Guardian Music — (Island)In an effort to avoid the "major-label singer-songwriter" tag, Welsh newcomer Pete Lawrie has made it known that he's a big fan of dubstep, but to no avail. What comes through on his debut album is absolute adherence to the commercial ruleboo... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Colin Moore is a Canadian singer / songwriter hailing from Montreal. His raspy voice began to gain him attention at an early age, and by his mid-teens, Colin was fronting his first band, Suburban Trash, later known as Road Bones. "Though his vocal... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Sore Losers (Hasselt, Belgium) melted their love for rock, country, blues, folk and garage into a sound very much their own. Rumour has it comparisons with The Raconteurs, The Rolling Stones, Reigning Sound and more fascinating folks are plent... more info

The Telegraph — Twenty years of mixing with rock stars and what have I learnt? We should be glad we're not them more info

Guardian Music — Dublin Castle, LondonIn November 2008, and with an eponymous debut album to promote, The Airborne Toxic Event played 30 shows across the UK in 30 days, including a month-long residency in what frontman Mikel Jollett describes as "this tiny little roo... more info

Guardian Music — (Mercury)The Airborne Toxic Event's 2009 debut pitched itself perfectly between Bright Eyes, the Killers and the Strokes. This time, they've muscled up, nodded to the blue collar and emerged somewhere between Bruce Springsteen, U2 and the Pogues. Fro... more info

CNN Showbiz — This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob... more info

Popdose — The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert's worth of Springsteen tunes. more info

Detroit Free Press — Some students at New Jersey's largest university believe Bruce Springsteen is their salvation. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Mumford & Sons and Metallica collaborated on 'See My Friends.'"The wonderful thing about making records is something comes out you never expected," explains Ray Davies, who knows of what he speaks. In nearly five deca... more info