We won’t bore you with another best of 2009 list. Instead, we’re looking into the future to predict the new music, trends, and artists to watch for in 2010.

The European trifecta inspired by “The Dog From The Sea”

Don Juan lets you know it’s great to be in love with yourself with his video for “Lookie Looky”

Likeblood opens at the 9:30 Club for the DC leg of the Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II Tour

If you’ve come even remotely close to a hipster, a proclaimed hipster DJ, or one of their parties, then you’ve probably heard of a music genre fusion called “dubstep”

The Joint Chiefs speak to Rakim Allah at Stussy DC about his latest project, The Seventh Seal

“We go Brooklyn To Babylon, on and on!”

In preparation for the release of his new single, “Feelin’” (comes out iTunes and Amazon on Friday), Will Eastman has decided to “Annihilate The Weekend” for your listening pleasure.

Exposure with mass appeal

Midwest hip-hop blows through the streets of Baltimore with Brother Ali, Evidence, Toki Wright, and BK-One

Singer-songwriter Robert Francis breaks onto the scene with beautifully bleak indie-folk on new album Before Nightfall

UCB and Wale bring in the noise and the funk with their video for “Pat Your Weave”

The Couch Sessions, True Genius Requires Insanity and The Glass House (aka The Joint Chiefs) chopped it up with the Philly Club King, DJ Sega

Noisettes frontwoman Shingai Shoniwa stands out with a style all her own on sophomore effort Wild Young Hearts

New video f/ Adam Tensta, the biggest name in Swedish hip-hop and the most well-known out of Scandinavia this side of the Atlantic

If you missed it, the Washington Post goes inside DMV hip-hop in this Sunday’s Style section