If you for some reason got tired of the mud during British festivals (ahem ahem, Leeds) then we can advise you to wind inland to a warmer spot in Europe in search of a good line up. This year o

This EP has been kicking around on my computer ever since Jump Start Records suggested downloading it earlier in the year. This label has put out three of my favourite albums of the last 12 month

In support of the single “Repetez Le Repertoire” DJ Alex Gimeno a.k.a. Ursula 1000 has released an EP featuring three other renditions of the same song alongside the single.

Although based in t

Last week Mike Marlin released his new single "The Magician" and we were there at the presentation at the Hoxton Hall were also the official video was premiered and a group of talented magicia

True musicians create music they want to hear, not what others want to hear…DJ Shadow has dedicated his career to the above statement and it has worked to his advantage: his fans love his originali

The NME Radar Tour is renowned for featuring some of the hottest upcoming bands and has previously helped establish the likes of The Joy Formidable, Everything Everything, Darwin Deez, La Rou

Kid Koala is a multi-faceted artist who is all over the place. He’s a DJ, he records music, he writes graphic novels, he bakes pies……OK, I’m not sure about the pies, but the rest is true. The alb

Rally Round The Fool is the new single release from Missouri rockers The Get Up Kids. The track features on their 2011 album There Are Rules. Long gone are 1990s and with it the treble filled, lig

It's been proven a lot over the last decade that rock duos can make a hell of a noise. Take The White Stripes for instance, one of the most influential rock bands of the last ten years; or blue

With six foot long posters in tow, They Might Be Giants have been touring North America in support of their newest album, "Join Us". Opening for them is the witty and quirky Jonathan Coulton a

Rather then getting straight to the point of how I felt about DZ DEATHRAYS newest release 'Gebbie Street' from their second E.P entitled Brutal Tapes, first I want to talk a little about the ba

Melbourne’s finest have been extremely busy this year, hopping from continent to continent in their marathon quest to spread Zonoscope across the planet. Cut Copy kicked off a massive North Americ

Actors don't exactly have form when it comes to making music, Scarlett Johansen possibly excluded, but I'm pleased to say that RIZ MC – probably better known as Riz Ahmed, star of The Road

“It's all very well being confrontational and difficult” Brighton's Matt Finucane opines on his own website's minimalist bio “But you need some tunes to back it up”. The word “Tunes” of course

Ok, I will admit that I was a little perplexed going in on how to review an instrumental album. I have never written such a review and was wondering how this would go. The album in question is Ocea

Face Of Man are an outfit hailing from the big apple, arguably the most vibrant and energetic city on the face of the globe. Amidst all the hustle and bustle, a bunch of Columbia University studen