Artist	Song
Foals	Olympic Airways
from Antidotes (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Ra Ra Riot	A Manner To Act
from Ra Ra Riot (2010)
Hockey	Too Fake
from Too Fake - Single (2009)
White Lies	Death
from To Lose My Life (2009)
White Rabbits	Percussion Gun
from It's Frightening (2009)
The Explorers Club	Forever
from Freedom Wind (2008)
Dead By Sunrise	Crawl Back In
from Out of Ashes (2009)
No Age	Eraser
from Nouns (2008)
Holy Fuck	Lovely Allen
from LP (2007)
Great Lake Swimmers	Your Rocky Spine
from Ongiara (2010)
Frightened Rabbit	Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
from The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
The Young Knives	Turn Tail
from Superabundance (2008)
Ratatat	Seventeen Years
from Ratatat (2004)
Au Revoir Simone	Fallen Snow
from The Bird of Music (2007)
Ghostland Observatory	Sad Sad City
from Paparazzi Lightning (2010)

Comment:

We’ve searched far and wide through hole-in-the-wall clubs, poster-papered basements, and vibrating garages to bring you the best of alternative music’s rising stars. What did we end up with? Just feast your ears on everything from the dangerous post-punk pulsations of White Rabbits’ “Percussion Gun” to the dreamy girl-group electronica of Au Revoir Simone’s “Fallen Snow.” On “Your Rocky Spine,” Great Lake Swimmers paddle through a soundscape shaped by mountain ranges, harvest moons, and Canadian-country banjo; while Ra Ra Riot swing a string section for added effect on the quirky indie-rock morsel “A Manner to Act.”

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