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Kindelan - After Before

Kindelan
After Before

Bridge The Gap

Yorkshire alt-soul artist Kindelan returns today (3 July) with ‘After Before’ – a powerful two-track project telling two sides of...

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03 Jul 2025
Raquel Martins - Dead End

Raquel Martins
Dead End

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...

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16 Jun 2025
Oh My Sun - Friends In The Clouds

Oh My Sun
Friends In The Clouds

Bridge The Gap

The brainchild of RotD-featured vocalist-songwriter Carmody and guitarist-producer Tal Janes (Jordan Rakei, Cherise), Oh My Sun are a London-based duo...

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16 Jan 2025
NikNak - Pandora’s Box (ft. AGAAMA)

NikNak
Pandora’s Box (ft. AGAAMA)

Accidental Records

Featuring British-Jamaican vocalist AGAAMA, ‘Pandora’s Box’ is the latest single from Leeds musical polymath NikNak. Having garnered plaudits for her...

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21 May 2024
Tonique & Man - Never Get Old

Tonique & Man
Never Get Old

Tonique Records/Idol

Deftly combining disco, funk elements and bouncy beats tinged with retro-pop layers are French production/musician duo Tonique & Man (Jean Tonique...

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12 Jun 2023
Tonique & Man - Running After Time

Tonique & Man
Running After Time

Tonique Records/Idol

There is something undeniably funky and cool about this slice of irreverent fun from French production/musician duo Tonique & Man...

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08 Feb 2023
Tonica - Perfect Lie

Tonica
Perfect Lie

DistroKid

Following last year’s brilliantly brooding electro debut and RotD-featured Secrets, Manchester alt-pop duo Tonica is back with this 80s-inspired injection...

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29 Sep 2022
Tadhg Daly - Novocaine

Tadhg Daly
Novocaine

Silent Kid Records

Last year, we extolled the songwriting talent of Irish singer-songwriter Tadhg Daly and his gorgeous euphoric alt-pop odes. Since then,...

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15 Sep 2022
Tadhg Daly - Still Not Made It

Tadhg Daly
Still Not Made It

Silent Kid Records

Irish singer-songwriter Tadhg Daly is back today with this rich and euphoric alt-pop ode. Taken from his forthcoming Forever Young...

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27 Oct 2021
Tadhg Daly - Come On Over

Tadhg Daly
Come On Over

Silent Kid Records

Channelling the same raw and heartfelt emotion that we heard on the previous single and RotD-featured track Forever Young, Jersey-born...

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21 Sep 2021
Tadhg Daly - Forever Young

Tadhg Daly
Forever Young

Silent Kid Records

2020 saw Jersey born, Irish singer and songwriter Tadhg Daly pursue a more adventurous and textured approach to his alt-pop...

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18 Aug 2021
Club Paradise - Growing Up

Club Paradise
Growing Up

KIDS Records

This bright and buoyant blast of expansive indie-rock is from Club Paradise. For the past year or so the Newcastle four-piece have been...

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17 Jul 2020
Brijs - Glitra

Brijs
Glitra

Friday Music

We do love a slice of euphoric pop here at RotD, especially in times like these, and this anthemic indie-pop...

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30 Apr 2020
Peter Bjorn and John - On The Brink

Peter Bjorn and John
On The Brink

INGRID

This cautiously optimistic and utterly catchy indie-folk flavoured single is the latest track from Swedish group Peter Bjorn and John....

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28 Jan 2020
County Line Runner - Cold Dawn

County Line Runner
Cold Dawn

Polydor / KIDinaKORNER

Released today (6 Sept) is this glorious tune from an artist we have been following for a while now. Named...

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06 Sep 2019
Ben Brown - No Words

Ben Brown
No Words

Stride Records

Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Ben Brown starts 2018 in an optimistic mood with the release today of his third single No Words....

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05 Jan 2018
Velvet Volume - Look Look Look

Velvet Volume
Look Look Look

Mermaid Records

Full of rock swagger and attitude, Velvet Volume are three sisters from Aarhus in Denmark who having been making music...

