Friendly Fires
Like cut-offs or longjohns, some bands are tied to particular seasons. Friendly Fires are St. Albans summer boys, as their second album, the poppy Pala, will testify. Despite the Balearic
Lunice
Lunice’s first gig in Ireland at the Twisted Pepper was the right in the middle of a tour that would wear out even the most seasoned producers. Kicking off his
Nicola Roberts – Cinderella’s Eyes
Forget Born This Way, 4, and, uh, Jedward’s Victory, Cinderella’s Eyes is far and away the pop album of the year so far. If the Diplotastic Beat of My Drum
Lisa Hannigan – Passenger
While Sea Sew was (literally) homespun and charming and garnered a positive reception, it was a bit plain song and arrangement-wise, only really enlivened by the loveliness of Lisa’s pipes.
Lil B – Black Flame
Still dropping innumerable mixtapes per year, Lil B finally held good on his promise to continue the series that the Romulus and Remus of swag rap, Red Flame and Blue
Four Tet – FabricLive 59
In some ways post-dubstep is in fact a devolution, a 10 year trip backwards to reappraise UK Garage as it might have existed with different technology and more adventurous personnel,
Das Racist – Relax
Self-awareness is something only comedy rap troupe ever to school you on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak possess in almost dangerous quantities, so there’ll always be something slightly unwholesome about their off-hand
Justice – Interview
It’s only five years since Kitsuné and Ed Banger ran the world. Fuelled by a hybrid nostalgia for rave fashion eccentricity and that exact moment disco morphed into house, French
TD’s Picks For HWCH 2011
On top of providing a chance for brand new bands to find a following, an advantage of Hard Working Class Heroes is that it gives the casual observer a chance
The Rapture
Philosorapture. The perma-cool New York label DFA Twitter-quipped that Harold Camping was not so much wrong about his prediction that the Rapture was coming – his estimations were just three
Best Coast Cooler
Of the generation of (predominantly West Coast American) indie-pop bands fixated on reimaging the sound of surf-pop through their own sandy-shoed, weed-hazed filter, Bethany Cosentino is undeniably the queen of
Interview: Luke Vibert
With his first release dating back to 1993, Luke Vibert is undoubtedly a member of the old-guard of British electronic music. With Roland synths as his muse, the man also
Washed Out Interviewed
Ernest Greene began his Washed Out odyssey in when he was fresh out of college in 2009 when his lo-fi tracks were thrown into the relative limelight by powerful American
Interview: Jimmy Edgar
Two minutes and thirty-six seconds into our very first conversation, and Jimmy Edgar’s talking about his sex life. I kind of am too. Rather than social perversion though, it would
Skying The Limits – The Horrors Interviewed on Their Return
After the screeching psychedelia of 2007’s debut Strange House, the Horrors shocked listeners with a luscious and moody follow-up, Primary Colours. They still wore skinny jeans and sported teased hair
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Live + Interview
We were fortunate enough to both interview and play host to a live video session from NYC indie-pop stars-in-the-ascendance The Pains of Being Pure At Heart last month. Watch the
Taylor Momsen
Let it be said, Taylor Momsen did not bring up Courtney Love. Nor did she have anything to say on Miley Cyrus. In interview, the panda-eyed Lost Girl and prolific
Lady Gaga – Born This Way
Let us consider for a moment the possibility that this album could have been a load of old rubbish. After all expectation for it was so high, and the album