Apart from being one of the biggest all around festivals in the world, with close to 200,000 people in attendance. Glastonbury also stages a decent dance component, the classic ‘Dance Village’. This has become a nice alternative to the rock and r...
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...
The small town of Clackmannanshire, Glasgow, might have something to ‘rave’ about soon. A new kid on the block, Kid Adrift recently awoke to an avalanche of record label interest and personal phone calls from Elton John after his music found its...
Dubstep producer Skream leapt from obscurity last year to mainstream attention with his killer remix of La Roux's 'In For The Kill'. His new album Outside The Box could prove to be the final existing link between dubstep and mainstream dance.His...
Hailing from Southeast London, new Kitsune protégés Chew Lips have already earned the praise of BBC music honcho Steve Lamacq, who bestowed them with his big tip for 2009 and even cited their demo as the best he heard in 2008. It’s a good thing t...
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...
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...
Music, like civilisations, fashion and washing machines, tends to move in cycles. Generally 20-year cycles, interestingly enough. The rock-a-billy fifties made a nifty comeback in the seventies. The stoner soul and rock grooves of the sixties bac...
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