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
Pavement, Yard Act, Khruangbin, Wunderhorse, and more.
April 23rd, 2025
2Pac, and more.
April 16th, 2025
Yard Act, Wet Leg, Khruangbin, SWIMS, and more.
April 9th, 2025
Masayoshi Takanaka, Merce Lemon, VALNTN, yeule, and more.
April 2nd, 2025
No Windows, Gengahr, Wet Leg, Her's, and more.
March 26th, 2025
Death, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Fontaines D.C., Fela Kuti, and more.
March 19th, 2025
Mr. Bungle, Nubya Garcia, Bloc Party, Radio Free Alice, and more.
March 19th, 2025
Jerry Douglas, and more.
March 12th, 2025
Mustard Service, SWIMS, Lime Garden, Jonathan Richman, and more.
March 5th, 2025
Veruca Salt, SundaybutHoursaway, fern, 12 RODS, and more.
February 26th, 2025
Surf Curse, Been Stellar, Marvin Gaye, Fontaines D.C., and more.
February 26th, 2025
Clive Richardson, and more.
February 19th, 2025
Lime Garden, Real Estate, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Khruangbin, and more.
February 19th, 2025
Karen Dalton, and more.
February 12th, 2025
Ava Maybee, Royel Otis, Fontaines D.C., The 5.6.7.8's, and more.
February 5th, 2025
Allah-Las, Ava Maybee, Dry Cleaning, Passion Pit, and more.
January 29th, 2025
Men I Trust, The Naked And Famous, Big Thief, Real Estate, and more.
January 22nd, 2025
Florence + The Machine, The Strokes, Wunderhorse, Cake, and more.
January 22nd, 2025
Andrew Bird, Yo La Tengo, The Lemon Twigs, Honey Stretton, and more.
December 9th, 2024
Vince Guaraldi Trio, The Red Clay Strays, Louis Armstrong, The Cranberries, and more.
December 2nd, 2024
Allen Toussaint, The Philly Specials, The Smashing Pumpkins, Irma Thomas, and more.
November 25th, 2024
Maggie Rogers, The Philly Specials, Wunderhorse, Funkadelic, and more.
November 18th, 2024
The Naked And Famous, Sadurn, St. Vincent, Men I Trust, and more.
November 11th, 2024
Mt. Joy, Fontaines D.C., FEET, Real Estate, and more.
November 4th, 2024
Florence + The Machine, The Cranberries, Ava Maybee, Mustard Service, and more.
October 28th, 2024
The Red Clay Strays, Her's, M83, Pixies, and more.
October 28th, 2024
Men I Trust, Pixies, Queens of the Stone Age, Wunderhorse, and more.
October 21st, 2024
The Killers, Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners, Sadurn, Her's, and more.
October 14th, 2024
The Flamingos, James Brown, Al Green, John Lewis, and more.
October 7th, 2024
Van McCoy, Khruangbin, Billie Eilish, Gengahr, and more.
September 30th, 2024
Her's, James Brown, The Naked And Famous, Do Nothing, and more.
April 22nd, 2024
Arctic Monkeys, Pixies, SWIMS, Khruangbin, and more.
April 15th, 2024
Buena Vista Social Club, disco witch, Kuinka, Cheb Mami, and more.
April 8th, 2024
SWIMS, Ava Maybee, Queens Of The Stone Age, IDLES, and more.
April 1st, 2024
Do Nothing, Chappaqua Wrestling, Khruangbin, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and more.
March 25th, 2024
Sadurn, Wunderhorse, IDLES, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and more.
March 18th, 2024
IDLES, SWIMS, Monie Love, Caamp, and more.
March 18th, 2024
mei ehara, and more.
March 11th, 2024
The Cranberries, Ava Maybee, Wunderhorse, Sadurn, and more.
March 11th, 2024
Hovvdy, and more.
March 4th, 2024
Shye Ben Tzur, Fishmans, The RH Factor, Alvvays, and more.
February 26th, 2024
Sadurn, Do Nothing, Gengahr, Khruangbin, and more.
February 19th, 2024
Forsaken Autumn, Jorge Drexler, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, and more.
February 12th, 2024
Red Hot Chili Peppers, SWIMS, Arctic Monkeys, The Drums, and more.
February 5th, 2024
Dry Cleaning, Palma Violets, Flat Worms, Ava Maybee, and more.
February 5th, 2024
The Convenience, and more.
January 29th, 2024
Liily, Hazel English, Do Nothing, Gengahr, and more.
December 11th, 2023
Queens of the Stone Age, Paul McCartney, Marika Hackman, The Goo Goo Dolls, and more.
December 4th, 2023
Wunderhorse, Khruangbin, blink-182, SWIMS, and more.
November 27th, 2023
Big Thief, Wunderhorse, Paramore, Dead Pretties, and more.
November 20th, 2023
Gengahr, Khruangbin, Dry Cleaning, Donny Benét, and more.
November 13th, 2023
Beach Fossils, Cheap Teeth, Mustard Service, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and more.
November 6th, 2023
Gengahr, Queens of the Stone Age, Do Nothing, Dead Pretties, and more.
November 6th, 2023
Beck, Palma Violets, c a n d i d !, Ava Maybee, and more.
October 30th, 2023
Surf Curse, Eddie Kendricks, Fontaines D.C., Goat Girl, and more.
October 23rd, 2023
Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Wunderhorse, Chappaqua Wrestling, Bombay Bicycle Club, and more.
October 16th, 2023
Been Stellar, Beach Fossils, Elias Rahbani, The Drums, and more.
August 16th, 2023
Theo Katzman, Carl Carlton, Dazz Band, Jungle Fire, and more.
August 9th, 2023
Earth, Wind & Fire, Stuff, La Garfield, Cory Wong, and more.
August 2nd, 2023
Saib, Franc Moody, Juanpalitoschinos, Dan Hartman, and more.
July 26th, 2023
Blur, Avenged Sevenfold, The Rolling Stones, Modern English, and more.
July 19th, 2023
Dead Pretties, Natural Child, Dominic Fike, The Drums, and more.
April 24th, 2023
The Cranberries, Wunderhorse, The Strokes, Westerman, and more.
April 17th, 2023
The English Beat, M. Ward, Neno Exporta Som, Otis Redding, and more.
April 10th, 2023
Beck, The Chats, Fontaines D.C., Franz Ferdinand, and more.
April 3rd, 2023
Natural Child, John Coltrane, Queens Of The Stone Age, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and more.
March 27th, 2023
Mustard Service, Melody's Echo Chamber, Khruangbin, Palma Violets, and more.
March 20th, 2023
Crocodylus, Abjects, The Unknowns, Fontaines D.C., and more.
March 13th, 2023
Flat Worms, Fontaines D.C., Sports Team, Been Stellar, and more.
March 6th, 2023
Harry Styles, Origami Angel, The Marías, TV Girl, and more.
February 27th, 2023
Daft Punk, omat, Arctic Monkeys, Chapterhouse, and more.
February 20th, 2023
Natural Child, Bad Nerves, Been Stellar, Cola, and more.