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Ones To Watch In 2010 - Part One

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Predictions of who will make it big are always liable to provide a journalist with more egg on face than Humpty Dumpty’s renologist. The history of music is littered with band’s who were destined for greatness and disappeared without leaving so much as a smudge on the window of the music world. It’s even harder for bloggers like the Devil because, by our very nature, we deal in the obscure and the uncommercial. However I’m going to stick my neck out and predict that during the next twelve months at least one of the bands featured over the next two days will become bigger than Obama.

In no particular order the Devil’s first set of tips for 2010 are…

The Daily Graboid

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We’re nearly three weeks into 2009, but you could argue that the year (in terms of music) officially begins this week. Lots of big name players have albums out this week and trying to single out just one to purchase wouldn’t be fair. New stuff from A.C. Newman, Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, and Antony and the Johnsons? Just those alone would make it a worthwhile week for most, but that is in fact just from the letter “A.” It’s silly, isn’t it?

Chad VanGaalen - City of Electric Light

Chad is heading across the pond to the U.K. and Sweden in the next week, so consider a live rendezvous if you live somewhere in between Bristol and Stockholm.

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