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Paloma Faith, Annie Lennox & VV Brown to sing for gender equality, live audience

4810 days ago

Annie Lennox, Paloma Faith, Kate Nash and VV Brown will perform at EQUALS Live on 11th March more info

Miley Cyrus now palatable to hipsters thanks to Rye Rye

4827 days ago

You shouldn't really need an excuse to like Miley Cyrus's's's' "Party in the U.S.A", because it's a rather adorably catchy little twit. But let's face it, folk of a certain age, or people who have a misguided sense of their own coolosity, will never ... more info

Miley Cyrus Rye Rye

Re-evaluating a twenty year-old mixtape

4834 days ago

Join me as we see how, within the space of one TDK D-90 - which covers, by the looks of it, late 1991 to early 1992 - one teenager's taste can veer from Mariah Carey to Senseless Things; from Julia Fordham (??) to The Prodigy; from Ride to Shanice. T... more info

Mariah Carey

John “Rappin’” Hood and his merry men: Ice-T and Dr. Benton

4845 days ago

I won't go into the whys and wherefores and wherefore art thous, but I found myself watching a film from 1985 called Rappin' recently. I would imagine it was one of the first films to try and incorporate hip-hop into its narrative, because it's utter... more info

Ice-T

Austra promote beats, pulses, hair-scarves

4862 days ago

If you're missing the doomtronic flourishes of The Knife or Ladytron, this Austra lot may appeal. more info

The Knife Ladytron

50% Deadmau5 + 50% Neon Hitch = 10000000% good

4897 days ago

In a rare matching-up of mine and the music blogosphere’s music awareness, the weekend saw this collaboration between Deadmau5 and Neon Hitch – “I Can’t Behave Myself” – take up residence in the part of my brain marked “////AS GOOD AS B... more info

Deadmau5

Dinosaur Pile-Up interview: “Music scenes are like wombs. Once you’re ready, you gotta get out.”

4902 days ago

When a band with a name like Dinosaur Pile-Up – who make songs what go RRRR, and tend to lark about in music videos like the one at the end of this very post – comes along, you sort of want to skip over and arks them a bunch of slightly silly, sl... more info

Dinosaur Pile-Up

I didn’t know that Hot Chip & Bernard Sumner didn’t know what love was

4902 days ago

I am a bit ashamed that this collaborance has seemingly passed me by, but better late than never I surpose. I’m sure I’m about the eleven killionth blowhole to opine that Hot Chip are the 21st century’s answer to New Order. Bedsit melancholy cr... more info

Hot Chip New Order

It’s Monday, so Pharrell Williams will be boning you now

4925 days ago

It’s always pleasing when a video lives up to the ridiculosity of the song it accompanies. So well done N*E*R*D, and Pharrell Williams in particular, for stepping up to “the plate” with “Hypnotize U”. As with every song that has ever featur... more info

N.E.R.D.

Win Three Now Playing tickets: see White Lies, Everything Everything and I Am Arrows live

4938 days ago

Have you heard about Three’s Now Playing gigs? Don’t answer just yet. Wait until you have read this post, and then answer “yes I have, and I wish to enter your competition to win tickets to one of them, if you don’t mind too much.” Three ar... more info

White Lies Everything Everything