwestern “farmer ...

Sigrid

Based in

Norway, Bergen

Style

Pop

Born and raised in Ålesund, a small town on Norway's western coast, 20-year-old Sigrid grew up surrounded by the mountains and the sea. She was signed to the Norwegian indie label Petroleum at the age of 16 and recently landed a deal with Island Records in the ...

Sløtface

Based in

Norway, Stavanger

Style

Pop, Punk

Norwegian four-piece Sløtface have this amazing pop-punk energy. Their music too is great and hailing from the third biggest city in Norway only cements the fact the levels of music production out of there are A1. ...

Témé Tan

Based in

Belgium, Brussels

Style

Groove

When Tanguy Haesevoets was studying in Andalusia, people had trouble pronouncing his first name, so they simply called him Tan. He kept this nickname for his music project and added another word, Témé – two syllables meaning ‘the hand’ and ‘the eye’ in ...

The Parrots

Based in

Spain, Madrid

Style

Punk, Rock

Friends before they were a band, Diego García (guitar and vocals), Alex de Lucas (bass) and Larry Balboa (drums) met at university in Madrid and began playing punk music together. They learnt as they went along at each rehearsal, creating something from their ...