My discoveries of the year 2012

• CALEXICO (re-discovered)
• ME AND MY DRUMMER
• CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX
• ALT-J
• Wallis BIRD
• SÓLEY
• IZIA
• Laura MARLING
• Eddie VEDDER
• FIRST AID KIT

and also OF MONSTERS AND MEN,   DAN SAN,   TRIBES,   PORTICO QUARTET,   MIYAVI,   STUCK IN THE SOUND,   SKIP THE USE,   Michael KIWANUKA,   DRY THE RIVER,   Laura GIBSON,   DAN SAN,   Kurt VILE