Breakthrough: Artists on the Rise
Does your playlist need a refresh? Are you craving some new alternative hits to fill the void? Listen to the season finale of Breakthrough: Artists on the Rise for the best in indie and alt rock from Boston, MA to Queensland, Australia and everywhere in between!
# of Episodes
75
Host
DJ Holden
First Aired
February 13th, 2023
Last Episode
April 23rd, 2025
Previous broadcasts
April 23rd, 2025
Khruangbin, Honeyglaze, Sting, Mustard Service, and more.
April 23rd, 2025
2Pac, and more.
April 16th, 2025
Djo, The Beths, Yard Act, Lime Garden, and more.
April 9th, 2025
The Band, Masayoshi Takanaka, Jackson Marshall, Broadcast, and more.
April 2nd, 2025
Wunderhorse, Caamp, Khruangbin, Fontaines D.C., and more.
March 26th, 2025
Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Mustard Service, Ava Maybee, Fela Kuti, and more.
March 19th, 2025
Bloc Party, Men I Trust, Been Stellar, Radio Free Alice, and more.
March 19th, 2025
Jerry Douglas, and more.
March 12th, 2025
FEET, Mustard Service, Lime Garden, Khruangbin, and more.
March 5th, 2025
Asian Glow, Gully Boys, Fleeting Joys, fern, and more.
February 26th, 2025
Surf Curse, Do Nothing, SWIMS, Marvin Gaye, and more.
February 26th, 2025
Clive Richardson, and more.
February 19th, 2025
Lime Garden, Caamp, Beige Banquet, Real Estate, and more.
February 19th, 2025
Karen Dalton, and more.
February 12th, 2025
Thievery Corporation, Fontaines D.C., Yard Act, Honeyglaze, and more.
February 5th, 2025
Dry Cleaning, Mustard Service, Wunderhorse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.
January 29th, 2025
Wunderhorse, The Naked And Famous, Maggie Rogers, Fontaines D.C., and more.
January 22nd, 2025
Florence + The Machine, Maggie Rogers, Fontaines D.C., The Strokes, and more.
January 22nd, 2025
Clairo, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Honey Stretton, and more.
December 9th, 2024
Louis Armstrong, Ava Maybee, Andrew Bird, Khruangbin, and more.
December 2nd, 2024
Khruangbin, The Philly Specials, Passion Pit, The Smashing Pumpkins, and more.
November 25th, 2024
The Philly Specials, Mom Jeans., Vince Guaraldi Trio, Men I Trust, and more.
November 18th, 2024
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Naked And Famous, Khruangbin, St. Vincent, and more.
November 11th, 2024
Sorry, Fontaines D.C., Real Estate, Glen Campbell, and more.
November 4th, 2024
Mustard Service, Big Thief, The Cranberries, Khruangbin, and more.
October 28th, 2024
Ava Maybee, Her's, M83, Passion Pit, and more.
October 28th, 2024
Wunderhorse, Mt. Joy, Queens of the Stone Age, Pixies, and more.
October 21st, 2024
Mt. Joy, Khruangbin, Gengahr, Men I Trust, and more.
October 14th, 2024
The Beatles, Al Green, Cortex, Earth, Wind & Fire, and more.
October 7th, 2024
Wunderhorse, Sadurn, Real Estate, FINNEAS, and more.
September 30th, 2024
Fontaines D.C., Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners, Wunderhorse, Khruangbin, and more.
April 22nd, 2024
Pixies, Do Nothing, Queens of the Stone Age, Khruangbin, and more.
April 15th, 2024
Buena Vista Social Club, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Replacements, Artur Nunes, and more.
April 8th, 2024
BEX, SWIMS, Real Estate, Been Stellar, and more.
April 1st, 2024
Dry Cleaning, The Drums, Khruangbin, Wunderhorse, and more.
March 25th, 2024
Stan Getz, Pixies, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thievery Corporation, and more.
March 18th, 2024
IDLES, Caamp, Phoenix, SWIMS, and more.
March 18th, 2024
mei ehara, and more.
March 11th, 2024
Pure Bathing Culture, Wunderhorse, Melody's Echo Chamber, Billie Eilish, and more.
March 11th, 2024
Hovvdy, and more.
March 4th, 2024
Fishmans, Hollow Bastion, The RH Factor, Bastien Keb, and more.
February 26th, 2024
Winkler, Khruangbin, Royel Otis, IDLES, and more.
February 19th, 2024
Papooz, U2, Jorge Ben Jor, Big Thief, and more.
February 12th, 2024
Pavement, The Killers, Khruangbin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.
February 5th, 2024
Melt, Flat Worms, Palma Violets, Ava Maybee, and more.
February 5th, 2024
The Convenience, and more.
January 29th, 2024
Thin Lizzy, Wunderhorse, Do Nothing, Hazel English, and more.
December 11th, 2023
The Strokes, Marika Hackman, The Goo Goo Dolls, Wheatus, and more.
December 4th, 2023
The Orielles, Yin Yin, U2, Kenny Loggins, and more.
November 27th, 2023
Bass Drum Of Death, Allah-Las, Westerman, Khruangbin, and more.
November 20th, 2023
Khruangbin, Donny Benét, The Drums, FONTAINES D.C., and more.
November 13th, 2023
Yin Yin, The Drums, Khruangbin, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and more.
November 6th, 2023
Dry Cleaning, Gengahr, Do Nothing, Palma Violets, and more.
November 6th, 2023
c a n d i d !, Palma Violets, Beck, Ava Maybee, and more.
October 30th, 2023
Been Stellar, Bombay Bicycle Club, Chappaqua Wrestling, Phoebe Bridgers, and more.
October 23rd, 2023
Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Cory Henry, Wunderhorse, Chappaqua Wrestling, and more.
October 16th, 2023
Dead Pretties, Dry Cleaning, Sadurn, The Drums, and more.
August 16th, 2023
Carl Carlton, Dazz Band, Tom Misch, c a n d i d !, and more.
August 9th, 2023
Dan Hartman, Kaelin Ellis, Patrice Rushen, Siddha-Funk, and more.
August 2nd, 2023
Donny Benét, Durand Jones & The Indications, Little Jesus, Saib, and more.
July 26th, 2023
Blur, Lifehouse, Modern English, Cody Fry, and more.
July 19th, 2023
Dominic Fike, The Mysterines, Been Stellar, Wunderhorse, and more.
April 24th, 2023
Arctic Monkeys, Queens Of The Stone Age, Fontaines D.C., The Strokes, and more.
April 17th, 2023
Sun Ra, Neno Exporta Som, The English Beat, The Band, and more.
April 10th, 2023
Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, ABBA, The Chats, and more.
April 3rd, 2023
John Coltrane, Surf Curse, Fontaines D.C., Beach Fossils, and more.
March 27th, 2023
Allah-Las, Fontaines D.C., Crocodylus, King Khan & The Shrines, and more.
March 20th, 2023
Sorry, The Chats, Wunderhorse, waveform*, and more.
March 13th, 2023
Big Thief, The Drums, Been Stellar, Natural Child, and more.
March 6th, 2023
TV Girl, Paramore, Origami Angel, Illuminate, and more.
February 27th, 2023
omat, Dry Cleaning, Daft Punk, Chappaqua Wrestling, and more.
February 20th, 2023
Imperial Teen, Natural Child, Melody's Echo Chamber, Fontaines D.C., and more.