The British Music Embassy is pleased to announce another epic year of UK music discovery in Austin. The UK is the only nation represented at SXSW by its own dedicated venue, the British Music Embassy. Sixty plus bands wi...

The British Music Embassy is pleased to announce another epic year of UK music discovery in Austin. The UK is the only nation represented at SXSW by its own dedicated venue, the British Music Embassy. Sixty plus bands wi...

Presented by: Xtra Mile/AiM

Tipped by the NME as one of the 100 bands to check out in 2012 and recently signed to Xtra Mile Recordings (Against Me!, Frank Turner) Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun make their maiden voyage to the States for SXSW 2012. ...

Cheltenham UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: Xtra Mile/AiM

Ultimate self-starters The Xcerts released their critically acclaimed debut album ʻIn The Cold Wind We Smile’ in 2009. In 2010 the band were invited to New York by super producer Mike Sapone for album number ‘Scatte...

Aberdeen UK-SCOTLAND

   

Presented by: Xtra Mile/AiM

Future Of The Left’s upcoming album, The Plot Against Common Sense, will be the group’s third full-length release. Teased with the Polymers Are Forever EP released in late 2011, this album will expand on the band’s...

Cardiff UK-WALES

 

Presented by: Xtra Mile/AiM

BIOGRAPHY 2012 On Friday the 13th April 2012, Frank Turner will take to the stage at Wembley’s vast Arena venue for the largest headline show of his life. This career defining show will take place less than two ...

Winchester UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: Xtra Mile/AiM

The box? fiN think way outside it. In times of warfare and recession they sing of celebrating life, remembering the good times, appreciating what you have and not letting the detritus of modern life drag you down. In a...

London UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: Raw Power & Friends/PRS For Music

Ultimate self-starters The Xcerts released their critically acclaimed debut album ʻIn The Cold Wind We Smile’ in 2009. In 2010 the band were invited to New York by super producer Mike Sapone for album number ‘Scatte...

Aberdeen UK-SCOTLAND

   

Presented by: Raw Power & Friends/PRS For Music

At 26 years, Charlie has already spent almost half his life as a professional songwriter and frontman. Starting out as a beleaguered punk-pop heartthrob in multi-platinum act Busted, he broke free of the major label shac...

London UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: Raw Power & Friends/PRS For Music

A punk rock freight train, in a thunderstorm, on a full moon, on Halloween, in a burst of blood and flame... without being overly dramatic its hard to ignore the virginal excitement of this outfit. Turbogeist have blaze...

London UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: Raw Power & Friends/PRS For Music

Sometimes you have to look in the most unlikely of places to strike gold. As long as the ground you step on is rich and carefully maintained over the years then there’s a better chance you’re walking on foundations t...

London UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: Raw Power & Friends/PRS For Music

January 24, 2012 – Toronto, ON) Two-time JUNO-nominated CANCER BATS will release their fourth full-length album Dead Set On Living, on April 17, 2012 through Distort Inc. in Canada. Once again utilizing the legendary V...

Toronto ON CANADA

 

Presented by: The Agency Group/UK Trade & Investment

“It couldn’t be more bombastic and EPIC if you handed it a flag and shot a flare over its head into the vast and EPIC night sky” -Artrocker After a month long residency in London complementing a full UK tour w...

Leeds UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: The Agency Group/UK Trade & Investment

Motion City Soundtrack just finished recording their 5th full length album. The band co-produced the album in their hometown of Minneapolis MN with producer Ed Ackerson (Polara, BNLX) at his Flowers Studio. The new album...

Minneapolis MN

   

Presented by: The Agency Group/UK Trade & Investment

Jonquil are, as of 2011, four men from Oxford – Hugo Manuel, Sam Scott, Robin McDiarmid and Dominic Hand – and 'Point Of Go' is their third (and yet, in a way, their first) record; an evolution, a transformation and ...

Oxford UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: The Agency Group/UK Trade & Investment

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Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND

 

Presented by: The Agency Group/UK Trade & Investment

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good ...

Cincinnati OH

Presented by: The Agency Group/UK Trade & Investment

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London UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: NME/PPL

Tashaki Miyaki was born out of a late night jam in early 2011. Shorty after, the Los Angeles based duo began writing and recording songs for their self titled EP released on UK vinyl label, The Sounds of Sweet Nothing. C...

Los Angeles CA

   

Presented by: NME/PPL

Chad Valley are the personal outpourings of one Hugo Manuel, the balearic inclined vocalist of Oxford's Jonquil and founder member of the Blessing Force collective. Taking a more electronic approach to sunset vibes, H...

Oxford UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: NME/PPL

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London UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: NME/PPL

Using only two voices and two guitars, Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood create music that’s unfettered by the constraints of a traditional band. Their sound is gauzy but spartan; his vocal, dusky, hers crystalline, ...

London UK-ENGLAND

   

Presented by: NME/PPL

Based in Minneapolis, Howler are Jordan Gatesmith (vocals / guitar), Ian Nygaard (guitar), France Camp (bass), Max Petrek (keyboard) and Brent Mayes (drums). What started as a side project for Jordan Gatesmith in 2010, ...

Minneapolis MN

 

Presented by: NME/PPL

For 2:54, everything comes from somewhere deep inside; that shared sisterly bond between Hannah and Colette Thurlow that manifests in their matching, messy hand gestures, the mirroring tattoos down their right arms, and ...

London UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment

Dutch Uncles are one of the bands at the fore-front of Manchester's (UK) vibrant new music scene that whilst remaining respectful, tries to swerve the city's 'lad-rock' stereotype. Pulling unlikely influences from Steve ...

Manchester UK-ENGLAND

   

Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment

Clock Opera, I remember thinking, have this wonderful tendency to sound like their music combines real memories and made up memories, strong memories and shredded memories, and some sense of the mental and physical reali...

London UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment

Django Django Biography 2011 It's not for anyone else to decide what other young men and women should get up to in the sanctity of their own bedrooms. That said, it's heartening to know that not everyone using the ter...

London UK-ENGLAND

D/R/U/G/S D/R/U/G/S are free. The project of one Callum Wright, D/R/U/G/S craft some of the most euphoric, radical new music around . Made with the freeform attitude of synth visionary Oneohtrix Point Never, the fuck-...

Manchester UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment

SLOW CLUB Paradise Like all good clichés, there's more than a seed of truth to be found in the saying: “a band has a lifetime to make their first record”. So what happens when that band comprises of just two of ...

London UK-WALES

 

Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment

Toddla T Biography 2011 Do U Know Toddla T? In 2007 Toddla T (aka Tom Bell) was working in a shoe shop in his hometown of Sheffield, then just 19 and living at home with his parents, he DJ'ed at weekends and ...

Sheffield UK-ENGLAND