BACHELORETTE IS THE SOLO RECORDING AND LIVE PERFORMING PROJECT OF ANNABEL ALPERS.

Annabel is from New Zealand but currently based on the east coast of the USA. She cut her teeth in cult bands such as Christchurch’s psychedelic surf outfit Hawaii Five-O, Space Dust and the Hiss Explosion, then went on to complete post-graduate studies in computer-based composition at the Universities of Canterbury and Auckland in New Zealand. After her studies, Annabel returned to what she loved best – making psychedelic pop music – and Bachelorette appeared on the scene in 2005.

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Formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Wooden Shijps guitarist Ripley Johnson and his partner, Sanae Yamada, Moon Duo’s first two critically acclaimed EPs, Killing Time (2009) and Escape (2010), fused the futuristic pylon hum and transistor reverb of Suicide or Silver Apples with the heat-haze fuzz of American rock ‘n’ roll to create tracks of blistering, 12-cylinder space rock. Now their debut album Mazes, recorded in San Francisco and mixed in Berlin during 2010 as the band prepared to move to the mountains of Colorado, explores a far broader, lighter, sound.

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If you’re a fan of guitar noise, read on. If you’re a fan of lady guitar noise, better sit down now, because Erika M. Anderson (EMA) is about to blow you away. Combining dirty guitar riffs with an epic vocal line and darkly clever lyrics, 'The Grey Ship' is a mindblowing first single from one of the most exciting new artists of 2011.

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The upbeat simplicity of Tokyo-born singer/ songwriter Shugo Tokumaru’s fourth album ‘Port Entropy’ is refreshing. Layering flute, accordion, harmonica and xylophone over uplifting guitar melodies, the singer creates a technicolour tapestry full of warmth and innocence.

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Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon/offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as Billboard bubblegum, classical arias, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own.

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