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Canada Vancouver Black Mountain (psych-rock) Black Halos (punk-rock) Kathryn Calder (songwriter) Frog Eyes Japandroids Loscil (avantgarde) Destroyer (pop) Hekaloth (prog-rock) Hot Hot Heat (pop) Dan Mangan (songwriter) New Pornographers (pop) P:ano (pop) Montreal: roots-rock King Khan & BBQ Show Land Of Talk Montreal: pop Dears Plants And Animals Montreal: electro-pop Arcade Fire Bell Orchestre Clues Islands Swan Lake Unicorns We Are Wolves Wolf Parade Montreal: post-rock Besnard Lakes Fly Pan Am Foodsoon Hrsta Malajube Harris Newman Tim Hecker (glitch) Toronto: alt-rock Aidan Baker Broken Social Scene Jason Collett Do Make Say Think (post-rock) Constantines Les Mouches Lullabye Arkestra Metric Most Serene Republic Nadja Picastro Toronto: hardcore Death from Above 1979 Deadly Snakes Fucked Up Silverstein Toronto: pop Crystal Castles (electronic dance-pop) Hidden Cameras Junior Boys (electronic dance-pop) Toronto: roots-rock Rural Alberta Advantage Sadies Canada: metal Akitsa Cryptopsy Pride Tiger Protest The Hero Three Inches Of Blood Wold Canada: Rap Bike For Three Buck 65 Kid Koala Knifehandchop Sixtoo Canada: Electro-pop Azeda Booth Caribou Koushik Hampton Holy Fuck Manitoba Pan Tone Peaches Tiga Canada: progressive A Silver Mt Zion Braids Christopher Bissonnette (avantgarde) Molasses Shalabi Effect Canada: songwriter Eric Chenaux Jason Collett Nathalie Derome Feist Final Fantasy Tegan and Sara Nelly Furtado Sean McCann tUnE-YaRDs Chad VanGaalen Hawksley Workman Canada: electronic Mitchell Akiyama Polmo Polpo (Toronto, techno) Canada: songwriter Venetian Snares (drum'n'bass) Canada: alt-rock Weakerthans Woodpigeon Canada: rap Cadence Weapon K'Naan

Australia Australia: Metal Berzerker Fire Witch Goat Witch Halo Nekrasov Portal Striborg Whitehorse Wolfmother Australia: electronica Mr Geoffrey and JD Franzke Ashera Avalanches Ben Frost Pimmon Solo Andata Terminal Sound System (drum'n'bass) Australia: pop An Horse Architecture in Helsinki Art Of Fighting Clue To Kalo Crayon Fields Australia: post-rock Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood Grey Daturas Australia: dance-pop Cut Copy Australia: garage-rock Drones Tame Impala

New Zealand New Zealand: alt-rock Bad Statistics Bachelorette Die Die Die Flight Of The Conchords Ruby Suns Veils New Zealand: stoner Datura New Zealand: experimental rock Antony Milton Armpit Bad Statistics Behemothaur Black Boned Angel (doom-metal) CJA Gydja Seht New Zealand: songwriter Lamp Of The Universe Pumice Singapore Observatory

Japan Experimental Afrirampo (garage) Ahousen Ametsub Bathtub Shitter Birushanah (prog-rock) Christine 23 Onna (psychedelic) Corrupted Chihei Hatakeyama (ambient) Fuqugi (ambient) Guilty Connector (noise) Hisato Higuchi (solo guitar) Korekyojinn (prog-rock) Koss (ambient) LSD-march (psych) Maju (ambient) Miminokoto Mono (post-rock) Nerve Net Noise (glitch) Nisennenmondai (post-rock) Noism (cybergrind) Quest For Blood (prog-rock) Repeat (glitch) Suishou No Fune (psych) Shugo Tokumaru (songwriter) Yawning (ambient) Japan: metal Arkha Sva (black metal) Church Of Misery (stoner) China Li Jianhong Intelligent Shanghai Mono University (laptop) 718 (laptop)

