Spin Magazine Artist Of The Year

SPIN, the specialist music magazine, plays bands off one another as it asks for your vote to choose the best new up-and-coming band.

When you're an unsigned or small label band, any type of promotion is good. One of the ways of doing this is having features and profiles of you by specialist media, such as our good selves here at Suite101, and other avenues.

SPIN magazine, one of the more respected magazines out there, is currently holding an Artist Of The Year contest, in which it's chosen a set amount of bands from chosen genres, and put them against one another to be voted on by both readers of the magazine, and the fans themselves. The winners will then be promoted heavily by SPIN in a myriad of ways - a welcome boost to any bands career.

In the Indie section, the following bands have made it through to the final eight, and here you can find who they're competing against:

Cold War Kids vs. Deadboy & The Elephant Men

Mute Math vs. Silversun Pickups

The Rewinds vs. Crystal Skulls

Bound Stems vs. The Format

Take a pop along to have a listen and vote, if you have the time - just a few minutes from your day could go a long way to helping a new band get a foothold in the industry.