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Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian and American singer, musician, and songwriter. She is known for her mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, and has sold over 60 million records worldwide. Her awards include a Brit Award, seven Grammy Awards, fourteen Juno Awards, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with the dance-pop albums "Alanis" (1991) and "Now Is the Time" (1992). Read more on Last.fm

Prima Queen is an all female indie/alternative rock band fronted by songwriting duo and best friends Louise Macphail (Bristol, UK) and Kristin McFadden (Chicago, Read more on Last.fm

Leytonstone-born Murkage Dave (David Lewis) is a R&B / soul musician inspired by UK garage and founder of The Murkage Cartel (Manchester arts organisation) & Tonga (London club night). The Murkage Cartel is made up of the band Murkage, and a culturally diverse assortment of DJs, musicians, photographers, film makers, designers and bloggers. Tonga is a London-based event in partnership with Mike Skinner of The Streets. Murkage Dave has collaborated musically with Mike Skinner, Jaykae, Skepta, and french rapper Nekfeu. Read more on Last.fm

Show Me the Body started as a band in 2009 consisting of Julian Cashwan Pratt (banjo and vocals), Harlan Steed (bass), and Gabriel Millman (drums). Noah Cohen-Corbett (current drummer) joined the band in 2014. Their unique sound is heavily influenced, both sonically and in attitude, by the city that reared them: New York, United States. The band has been at the forefront of the city's underground since the release of their 2014 EP Yellow Kidney. Over Read more on Last.fm

Pulled Apart By Horses are a 4 piece post-hardcore band from Leeds, England. It could either be a sick torture method or, according to the Observer, "the best live band in Britain". The band began in Feb 2008, momentum built quickly and they grabbed the attention of Radio 1's Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq, the NME, Artrocker and many of Britain's indie labels. Since then their amp-melting blend of rock riffs and alt-noise has seen them climb to the Read more on Last.fm

A Cambridge-hailing duo that signed to section1, the Los Angeles-based sister label to Partisan Records. Their music drifts like a surreal dream, lurching and shimmering between memory and the uncanny. It draws on cinematic and literary inspirations like Adaptation and Sayaka Murata. The band records using "first takes" and refuses to overwork tracks, chasing an immediate, unfiltered sound. You can listen to their debut on the Left of the Dial website. Read more on Last.fm

Jamie Treays is a singer/songwriter from Wimbledon, South London, England. He is signed to Virgin Records but released his Betty and The Selfish Sons EP on his own Pacemaker Records label in 2007. His musical style is hard to place, but incorporates elements of rap, reggae, and acoustic genres. Although at the time of writing Jamie has received relatively little mainstream exposure, he has received airplay from BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, who made "Salvador" his single of the week and "Back In The Game" his Hottest Record In The World. Read more on Last.fm

Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. Often referred to as "the Manics", they are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). The band were originally a quartet: lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards mysteriously vanished on 1 February 1995. He was declared presumed deceased in November 2008. The Manics released their debut album Generation Terrorists in 1992. Read more on Last.fm

RÓIS is a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and electronic artist from Fermanagh. Read more on Last.fm

Quando Quango's twisted electronic music experiments lasted a good six years, spawning an album and several dance 12" releases. A case of Fela Kuti meets Kraftwerk somewhere between Manchester and Rotterdam, part of a new wave of post-punk electronica, with a whole lot of Mike Pickering's broad knowledge of soul, disco, reggae and pop to stuff the gaps. Most significant to dance music fans were the insistent bass syncopations of Love Tempo, the party atmosphere of Genius and the boogie of Atom Rock Read more on Last.fm