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The legendary World Music festival that is WOMAD comes to London for the first time ever this weekend (Saturday, 19th and Sunday, 20th September) as part of the Tower Festival, with last minute 2-...
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It really wouldn't make sense for Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze of The Big Pink to reside in any other inner-city suburb than Dalston.
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Florence Welch is a rare breed of pop star. In appearance, sound, and mentality she is extravagant yet lovable, imposing yet sincere, and at all times disarmingly charismatic.
The most indelible in...
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Armed with two of his favourite vintage synthesisers, the Roland System 100 and the EMS VCS 3, Andy Meecham aka The Emperor Machine, makes just the kind of music you'd expect out of instruments that l...
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'The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ'
It's Just Begun chronicles the turbulent
journey of hip hop's first Latino DJ, Luis ‘DJ Disco Wiz' Cedeño.
Despite stan...
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Receiving a Stateside release earlier this year, indie-pop devotees with their finger on the pulse will most likely have already got their ears around the sophomore album from lovable Brooklyn duo...
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Passion Pit's 2008's Chunk of Change' EP was an unlikely hit on the face of things, with its cuddly-looking creator Michael Angelkos emerging as an even more unlikely laptop-tinkering talent.
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The annual Stag and Dagger festival rolls into London town tomorrow evening (Thursday 21st) for the first of three consecutive nights across the UK. Kicking off in London's East End the likes of Cold ...
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To the uninitiated, Polly Scattergood could easily be cast in with the rest of the pop songstress bunch. Seconds into her eponymous debut however, as the eerie fragility of her young voice emerges ove...
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A favourite of PIMP for some time now, the arrival of Micachu & The Shapes eagerly-anticipated debut album still had us as keyed-up as a kid on Christmas morning. Exciting the locals round these p...
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Step forth from the snow and look towards spring with February and March's best new music, including essential releases from turntable heavyweights DJ Gone and Josh Wink, as well as Empire Of The Sun'...
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“The Ting Tings... just annoy me so much. Maybe it's a boy and girl combo, that sort of indie-same-difference bullshit. And it annoys me he wears sunglasses all the time. I imagine it's to c...
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Geography was never my strong point at school, so I couldn't really tell you much about Sweden. I've heard it's pretty fucking cold and there aren't many black people there, but that's pretty mu...
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"I am conscious that guys like Justice have done a good job for all of us [but]...I am creating my own style and that is why I did not sign to a French label," explains Pierre-Alexandre Busson...
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Imagine if you can a parallel universe in which Lee Scratch Perry produced the 13th Floor Elevators. The resulting record is then sampled by Kool Keith, who at the time is working with Port...
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"A lot of the time in music, you can't hear what each instrument is doing and why it's doing it. We love the sounds of things and wanted to celebrate them. Let them be heard." This is how Suzi...
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Meet GoldieLocks, the business-savvy singer/songwriter and beat-maker who is tearing the lid off London's urban music scene right now. For the ex-flute-head, ditching classical notes for electro gri...
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If your list of greatest ever hip hop records includes albums such as: The Ultramagnetic MC's 'Critical Beatdown'; ‘The Great Adventures of Slick Rick'; Eric B. & Rakim's, 'Paid In Full'...
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George Pringle is amused and exasperated by the recent string of charges levelled at her in the media. “The other week Q magazine referred to me as the poetic Kate Nash, and I thought, ‘wh...
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Spending an afternoon with electro-rap starlet MissOddKidd is exactly that; odd. To say the girl can talk is somewhat of an understatement—words and ideas pour from this north London MC's mouth ...
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Armed with only a drum kit and synthesizer, Matt & Kim create the type of power pop which has been sorely missing in music of late. In a climate of self-aware shoe gazers and affected hipsters, the Br...
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In the first of a series of interviews, rock goddess Akiko meets London's latest star, Dev of Lightspeed Champion
Are you bored of these interviews? Yes!
Don't worry I've got interesting questio...
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North London trio Man Like Me are rapidly becoming one of the UK's most exciting pop acts, fluently translating a mix of ska, electro, grime and hip hop into a language that screams its own rules...
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Neon Hitch has had a life unlike most. Born into a family of travelling gypsies, she became a trapeze artist and fire swinger to join in with the family circus. Her talent for performing was reco...
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For years people have been looking for the next grime kid to come forward and continue what Dizzee Rascal started. Step up Tinchy Stryder. Tinchy started his career at a very young age, performing...
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It's pretty well documented that Micachu plays a vacuum cleaner on stage. So what? Signed to electro-alchemist Matthew Herbert's Accidental label, you'd half expect her to be strumming car parts b...
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Winter's setting in but the music's hotter than ever. November's baked goods include Dutch designers, East End rude boys and more in between.
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If hip hop legends Brand Nubian are to be believed, the only reason 'punks jump' up is 'to get beat down' and who the hell are we to argue. However, there is always an exception to the rule. What ...
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At 18 years old, Bow boy Maniac boasts a fearsome CV. He's been making tracks since 2002, has collaborated with some of London's finest: Wiley and Tin...
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A man known for his offbeat onstage antics and pin-sharp electronic pop, you'd expect Metronomy frontman Joseph Mount to dabble in the upper echelons of club couture. Yet his band's latest offerin...
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All of October's biggest tunes spat straight from the heart of music's homeland. There's great stuff from Hoxton gods Golden Silvers, Roll Deep's hugely anticipated new album and much more...
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September's bleeding-edge music from the must-haves to the must-bin. Check out Metronomy's fantastic sophomore LP, and a belting debut for hip-hopper Onra.
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Revolutionaries are a funny thing. Figures like Fidel Castro are propelled to greatness by idealism but are often warped and perverted by the ravages of time. Perhaps because he never used his ge...
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Afrika Bambaataa is founder of the Universal Zulu Nation, expounder of electro and master of records. Hip hop was initially the gospel of 4 elements. Bambaataa added the fifth: 'knowledge and overstan...
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What is it about horses that make them so appealing to bands and artists these days? You've got Pony Club, Mon Petit Poney, Pony Express, I love Pony, Stone Pony, Trick Pony, and of course New You...
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Producer Lazlo Legezer and vocalist Frances Noon have been creating enchanting electronic lo-fi sounds since they formed the band, My Toys Like Me just over a year ago. If you have listened to Emi...
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Arriving in Clapham Common half an hour early for the interview, I realised I'd eaten garlic for breakfast and had better buy some gum first. Outside the shop, I spot an OTT, blonde black girl car...
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With inferences of post-punk, disco and electro, London 5-piece New Young Pony Club have been injecting an expressive and altogether edgier dimension to pop music since their formation. With three...
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