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Get ready to be blindsided - your new favourite band is going to be these four Naarm/Melbourne-based 20-somethings. Radio Free Alice's angular sound feels fresh and immediate – guitars with clean tones and clever notes, melodic bass lines, urgent drumbeats, the occasional sax, and an operatic swagger that should have been honed in a New York art school rather than in the land of Oz. On top of selling out shows across Australia, the band have opened for The Killers Read more on Last.fm

Field Music is a band from Sunderland in north-east England led by brothers David and Peter Brewis. Commonly described as making "experimental pop" music, they have released eight 'proper' albums: Field Music (2005), Tones of Town (2007), Field Music (Measure) (2010), Plumb (2012), Commontime (2016), Open Here (2018), Making A New World (2020), and Flat White Moon (2021). A ninth album, Limits of Language, was released on 11 October 2024. They have also released a compilation of B-sides (Write Your Own History Read more on Last.fm

TVam is British musician Joe Oxley from Manchester. Described as post-internet, his work flits between the abrasive punk of Big Black and the drifting electronic ambience of Warp legends Boards Of Canada. Read more on Last.fm

J Dilla was born James Dewitt Yancey on February 7, 1974 in Detroit, Michigan, to Maureen and Beverly Yancey. From the onset, music was intrinsic to Jay's life. His mother Maureen was an accomplished singer and lover of classical music and opera. His father Beverly was a gifted vocalist and bass player fond of vocal harmonies and jazz, who played professionally for 25 years before taking a job at Ford. A two-year-old Jay would gurgle along in perfect pitch to the sound of his father practicing on his upright bass until it lulled him to sleep. Read more on Last.fm

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Eliza Sophie Caird (born 15 April 1988), better known by her stage name Eliza Doolittle, is an English singer songwriter from London. She signed to the Parlophone record label in October 2008. Her debut, self-titled album, Eliza Doolittle was released on 12 July 2010. On debut it was number 3 in the UK charts. Since the album's release, Doolittle has had another two of her records hit the top 25 charts, including her single Skinny Genes. Doolittle's second single Read more on Last.fm

Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish indie pop band that formed in 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland. Led by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Murdoch, the seven-piece band have an intimate, majestic sound that is equal parts folk-rock and '60s pop. Murdoch has a gift not only for whimsy and surrealism, but also for odd, unsettling lyrical detail which keeps the songs grounded in a tangible reality. Belle and Sebastian released their first two albums in 1996: Tigermilk Read more on Last.fm

Tessa Rose Jackson (born 22 August 1992) is a multi-disciplinary artist, singer and songwriter based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and London, United Kingdom. She started releasing singles in 2012, released a full-length album, entitled (Songs From) The Sandbox (2013) and another single ('The Pretender') in 2015. From 2017 onwards she adopted the moniker Someone for her indie pop / psych-pop songwriting, using her real name for collaborations and guest features on records by others, including Christian Reindl and Feiertag. Read more on Last.fm

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966 in Gary, IN) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, actress and dancer. She is noted for her innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows. Her sound and choreography became a catalyst in the growth of MTV, enabling her to rise to prominence while breaking gender and racial barriers in the process. Lyrical content which focused on social issues set her reputation as a role model for youth. Read more on Last.fm

Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1966 by Canadians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Americans Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. The group is best known for the song "For What It's Worth" and released three albums and several singles between 1966 and 1968. Their music combined elements of folk and country with influences from the British Invasion and psychedelic rock, and they were influential in the early development of folk rock. Read more on Last.fm