Only load certain artists on this page

if you want to show only 2, put it as a value, like so:

'posts_per_page' => 2

For the newest posts, you need to change the sort using the order and orderby params:

'orderby' => 'date',
'order'   => 'ASC'

Details about orderby params here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

Also, you should avoid the query_posts use. Except if you are using a part of your page only, I believe that’s the case.

On Codex you can see on description about avoiding the query_posts use.

Check this video where a WP Core developer talks about query_posts and so on: http://wordpress.tv/2013/03/15/andrew-nacin-wp_query-wordpress-in-depth/

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