40 Bands You’ve Never Heard Of But Should

Darien Venture
Rocking ‘light metal' addictive band with clever vocals and lyrics from Ayr.

Spy Movie
Easy-going band with jangley guitaring from Glasgow, with a soothing female vocalist.

Three Blocks From The Wake
Minimalist-electro trio from Ayrshire.

Howling Bells
Upbeat-but-mellow female-led band from UK

Anna Meldrum
Individual artist with happy vocals and upbeat acoustics.

Panda Su
Feist-like female singer-songwriter

Dead City Riots
Grungy Glasgow 4-piece

Dinosaur Pile-up
UK Grunge ‘Weezer/Nirvana-style' talented threesome

Frightened Rabbit
Scottish cult mellow band, constantly gaining in popularity

Six People Away
Lightly vocaled duo with electric drums and a good clever beat

Acrylic Iqon
Electric-rocking multi-gender band with addictive fast riffs

The Merry Poppins
Funky, jazzy, Madness-akin indie band from Austria.

65 Days of Static
Multi-instrumental band with a few vocal pieces.

Kharma45
Derry-based epic crescendo-using foursome

Miniature Tigers
Incredibly addictive nonchalant-seeming US band

Boycotts
Female fronted indie-rocky band with complex guitaring

Brother Louis Collective
Lyrically direct calming band from Glasgow. Clarinet included

We Are The Physics
Intense-vocals doubled with rapid drumming Glasgow band, currently touring Japan.

Sky Larkin
Definate one-to-watch from Leeds. Jangly guitars coupled with addictive beats

The Xcerts
Optomistic Aberdonian band with heartfelt vocals. On the brink of stardom.

We Start Fires
Modest indie-rock foursome from Darlington

Popolo
Vocal-less funky band to bop along to

School of Seven Bells
Sleepy psychedelic band from New York, easy-listening

Bombay Bicycle Club
Featured in NME, Interpol-like vocals from a London band

FoxFace
Glasgow indie/folk-rock band, with Snow Patrol-sounding male vocalist

We Are Trapped In Kansas
Clever guitaring coupled with funky pauses and prolonged singing

Friendly Fires
Already taken off, disco-house pop band. Touring all over

Soap&Skin
Female solo artist, minimal vocals varying in pitch and speed. From Vienna

Skinflints
Airy vocals with solid beats from Scotland. Great guitaring and song set-up

Twin Atlantic
Scottish Blink182, very talented musicians jamming with singalongable tunes

MuteMath
From New Orleans, signed to Warner Bros in USA, incredibly addictive indie-pop

Red Light Company
Epic-sounding band from London, backing-vocals-tastic

Young Husband
Easy-going indie band from Melbourne. Garbage-like female vocalist

Ipso Facto
Dracula-style piano-workings from London. Talented female vocalist

The Boy Least Likely To
UK intriguing whispering vocalist with a constant happy vibe

Fighting Wire
Metal(ish) band from Northern Ireland. Jumpy, fast tunes

Cinders Fall
Heavy metal duo with softer-than-usual-for-metal vocals

Dumb Instrument
‘Outstanding' says Vic Galloway, slow and poignant band from Ayrshire

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