Niia – Bandwidth http://bandwidth.wamu.org WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:23:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 Public Radio’s 10 Breakout Artists Of 2014 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/public-radios-10-breakout-artists-of-2014/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/public-radios-10-breakout-artists-of-2014/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:20:07 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=44647 Public radio hosts spend much of their time sifting through overflowing mail bins and inboxes as they hunt for as-yet-unknown musicians worth sharing. Their stations frequently help vault new artists to national success.

With that in mind, we asked our partner stations to tell us about their favorite musical discoveries of the year. The results include everything from a metamodern country singer to a heartsick Toronto surf-pop band, not to mention a whole lot of love for impressively viral Irish singer-songwriter Hozier. Read on for 10 hosts’ picks for the artists who broke out in 2014.

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