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18 Sep 2017
Ben Brown - Walked Away

Ben Brown
Walked Away

Stride Records

20-year old Ben Brown is an aspiring singer-songwriter from north-west London, currently studying at the University Of Leeds, and this...

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19 Jul 2017
Rupert Stroud - Heart And Soul

Rupert Stroud
Heart And Soul

Xidus Music

The first thing that hits you when hearing this great track from Rupert Stroud is that chugging bassline riff that...

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04 Jul 2017
Farveblind - Indima (featuring Khaya N9)

Farveblind
Indima (featuring Khaya N9)

Mermaid Records

Less than six months on from their debut single Wasteful Talk, which featured Australian singer Clea, Danish duo Farveblind are back...

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16 Jun 2017
Maker - Move Your Feet

Maker
Move Your Feet

Kidda Records

In 2017, good-time heads-down rock often seems like a throwback to a bygone era. But a great act like Maker...

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15 Feb 2017
Rag'n'Bone Man - Human

Rag'n'Bone Man
Human

Columbia Records / Best Laid Plans

A contender for one of 2016's truly great songs, Rag’n’Bone Man is flying up the Official Singles Chart with this...

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06 Dec 2016
Neil Cowley Trio - Weightless

Neil Cowley Trio
Weightless

Hide Inside Records

In an effort to showcase great music, whatever the genre, this absolutely beautiful piece of work by the Neil Cowley...

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21 Oct 2016
Them&Us - Icarus

Them&Us
Icarus

Mermaid Punk / self-release [distribution: Ditto Music]

Featuring the funkiest bassline you’ll hear anywhere this summer, this immense track from Them&Us truly deserves to explode in a...

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12 Jul 2016
Swaying Wires - Nowhere

Swaying Wires
Nowhere

Battle Worldwide

Swaying Wires are a group from Finland whose sound has often been described as a Nordic take on Americana. Fronted...

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10 Feb 2016
Dancing Years - Learn To Kiss

Dancing Years
Learn To Kiss

Kobalt/Hide & Seek

Last June, we featured Leeds band Dancing Years with their beautiful track Places We’ve Roamed. It was hard to imagine...

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19 Jan 2016
Joon Moon - Apple Day

Joon Moon
Apple Day

Kwaidan Records

Released on Kwaidan Records (set up by Nouvelle Vague mastermind Marc Collin), Joon Moon are Frenchman Julien Decoret and Krystle...

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08 Dec 2015
Laura Welsh - Ghosts

Laura Welsh
Ghosts

Outsiders Recorded Music/Universal Music

Staffordshire’s Laura Welsh has played live dates with top names like Ellie Goulding and London Grammar, co-wrote and sang on...

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16 Dec 2014
Anders Nilsen - Salsa Tequila

Anders Nilsen
Salsa Tequila

Sony Music Entertainment (worldwide excluding Australasia)

Summer wouldn't be summer without a global phenomena breaking through from nowhere and becoming one of the hits you hear...

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01 Jul 2014
Dancing Years - Places We've Roamed

Dancing Years
Places We've Roamed

Hide & Seek

Dancing Years hail from Leeds and have created this beautifully introspective piano-led track, which sounds like the perfect amalgam of Jeff Buckley...

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30 Jun 2014
The Moth & The Flame - Sorry

The Moth & The Flame
Sorry

Hidden Records

Like an apology extracted from a recalcitrant four year-old, the titular Sorry of this track by LA three piece The Moth...

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18 Nov 2013
Emma Stevens - Riptide

Emma Stevens
Riptide

unsigned/Rising Tide Music

First featured in the RotD weekly magazine back in April, unsigned singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Stevens continues to enjoy a phenomenal...

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11 Oct 2013
Dancing Years - Here's To My Old Friends

Dancing Years
Here's To My Old Friends

Hide & Seek

Are you an ad creative looking to instantaneously stir feelings of warmth and nostalgia in the hearts of middle-aged, middle-income...

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10 Oct 2013
The Aston Shuffle - Can't Stop Now

The Aston Shuffle
Can't Stop Now

Outsiders/Polydor

First featured here as an unsigned (for the UK) white label last November, and following their recent 'Vs' release Sunrise...

