Guardian Music — From Marc Bolan to Nico to Buddy Holly, your list of favourite debut releases made for premier readingHow to begin? First impressions are very important. They can be make-or-break, though an artist may be lucky enough to have several cracks at the wh... more info

Impose Magazine — The reason people are already obsessed with Com Truise prior to his debut LP drop is not because he is copping early 80s proto-electronic tropes, as his press release suggests, but rather that he synthesizes everything people loved about 90s electron... more info

Nialler9 — An extremely funky cut from Stuttgart’s Danilo Plessow aka Motor City Drum Ensemble. Once that rolling bass comes in just after a minute in, it’s game over. ‘L.O.V.E.’ features on Motor City Drum Ensemble’s DJ-Kicks compilation which will ... more info

Guardian Music — September 1991: Number 21 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIt's a familiar story through dance music, from Manchester's Eastern Bloc to Glasgow's Rubadub and Berlin's Hardwax: independent record shops acting as a kind o... more info

Guardian Music — Kings Place, London"Ahright," said jazz pianist Matthew Bourne, ambling on stage barefoot before fixing the piano with a quizzical stare, as if unconvinced of its loyalty. We were all right, too, after a first half of the Sinfonietta doing good busin... more info

Guardian Music — Is it pop, classical or electronica? All of these things? We can't quite tell, but we like the noise this London trio makeTom Rogerson, frontman with London-based noise trio Three Trapped Tigers, is a classically trained pianist who helped produce Em... more info

Nialler9 — A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Let me know if I missed anything of interest in the comments. Forbidden Fruit is the big one this weekend: Aphex Twin, Ba... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Things are extremely slow at the moment on SoundCloud, as far as new album streams are concerned. So I'll have to go hunt some lesser known stuff, a lot of work, very time consuming and sometimes even bloody frustrating, but then you run into a gem ... more info

We Like it Lossless! — 1996 / Lo Recordings1 part(s) MU, download(Thanks to Tank for Link & Rip) more info

Guardian Music — As part of our new online city guides, we asked music experts to compile a playlist to their city. Here, Young Turks record label owner Caius Pawson lays down his tracks to LondonWhile compiling our new online guides to the major cities of the world,... more info