Few artists maintain the consistency and quality that Donnacha Costello has exhibited over his fifteen-year production career. In the often-transient world of electronic music, the Dublin-based producer has continually released
I mean, what sane person DOESN'T like Four Tet?
From putting a nude rent boy on an album cover to writing the lines “Did you know you were going to shoot off the top of a four year old
Marcel Dettmann is a busy man. On top of maintaining a residency at Berlin’s infamous Berghain nightclub for over a decade, he holds down a regular job at seminal vinyl
Although It’s Blitz! seems to have been out for an eternity at this stage, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released a new single off their acclaimed third album. One of
After being named Sound of 2010, the much-touted singer Ellie Goulding may indeed be starry-eyed herself. With debut album Lights on its way, ‘Starry Eyed’ is Goulding’s first major release
Bhangra-Punk innovators and Britain’s most politically conscious band Asian Dub Foundation return to Dublin this month to try out some unrecorded material from their new album on an Irish audience.
Apart from his unquestionably bizarre Christmas single two years ago, Lindstrom has rarely strayed from the down-tempo disco edits on which he’s made his name. His latest collaboration with Norwegian
Ever precocious singer-songwriter Laura Marling has reached the ripe old age of 19 and to show her added maturity has stripped off the peroxide and will be releasing not one
The first glimpse of new material on RJD2’s RJ’s Electrical Connections imprint hints that the hugely talented label boss could be back to what he knows best. After his poorly
Hello Eric Pulido, the guitarist of highly regarded psyched-out folk rock band Midlake. You’re probably sick of being asked questions about how you sound like Radiohead and how your new,
Hamburg wonder boy Ten Snake had a landmark year in 2009. His beautiful ep ‘In The End I Want You To Cry’ became a bona fide anthem and earned him
All my Christmases came at once, and so very nearly did I, when confirmation of my interview with Placebo’s bass player Stefan Oldstal dropped into my work email. A fan
The mellifluous Victoria Legrande returns to her day job and talks about the "sexual" new record that's causing such a flutter.
Okay, knives out. The Columbia rich-kid afro-indie pioneers are back, and even if you allowed that there were enough undeniable pieces of pop genius on the debut, it’s surely time
When you’re the biggest female r’n’b star in the world and you’re about to follow up one of the best pop albums of recent years with eagerly anticipated new material
Snoop Dogg has made it. His painstaking self-promotion has given him such a prominent public profile that it actually doesn’t matter what his music sounds like. A few guest verses
In 1996 Shawn Corey Carter emerged as a rapper and a promising lyricist. Now, 13 years on, Jay-Z is a platinum selling artist with more numbers ones than Elvis. But
