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Alice Klar doing it Roy Walker-style

A jobbing soul singer puts her love of Erykah Badu and Jill Scott to one side and finds inspiration in Robyn instead; she kills off the big ballads and gives it out with gob, just like she does in real life.

Micachu can do just about anything

Twenty-one-year-old East Londoner Mica Levi is clearly no slave to convention.

Outside Royalty keeping it regal in the United Kingdom

The Outside Royalty began life nearly five years ago as a full-on glam rock band in Pittsburgh, a city at least five hours’ drive from the nearest large population centre.

Inside job for Alessi

Press play, close your eyes, conjure pictures.

To be or yacht to be, that’s the question with Grovesnor

Recipe to make Grovesnor: take a dollop of Steely Dan, add a pair of honified tonsils, stir in some fresh Casio bleeps and bake with an unquenchable libido.

Tayo’s got a new bottom end

DJ Tayo’s latest single, ‘Style and Trend’, mixes up dancehall, grime and bitsy, pounding bass in a manner that would make Toddla T proud.

Dananananakroyd album to be titled Baldrick

Dananananaykroyd are massive teases.

Let’s Wrestle must do their colouring now

It’s my fault, I suppose. I’m interviewing Let’s Wrestle and I’ve chosen the internet as the place to chat.

Ben Esser a lying swine of a musician

In person Ben Esser is awkward.

Norwich’s Le Tetsuo shouting like canaries in London

Le Tetsuo don’t make drone music, they can’t really dance and they haven’t yet proclaimed fraternity with Brooklyn’s neo-tribal noise scene or afrobeat.

Night slugs Bok Bok & Manara bring bassline down south

“We started DJing together by accident in my bedroom one night, when I played a new Wiley vocal and Manara dropped Yomanda’s ‘Synth String’ into it.

Practical housekeepers Beestung Lips making punk sound vital again

The young man is standing naked apart from his pants on stage.

Hello Kitty!

This is showgirl Kitty Bang Bang absolutely plastered after a Valentine’s Day performance.

The Stool Pigeon issue 16, May 2008

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