Artist	Song
Anberlin	Feel Good Drag
from New Surrender (2008)
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk
from Vampire Weekend (2008)
Silversun Pickups	Panic Switch
from Swoon (2011)
Santigold	L.E.S. Artistes
from Santigold (2008)
The Ting Tings	Shut Up and Let Me Go
from We Started Nothing (2008)
Fleet Foxes	White Winter Hymnal
from Fleet Foxes (2008)
Flobots	Handlebars
from Fight With Tools (2008)
Great Northern	Home
from Trading Twilight for Daylight (2007)
Metric	Help I'm Alive
from Fantasies (2009)
Passion Pit	The Reeling
from Manners (Bonus Track Version) (2010)
The Fratellis	Flathead
from Flathead - EP (2006)
Manchester Orchestra	I've Got Friends
from Mean Everything to Nothing (2009)
Tokyo Police Club	Tessellate
from Elephant Shell (2008)
The Gaslight Anthem	The '59 Sound
from The '59 Sound (2008)
The Last Shadow Puppets	My Mistakes Were Made for You
from The Age of the Understatement (2008)
Does It Offend You, Yeah?	We Are Rockstars
from You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (2008)
Black Kids	I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
from I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You - Single (2008)
Carolina Liar	I'm Not Over
from Coming to Terms (2008)
Wolf Parade	Shine a Light
from Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
The Whigs	Right Hand On My Heart
from Mission Control (2008)
Crystal Castles	Vanished
from Crystal Castles (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Battles	Atlas
from Mirrored (2007)
A Place to Bury Strangers	Ocean
from A Place to Bury Strangers (2007)
Cut Copy	Lights & Music
from In Ghost Colours (2008)
Grand Ole Party	Look Out Young Son
from Humanimals (2007)
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:

With tunes assaulting us from every angle in the age of file-sharing and bottomless playlists, keeping on top of what’s cutting-edge in the genre-hopping alternative music arena can be a fulltime job. But don’t worry — we’ve got you covered with our [i]Rising Stars: Alternative[/i] Essentials, a top-to-bottom tour of the acts who are following their own individual muses and coming on strong. Witness the righteous alt-rap of Flobots and their understated anthem “Handlebars,” the ethereal uplift of Fleet Foxes and “White Winter Hymnal,” or the festival-friendly indie sounds of Manchester Orchestra and “I’ve Got Friends.” Anberlin shines like chrome on the heavy emo hybrid “Feel Good Drag,” while new-school power trio Grand Ole Party get down and dirty with the swamp-hot blues rock of “Look Out Young Son,” but in a way, all our rising stars are busy doing the same thing — setting tomorrow’s trends today.

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