There was a period in 2008 when every copy of NME was packed with fawning praise for Foals. And that’s where the major problem lies with the band – it’s hard to get past the scenester hype and pretension. Their new album has been compared by NME to The Cure, TomTomClub, Ladysmith, Osibisa, Siouxsie and [...]

Over the last week there’s been a glut of leaks of the new MGMT album “Congratulations”. Luckily, this has led MGMT to leak it themselves. Speaking on their official website they said: Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We wanted to offer it as [...]

In 2009 it seemed Boy George had become irreversibly assigned the status of caricature; a camp 80s hangover jailed “false imprisonment” of a male escort and ending up as the world’s most famous street sweeper. The details are well known, but the accusations that the incident went beyond the consensual never quite chimed with the [...]

If you haven’t come across this spooky viral campaign yet here’s a quick intro. In early December a video was posted on Youtube by iamamiwhoami. This and the following 5 videos have shown a blonde woman, usually covered in mud, sporting preposterously long eyelashes and interacting with a natural environment – which usually looks like [...]

Florence + The Machine is cleverly capitalising on her recent win at the Brits with her new release Dog Days are Over. The song is fairly familiar having already been released in 2008 – though only reaching a paltry number 89 in the singles chart – and being the backing music for Channel 4s recent [...]

Lady Gaga is like Deal or No Deal. I hate it in theory, but if I watch more than a few minutes I’m sucked into that world I found ridiculous a few moment before and hating myself a little bit for enjoying it. Her latest video is no exception – bright, trippy and set in [...]

Owen Pallett, the creative genius and one-man-band behind Final Fantasy, is to release his upcoming album Heartland under his own name

After nearly 1,500 votes for our 15 albums of the year (they're all winners really), the public have voted Muse's fifth studio album The Resistance as TMM's Album of 2009.

Everyone's favourite indie/dance/electro buddies Hot Chip are back with the single One Life Stand.

The dates are in support of their latest album Only Revolutions.