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Lime Garden is a British indie rock band hailing from Brighton. Originally meeting in Guildford, the band changed its name from LIME upon relocating to Brighton. They are signed to So Young Records, a partner label of Communion Records. Self-described as "wonk pop," the band seamlessly blends various genres including disco, pop, and surf. Recognized as one of NME's top 100 artists for 2022, Lime Garden has garnered mainstream coverage in national press outlets such as The Independent, Dork, and Clash Magazine. Read more on Last.fm

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North Carolina-born cellist and vocalist Kelsey Lu recorded their debut EP live at a church in Brooklyn with a loop pedal, and it’s one of the most startling and evocative pieces of music you’ll hear all year. Lu was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and fled home at 18 to escape their strict upbringing, so their choice of location, the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family, is in a way a subverted act of rebellion. A suite of songs that push and pummel gospel music into experimental new places Read more on Last.fm

The Wonder Stuff are an English grebo and alternative rock band formed in 1986 in the Black Country town of Stourbridge, Worcestershire. The original line-up was Miles Hunt (nephew of ELO and Wizzard's Bill Hunt), Malcolm Treece, Rob "The Bass Thing" Jones (d. 1993) and Martin Gilks (d. 2006). The group originated from an earlier collaboration with group members of Pop Will Eat Itself (aka PWEI), called From Eden, which had Miles Hunt on the drums. Read more on Last.fm

Happy Mondays are an alternative rock band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, U.K. in 1985, notable for being a forerunner of the immensely popular neo-psychedelic indie-dance movement (known as 'madchester' for some groups) that mashed up funk, pop, rock, and other genres. Still touring to this day, the band is fronted by Shaun Ryder, who formed the band with his bass-playing brother Paul Ryder. The classic line-up for the rest of the band consisted of their friend Bez Read more on Last.fm

Bar Italia are an English indie rock band formed in London in 2019. The band consists of members Nina Cristante (aka NINA), Sam Fenton, and Jezmi Tarik Fehmi (the latter two perform as Double Virgo). Their name is derived from the Soho café Bar Italia. The trio's debut album, "Quarrel", was released on World Music in 2020. Their second album, "Bedhead", was released on World Music in 2021. In 2023 they signed to Matador and released "Tracey Denim." Read more on Last.fm

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Daniel Dewan Sewell (born March 16, 1981), best known by his stage name Danny Brown, is a hip-hop artist from the Dexter-Linwood area of Detroit, Michigan. He has been described by MTV as "one of rap's most unique figures in recent memory". Danny is an unconventional hip-hop artist who employs multiple flows and cadences, thus the moniker “The Hybrid”. His style varies from low pitched gravelly tones to a manic, high-pitched squawk. His lyrics often deal with the truth of living in Detroit: poverty, drug abuse, desperate circumstances, etc. Read more on Last.fm

Roni started on the path of production when he was thrown out of school aged 16, but music had always been a part of his life. Born and raised in Bristol, the sounds of the 70s blues parties and sound-systems happening in the St Pauls area of the city infected Roni's bones. Meeting up with Krust in the early 90s brought two musically compatible minds together, subsequently creating Full Cycle in 1993 and a new direction for electronic music. Having built a name for himself through Full Cycle and other labels Read more on Last.fm

Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho (born 9 August 2000), known professionally as Arlo Parks, is a British singer-songwriter and poet from West London. Parks chose her stage name as a distinctive personal pseudonym. Her music blends touches of indie pop, R&B, folk and bedroom pop and she has named Sylvia Plath, Radiohead and Joni Mitchell as some of her influences. In 2018, she began uploading demos to BBC Music Introducing. This caught the attention Read more on Last.fm