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Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. She was the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, who became one of Motown's most successful acts during the 1960s and one of the best-selling girl groups in history, achieving twelve number-one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. After leaving the Supremes in 1970, Ross began a solo career with the release of her debut album, "Diana Ross". Between 1972 and 1980, she recorded four top ten albums, with "Diana" being her most successful studio release. Read more on Last.fm

Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an electronic and alternative band hailing from Ghent, Belgium with traces as early as 1992. Though the Dewaele Brothers have created several major albums under this moniker, they are perhaps best-known for their influential contributions to the bastard pop genre under the name Fucking Dewaele Brothers and 2 Many DJ's. and the landmark record As Heard On Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2. They are the main act of any Radio Soulwax event. Read more on Last.fm

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970) known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actress. Her work spans music, film, and television, and she has received numerous awards, including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two NAACP Image Awards, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2006, she became the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Read more on Last.fm

The Cure are an English gothic rock band formed in Crawley in 1976 by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) and Lol Tolhurst (drums). The band’s current lineup consists of Smith, Simon Gallup (bass), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards), Perry Bamonte (guitar and keyboards), Jason Cooper (drums), and Reeves Gabrels (guitar). Smith has been the sole constant member throughout the group’s history, while Gallup has appeared on all but two of the band’s studio albums. Read more on Last.fm

Robyn is the stage name of the Swedish pop singer-songwriter Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden). She is best known for her critically acclaimed electropop music, her impressive live shows and the hits "With Every Heartbeat" (#1 UK) and "Dancing On My Own" (#8 UK, #1 Sweden). In 2011, the single "Dancing On My Own" was nominated at Grammy Awards for the category Best Dance Recording. She is the owner of Konichiwa Records, through which she releases her music, including Robyn and Body Talk. Read more on Last.fm

In 1999, the director Baz 'Moulin Rouge' Luhrmann had a UK surprise chart-topping one hit wonder. The wording became an urban legend known as the "Sunscreen Graduation Speech". The legend says the wording was from a graduation speech at MIT while in truth they were a journalist writing what she would say at such a speech, but either way their insight isn't lost. The lyrics were actually taken from a column published in The Chicago Tribune in 1997. Read more on Last.fm

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Getdown Services are a British dance punk and apocalyptic disco duo from Bristol, United Kingdom. Their music has been described as a mix of The Streets, Sleaford Mods and LCD Soundsystem. Their debut album, [alvum artist=Getdown Services]Crisps came out in November 2023. Read more on Last.fm

LuxJury is a London, United Kingdom-based three-piece, "whose self-effacing indie-rock sounds just as at home blasting from a Hackney dive bar jukebox as it would crackling from a car stereo drifting down the Pacific Coast Highway." Their debut single, 'Hot Mess', came out in November 2025. In 2024, Lux sent a self-released EP to Bella Union Records. She expected it to go straight to 'junk' and prepared herself for giving up music altogether. In 2025, Lux had been given the support of Bella to morph the EP into an album. Read more on Last.fm