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29 Aug 2013
Coasts - Wallow

Coasts
Wallow

Tidal Recordings

Another act worth adding to your schedule for The Great Escape this weekend are unsigned Bristol five piece Coasts, whose...

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17 May 2013
PAPA - Put Me To Work

PAPA
Put Me To Work

Sunny Side Up Records

LA duo PAPA were another act making a big noise at this year’s SXSW, with queues still snaking around the...

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03 Apr 2013
Ren Harvieu - Through The Night

Ren Harvieu
Through The Night

Kid Gloves/Island

After suffering a broken back it wasn't clear whether Ren Harvieu would ever walk again. Now just three months later she...

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12 Dec 2011
Skylar Grey - Invisible

Skylar Grey
Invisible

KIDinaKORNER/Interscope

Skylar Grey might be new as an artist but she is already an impressive pop songwriter with credits on 10 million...

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14 Sep 2011
Ringside - Lost Days (ft. Ben Harper)

Ringside
Lost Days (ft. Ben Harper)

unsigned/ Ringside, US

Ringside is the LA-based project of Scott Thomas. Lost Days is Ringside’s follow up album (self-financed and self-released) to their...

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24 Feb 2011
David's Lyre - In Arms

David's Lyre
In Arms

Hideout

In Arms is the lead track from the forthcoming EP by David’s Lyre aka multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter/producer Paul Dixon. We first...

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14 Jan 2011
Izzi Dunn - Nothing But Love

Izzi Dunn
Nothing But Love

Idunnit/Absolute

Izzi Dunn releases her second album Cries And Smiles next month. This follow-up to her well-received 2003 debut The Big...

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26 Aug 2010
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

The Gaslight Anthem
American Slang

SideOneDummy/[PIAS]

The title track from Th e Gaslight Anthem's third album, American Slang is the follow up to 2008's ' The '59...

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27 Apr 2010
Nitin Sawhney ft. Paul McCartney - My Soul

Nitin Sawhney ft. Paul McCartney
My Soul

Positiv-ID/ Cooking Vinyl

We featured the brilliant 'Days Of Fire,' Nitin Sawhney's collaboration with Natty a couple of months ago. The album 'London...

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22 Jan 2009
Fever Ray - Now's The Only Time I Know

Fever Ray
Now's The Only Time I Know

Rabid/Cooperative

Fever Ray is the project of Karin Dreijer Andersson, one half of Swedish electro duo The Knife. Fever Ray's debut...

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21 Jan 2009
Nitin Sawhney ft. Natty - Days Of Fire

Nitin Sawhney ft. Natty
Days Of Fire

Positiv-ID/ Cooking Viynl

Nitin Sawhney's eighth studio album London Undersound was released last month to widespread acclaim. Observer Music Monthly made it their...

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28 Nov 2008
MC Rut - Busy Bein' Born

MC Rut
Busy Bein' Born

KIDS/Bright Antenna

Sacramento’s Middle Class Rut (aka MC Rut) will release their first UK single, a limited edition 7” of the stomping...

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29 Oct 2008
The Gaslight Anthem - Casanova, Baby!

The Gaslight Anthem
Casanova, Baby!

SideOneDummy

New Jersey band The Gaslight Anthem's recently released album 'The '59 Sound' has been getting some well-deserved positive reviews since...

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15 Sep 2008
Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving (Mirwais Mix)

Sonny J
Can't Stop Moving (Mirwais Mix)

Stateside/EMI

'Can't Stop Moving is a track we first featured when , Sonny J was unsigned back in May last year....

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04 Aug 2008
Sonny J - Handsfree (If You Hold My Hand)

Sonny J
Handsfree (If You Hold My Hand)

Stateside

Sonny J's next single from forthcoming album Disastro mixes Northern Soul and Country and comes up with a great pop song....

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13 May 2008
Sonny J - Handsfree

Sonny J
Handsfree

Stateside

Taken from the forthcoming Sonny J album Disastro, Handsfree proves that Can't Stop Moving wasn't a one-off. The album itself...

