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Crafting lyricism with candid veracity, Brimheim’s brand of indie rock provides the unexpected yet catchy. Imagine the illegitimate love child of Florence Welsh and PJ Harvey — a goth teen who listens to Radiohead and reads Murakami. Articulate phrases run their nails along her day-to-day attempts to decipher the ‘how to’ of happiness. Naturally, an underlying current of anxiety undulates throughout, but occasional flowerings of hope and humor offer a welcome and Read more on Last.fm

The Velvet Underground was an American experimental rock band formed in New York City in 1964. It originally comprised singer and guitarist Lou Reed, Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise. In 1965 MacLise was replaced by Moe Tucker, who played on most of the band's recordings. Though their integration of rock and the avant-garde resulted in little commercial success, they became one of the most influential bands in rock, underground, experimental, and alternative music. Read more on Last.fm

Bob Marley and the Wailers (previously known as The Wailers, and prior to that The Wailing Rudeboys, The Wailing Wailers and The Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley), Peter Tosh (Hubert Winston McIntosh), and Bunny Wailer (Neville Livingston). During 1970 and 1971, Wailer, Marley and Tosh worked with renowned reggae producers Leslie Kong and Lee "Scratch" Perry. Read more on Last.fm

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Beginning their career with live stints in moist caves and on BBC 2's "Newsnight," Manchester's Delakota strives for that tricky sonic patch between shambolic Madchester indie, nostalgic retro-rock, and scuffed-up, modern dance. Des Murphy and ex-Senseless Things Cass Browne made their group debut in 1997 with a limited white-label single, "C'mon Cincinnati," but it wasn't until a respected remix for David Holmes and the premier commercial release of "The Rock" that the band started to gain the attention of international press. Read more on Last.fm

‘Magnificently yearning’ - Tom Robinson BBC6 Music Shot through with enough pathos and pain to melt the hardest of hearts, Hhymn have been causing quite a stir since Ed Bannard and Simon Ritchie first got together, in their native Nottingham, in early 2008. Quickly coming to the conclusion that empty vessels make the most noise, Ritchie and Bannard retreated into what they call “a wilderness world of zithers, mandolins, ukuleles, harmoniums Read more on Last.fm

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born 12 April 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboard player, bandleader and composer. He began his professional career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group before joining the Miles Davis Quintet, where he played a significant role in the development of the post-bop style and expanded the role of the jazz rhythm section. During the 1970s, he explored jazz fusion, funk and electronic music, making extensive use of synthesizers and electronic instruments. Read more on Last.fm

Bill Callahan, born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan followed the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with homemade tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he signed a record contract with the label Drag City. Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, utilizing sub-standard instruments and recording equipment. His reason for using the lo-fi approach was not so much an aesthetic choice, rather it came from his lack of knowledge of recording studios, and fear of giving up control to professional engineers. Read more on Last.fm

Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career began in the 1960s. His albums have achieved commercial success in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK Top 40, as well as internationally in countries including Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Morrison has scored top ten albums in the UK across four consecutive decades, most recently with "Latest Record Project, Volume 1" (2021). Read more on Last.fm

Dolly Rebecca Parton (January 19, 1946 - August 25, 2026) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman. After initial success as a songwriter for other artists, she released her debut album, "Hello, I'm Dolly", in 1967. Her career spans around six decades and more than 50 studio albums. Known as the "Queen of Country", Parton is regarded as one of the most successful and widely honoured female country music performers in history. Read more on Last.fm