independent

Dramatic and haunting, 'The Feast' is the striking new single from Swiss, London-based indie-rock artist Mary Middlefield. A classically trained...

self-release

After two decades commanding stages as one half of Brighton alt-rock duo Blood Red Shoes, Laura-Mary Carter continues to impress...

Birthday Cake Records

Drenched in alt-Americana sounds, 'Swim Practice' is the emotive new single from Canadian singer-songwriter Mariel Buckley. Raised in the heart...

High Road Records

London’s theatrical pop outsider Oliver Marson is back with ‘Jeremy’ – a warped, gothic art-pop gem and the first glimpse...

Swift Half Records

British singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Luke Marzec delivers a deeply affecting, soul-infused meditation on growth and renewal with 'Broken Promises'....

Bridge The Gap

We’ve long had a soft spot for artists who sit a little left of centre, and Portuguese-born, London-based Raquel Martins...

Golden Love Music

Heartfelt and powerfully emotive, ‘You Got Me Hurt’ is the deeply personal and beautiful new piano pop song from Dutch...

self-released

‘I Dream’ is the inspiring new single from soul-pop and world music singer-songwriter Marquise Fair. Hailing from a working-class neighbourhood...

LRK Records

Steeped in classic and timeless soul vibes, ‘The Way That I Love You’ is the debut single from Manchester-based soul...

Frictionless

It’s been just over two years since we last featured London-based singer-songwriter Marie Naffah and her dose of dream pop,...

Black Rose Music

Back in 2021, we featured Nigerian-born, London-based artist Tamaraebi and his irresistibly woozy dose of hazy experimental R&B/soul in ‘Brown...

Since '93/RCA

Continuing to impress us with his modern spin on R&B is our Ones To Watch 2023 artist, Los Angeles-based, Dorchester...

Maria Wilman

Back at the start of February, we introduced you to London-based singer/songwriter Maria Wilman and her beautifully accomplished single Dark...

independent

Early this year, we were completely taken in by singer, songwriter, and composer Mary Middlefield after we heard this buoyant,...

Maria Wilman

Released today (9 February), Dark Horse is the second single from London-based singer/songwriter Maria Wilman. Upon turning 50 in 2019,...

Since ’93

Next up on our Ones To Watch 2023 is Los Angeles-based, Dorchester (Boston) raised songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist artist Khamari....

self-release

Starting off our first week in this new year and our last week of Ones To Watch 2023 is emerging...

AMK, Kartel Music Group

Drenched with a blissful, West Coast-inspired sound and an indie UK heart, grateful is the second single to be taken...

BC Records

Invoking the sound of the Dubliners and the Pogues with a touch of the Dead Kennedys is the Irish folk...

independent

22 year old Dublin artist and songwriter Bradley Marshall started his music career performing in local talent competitions across the...

self-release

It’s been nearly a year since we featured the neo-soul tinged grooves and hazy vibes of Italian outfit Palmaria. The...

The Orchard Nordics

24 year old Norwegian artist Marie Noreger has already had a busy start to 2022, having been nominated for a...

JFH Records

At the end of last month, Danish singer and producer Marie Dahlstrom released her new EP Safe Place and this...

self-release

Hotly tipped as NME’s ‘Big 10’ ones to watch for 2021, London-based singer-songwriter Marie Naffah is back with this feelgood,...

Self-release

When we first heard this hazy and joyous bop from Italian outfit Palmaria, we instantly fell in love with the...

Believe

Nigerian-born, London-based artist Tamaraebi delivers an irresistibly woozy dose of hazy experimental R&B/soul with an injection of funk in this brilliant...

Killing Moon Records

As regular readers will know, we are big fans of Leeds four-piece Marsicans and their brand of indie, having featured...

BLNK Music

Swedish artist and songwriter Sara Hjellström, aka SHY Martin, delivers a beautifully emotive and tender gem in this her latest release....

VILD Recordings

Back at the start of October, we were lucky enough to catch Liberian-born singer-songwriter Jesse Markin live at the Music...

deepdive records

Formed in 2016 by two multi-instrumentalists, Maryam Hammad and Aurèle Louis, MAREY are a band from Switzerland who are constantly...

