The Stool Pigeon

Too many cooks not spoiling Twin Sister’s carnal broth

Bordeaux is an ivory tower for Paris-hating pop trio Alba Lua.

Bethany Cosentino of garage popsters Best Coast is completely at sea when she doesn’t have weed.

Hot-headed Cold Pumas will get their claws out if you call them lo-fi.

Funky production duo Ill Blu hoping to paint London town red.

Business-minded Californian soul singer Aloe Blacc all about making the green stuff.

“Music is like a sport — you can let your aggression out,” says Drum Eyes’ Shige (…)

“I’m really wary of signing to big record labels,” explains Meursault’s Neil Pennycook (…)

I’m tired, I’m confused, I’m dirty and I’m hungry, and five yards away my girlfriend is trying to sleep… Guess I better review these demos, then.

What can be said about the Doors’ back story that hasn’t already been covered? The truth, for a start.

There could hardly be a more apt sounding death knell for lo-fi indie garage than Nathan Williams’ infantile pop farts. Both the genre and Wavves itself have been due a backlash for some time now.

In another universe, parallel to ours but not too distant, Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam is the pivotal character in Pulp’s ‘Common People’.

Everyone seems to hear something different in the kind of piercing racket that only the pairing of a former hardcore guitarist and an ex-girl group singer could produce

The album rolls back the years and sates Devo-addicts’ cravings for more of the same. The lack of artistic progression is inevitable. After all, de-evolution is real…

There’s no reason why the soul or spirit of a recording studio should rub off on people who record there (…)

You should know by now why The Fall are the greatest English rock band of the last 40 years.(…)