RECORD ARCHIVE - records in July 2005
The intro to Oh Mandy was enough to win us over to this band. This has potential to become an...

The Spinto Band
Oh Mandy
The intro to Oh Mandy was enough to win us over to this band. This has potential to become an...
There's a buzz building around Guillemots and no wonder. Their brief is to make popular music interesting and fresh, and...

Guillemots
Who Left The Lights Off, Baby?
There's a buzz building around Guillemots and no wonder. Their brief is to make popular music interesting and fresh, and...
This is one of those singles that could only be by a new band - and a band who demand...

Fell City Girl
Weaker Light
This is one of those singles that could only be by a new band - and a band who demand...
We don't pretend to fully understand the Schnappi phenomenon, but it is undoubtedly fascinating. It's a four year-old girl singing...

Schnappi
Schnappi
We don't pretend to fully understand the Schnappi phenomenon, but it is undoubtedly fascinating. It's a four year-old girl singing...
This band really caught our ears for the usual reason (or not that usual sadly) - they've got at least one really...

The Heys
Pressure
This band really caught our ears for the usual reason (or not that usual sadly) - they've got at least one really...
It's dance music but not as we have known it recently. Retro but fresh, full of energy and not pigeonholed...

The Rogue Element
Let Me Breathe
It's dance music but not as we have known it recently. Retro but fresh, full of energy and not pigeonholed...
It's a hard time for the dreamers but it's an even harder time for the career pop songwriters. The silver...

Shelly Poole
Hard Time For The Dreamer
It's a hard time for the dreamers but it's an even harder time for the career pop songwriters. The silver...
This is most exciting record you could dance to we've heard in a long time, especially as it's all live...

Braund Reynolds
Rocket
This is most exciting record you could dance to we've heard in a long time, especially as it's all live...
Expatriate are an Australian band who fit in well with that's going on in the UK right now - they...

Xpatriate
The Spaces Between
Expatriate are an Australian band who fit in well with that's going on in the UK right now - they...
Since we last featured this, Island have committed to releasing Hush in the UK and we're delighted that If I...

Hush
If I Was
Since we last featured this, Island have committed to releasing Hush in the UK and we're delighted that If I...
This featured in the season finale closing montage of The OC, causing it to leap from #98 to #32 on...

Imogen Heap
Hide And Seek
This featured in the season finale closing montage of The OC, causing it to leap from #98 to #32 on...
Unsatisfied is a deeply satisfying piece of songwriting - the best Nine Black Alps track yet. We keep hearing it...

Nine Black Alps
Unsatisfied
Unsatisfied is a deeply satisfying piece of songwriting - the best Nine Black Alps track yet. We keep hearing it...
Stockholm's The Tourettes are so called because the singer has a mild form of Tourettes. They're managed by Teenage Fanclub...

The Tourettes
Silent Violent
Stockholm's The Tourettes are so called because the singer has a mild form of Tourettes. They're managed by Teenage Fanclub...
Great reactions when we featured this first time around. It's his most commercial track and it provides radio with a...

Saul Williams
Black Stacey
Great reactions when we featured this first time around. It's his most commercial track and it provides radio with a...
Mattafix are intriguing for several reasons. They describe themselves as Massive Attack fronted by Shuggie Otis. That's a great description,...

Mattafix
Big City Life
Mattafix are intriguing for several reasons. They describe themselves as Massive Attack fronted by Shuggie Otis. That's a great description,...
Stimulator are led by singer Susan Hyatt (Pillbox) and guitarist-producer Geoff Tyson (who was in the terrifying Snake River Conspiracy)....

Stimulator
Fame Is Lame
Stimulator are led by singer Susan Hyatt (Pillbox) and guitarist-producer Geoff Tyson (who was in the terrifying Snake River Conspiracy)....
This band get better and better and could be about to get a lot bigger. Ooh La La is their...

Goldfrapp
Ohh La La
This band get better and better and could be about to get a lot bigger. Ooh La La is their...
Like Lola's Theme and Groovejet, this started life as an instrumental and was a massive club record without a vocal....

Axwell
Feel The Vibe
Like Lola's Theme and Groovejet, this started life as an instrumental and was a massive club record without a vocal....
With Uniting Nations' last single Out Of Touch, we ran it past the RotD team, then we waited until there...

Uniting Nations
You and Me
With Uniting Nations' last single Out Of Touch, we ran it past the RotD team, then we waited until there...
Shortly after we first featured Skin And Bones, we heard it played on the PA between bands at a gig...

Fear of Music
Skin and Bones
Shortly after we first featured Skin And Bones, we heard it played on the PA between bands at a gig...
Freshwater Hughes managed Joss Stone until recently (the split was apparently amicable - she came to the end of her...

Foy Vance
Indiscriminate Act Of Kindness
Freshwater Hughes managed Joss Stone until recently (the split was apparently amicable - she came to the end of her...