France France: progressive Chevreuil NeBeLNeST Khvarena Maninkari Sotos France: experimental Abstrakt Keal Agram Aluk Todolo Anals Dorine Muraille Colleen (ambient) Kabutogani (glitch) M83 Monarch (doom metal) Natural Snow Buildings Volt France: pop Cocorosie Phoenix Emilie Simon Tahiti 80 Yann Tiersen Keren Ann Zeidel France: dance Fred Bigot Cassius David Guetta Etienne Jaumet Joakim Justice Krazy Baldhead Miss Kittin Arnaud Rebotini SebastiAn Vitalic Zombie Zombie France: black metal Alcest Antaeus Aosoth Deathspell Omega Eikenskaden Murmuure Mystic Forest Soror Dolorosa Peste Noire Spektr

Scandinavia Denmark: Choir Of Young Believers Efterklang (post-rock) Figurines (alt-rock) Make A Change Kill Yourself (black metal) Mew (psych-rock) Raveonettes Seven Mile Journey (post-rock) Slaraffenland (pop) Sweden: garage-rock Jasper TX Hives International Noise Conspiracy Love Is All Mando Diao Sweden: metal Apati Arckanum Burning Saviour Witchcraft Cult of Luna Funeral Mist Hypothermia Lifelover Watain Yoga Sweden: songwriter A Taste Of Ra El Perro Del Mar Nicolai Dunger Frida Hyvonen Anna Jarvinen Jens Lekman Likke Li Robyn Taken By Trees Sweden: glitch Coh (glitch) Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words (glitch) Tape (post-rock) Sweden: progressive Gosta Berlings Saga Mats/Morgan Band BJ Nilsen Sagor & Swing Skull Defects (noise) Sweden: pop Concretes Dungen Elope Jj Peter Bjorn & John Sweden: dark ambient Henrik "Nordvargr" Bjorkk Ondo Sweden: metal Arch Enemy Sweden: dance Field (techno) Knife (electro) Little Dragon (synth-pop) Sweden: Others Soundtrack Of Our Lives Loney Dear Miike Snow Wildbirds & Peacedrums Norway: metal Arcturus (black metal) Beyond Dawn (doom-metal) Furze (doom-metal) Hlidolf (doom) Hjarnidaudi (doom) Khold (black metal) 1349 (black metal) Spiral Architect (prog-metal) Virus Norway: songwriter Hanne Hukkelberg Ida Maria Norway: post-rock Huntsville (noise jazz) Kreng Moha Noxagt Salvatore Susanna and Her Magical Orchestra Ultralyd (noise jazz) Norway: pop Kings Of Convenience Sondre Lerche Serena-Maneesh (shoegaze) Norway: electronica Alog Datarock Deaf Center DiskJokke Elegi Jaga Jazzist Jazzkammer Lindstrom Northaunt Royksopp Shining Svarte Greiner Tom Vedvik Finland Aanal Beehemoth (black metal) Aavikko (prog-rock) Anaksimandros (noise) Angel Avarus (psych-folk) Circle Of Ouroborus (black metal) Darude (techno) Dead Reptile Shrine (industrial) Cloama (industrial) Die Blutleuchte (industrial) Es (psych-folk) Fleshpress (doom metal) Islaja (psych-folk) Keijo (psych-folk) Keuhkot (songwriter) Kiila (psych-folk) Magyar Posse (post-rock) Paavoharju (dance-pop) Markku Peltola (chamber folk) Aki Peltonen (prog-rock) Pharaoh Overlord (stoner) Reverend Bizarre (doom) Ride For Revenge (black metal) Satanic Warmaster (black metal) Skepticism (metal) Shape Of Despair (doom metal) Shogun Kunitoki (prog-rock) Tivol (psych-rock) Uton (psych-folk) Verde Will Over Matter (industrial) Iceland: pop Apparat Organ Quartet Johann Johannsson Klive (digital) Mum (post-rock) Stafraenn Hakon (post-rock) Iceland: metal Fortid

