07/10/2008
Somewhat quiet of late, 2007 success stories The View are making a comeback with a new single at the end of October, preceded by a live performance on the London leg of the xXx celebrations
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Displaying a songwriting ab...
06/10/2008
Few British rappers can claim to have a flex as flexible as Mr Dynamite MC. From his early days emceeing for Roni Size’s Reprazent crew, Dynamite has grown into a cross-discipline kind of guy, sounding as comfortable on hiphop and ragga as he does on drum and bass. H...
06/10/2008
Having steadily built up a hugely popular and well-deserved reputation over the last four years,
Hot Chip will be rolling into
New York City as bonafide headline material.
Inventive and genre-spanning,...
04/10/2008
Ahhh, the mid-90's ... To be a teenager in Britain then meant school nights spent listening to Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley (before she went all sycophantic), with finger on pause ready to record of all kinds of lairy chancers, barging their way into the Top Ten with comical ease. When the music industry thought nothing o...
04/10/2008
There's a way of looking at the credit crunch / global economic crisis / impending doom as a positive in terms of music - periods of economic and politial unrest generally tend to create the most exciting music. Public Enemy were always at their peak when they were at their angriest, but quite frankly we could rea...
04/10/2008
Kids. Don't you just hate 'em. If they're not throwing a tantrum in the supermarket, or spoiling your peaceful train journey with their incessant mobile phone noise, then ... er ... they're successfully underpinning their entire musical output with a delta blues root.
Sister-sister-brother combo
