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South of France have announced their debut album “Another Boring Sunrise” with a teaser video featuring a new song!

The second part of some anticipated albums for this coming year includes News Of The Fire, Nick Waterhouse, Passion Pit, Phoenix, POLIÇA, Sharon Van Etten, The Shins, Sleigh Bells, South Of France, Twin Shadow, Vampire Weekend, Woodkid and The xx!

Here are our artists who are Ones To Watch for 2012. Each of these deserve to become extremely successful this year.

Cults’ debut, released in June, is one of my favorite albums of the year. The New York duo share a lot of common traits with Colorado band South Of France, so understandably, I’m really digging their debut, “Kings EP”.

This year (and decade) isn’t even five months old yet and we’ve had some of the best music in the last five years.  Notable albums from LCD Soundsystem, Broken Social Scene, Surfer Blood, Vampire Weekend, Caribou, Sleigh Bells, Joanna Newsom…..I could go on and on.  But in amongst all of those are Harlem, an Austin-based [...]

Next week (April 6th) sees the release of “Hippies”, the second album by Harlem, an Austin three-piece by way of Nashville.  Their thrash-trash-punk is getting a shitload of people excited, and rightly so.  They played about 783 shows at SXSW this year and came away from it as one of the highlights of the whole festival, so [...]