Band of the Week: Stricken City
Along with bands like Run Toto Run, there’s an incredible wave of stylish, yet warm, girl fronted pop music appearing across Britain. With more heart than the likes of fellow bleep-masters The XX, London based Stricken City are coherently psychedelic with New Wave tones, but wrapping their knob-twiddling indie in a magnetically enticing Bjork-like charm they come off sounding more like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. You can certainly see a bit of the O in songstress Rebekah Raa, and certainly more talent for writing and performing than the current ilk of precious girlie pin-up pop.
The Fun Lovin' Criminals are back doing what they love
With their new album ‘Classic Fantastic’ just released, Huey Morgan tells us why his new lyrics that speak of freedom and optimism are in fact the outcome of previous mental entrapment, politics of the music industry and a cultured childhood
Win a Sony bloggie camera
The Sony bloggie is the official camera partner of Austria-based music festival Snowbombing 2010, which has a line-up including Fatboy Slim, Editors, The Enemy and Friendly Fires. Thanks to Sony, one lucky reader has the chance to win one of these fabulous cameras ahead of the winter festival, which takes place in Mayrhofen between 5th -10 th April.
Download James Yuill's new track 'Give You Away' for free
Yuill returns with a new album Movement In A Storm
Finding the Lostprophets
How Ian Watkins the lead singer from the band Lostprophets is far from being lost...
Inside Music Magazine
Paloma Faith, Yeasayer, Mystery Jets and Tim Westwood confirmed for Lovebox
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Live Review: Doom, Roundhouse, London, Monday 22nd March
Spain's Sonar Festival provided a teaser of what they're essentially all about for a two-night residency at the Roundhouse in Camden, kicking off tonight, doing what no other promoter prior had done - book the enigmatic, cult underground hip hop icon, Doom. Granted, this was part of a short jaunt around Europe but the popularity amongst discernable hip hop fans cannot be overstated. For the past decade, Doom (real name Daniel Dumile) has an output of material cataloguing many collaborations such as DangerDoom with (you guessed it) acclaimed producer Danger Mouse, resulting in the applauded 2006 release, 'The Mouse and the Mask'. That's not to mention guises on names from Viktor Vaughn, MF Doom, to just plain ol' Doom.
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1 Your chance to win a Sony bloggie camera
2 The Secret Garden Party announce 2010 line up
4 Florence & The Machine and Dizzee Rascal collaboration to be released
5 Paloma Faith, Yeasayer, Mystery Jets and Tim Westwood confirmed for Lovebox
7 Live Review: Doom, Roundhouse, London, Monday 22nd March
8 Day in the Life: Andy Carthy aka Mr Scruff, DJ, producer and cartoonist
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