Germany Germany: techno/industrial Matias Aguayo Auch Banaroo Black Meteoric Star Black To Comm Closer Musik Drumcorps Thomas Fehlmann Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim Robert Henke Isolee Monolake NID T. Raumschmiere Germany: electronica AGF Apparat Caacrinolas Chicks On Speed (electroclash) Frank Bretschneider (glitch) C-Schulz Antye Greie-Fuchs Jan Jelinek (glitch) Sven Kacirek Kammerflimmer Kollektief (jazztronica) Christian Kleine Klimek Komet (glitch) Felix Kubin Stephan Mathieu (glitch) Moderat Modeselektor MS John Soda (glitch-pop) Noize Creator Peter Kruder (trip hop) Pluramon Random Industries Rechenzentrum (glitch) Troom (droning) Tropes Germany: post-rock Gruenewald Germany: songwriter Almost Charlie Niobe Germany: folk Steffen Basho-Junghans Germany: heavy metal Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung Katharsis Klabautamann Nargaroth (black metal) Necrofrost Ocean Collective Rammstein (black metal) Woburn House

Eastern Europe Croatia Yugoslavia Nikola Kodjabashia (prog-rock) Science Group (prog-rock) Stevan Tickmayer (prog-rock) Poland Dead Raven Choir (black metal) Riverside (prog-rock) Czech Republic

Holland/ Belgium Belgium Beyond Black Void Fall of The Grey Winged One Fear Falls Burning Ignatz (songwriter) Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat (songwriter) Silvester Anfang Styrofoam (IDM) Sylvester Anfang II Tuk (glitch) Until Death Overtakes Me Holland Brown vs Brown (prog-rock) Bunkur (doom metal) DJ Hidden (drum'n'bass) Gnaw Their Tongues (metal) Machinefabriek (glitch) Nihill (doom metal) Shadow Huntaz (rap) Stalaggh (noise) Tiesto (dance)

England England: hip-hop Brassy Burial (dubstep) Cloaks (dubstep) Clubroot M.I.A. Dizzee Rascal Streets Sway England: retro-pop Alfie Arctic Monkeys Art Brut Bloc Party Brave Captain British Sea Power Clearlake Clientele Clinic Coral Cribs Doves (acoustic pop) Elbow (acoustic pop) Field Music Foals Futureheads Gay Dad (glam) Fiel Garvey Fields Go Team Gorillaz Guillemots Heavy I Am Kloot (acoustic pop) Ikara Colt Kasabian Last Shadow Puppets Libertines Long Blondes Los Campesinos Maximo Park Muse Noah And The Whale Noonday Underground School of Language Seachange Sing Sing Starsailor Switches Week That Was Wild Beasts Young Knives Zero 7 Zutons England: electro-pop Earlies Four Tet (digital folk) Freeland Fuck Buttons (see Black Dice) Golden Silvers Imogen Heap Hot Chip (electronic dance-pop) Klaxons La Roux Ladytron Late Of the Pier Metronomy Mu Part Timer Playgroup Psapp Patrick Wolf (digital folk) White Lies Xx England: experimental Aufgehoben No Process Berkowitz Lake and Dahmer Keith Berry Emit Mark Fell Lupine Howl Jazzfinger Earl Shilton Shit And Shine SND Craig Vear Volcano The Bear England: drone-rock A Broken Consort Richard Skelton Astral Social Club Sunroof Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg Urthona Vibracathedral Orchestra England: solo guitar James Blackshaw Alexander Tucker England: dream-pop Delays Engineers Monster Movie England: industrial/ambient Caretaker Damage Manual Jesu Leyland Kirby Penumbra Thighpaulsandra Xela V/Vm England: roots-rock Electrelane Gilded Palace of Sin Rameses III Sons & Daughters England: songwriter Adele Adem Badly Drawn Boy Blue Roses James Blunt Boduf Songs David Thomas Broughton VV Brown Jarvis Cocker Graham Coxon Dakota Suite Matt Elliott Ed Harcourt Fovea Hex Richard Hawley Jamie T Joker's Daughter Shawn Lee Lone Pigeon Laura Marling Vinny Miller Sheila Nicholls Gruff Rhys Dani Siciliano Pia Silvi Sleeping States Emiliana Torrini Amy Winehouse England: metal Anaal Nathrakh Black Vomit Bong Firebird Hey Colossus Meads of Asphodel Moss Palehorse England: prog-rock Beak Guapo Miasma & The Carousel Of Dead Horses Zukanican England: trip-hop Bibio Demdike Stare Alison Goldfrapp Malachai England: garage-rock Florence and the Machine Kills England: drill'n'bass Andrew Coleman Animals on Wheels DJ Scotch Egg Icarus (progressive drum'n'bass) Shitmat England: techno/dance As One Bent Clark Gold Panda Kirk Degiorgio Jamie Lidell Lightspeed Champion Journeyman Radioactive Man Roska Simian Mobile Disco Super Collider Test Icicles worriedaboutsatan England: post-rock Appliance Darkstar Everything Everything Forest Swords Fridge Hwyl Nofio Andy Moor Reigns 65Daysofstatic These New Puritans Vessels Yellow6 England: punk-rock Funeral For A Friend Future Of The Left McLusky England: electronica Bass Communion Mira Calix Chris Herbert Anworth Kirk Tenhornedbeast Vert England: global pop Very Best Others Bat For Lashes Big Pink (neo-shoegaze) Brakes Crippled Black Phoenix Gallows Grammatics Harmonic 313 Horrors Maccabees Micachu & the Shapes Mika (neo-glam) Noisettes Oscillation (psych) Red Light Company Seeland

