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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

1) Professor Jonathan Wayne Mills (aka Slate) is a composer of orchestral music, integrating electronic instruments and sounds from the world around him into programmatic and thematic pieces. He began his musical career in 2005, and now teaches a class at Indiana University, called 'Principles of Music and Programming', to non-music and non-computer science majors. The course relates the principles of music composition to computer programming and has proven very popular. Read more on Last.fm

Little Grandad is a band whose musical style blends elements of 90s grunge and Americana. Their music features prominent melodies, four-part vocal harmonies, and unconventional time signatures. Their live performances incorporate dynamic shifts and trumpet instrumentation. Read more on Last.fm

Nathan Fake is a British electronic musician whose lush, moody recordings range from atmospheric tech-house to vivid, shoegaze-influenced downtempo. The pastoral psychedelia of his 2006 debut album, Drowning in a Sea of Love, struck a chord with both critics and fans, gaining the producer a loyal following. His subsequent releases have generally been more uptempo and maintain a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Fake often restricts himself to hardware-based equipment and records tracks in a single take. Read more on Last.fm

In the eleven years since her last project, Erykah Badu has gathered not conclusions but a series of existential insights. Before the World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment exists within the tension between introspection and growth. Abi is Badu. Alan is The Alchemist. Recorded over 18 months in Dallas and Los Angeles, the album is the inevitable collision of two iconoclasts—hypnotic, funny, blunt, deeply personal, and impossible to categorize neatly. Read more on Last.fm

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