Blog Sound of 2014 nominations list revealed
Yesterday the BBC unveiled their Sound of 2014 list, with music insiders and experts tipping acts for commercial glory over the next twelve months. Now, the internet has had its say with a Blog Sound of 2014 list announced.
The list was organised by Robin Seamer of Breaking More Waves, with each invited UK blog given three picks of bands or artists exciting them at the moment. Among the final list of 16 are Banks, Honeyblood, Hella Better Dancer, Wolf Alice and Marika Hackman.
The top 3 acts will be unveiled on 2 January. The full list of nominations is as beneath:
Banks
Embers
George Ezra
Hella Better Dancer
Hockeysmith
Honeyblood
IYES
Khushi
Lyla Foy
Marika Hackman
Mt Wolf
Royal Blood
Rhodes
Sivu
Sophie Jamieson
Wolf Alice
See a list of the 59 blogs participating in the poll below:
17 Seconds, A Pocket Full Of Seeds, All Noise, Alphabet Bands, Beat Surrender, Both Bars On, Brapscallions, Breaking More Waves,Brighton Music Blog, Cat From Japan, Daisy Digital, Details Of My Life, Don’t Watch Me Dancing, Dots and Dashes, Drunken Werewolf,Eaten By Monsters, Echoes and Dust, Electronic Rumors, Faded Glamour, God Is In The TV, Gold Flake Paint, Hearty Vibes, I Love Pie, In Love Not Limbo, Just Music That I Like, Killing Moon, Like 1999, Little Indie Blogs, Love Music : Love Life, Music Broke My Bones, Music Liberation, Music Like Dirt, My Band’s Better Than Your Band, My Day By Day Music, Not Many Experts, Peenko, Pop Dodger, Repeat Button, Scientists Of Sound, Scottish Fiction, Skeletory, Sleep In Music, Some Of It Is True, Sound Influx, Sounds Good To Me Too, Sounds Of Now Music, Sweeping The Nation, The Blue Walrus, The Devil Has The Best Tuna, The Electricity Club, The Evening’s Empire, The Mad Mackerel, The Metaphorical Boat, The Sound Of Confusion, The Underclassed, This Must Be Pop, Thoughts On Music, Von Pip Musical Express, When The Gramophone Rings
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