Rachel Doyle

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Francesco Manacorda - Radical Nature

Visitors to London’s Barbican Art Gallery this summer and autumn encountered a dramatic, whimsical and thoroughly green alternate reality. Called Radical Nature, the impassioned and comprehensive exhibition collected 40 years of multimedia works...

OutKast to release 3 albums

After promising various news outlets that 2009 would see a new album, flashy hit makers OutKast are now staking their claim on 2010’s radio waves. First to arrive will be the hotly anticipated Big Boi album, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chi...

Diplo + Switch = Major Lazer

Dancefloor inciter Diplo and fidget house inventor Switch are two of the last producers one would expect to tire of making DJ albums. Both have risen to the top of their respective games – Diplo with his Baile funk and Baltimore bass DJ stylings,...

Soundwalk - the future of exploring

There is nothing better than feeling savvy in a city you don't live in. Hence the genius idea behind Soundwalk, a multimedia company that provides offbeat headphone tours of urban destinations such as New York, Paris, Ibiza, Berlin, London, Varan...

Rough Trade to open in Topshop

This month, independent London music outlet Rough Trade will open a record concession inside of Topman, located on the top floor of Topshop’s Oxford Circus flagship. This business arrangement represents both confidence that physical CD sales are...

TODAY WE LIKE: Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bags

Along with other troubling aspects of the modern age, Facebook has undeniably turned friends into blatant paparazzi, who tag unflattering photographs at the slightest whim, pull out cameras at inappropriate moments and obsess over comments on the...

ONES TO WATCH - Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele

It’s not often that Berlin audience members gleefully smile at each other in the midst of a rock show, shimmy with no semblance of self-consciousness, and cast looks of love towards a young bespectacled crooner from Mississippi who is passionatel...

La Roux - Beyond the quiff

As can be expected from someone who wore a T-shirt declaring “I’m a c*nt” when inking her record deal, 21-year-old La Roux front woman Elly Jackson alternates between emphatic declarations and an almost clinical self-awareness about her burgeonin...

Empire of the Sun disband

Australian psych-pop duo Empire of the Sun played their first and perhaps last show during an early morning solar eclipse today. The heavily stylized six and a half minute video performance took place during the longest such event of the 21st cen...

Kills songs drowned by Kate Moss

Known for sparse compositions, London duo The Kills just saw their new songs stripped down to nothing. After a huge row with girlfriend Kate Moss, guitarist and singer Jamie “Hotel” Hince found himself watching his laptop bag sink to the bottom o...

Scott Walker documentary released

A former pop star now known for his dramatic and bleak solo albums, Scott Walker has inhabited almost every conceivable corner of the music industry. From ‘60s rocker heartthrob to TV personality to reclusive shut-in to eccentric solo artist, thi...

Warp20 box set ignites blogosphere

Although it won’t be out for almost four months, everyone is already talking about the new Warp20 box set. “Have you ever seen anything this beautiful? If you say yes, you're lying”, one Twitterer in thrall of the deluxe compilation’s striking pa...

Clubbing from home with B@

Andy Warhol once said: “I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a mon...

Melt! Festival finalises lineup

Germany's Melt! festival just announced the exciting final acts of their celebrated three-day-long event, which takes place July 17-19. As previously reported, the lineup is awesome. We already knew Aphex Twin, Klaxons, Foals, Oasis and Bloc Part...

TODAY WE LIKE: Breakfast at Sulimay’s

When you ask senior citizens to review new music, you get hysterical results. "That's just science." Hence the genius idea behind web series Breakfast at Sulimay’s, where cranky but incisive Pennsylvanian retirees discuss the latest indie rock, e...