LAB Records

Back in 2016, some of you may remember we featured Leeds four-piece Marsicans twice as RotD. Since then, the band...

Selfless Music

Released last month, Real is the latest track from emerging artist Marc Jones. Born and raised in Croydon, he has been...

B-Unique Records

With the Great Escape kicking off fully today, we highly recommend you catch Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Patrick Martin tonight (9...

Universal Music Ireland/3Beat UK

Irish DJ-producer Mark McCabe looks like he’s onto another winner here after the massive success of his Gavin James remix...

The Ambient Zone

If you are feeling a bit stressed before you start your working week off, don’t worry, we have the perfect...

Robbins Entertainment

The LA-based producer and DJ Zookëper hooks up here with Australian artist Maribelle for this absolutely glorious house-inflected tune. The former member...

Loose

Here at RotD, we do have a soft spot for quality Americana and last Friday, Phoenix-born Courtney Marie Andrews released...

Self Released

Sleeping in Suburbia, the next single from south London-based singer-songwriter Martha Paton is a beautiful slice of country and folk-infused...

Mar Music

R&B is in an ascendancy right now and while we’re celebrating rising British talent like Ray BLK, Jorja Smith, Mabel...

unsigned

We've been following Leicester’s Mark Elliott since May this year after we were impressed with his beautiful, piano-led ballad Good...

Audio Network

South Londoner Clement Marfo is an artist that you’re probably already be familiar with. Championed by Zane Lowe and many...

self-release

Leicester's Mark Elliott is an emerging singer-songwriter with a keen ear for an instantly likeable melody. His debut EP China...

DJA

Darren and Greg are respectively Morrissey & Marshall. It’s three years since we first featured these Dublin lads on St....

Island Records

Chosen as the soundtrack to Apple’s worldwide ad campaign promoting their Air Pods and the iPhone 7, this song by...

Marie Dahlstrom [via AWAL]

Back in the eighties, US radio DJs coined the phrase ‘The Quiet Storm’ to describe that soulful smooth sound that...

unsigned [UK] / Virgin Records [G/S/A] /Universal [Ireland] / Dox [Benelux]

We’ve featured Marc O’Reilly in the past, most memorably with his superb song Bleed, which has racked up more than...

Virgin EMI

With another quality song to add to her impressive list of releases, Norma Jean Martine is an artist we’ve supported...

Vertigo / Virgin EMI

Norma Jean Martine first featured as an unsigned artist in our magazine's weekly Compass section in 2013. Originally from New...

Love vs Fear

It’s been great seeing Leeds lads Marsicans grow and build in such a short space of time. We featured their...

Love vs Fear

Marsicans are four lads from Leeds who emerged as eager teens a few years ago supporting a then-unknown Catfish &...

Virgin EMI

Norma Jean Martine is an Anglo-American London-based artist we’ve kept an eye on since she first impressed us three years...

Major Tom's/Atlantic

Essex girl Anne-Marie is one of the most hotly-tipped new UK solo stars around with plaudits from Google Play, Spotify,...

Chess Club Records

Hailing from the North Yorkshire city of Ripon, teenager Billie Marten stunned us at her recent London gig at House...

Virgin EMI

We first wrote about Norma Jean Martine in the Compass section of our weekly magazine back in 2013. At the...

unsigned

Radio Mary are a talented bunch comprising of mandolin and double bass players, trumpeters and a fiddler. They’re led by...

unsigned

With a forthcoming sold-out gig at London venue The Islington on November 13, it seems like the music of Marc...

unsigned

It's just over a year since we last featured the very talented east London-based artist Phoenix Martins with her excellent track Heart...

Brock Wild Records

Quirky and perky, this instantly appealing track is a collaboration between an anonymous collective of touring and session musicians/producers/engineers who...

Positiva/Virgin EMI

Teenage superstar DJ and producer Martin Garrix has been a regular favourite of ours since we first featured his anthem...

unsigned

The talk of the Irish music industry right now, Marc O'Reilly is one of those great unsigned acts that comes...

