5 Under 500

13 January 2015 | 11:00 am | Liam Apter
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Five bands on the come-up we're keeping an eye on.. A lot of acts that you read about on music websites - the hot/upcoming/buzz-worthy articles - come from a press release, with the authors sent a lot of awesome new music and having to sift through for the good stuff. With that in mind we thought we'd go on a little hunt through the online realm to try and find a few acts that haven't broken over the 500-Like mark (because like it or not, the number of FB likes you've accrued can play a role in the amount of online love you'll receive). So we hope 5 UNDER 500 will bring to your attention a few emerging acts, who are under 500 likes on Facebook, and whose sounds we are very much digging. Men Among Boys – Rivers  With a clear influences being Kanye West’s album 808s & Heartbreak the credibility of Men Among Boys wavers until you realize they were able to take a piece of genius and re-appropriate it into something that has its own identity. Rivers appears as a elemental slow-jam with echo