MUSIC Can punk or rock push divas off the top

LONDON (Reuters) - Never listened of Milk Music? That might be about to change after a unsigned punk rockers from

Olympia, Washington

seemed on a heading

music magazine

's acts-to-watch list.

Rising stars like

Lana Del Rey

, A$AP Rocky and Howler are also sloping to make it large this year and over as cocktail pickers and record labels hunt a airwaves for hitmakers of tomorrow.

With

guitar bands

and solo masculine artists featuring so prominently in a array of new strain polls published during a start of a year, chart-topping pas like Lady Gaga,

Adele

and

Beyonce

could see their crowns slip.

And once again a United States looks like environment a pace, withdrawal Britain, a other tellurian strain powerhouse, personification catch-up.

"From doing this emanate what I've satisfied is that there is a unequivocally far-reaching range of things out there," pronounced Matt Wilkinson, new strain editor during

British strain magazine

NME who has only gathered a list of 100 bands to watch in 2012.

"In a final 12 months a United States has been on tip of a diversion in terms of guitar bands and indie strain so we kind of wish and design a UK to conflict to that this year," he told Reuters. "We are in a bit of a peace during a impulse over here."

One heading womanlike act set for stardom in 2012 is

Del Rey

, genuine name Elizabeth Grant, an American who caused a stir final year with her vivid YouTube strike "Video Games."

Britain's NME strain repository motionless not to underline her in a 2012 consult since it felt she was already determined -- in fact many acts on this month's "next large thing" lists are good on their approach to celebrity and fortune.

In Del Rey's case, she is sealed to Interscope, partial of a world's biggest strain association Universal, and releases an album, "Born to Die," during a finish of a month.

Some doubt a turn to that her design has been made for mainstream success and doubt either Del Rey can means her early success.

"The destiny for Lana Del Rey feels a small uncertain," pronounced Alexis Petridis, strain censor for a Guardian journal that voted Video Games a best strain of 2011.

"Whether Video Games turns out to be a one truly conspicuous thing about her, or a consternation of mass to come is a indecisive point."

For NME's Wilkinson, Harlem-raised rapper Azealia Banks is a intensity 2012 breakout.

"We're going large on her," he said. "She's good and totally exciting. But will she sell as many annals as Adele? Probably not."

A miss of radio play for a famously foul-mouthed musician could be a barrier, he added.

Canada's Claire Boucher, also famous as Grimes, expelled an manuscript in 2010 and was on a Guardian's "New rope of a day" mainstay as prolonged ago as March, though her code of dim electro cocktail could make a dash this year.

Across a Atlantic, British "girl power" is approaching to come from Londoner Lianne La Havas, who appears both on a BBC's "Sound of 2012" check and

MTV

's "Brand New For 2012" list.

The BBC also championed Ren Harvieu as a probable successor to Adele, while a dim cocktail of Charli XCX and soulful sounds of Delilah (Paloma Stoecker) have MTV excited.

HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS

Balancing a design for 2012, several solo masculine artists are also sloping for a top.

British essence musician Michael Kiwanuka surfaced BBC's annual check on Friday, finale a run of 4 uninterrupted years in that singular females claimed a esteem starting with Adele in 2008.

In second place came Frank Ocean, a U.S. singer-songwriter who has already collaborated with cocktail kingship like Beyonce, Jay-Z and Kanye West.

NME predicts he will be a "true dermatitis star" of a Odd Future hip-hop collective.

New Yorker and rising hip-hop star A$AP Rocky famously sealed a $3 million record understanding with Sony Music final year, scarcely half of that reportedly will go towards appropriation his possess record label.

Underground Chicago thespian Willis Earl Beal, who until recently was withdrawal CDs and fliers fibbing around randomly, has been snapped adult by XL Recordings, Adele's label, and they devise to recover his entrance manuscript "Acousmatic Sorcery" in March.

British teen Conor Maynard has been likened by MTV to Justin Bieber, while a strain channel called Angel (Sirach Charles) "quite presumably a UK cocktail and R & B industry's best kept secret."

Briton King Krule (Archy Marshall) is another "boy wonder," nonetheless his abounding voice and wordly-wise opinions confute his years, while compatriots Dot Rotten and King Charles make during slightest one of a new artist lists.

BANDS ON THE RISE

Guitar bands and indie strain in ubiquitous have been on a decrease in new years, though they put in a clever display in a latest surveys.

Minneapolis rockers Howler have been likened to a Vaccines and Strokes and seem initial in NME's 2012 list.

DZ Deathrays' music, described as "sleazy, sexy, thrash-punk robo-rock," has stage out from stages in their local Australia for some-more than 3 years, though this year they aim to conquer Europe and furnish a entrance album.

Milk Music have so distant resisted record executives' approaches and sojourn independent, while London quintet Spector strike a highway in Mar to support Florence + The Machine.

Scandinavia is represented by Swedish electro cocktail twin Niki & The Dove on a BBC check and compatriots Icona Pop underline in

NME.

In France, names to demeanour out for embody Francois & The Atlas Mountains, Apes and Horses, The Bewitched Bands, Concrete Knives and Stuck In a Sound.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White; additional stating by Dominique Vidalon, modifying by Paul Casciato)

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