Jun 18, 2012 — Hear five tunes that have quickly become staples on the left-hand side of the radio dial. Download music from Metric, Lianne La Havas and three more up-and-coming artists.
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Jun 18, 2012 — Hear five tunes that have quickly become staples on the left-hand side of the radio dial. Download music from Metric, Lianne La Havas and three more up-and-coming artists.See this
![Metric's "Youth Without Youth" is blowing up at 89.3 The Current in the Twin Cities.](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/06/15/metric_synthetica_by_brantley_gutierrez_wide-e52f9a4aedaff16616f0176e6debe9e9c199e0e0.jpg&s=51 "Metric's "Youth Without Youth" is blowing up at 89.3 The Current in the Twin Cities.")
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There's no clear formula for why a new song catches fire at one of our partner radio stations. Sometimes it's a hook you can't get out of your head, and sometimes it's a tune's ability to distill a station's overall vibe into three sublime minutes.
We asked five stations to select a song currently blowing up on their airwaves and tell us why. For a limited time, you can download their answers — the results include new music from the smart Canadian pop band Metric, U.K. singer Lianne La Havas, folk newbie John Fullbright, funk collective Brownout and British pop group alt-J.
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