///  ALL THAT REMAINS (US)
Hello, Springfield!!!
Melodic metalcore from Springfield, Massachusetts as heard in the movie Saw III! All...

   ///  ARCHITECTS (UK)
More metal for your money!
Brighton boys, Architects, are slowly...

   ///  BENEA REACH (NO)
Home grown metal
We think Norwegians are a little spoiled when it comes to good metal acts and Benea...

   ///  BRING ME THE HORIZON (UK)
British steel
Bring Me The Horizon (or BMTH if you prefer...) from Sheffield, UK is an excellent deathcore/metal core...

   ///  BROMSTAD BILLIONAIRES (NO)
Bromstad reprezent...
Bromstad Billionaires are hiphop boyz from Trondheim, whose music is brilliant for the before party, great...

   ///  CASIOKIDS (NO)
The Kids Are Alright!
Digital shadowplayers, kindergarten-gigs and old Casios? Casiokids'...

   ///  CROOKERS (IT)
Electro ala Bolognese!
Advanced Justice. Timberland from Hell. Electro with a taste of Parma ham! Their remix of Kid Cudis "Day...

   ///  DANGER (FR)
Mysterious French electro dude...
Danger is a man who almost no-one knows anything about! He has taken steps to delete his own Wikipedia...

   ///  DISTURBED (US)
The guys next door!
Judging from the comments on our website, Disturbed must be one of the world's most wanted bands. People...

   ///  EAGLES OF DEATH METAL (US)
The Eagle has landed!
What do you get if you cross 70s band, The Eagles with Death Metal? Eagles...

   ///  EL CACO (NO)
Riff-monsters!
The Power-trio format is a challenging sport. Unless you are called El Caco and come from Norway. With...

   ///  ENSLAVED (NO)
Slaves to black metal
What year it has been for the Norwegian metal band, Enslaved. As veterans of the Norwegian black metal...

   ///  ESSER (UK)
You can't get any ESSER than this!
Google the word Esser and you will find a lot of things! A German artist, fire safety and what about...

   ///  FAITH NO MORE (US)
WE Care A Lot!
Crossing musical boarders and toying around with musical genres was Faith No More's trademark, back in...

   ///  FAT JOE (US)
Tonnes of legend matter on its way to Tromøya
When did you last hear some relevant hip hop from the Bronx? Unless you are talking about Joseph Cartagena,...

   ///  FJORDEN BABY! (NO)
The fjords are alive!
Straight out of Loddefjorden in Bergen, Fjorden...

   ///  FLEET FOXES (US)
Sunshine supermen
Hailing from one of the most important music cities the last twenty years, Fleet...

   ///  FRANZ FERDINAND (UK)
Take us out!
Striped sweaters. 30s haircuts. Trenchcoats. Franz Ferdinand arrived with a blast in 2004 and has, since...

   ///  FUJIYA & MIYAGI (UK)
Elektroniskpsychtriphoprock!
First things first. Just spelling out Fujiya & Miyagi is a sobriety test in itself. However, the...

   ///  GOLDEN SILVERS (UK)
Golden pop from London...
Who has seen the movie True Romance? Pretty corny stuff. But for those who have, perhaps it should be...

   ///  HAUST (NO)
Necro-punks from Notodden
Haust is the Norwegian word for Autumn and whilst it is currently Autumn in Oslo, it is warming up with...

   ///  HOCKEY (US)
America's favourite band
Portland, Oregon, USA, or should we call it "the new Seattle"? At least in recent years, some of the...

   ///  I WAS A KING (NO)
Egersund's finest!
Out of the blue (or tiny coastal town Egersund to be precise) came a group so fresh and exciting that...

   ///  ISKALD (NO)
From the freezing north..
Iskald from Bodø represents a new generation of Norwegian black metal and are a band that will...

   ///  JADAKISS (US)
NYC statesman!
Jadakiss is ready to hit the Scandinavian music scene for the first time, and he's bringing with him...

   ///  LARS VAULAR (NO)
The best from Bergen
There has been a lot of focus on artists from Bergen lately, and Lars Vaular is an example of the type...

