There’s a great deal to love about Future Selves, the epic debut album from San Diego’s Transfer. Bound with anthemic choruses, psychedelic guitars and skewed pop hooks, theirs is a sound that clips stadium-sized riffs to anthemic lyricism. It’s little wonder Q recently tipped them as the band most likely to emerge from America’s indie hinterlands in 2011.

High praise is something Transfer have gathered in bucket loads, however. Since first recording and self-releasing Future Selves in 2009, the four piece – Jason Cardenas (guitar, vocals) and Matthew Molarius (vocals, guitar), Shaun Cornell (bass) and Andy Ridley (drums) – soon picked up high profile support slots with White Lies, The Bravery and Killers front man, Brandon Flowers.

Along the way they amassed a growing, but near hysterical fanbase in Europe, where early arrivals for Flowers’ shows quickly tuned into Transfer’s sound. Facebook and Twitter later buzzed with good vibes; the band’s reputation went beyond the moshpit: in 2010, Cool Green Recordings signed them to their label and made plans to reissue Future Selves to a new audience in 2011.

“At times a sort of Joni Mitchell with breakbeats, at others an urban Vashti Bunyan, she’s beautifully sincere in a way few artists can pull off.” – Uncut

Here’s a sumptuous remix of Sophie’s album track ‘Home’ – get your oreilles around this beauty Sophie Barker “Home (Custom Blue Remix)” by HoHumRecords

Live favourite ‘Bluebell’ is out as a single on July 18 through Ho Hum Records.

San Diego band TRANSFER will release the first single from their debut album, Losing Composure, on July 18th. Recently signed to Cool Green Records following hotly-received UK, US and European shows with Brandon Flowers and White Lies, the group will return to the UK this summer for live dates in support of the single and ahead of the release of their phenomenal debut album Future Selves, this September.

Already making a big name for themselves Stateside, with recent excursions seeing the band impress at the influential Sunset Sessions and with a residency at Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan Hotel, TRANSFER’s return to the UK this summer will take in high profile festival shows in Hyde Park (with The Killers), at Hop Farm and T In The Park, club shows, and their UK TV debut with a performance on Live From Abbey Road.

Taking inspiration from the likes of the Gogol Bordello, Leonard Cohen and The Magnetic Fields, the first release from Sweet Sweet Lies – ‘Capital of Iceland’ – will take you on a journey of second love, balmy summer evenings that never seem to end and characters that turns your world upside down.

Lead singer Dominic Von Trapps engaging voice narrates an upbeat tale of a girl that plays guitar and knows the Capital of Iceland, but scratch the surface and we discover a darker tale of love lost and discovering a better lover. The melodic choruses and bluegrass influences rouse the soul – songs like these make you want to dance with your friends all night long. What stands out about Sweet Sweet Lies is the stark contrast between the harmony-laden acoustic warmth of the music and the blood, guts and bitter truths of the lyrics, leading to comparisons with Ray Davies and the dark drama of Nick Cave’s tales. This band is one of the most exciting acts for 2011…

Goodluck Jonathan’s set-up echoes most brilliant bands throughout history. A collective of five very different individuals gelled together by a mutual love and serious appreciation of music and a less serious though equally passionate love of rum, mocking the percussion section, and annoying the Nigerian President by misdirecting his Twitter traffic to their profile (plus other unmentionable exploits expected of a band their age). Their musical influences and loves run the spectrum of genres: from melodic indie to dance to rock, the latter mainly championed by the drum and bass fraternity, “(Goodluck Jonathan) claim that the world “needs a soundtrack…with fucking big drums.” And we couldn’t agree more”. – NME.

Common Tongues are an indie folk 5 piece band hailing from the shores of Brighton releasing their debut single ‘Jumping Ships’ through Something Nothing Records 23rd May 2011. Singer/guitarists Tom and Oli grew up together in rural Cambridgeshire sharing a passion for songwriting that blossomed into compelling stories of their lives and loves.

On 16th May 2011, Jim Kroft will be releasing his 2nd single ‘The Jailer’ from his upcoming sophomore album ‘The Hermit And The Hedonist’ which will be released in September 2011.

The first single ‘Memoirs from the Afterlife’ went top 100 in the Germany National Airplay chart for 6 weeks – the only song to appear in the chart without a record company this year.

Described in a Sunday Times feature as “One of 2009’s indie success Stories”; nearly two years on Devon’s finest troubadour Jon Allen returns with a brand new album ‘Sweet Defeat’ released on 22nd May by independent label Monologue Records.

Since releasing their debut album ‘Routes To Riches’ in late 2009, Mamas Gun have toured Europe and Japan where they achieved a number 3 sales slot in the Japanese Billboard charts.

The new album has been produced by Grammy Award winning production team Martin Terefe and Andreas Olsson (Jason Mraz, Train, James Morrison, KT Tunstall and Jamie Cullum) earlier this year.

On April 11th, Alison Krauss will release her first album, ‘Paper Airplane’, of all-new recordings in partnership with her remarkably skillful and renowned band Union Station since 2004’s Lonely Runs Both Ways.