Okay, you must know how it works now. If you want to find out who the hottest underground indie bands are without having to wade through pages of hype and lies, you go and get yourself a Dance To The Radio compilation. So, you’ll be glad to know that there’s a new one available, Something I Learned Today, and it features fifteen new acts from around the world.

Here are five of my favourite tracks:

• I Was A Cub Scout - Teenage Skin. Energetic electro-pop with excellent live drumming.
• Laura Groves - Coast. She’s 19 and, frankly, sounds younger. Just as you’re thinking this, she hits you with an amazing harmony and renders you useless.
• : ( - Codes. They do nintendocore versions of post-hardcore songs and have a name you can’t search for on the internet. All boxes ticked.
• Ghost Fleet - For What It’s Worth. They hate you.
• This Et Al - Can You Speak European? One of the best tracks from their very good album.

Do I need to give you any further incentive? Okay, it’s dead cheap. Now go buy it.

Label: Dance To The Radio
Website: www.dancetotheradio.com
Release date: 2nd April 2007

Tracklist:

1. Grammatics - The Shipping Forecast
2. I Was A Cub Scout - Teenage Skin
3. Read Yellow - Pia Zadora
4. Sky Larkin - Summit
5. Foreign Born - It Wasn’t Said To Ask
6. Voltage Union - All Who You Know
7. Disco Drive - All About This
8. Laura Groves - Coast
9. : ( - Codes
10. Ghost Fleet - For What It’s Worth
11. Sometree - One Man Shelter
12. AnteAter - Final Lekky
13. Lions Of SWE - Whatever Happened To Emilio Estevez?
14. This Et Al - Can You Speak European?
15. Black Wire - See The Blood