Roadrunner Records

With one of the most exciting rock tracks we've heard in a long long time, Marmozets have been winning over fans...

Independent Records

For St. Patrick’s Day, let us introduce to you a couple of fellas, originally from Dublin, who’ve supported Sinead O’Connor...

Positiva/Virgin EMI

2013's debut UK No.1 smash Animals put Martin Garrix firmly on the musical map, selling over 500,000 downloads in the process and bouncing around...

Metal & Dust Recordings / Ministry of Sound Recordings

No apologies for our third London Grammar feature in as many releases; If You Wait is one of our albums of...

Positiva / Virgin EMI

There was a time when the pinnacle of achievement at the age of seventeen was passing your driving test first...

3 Beat Productions

Everything's moving in the right direction for D&B production duo Matrix & Futurebound, seemingly now becoming a genuine force in bass...

Fudge Records

Her former career as wig-maker to Lady Gaga might be a headline-grabber, but the most exciting thing about rising singer Max...

Metal & Dust Recordings

'One of this year's most highly anticipated debuts' is such an oft-encountered phrase here at RotD towers that we experience...

unsigned

Hailing from East London, rising British-Nigerian singer-songwriter Phoenix Martins has been performing since the age of seven, having worked with...

Polydor

Leaping out of the playlist on Radio 1, 1Xtra and Choice, this re-release of T-Minus-produced fan favourite Swimming Pools (Drank) confirms...

DoubleCross / Cooking Vinyl

Dead Man's Shoes is another pent-up explosion of driven guitars and energetic vocals from The Virginmarys. It's the first single from the...

Big Ship

Worn Down By Time shows Marcus Foster's incredible voice in full force, with the song peaking into a gospel inspired crescendo...

Polydor

The slick Alone Together is the latest release from superb British R&B/soul talent Daley. It's receiving an incredible reaction online,...

Warner Bros

MTV Brand New for 2012 nominees Clement Marfo & The Frontline are causing, ahem, Mayhem with this great genre mix-'em-up...

Warner

This perfect pop song from the former Mattafix frontman screams hit. The unforgettable baladesque chorus and radio friendly mix has...

Verve/Decca

I Got You is a turbo-charged concoction of soulful blues and follows debut On The Road which we made Record Of...

unsigned/Three Hearts

Fiercely independent Macclesfield rock band The Virginmarys might just be the band that puts guitar music back on the radar....

unsigned

The utterly compelling Dirty's What I Like displays the quality of Mark Hole's expressive vocal to devastating effect. The young singer songwriter...

Warners

Riding Home is our first taster of Marlon Roudette's new musical incarnation. He burst onto the music scene as one...

Verve/Decca

Transcending pop fashion Jodie Marie's debut single recalls the likes of Carole King and Joni Mitchell making for a compelling soul...

679 Artists

Following the success of debut album The Family Jewels, Marina and the Diamonds returns with Radioactive. Now teaming up with...

Communion/Polydor

I Was Broken is a powerful folk-influenced love song, which is beautifully expressed by Marcus Foster's raspy vocal and emotional delivery....

Sony International

Just Hold me is the second UK single from Grammy award-winning Norweigian singer Maria Mena. This follows previous single All...

Island

Distant Relatives is the forthcoming collaboration album by Nas and Damian Marley. As We Enter is one of the most...

679/Atlantic

Taking her place among many of the various lists of tips for 2010, Marina And The Diamonds is an artist...

Unfiltered/ADA

The Postmarks release their second album, Memoirs at the End of the World early next year and Go Jetsetter is...

High Noon

Marc Carroll released his fourth album Dust Of Rumour during the summer to widespread positive reviews in the monthly music...

679/Atlantic

We first featured Marina And The Diamonds with the terrific Obsessions back in December last year. That single, and the...

Neon Gold

Marina and the Diamonds' debut single comes out on limited 7" through Neon Gold Records. The label's second release (their...

unsigned

From the demos we've heard so far, Melox Marvels - the project of London-based Chris Hutchings - is turning out...

