Rolling Stone has named the 25 Best Albums and 25 Best Songs of 2009, and our readers have weighed in with their own year-end picks. Now’s the time to look back at the year’s great new discoveries: our 45 Breaking Artists from 2009 and five Artists to Watch. A few of these folks — including Dirty Projectors (video above), Girls, the xx, Grizzly Bear, the Big Pink, Avett Brothers, Dawes and Drake — managed to land on our year-end countdowns. Read their full stories and watch videos for each band here:
Artists to Watch
Drake
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
BLK JKS
Avett Brothers
Florence and the Machine
Breaking:
M83
Bishop Allen
N.A.S.A.
Audrye Sessions
The Low Anthem
Wild Light
Lisa Hannigan
Ida Maria
Little Boots
White Lies
The Airborne Toxic Event
Tinted Windows
Cotton Jones
Paper Route
Deastro
Telekinesis
St. Vincent
An Horse
Grizzly Bear
Dirty Projectors
Amazing Baby
Deer Tick
Screaming Females
The Script
Foreign Born
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Those Darlins
Owl City
Cage the Elephant
Portugal. The Man
Alberta Cross
Girls
The Entrance Band
Washed Out
Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons
Band of Skulls
Dead Man’s Bones
Mayor Hawthorne
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
La Roux
Dawes
Harper Simon
The xx
The Big Pink
Orianthi
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