Abeano — Manchester’s xxxy was this week’s guest on Resonance FM’s Sine of The Times. Dropping a healthy load of his own tracks plus the likes of Bad Autopsy, Power House, Artificact and PhOtOmachine, it’s one of the best we’ve heard from him a... more info

XLR8R — It's hard to imagine the techno world of the late '80s and '90s without Belgium's R&S Records. The Ghent-based label not only first introduced Aphex Twin to the world, but it was also the home of some of the era's biggest nam... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Gumshoe said... Need Visions' self-titled record on Bowac Records: Download the WHOLE DAMN THING and read a review of this Boston band's full-length. LISTEN. Learn. http://gumshoegrove.com Mister Moods said... Double update! BRAND NEW MOODS: - Stev... more info

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Guardian Music — The BBC could hold a Eurovision-style contest to decide the next unlikely Christmas No 1There's a problem with social media. You can only use it to do a good thing once, and then everybody's at it, cheapening the original idea. A case in point is th... more info

Guardian Music — Plus! The mega list of lists – AKA all the other stuff we didn't have room for2010's best guest appearancesBon Iver on Kanye's Lost In The World It might be quicker to compile a list of people who didn't feature on Kanye's epic My Beautiful Dark Tw... more info

Guardian Music — It had the makings of an ego-driven mess. But Kanye tempered his ambition to paint a compelling portrait of a troubled artistKanye West has been called many things, but you could never accuse him of being a man of mystery. Ever since the phrase "I'mm... more info

melophobe — Rob da Bank over at BBC Radio 1 had a hell of a 2-hour show on Saturday. I don’t think I stopped moving the entire time, and my ass actually started to tingle from chair dancing. Not only did he kick it off with some amazing house songs, he feature... more info

Guardian Music — (Planet Mu)Chicago may be the crucible of house, but its latest craze – known as footwork – defies most definitions of dance music. You shouldn't be able to dance to these tinny, skeletal, sped-up, repetitive, arrhythmic tracks, but fleet-footed ... more info

Guardian Music — In The House That Made Me, Boy George shows us round a reconstruction of his childhood home. But these are the residences we really want to nosy around …In The House That Made Me, Boy George shows us around a reconstruction of his childhood home, a... more info