   ///  LITTLE BOOTS (UK)
Pop-comet with small boots...
This twenty five year old girl, Victoria Hesketh (better known as Little Boots from Blackpool in England),...

   ///  LYKKE LI (SE)
Lucky
The Swedish super-talented Lykke Li caught the attention of the international music scene in the early...

   ///  M. WARD (US)
Him!
Another great artist from Portland, Oregon! Known to many as the male half of She & Him (together...

   ///  M83 (FR)
Indie/synth/shoegazing-favourite!
We have been longing to put the three letters M83 onto the line-up! Not because we love everything French...

   ///  MAJOR PARKINSON (NO)
"... Exactly what Norwegian rock needs"
We have no idea who the real Major Parkinson was, but the band Major Parkinson we know much better....

   ///  MARIBEL (NO)
The sound of Oslo
The sound of Oslo, as they have been called, are Maribel. They earn this title, not only for the songs...

   ///  METRONOMY (UK)
Devon Demons
Experimental, melodic and catchy electro/indie? Check. Synchronized dancing and flashing of gigantic...

   ///  MICACHU & THE SHAPES (UK)
Avant Pop
21 year old Micachu is not like most young musicians. She has already written a piece for the London...

   ///  MONTÈE (NO)
Toddprince Heads!
Montée is honestly one of the best bands to spring out of Norway the last ten years, with a distinct...

   ///  NECRO (US)
"The most brutal rapper on the planet"
Death rap. This is a new hiphop-genre Brooklyn rapper Necro has developed himself! And that includes...

   ///  PARKWAY DRIVE (AUS)
Metal from downunder
To be honest, Australia doesn't spring to mind when someone mentions the words heavy and metal. However,...

   ///  Q- TIP (US)
Can You Kick It ????
Both as a part of the legendary rap-trio "A Tribe Called Quest" and as a successful solo artist,

   ///  RATATAT
From Brooklyn to Hove with a bag full of freaky electro
It is probably only us who remember this, but an insanely long time ago, there was a guy named Vidar...

   ///  RUSKO (US)
Dub step-star!
23-year-old Londoner and manufacturer Rusko is, on record as, one of the biggest names on the UK dubstep-scene....

   ///  RYE RYE (US)
Club-Star from Balitmore
Rye Rye has been referred to as M.I.As protégé, supporting her on several occasions and with...

   ///  SLIPKNOT (US)
Riff, riff, riff
It has been a while since Slipknot pressed a thousand copies of their debut album to give away to friends....

   ///  THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER (US)
The harder they come
Named after an old Hollywood-murdercase never to be solved, is about as glamorous as it gets with this...

   ///  THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM (US)
Sons of Springsteen
New Jersey, U.S.A is probably not an unknown place to fans of one Bruce Springsteen. It is also where...

   ///  THE KILLERS (US)
One More Time!
There is more to Las Vegas than just glitter and and tokens, take The Killers for instance. Three...

   ///  THE NEW WINE (NO)
Chardonnay to the ears!
The New Wine is four young gentlemen from music capitol Bergen playing stripped down soft rock with soul!...

   ///  THE PRODIGY (UK)
Firestarters!
The Prodigy, yes. You will not find a band that is better at a festival nor will you find a band with...

   ///  THE TEMPER TRAP
Atmospheric indie...
Australian music has been getting bigger and bigger in the last few years, especially here at Hove,...

   ///  THE TING TINGS (UK)
Coming around again!
The Ting Tings appearance at Hove '08...

   ///  THE VIRGINS (US)
Feel the heat of new wave soul!
The Virgins hang out with the likes of Sonic Youth and Patti Smith and are one of the most famous bands...

   ///  U-N-I (US)
Straight outta Inglewood
Google U-N-I and you get a little bit of everything! University of Northern Iowa, UNI Storebrand, or...

   ///  WHITE LIES (UK)
From the Stars
White Lies has been one of the most requested bands on our web forum and has been described, by many...

   ///  YUKSEK (FR)
Top notch New Wave/Electro by mysterious French dude!
Although a producer of inventive techno for many years, Yuksek's big breakthrough came when releasing...