Iceland Airwaves Festival Kicks Off 10th Anniversary in LondonThe Iceland Airwaves Festival has ever since their start in 1999 brought together a wild mixture of local acts on those that were on the verge of making it big. All that in the almost...
The nominees for the 2009 Mercury Prize have been announced. As always, there seem to be a wealth of improbable inclusions and surprising omissions. The obvious additions are all welcome choices, such as dream popster Bat for Lashes, electro que...
The Mercury Music Prize has once again taken an unpredictable turn by anointing unknown hip hop artist Speech Debelle as the winner for 2009. Before the win, the female South Londoner’s debut album “Speech Therapy”, which was released in June, s...
Marina Diamandis aka Marina and the Diamonds is a 21-year-old Greek-Welsh piano-playing solo act (the audience are the diamonds) who satisfies the appetite of many searching for something both unique and high quality in the crowded stable of fema...
A transatlantic tiff was recently resolved between well-to-do kooky chart topper Florence and the Machine and NYC’s experimental popsters Gang Gang Dance.If you take a close listen to Florence’s track ‘Rabbit Heart’ from her debut album Lungs, yo...