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Porij (as in porridge) is a British four-piece band that blends house, garage, new wave and lo-fi pop. Comprising Eggy (vocals and keys), Tommy (vocals and guitar), Jammo (bass) and Tom (drums), the four were sharing university halls and studying popular music together at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Having tentatively started to make beats, it was when a friend’s band pulled out of a live show that they were asked to step in with only a week to write a setlist. Read more on Last.fm

Fatoumata Diawara (born 1982) is a Malian musician currently living in France. Born in the Ivory Coast to Malian parents, Diawara moved to France to pursue acting, appearing in Cheikh Oumar Cissoko's 1999 feature film La Genèse, Dani Kouyaté's popular 2001 film Sia, le rêve du python, in the internationally renowned street theatre troupe Royal Deluxe, and played a leading role in the musical Kirikou et Karaba. She later took up the guitar and began composing her own material Read more on Last.fm

In the eleven years since her last project, Erykah Badu has gathered not conclusions but a series of existential insights. Before the World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment exists within the tension between introspection and growth. Abi is Badu. Alan is The Alchemist. Recorded over 18 months in Dallas and Los Angeles, the album is the inevitable collision of two iconoclasts—hypnotic, funny, blunt, deeply personal, and impossible to categorize neatly. Read more on Last.fm

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Louis Culture is a 24-year-old rapper, producer and DJ from south London. His 2020 debut project, Smile Soundsystem, journeyed seamlessly through several genres, including garage, breakbeat and house, and illustrated his ability to shift musically in a way that felt fresh Read more on Last.fm

Jordan Rakei, now based in London, started his career in 2012 playing keyboards in many acts around Brisbane and New Zealand. He self-released his debut six-track EP Franklin' s Room, in September 2013 followed by Groove Course in August 2014 through Soul has no tempo. He also featured on the FKJ song 'Learn to fly'. In 2015, he featured on 'Sunrise / Beautiful' by Ta-Ku, 'Wake Up This Day' by Tom Misch and 'Masterpiece' by Disclosure. 'The light' and 'Talk to me' were released as an advance of 'Cloak' Read more on Last.fm

Cowboy Hunters are a Scottish duo comprising Megan Pollock and Desmond Johnston. Formed in Edinburgh in 2022 and now based in Glasgow, the pair met while studying music at Edinburgh Napier University. Their formation followed the split of their earlier projects, Choka and National Playboys. Their sound combines punk, rave-rock, grime and pop, with distorted production, heavy riffs and blunt, irreverent lyrics. Cowboy Hunters balance high-energy, danceable music with provocative humour and observations on contemporary life. Read more on Last.fm

What do you think of when you hear the name "PowerSolo"? 'Round Denmark way, the moniker apparently conjures the trash-rock psychobilly legacy of Hasil Adkins, the Cramps, and Southern Culture on the Skids. Powersolo may be a power trio, but in this case, the prog-metal acrobatics of rush are replaced with something they call "donkey punk." Two tremolo-loving chicken-scratch, rail-thin guitarists Kim Kix and Atomic Child. And drummer J.C. Benz playing his trade on just a snare, bass drum, and floor tom. Read more on Last.fm

Lauren Auder is a singer/songwriter born in the United Kingdom and raised in the south west of France. Lauren honed her craft in her teenage years producing and lending her baritone drawl in the underground french rap and experimental electronic scenes. Over the last two years Lauren has been developing her own sound in bedroom studios across provincial France and London, adopting the ethos of classic era baroque pop to fuse elements of post-rock and soul with modern classical, ambient and experimental electronics. Read more on Last.fm