The roster

Artists

One page per universe. 28 and counting.

• 01AURORAA voice from the Norwegian fjords, singing for nature, warriors, and weirdos alike.Stavanger, Norway
• 02Beats AntiqueA traveling mechanical circus of Turkish banjo, marching drums, and glitching bass.Oakland, United States
• 03Béla Fleck and the FlecktonesBanjo-led fusioneers folding bluegrass, jazz, funk, and the future into one band.Nashville, TN
• 04BjörkIcelandic singer, composer and world-builder, four decades into remaking pop in her own image.Reykjavík, Iceland
• 05BonoboSimon Green, the Brighton-born producer who turned downtempo electronica into a full live orchestra of sound.Brighton, England
• 06Chance the RapperChicago's independent son, who gave his music away free and won Grammys doing it.Chicago, USA
• 07Esperanza SpaldingBassist, vocalist and composer bending jazz toward chamber music, art-rock and ritual song.Portland, USA
• 08Florence + the MachineCathedral-sized art rock built on Florence Welch's hurricane of a voice.London, England
• 09GorillazDamon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's animated band — pop's longest-running cartoon experiment.London, England
• 10Hiatus KaiyoteFuture-soul four-piece bending jazz, funk and electronics into something wholly Melbourne.Melbourne, Australia
• 11Hundred WatersFragile electronics and Nicole Miglis' hushed voice, ringing like a bell from somewhere far off.Gainesville, United States
• 12Imogen HeapSelf-produced electronic pop from a songwriter who builds her own instruments.London, England
• 13James BlakeA choirboy's voice suspended in sub-bass — songs built from silence as much as sound.London, United Kingdom
• 14Jesca HoopA Californian folk experimentalist weaving strange, luminous songs from her adopted home in Manchester.Manchester, England
• 15Joanna NewsomHarpist, pianist, and singer of long, luminous story-songs from the Sierra foothills.Nevada City, CA
• 16MF DOOMThe man behind the metal mask — hip-hop's supervillain laureate, 1971–2020. ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.New York, USA
• 17Modest MouseJagged, restless Pacific Northwest indie rock asking big questions in a cracked voice.Portland, United States
• 18Nick DrakeA voice like evening light on an English garden — gone at 26, still arriving.Tanworth-in-Arden, United Kingdom
• 19Oumou SangaréThe Songbird of Wassoulou, carrying Mali's hunter-society rhythms and women's stories to the world.Bamako, Mali
• 20RadioheadFive musicians from Oxfordshire who keep reinventing what a rock band can be.Oxford, England
• 21Sigur RósIcelandic post-rock voyagers who turn glacial landscape into sound.Reykjavík, Iceland
• 22Tame ImpalaKevin Parker's one-man psychedelic universe from Perth, built alone in the studio and unleashed as a band onstage.Perth, Australia
• 23The BeatlesFour Liverpudlians who turned eight years of records into the common language of pop.Liverpool, England
• 24The Boswell SistersThree sisters from uptown New Orleans who bent tempo, key, and radio itself to their harmonies.New Orleans, LA
• 25The SmileThom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner — Radiohead's restless core rewired through jazz drumming and krautrock nerve.London, England
• 26Thom YorkeA falsetto threaded through circuitry — Radiohead's voice, wandering alone into the glitch.Oxford, United Kingdom
• 27ToolLos Angeles art-metal architects turning odd time signatures into ritual.Los Angeles, CA
• 28Trust in the SunA buttery Las Vegas fusion of jazz, soul, funk and pop.Las Vegas, NV