Seattle's Band Of Horses, making dreamy psychedelic pop laced with indie overtones and lashing of seventies prog-rock. Deliciously melancholic and unmistakably American.
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Listed on Ents24.com since: May 2007
Quite possibly one of the most exciting bands in Britain, Scots trio Simon Neil (guitar/vocals), Ben Johnston (drums/vocals) and James Johnston (bass/vocals) combine moments of extreme aggression with achingly tender guitar pickings and passionately lovelorn lyricism.
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Formed in 2000 by a group of teenage friends, Black Lips quickly became one of the Atlanta underground’s most talked about bands. Famed for their frenzied live shows and genre-twisting style, they're one of the most exciting and electrifying bands around.
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Listed on Ents24.com since: Feb 2004
British Sea Power are Yan, Noble Hamilton, Woody and Eamon. The band began life in Cumbria, 2001, and after a few relocations gained an enormous reputation in Brighton and then Europe, as tour supports to such greats as Interpol and The Flaming Lips. By the end of 2004, they were known worldwide, receiving acclaim as 'the best band in Britain' (Sunday Times) and attaining the Time Out award for Live Band Of The Year. It's quite remarkable that in this short time, BSP have established themselves as one of Britain's most noteworthy bands.
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Sunderland-based playing guitar-led post punk in the style of Wire and Gang Of Four with a twist of XTC. There's four of them in the band and they all sing; not harmony or unison - but all different tunes at once that somehow intertwine. Punk opera, perhaps?
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Manchester's The Courteeners both look and sound as though they've come straight out of another time and place, and yet, somehow, are bang up to date. Think Babyshambles meets The Smiths and you'll be somewhere close to their gritty, electrifying sound. 'NME strongly advises that you do put your life in the hands of this rock 'n' roll band'.
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Listed on Ents24.com since: Nov 2006
New York band Vampire Weekend rather oddly, but rather delightfully, combine African rhythms and Peter Gabriel-esque vocals with an urban, punkish tone. They describe themselves as specialist is the styles of Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, Upper West Side Soweto, Campus, and Oxford Comma Riddim.' As they themselves suggest, they have to be heard to be believed.
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Listed on Ents24.com since: Oct 2007
Holy F*ck started with a simple concept, to mimic modern,electronic music without using modern fail-safes like laptops and programmed backing tracks so they armed themselves with a drum set, a bass guitar, a myriad of toy keyboards, guitar peddles, mixers and even a 35mm film synchronizer and hit the stage. NME named them as one of their top 3 performances when they appeared at Glastonbury.
Listed on Ents24.com since: Apr 2006
Gorgeous electro-pop from French-English combo The Teenagers. Signed to Merok, the label that helped launch the careers of the Klaxons and Crystal Castles. 'Like the Velvets doing the soundtrack to a porno film with Vanessa Paradis on guest vocals' - The Guardian.
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