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14 Dec 2007
Shaun Anthony - Come On Over

Shaun Anthony
Come On Over

unsigned/Pyramid Entertainment

Spotted and signed to Pyramid Entertainment by producer Darren Brown,19 year-old Shaun Anthony's debut is a Lemar-penned pop soul record that showcases...

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13 Dec 2007
Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving

Sonny J
Can't Stop Moving

Stateside

We first featured this track back in May on the back of some good tastemaker buzz and we had a...

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07 Sep 2007
The Wayne Foundation - Stick Thin

The Wayne Foundation
Stick Thin

Northwestside

There's a lot of mystery to the collective known as The Wayne Foundation, recent signings to Northwestside Records. We don't...

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14 Jun 2007
Joe Buhdha presents Klashnekoff - My Life

Joe Buhdha presents Klashnekoff
My Life

(Lowlife /Riddim Killa)

This is the lead single from the forthcoming album "Lionheart: Tussle With The Beast”, released on Rodney P's label Riddim...

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23 Jan 2007
The Wombats - Is This Christmas?

The Wombats
Is This Christmas?

Kids/unsigned

The Wombats are a Liverpool three piece who are grabbing attention in all the right places. This year saw them...

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15 Dec 2006
The Knife - Hearbeats

The Knife
Hearbeats

Rabid

José González and The Knife both came to our attention at last year's Swedish Grammis. We decided José made a...

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08 Dec 2005
El Pus - Thing Thing

El Pus
Thing Thing

available to sign outside N America

EL PUS (pronounced "El Poose"), are a five-piece from Atlanta, Georgia, that have the perfect mix of punk-pop and hip-hop,...

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22 Aug 2005
Nerina Pallot - Damascus

Nerina Pallot
Damascus

Idaho

Nerina Pallot has one of our favourite voices of the moment - her voice lights up any song. She's an...

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25 May 2005
Nerina Pallot - Everybody's Gone to War

Nerina Pallot
Everybody's Gone to War

Idaho

Nerina's Dear Frustrated Superstar was one of the best albums of 2001 and the campaign (on Polydor) ended prematurely without...

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10 Mar 2005
Estelle - Free

Estelle
Free

J-Did/V2

We've already made this a Record of the Day and a Record of the Week so why another appearance here?...

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21 Sep 2004
Wire Daisies - No More

Wire Daisies
No More

ID

No More is a third enchanting Record of the Day from the debut album by Cornwall's Wire Daisies. It previews...

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13 Sep 2004
Rooster - Come Get Some

Rooster
Come Get Some

Brightside

Rooster have got a hell of a lot going for them. Great frontman, great looks, great melodies, great timing, great...

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07 Sep 2004
Wire Daisies - Butterfly

Wire Daisies
Butterfly

ID

Wire Daisies are a class act. Our music editor Joe Taylor wanted to sign their publishing (in the end Mike...

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31 Aug 2004
Estelle - Free

Estelle
Free

J-Did/V2

We almost couldn't believe this was British when we heard it first - it's just too good. A breath of fresh...

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19 Aug 2004
The Knife - Heartbeats

The Knife
Heartbeats

Rabid

We first saw this lot at the Swedish Grammis - they won an award and accepted it wearing monkey masks...

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17 Aug 2004
Estelle - 1980

Estelle
1980

J-Did/V2

On the strength of this single and the follow-up, the massive Free, Estelle is about to eclipse her many female...

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16 Jun 2004
League Of XO Gentlemen - The Big Copout

League Of XO Gentlemen
The Big Copout

Idol Media (Netherlands)

Our Dutch week continues with a six piece hip hop act from Amsterdam who count Big Star, Dave Clark Five,...

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04 Mar 2004
RMXCRW feat. Ambush & IVA - Fresh

RMXCRW feat. Ambush & IVA
Fresh

Digidance (Netherlands)

The first single by RMXCRW (pronounced remix crew) was an opportunistic R&B cover of Turn Me On, some time before...

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02 Mar 2004