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Everyone loves dubstep, right? From Pitchfork to NME, people are falling over themselves (…)

When The Jesus And Mary Chain first started recording demos (…)

A night on the tiles. You stumble your way to a bus stop, board and pass out on the top deck.

Joker may only be 20, but already he’s emerging as the most exciting producer to come out of the dubstep boom.

If Archie Bronson Outfit had a bigger tour bus, Joe Gideon & The Shark wouldn’t exist. There was once a band called Bikini Atoll – a quartet. The Archies wanted Bikini Atoll as their support band, but only had space for two on their bus, so singing guitarist Joe Gideon and his sister Viva joined the [...]

Label them psych rock, or dub metal, or afro punk, but if there’s one thing you can’t call Johannesburg’s BLK JKS, it’s artless. And people need to already move on from thinking their recent Brandon Curtis-produced debut EP, ‘Mystery’, sounds like a South African version of TV On The Radio. They’re also not the ‘next [...]

Suzanne and Jimmy from London’s white noise up-and-comers Trailer Trash Tracys are sat at a bar table nursing two half-full glasses. This is their first ever interview – “an exclusive,” Suzanne says, who’s using her lunch break from her job in a nearby Carnaby Street store to make the band’s media debut. Jimmy’s not currently [...]

“You can have what you want,” Papercuts’ Jason Quever sings on the title track of his third album. Only what he means is, you can’t. “You grow up hearing that you can have whatever you want, but there are so few people who are actually at peace,” the San Franciscan explains over his morning coffee. [...]

Filthy humour, a doo-wop sensibility and garage rock production are bound to make for a novel, if not sloppy cocktail. The third album from (…)

After Ghana achieved independence from Britain in 1957 it gradually moved into a period of relative affluence. (…)

Back in your boxes you merchants of stern and deep bass-heads, because here’s a man with a deft touch (…)

Nas may have been right when he said: “Hip hop is dead.” Having witnessed it sink below the level (…)

Far more than Two Dancers at London show

Gift Of The Gab: No bad mouthing as the Gossip let their music speak volumes

Nothing’s more of a turn off than being made to feel like you’re suckling at the prosthetic teat of the PR machine.

Jack Peñate’s debut 2007’s Matinée was the gurning face of the skiffle-pop holocaust, an album as wide of the mark as its author was wide of visage.