Ireland Ireland: noise-rock Fight Like Apes Ireland: folk-rock Bell X1 Ireland: songwriter Adrian Crowley Villagers Ireland: psych-rock Bonecloud Quetzolcoatl Ireland: electronica Legion Of Two Solar Bears

Scotland Scotland: folk-rock Camera Obscura Gentle Waves Lorna Reindeer Section Snow Patrol Scotland: electronica Akatombo ISAN Hudson Mohawke Alex Smoke Scotland: pop Aliens Ballboy Biffy Clyro Franz Ferdinand Frightened Rabbit Kaiser Chiefs Mull Historical Society Mystery Jets Songs & Daughers Twilight Sad We Were Promised Jetpacks Wisdom Of Harry Scotland: dance-pop Scotland: songwriter Dot Allison Isobel Campbell KT Tunstall Scotland: psych-rock Ben Reynolds Scotland: post-rock Aereogramme Wraiths Others Dananananaykroyd Glasvegas 1990s View

Italy Italy A Short Apnea Afterhours Giardini di Miro` Jennifer Gentle (psych-pop) Larsen (post-rock) Maisie (post-rock) My Cat Is An Alien (post-rock) New Risen Throne (ambient) Oophoi Populous (synth-pop) Quintorigo Claudio Rocchetti Thee Maldoror Kollective (industrial) 3/4hadbeeneliminated UFOmammut Yuppie Flu Zu (post-rock) Spain Billy Bao El Guincho Planeta Imaginario (prog-rock) Orthodox (doom-metal)

Brazil Mexico Kinky Rodrigo and Gabriela (flamenco) Chile Ricardo Villalobos Argentina Juana Molina Colombia Inquisition Shakira

Austria/Switzerland Switzerland Darkspace (black metal) Knut (post-metal) Paysage D'Hiver Austria Bernhard Fleischmann (glitch) Burkhard Stangl (electronic improvisation) KTL (glitch) Lokai (post-rock) Peace Orchestra Pita (glitch) Radian (post-rock) Soap And Skin (songwriter) Russia Gultskra Artikler Old Wainds Regina Spektor Thorn1 Ukraine Drudkh (metal) Moglass (post-rock) Zavoloka (glitch) Hungary Antendex Marblebog Israel Animus The Lagan Tapes (industrial) Maor Appelbaum (noise) Grave in the Sky (noise) Poochlatz (noise) Iran Sote (dance) Turkey Erdem Helvacioglu (electronic) Africa BLK JKS Tinariwen