ALL ABOARD, ALL ABOARD1. Happy Mondays: Step On2. Wham: Wake Me Up Before Your Go Go 3. The Rolling Stones: Start Me Up4. Led Zeppelin: Stairway To Heaven5. Jamie Principal: Baby Wants To Ride6. The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour7. The Fifth Dimen...
“Everything is perfect for me! I think I'm living the better part of my life,” purrs the ever dapper, perma-bearded Parisian, musician and actor Sebastien Tellier.His joyous affirmation is hardly surprising considering the cinematic upward arc of...
Michael Jackson is gone. It’s strange to hear myself say that, but after 40 years of creating and inspiring, the man who laid down the blueprint for virtually every pop star prototype we live with today, has suddenly left us at the mere age of 50...
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...
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour’s Mette Lindberg and Lars Iversen have spent the last ten years moving through a succession of different bands, never finding creative happiness in any of them. The two outsize personalities felt cramped by the whims and...
There is no place in England outside of London that has such a proud and rich musical history as Manchester. Liverpool may have had the Beatles, and Sheffield may have had bleep and the Human League, but it is the ghost of Manchester that haunts...
Every once in a while a band comes along which perfectly synthesis elements of both pop music and the underground to create music which transcends genres, scenes and more importantly musical fascism. Uniting fans across the board, The Hundred In...
The debut artist album from Crosstown Rebels founder Damian Lazaurus is nothing, if not unexpected. Eschewing the conventional patterns of a dance oriented alum, the London born producer, now based in LA, offers an eclectic debut that takes in ci...
According to some, the future of pop is female, which seems in some contexts a strange statement. I can imagine it is the sort of comment LoneLady would give pretty short thrift to, and I wouldn’t blame her. To be an amazing pop star has never be...
I don't minding putting my neck on the line and stating that there are very very few musicians with the skill, breadth (and to use an english phrase) nous of Matthew Herbert. His latest album - the first part of a trilogy that should include One...
London based hipster troubadour Jamie T is set to return to our collective consciousness this year with a number of releases and a summer tour. The young producer, who shot to fame with the Mercury Prize nominated “Panic Prevention”, took a two-y...
Bootlegger, blogger and DJ Frenchbloke just made computer DJ mixing even easier, with a wonderfully catchy, tongue in cheek mix of pop hits that displays, click by click, how he put it together using Sony's Acid Pro software program. Cramming in...
The circus of morbid fascination with the life and death of Michael Jackson shows little sign of abating with news that Jackson's 1988 biography Moonwalk is to be reprinted. According to the Montreal Gazette "the rights to the book have been boug...
Check out this rather nice new video from retro-pop supremor Mayer Hawthorne for his latest single "Maybe so, Maybe no" out now on Stones Throw. Further cementing a reputation as a thoroughly agreeable person whom you would probably want to take...
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band will not be able to join us in Prague. Although they will be missed, Electronic Beats is excited to announce the addition of N.O.H.A. to the festival line up in their place.N...
Great news for our fans in Cologne, Turboweekend will be a surprise addition to the Electronic Beats Festival. Having already serenaded attendees in Prague and Graz we felt it would be a mistake not to include them in our third and final Spring f...