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

Totally Fuzzy — After years of playing nothing but speed metal we had the idea to slow everything down and take out the words, that's how this ambient/post-rock project came to be. Not the most original idea but a crucial one nonetheless. The result is a space and ... more info

Impose Magazine — National Park System is the sound of Nicholas Yu, a guy who went to Princeton and MIT. Don't know if that's pertinent to his music making, but he's got a new album coming out on lo bit landscapes in June and we get to share one of the tra... more info

VH1 Blog — When we first saw Katy Perry’s “E.T.” music video last week, we noted that director Floria Sigismondi worked quite a few visual references to other famous directors’s work into her five-minute space epic. Well, since we always preferred the �... more info