Independiente

The follow-up to Martina Topley Birds' Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Quixotic is due out next month on Independiente. Danger Mouse-produced...

ANTI

We've long been fans of Glen Hansard's work with The Frames, so it was particularly gratifying to see him receive...

Positiva/Cr2

Mark Brown's re-working of Elena Kats-Chernin's 'Eliza Aria,' as used in the Lloyds TSB TV commercial, has been bubbling under...

unsigned/Universal Publishing

Winner of two Swedish Grammys (Best Female and Best Composer), Marit Bergman is Sweden's 'indie queen', whose last two albums debuted...

CR2

Elena Kats-Chernin's "Eliza Aria" (ft. soprano Jane Sheldon) is now being used on a Lloyds TSB television commercial after being...

Avatar

San Diego singer/songwriter Anya Marina has had five songs licensed to Grey's Anatomy, with this track on the show's latest...

Sony/Burgundy

Chaka Khan's comeback album 'Funk This' was produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and has just been released Stateside. Her...

unsigned/ Warner Music Sweden

Raymond&Maria are a six-piece Swedish pop group. It's hard to think of another country that enjoys exporting so much joyous,...

unsigned

We first heard Mark Bragg Band at the Hard Working Class Heroes event in Dublin last year and revisited him...

Phonogenic

Maria was a contestant on the previous series of The X-Factor, but had previously been signed to Peer Music for...

White Rabbit/Sony BMG

Lemar's ascent to the status of UK's premier soul star is all but complete.With five top ten hits, two Brits;...

Maelstrom

Following three singles doing well on the European dance charts, the Dutch DJ/producer releases this distinctive track that doesn't sound...

Kosmos/Data

This tune bubbled under for a while, receiving sustained play from various DJs including at Moneypenny's, who made it the...

Grammofonbolaget (Sweden)

We were sent this as an mp3, out of the blue, by email, and it was a joy to listen...

Tuff Gong/Island

Damian is the son of Bob Marley and Jamaica's 1977 Miss World winner Cindy Breakspeare. Welcome To Jamrock proves a...

Drowned In Sound

Martha's last two singles (which we loved) have been impassioned, if not confrontational. When The Day Is Short is positively...

EMI

A confession: we really didn't get Kevin Mark Trail at first. But we listened to his album with an open...

Zoë/Drowned In Sound

Another challenging but charming single from our new joint favourite member of the remarkable Wainwright/ McGarrigle family. The Independent ran an...

EMI

Full Moon is the standout track from Kevin's debut album, and the one that made us realise what a talent...

EMI

This is the lovely closing track from the forthcoming album by sometime Streets collaborator Kevin Mark Trail and it's quite...

Drowned In Sound

This is one of our favourite tracks of the year and several critics agree with us on that. A small...

unsigned

We've been championing British singer songwriter Mark Aston for some time so it was gratifying to receive one of the...

Drowned In Sound

Alert: Swearing on this track. We love Kate & Anna McGarrigle. We adore Rufus Wainwright. We cherish Loudon Wainwright III. Yet...

unsigned

We've been itching to feature this unsigned indie pop smash for ages and now we can thanks to its immiment...

Sequence

It was a real delight to find this effortlessly funky hip hop workout with such a catchy chorus. If the...

Octone/J

No soundclip. We first picked up on this from a US radio promo CD a nearly a year ago. It...

unsigned

Repeated from yesterday as some listeners heard an impaired version. Mark is one of the best male rock singers ...

Epic

For us, Lemar was the most talented of the Fame Academy students. First thought when we heard this: at least...

unsigned

Jamie is a regular on the London gigging circuit with a very distinctive voice. In Just Enough Of A Moon,...

Independiente

No soundclip today. Martina's vocals graced the first Tricky album. Several years later and she's still one of the freshest...

B-Unique

Power Lunch did a great job of establishing Har Mar Superstar in all the right circles. But what a surprise...

Riot/S56 (Sweden)

Nice to hear some rock 'n' roll from Sweden that doesn't sound like The Hives and does have a decent...

Nettwerk/Parlophone

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unsigned/Universal (Norway)

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Warp

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