Our New Band Of The Day 2010 playlist
Our New Band Of The Day 2010 playlist It's been another bumper year for our tireless New Band writer. Join him as he runs through his playlist of 2010's best tracks As with any 12-month period since time immemorial, 2010 was hailed by some as a weak year for music, while others claimed it was a bit of a classic. Personally, I can't remember a time when I paid less attention to old music, to reissues and box sets (give or take the fabulous Big Star 4CD trove, actually a 2009 US release), and more to the new stuff. Admittedly, this is partly because as the New Band Of The Day writer I get sent about 30 CDs, tracks and links a day – 150 a week! – to listen to, from which I have to choose the 20 New Bands of the month, but there's more to it than that – with chillwave, witch house, dubstep, juke and slow DJ Screw-influenced rap all blowing my mind this year. But first, an apology, for the absence from this list of anything from Drake's Tha...