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Bon Iver is a Grammy Award winning folk band from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, and one of Justin Vernon's current and most notable music projects to date. The band also consists of Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matt MacCaughan. The name 'Bon Iver' (pronounced "bon ee-VAIR") is a play on the French phrase 'bon hiver' meaning 'good winter'. Vernon independently released Bon Iver's debut album For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007, most of which was recorded during a four-month stay in a remote cabin in Wisconsin. Read more on Last.fm

Kayleigh Rose Amstutz (born February 19, 1998), known professionally as Chappell Roan, is a Grammy award-winning American singer and songwriter. Working with long-time collaborator Dan Nigro, her music is inspired by '80s synth-pop and early 2000s pop hits. Her music is heavily influenced by drag queens and is often described as "campy." When she was 17 years old, Roan uploaded a song titled "Die Young" to YouTube, leading Atlantic Records to sign her to the label. Read more on Last.fm

The Cranberries were an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989. The group consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Dolores O’Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler. O’Riordan joined the band in 1990, replacing founding member Niall Quinn, and the group’s name was shortened from The Cranberry Saw Us to The Cranberries following her arrival. Although primarily classified as an alternative rock band, their music incorporated elements of indie rock Read more on Last.fm

Collaboration of Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin, notably on the album Ali (2022). Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate. Ali’s sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, singing in the local languages of Fulfulde, Tamasheq, Songhay and Bambara. The result was the creation of a groundbreaking new genre Read more on Last.fm

Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, California, USA, from remnants of the group Opal. Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal. Mazzy Star is best known for the song "Fade Into You", which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was the group's biggest mainstream hit, earning extensive exposure on MTV, VH1 and radio airplay. Roback and Sandoval were the creative center of the band Read more on Last.fm

The xx are an English alternative rock band from Wandsworth, London, formed in 2005. The band consists of Romy Madley Croft (guitar, vocals), Oliver Sim (bass guitar, vocals), Jamie Smith, also known as Jamie xx (beats, MPC, record production), and formerly Baria Qureshi (keyboard, guitar). The band is known for the distinct and minimalist sound that blends indie rock, indie electronic, indie pop, dream pop and electro-rock and the dual vocalist setup of both Madley Croft and Sim. Read more on Last.fm

Tessela is a pseudonym of DJ and techno/bass producer Ed Russell from West Country, UK. Russell is also one half of the duo Overmono. Sites: SoundCloud, Twitter and Facebook. Read more on Last.fm

With his regular Rinse breakfast show and a string of highly applauded records, Leon Smart aka Scratcha DVA has been making a name for himself on the UK Funky circuit and beyond. Formerly involved with the grime crew Aftershock (alongside Terror Danjah and a few others), Scratcha has turned his focus on his solo productions in recent years, taking Funky into deeper and rather more abstract territories. A purveyor of superbly crafted releases on Kode9′s Hyperdub label as well his very own DVA imprint Read more on Last.fm

One half of the UK house duo Deep Teknologi. Read more on Last.fm

An icon and trailblazer in the past seven years, Conducta has led the charge for the resurgence of UK Garage. The producer behind AJ Tracey’s inescapable “Ladbroke Grove” (now triple-platinum and recognised as the biggest-selling UK Garage record in history), Conducta is also the head of Kiwi Rekords, his label which created a hub for a new wave of garage producers to thrive. Following a stream of ground-breaking mixes, releases and parties Read more on Last.fm