2011 music preview: skater hip-hop, dark 60s pop, Punjabi folk

Eight mercifully un-hyped new and returning acts we're rather excited about1. Anna CalviThe mark of, if not a great, then at least an interesting artist is that when they emerge blinking into the public eye, they have a sound that's already, unmistakably, their own. Londoner Anna Calvi manages to establish her sound within three songs of her self-titled debut (out 17 Jan). Hers is a a baroque style that whirls theatrically; her influences range from Maria Callas to Edith Piaf to Jeff Buckley and...

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