Woop! Kylie Minogue has announced that “Get Outta My Way” is going to be released next month, the second from her new album Aphrodite. She’ll be hoping for her 34th (fuck!) top ten hit – which is part of being the only female to have UK number one albums in every one of the last [...]

Scissor Sisters seemed to be on the wane – just slightly. There we’re lots of free tickets being given away in competitions for their last UK tour- meaning they had some to spare and needed some PR. They were never doing badly, and still had their cult following, but there was a slight feeling they [...]

It might be old hat to mix a female R&B songstress with a popular rap singer – but it works.  Love the Way You Lie is now the ultimate proof of this. Rihanna and Eminem’s single was realeased as a promo clip last week and since then it’s racked up over 20 million views. The [...]

JLS are nice guys – everyone saw them on X Factor as genuine friends wanting to be pop stars. Their new single reflects the problem with the TV pop competition though. They don’t want to make music particularly, they don’t want to write lyrics – they just want to be performers of songs, not musicians. [...]

Just a little while after saying Paul Weller was too wild, Noel Gallagher has popped up at one of his gigs to take the stage. Last night at London’s Relentless Garage the pair performed Oasis’ Mucky Fingers and Paul’s Echoes Round the Sun. Earlier this week though Noel told TalkSport: “I guess Weller’s my oldest [...]

I like Faithless…and i wanted to keep liking them. Unless I’m missing something though, their new single sounds exactly the same as previous offerings. There is nothing new, no progression – it’s like someone doing a parody of a Faithless song. And a lazy parody at that. And one that’s not funny……just very boring. Oh [...]

HEALTH – WE ARE WATER: Directed by Eric Wareheim this video is pure “what the fuck” goodness. BABE SHADOW – SEA SERPENTS:  A great fit for a sunny spring day. This band will be accompanying Florence and the Machine on her new tour and are more than worth checking out. Have a listen here: WE [...]

There’s been much talk of Kate Nash changing her style.  Her slightly thicker fringe, her refusal to play foundations live and her continued relationship with Ryan Jarman from The Cribs all helping fuel rumours that she’s about to eschew pop for indie.  Then came this little number: It’s a weird song, and clearly shows Kate [...]

When I said I was off to a preview responses ranged from “it’s just noise…they start song by just mashing a keyboard” to a defensive “Well I like them”. The first reaction didn’t come from an old lady and the second didn’t come from a painfully cool Shoreditch type. Crystal castles are just pretty divisive. [...]

Lightspeed Champion, aka Dev Hynes, has had a bit of a rough time lately.  In late March he wrote on his blog of his ordeal after this face swelled up. A couple years ago I had a tooth infection, which then whilst on tour in europe spread and turned into a blood infection, leaving me [...]