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Music Weekly podcast: St Vincent

5259 days ago
Guardian MusicAlexis Petridis is joined by Rebecca Nicholson and Dorian Lynskey this week to listen to Leonard Cohen's Show Me the Place; the Congolese rapper Baloji's track which features Konono No1, Karibu Ya Bintou; and J Cole and Trey Songz's Can't Get Enough.... more info

Hear David Byrne & Will Oldham As Pieces Of Shit

5267 days ago
StereogumThis Must Be The Place is the new movie where Sean Penn, seriously, plays an aging Robert-Smith-lookalike Nazi-hunter rock star. Obviously, we’re all going to watch the shit out of this movie. But if we needed any more reason to get amped, the soun... more info

The power of shyness: Ryuichi Sakamoto's European tour – review

5269 days ago
Guardian MusicMusic of refinement and learning, with a bossa nova twistThe many young Japanese in the audience confirmed the interest pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto still prompts. He was idolised in the days of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, an electro-pop t... more info

Words about music (248): David Byrne

5272 days ago
Here Comes The FloodLive in Austin, Texas - 2008/09/26 - photo: David Hill The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into strengths. David Byrne more info

St Vincent

5272 days ago
Guardian MusicQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonSt Vincent – aka Annie Clark – doesn't look like the type who's going to leap off the stage and assault people with a dirty great guitar. Looking out from the cover of her first two albums, 2007's prim Marry Me and 200... more info

Susana Baca: the singer who became Peru's first black cabinet minister

5287 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Grammy winner faces a struggle to balance her schedule as a musician with her responsibilities as Peru's culture ministerIt is unusual for an artist to enter Peru's rough-and-tumble world of politics. It is even rarer for a black Peruvian to ente... more info

New band of the day – No 1,129: Delicate Steve

5297 days ago
Guardian MusicHe's a 23-year-old prodigy channelling Stevie Wonder, Yes and 10cc. The question, with this artist, is 'why not?'Hometown: New Jersey.The lineup: Steve Marion (instruments).The background: Here's a little curio – a mostly non-vocal album on David B... more info

"I've never really been that proud of Saturdays=Youth" - DiS meets M83

5322 days ago
DrownedInSoundIn a rare interview, DiS managed to secure half an hour in the presence of Anthony Gonzalez, the founder member and brainchild behind M83. As elegant and charming offstage as on, no stones were left unturned as collaborations, back catalogues, David ... more info

Beirut – review

5338 days ago
Guardian MusicAcademy, Manchester"This is another one of those, er, singalongs," says Beirut's Zach Condon, sounding slightly embarrassed by what's going on around him. Once again, the cavernous Academy erupts into a choir of audience voices, with every second han... more info

New band of the day – No 1,098: Theme Park

5340 days ago
Guardian MusicThis highly touted four-piece have pretensions to Talking Heads' funk-rock mantle – but fail to burn down the houseHometown: London.The lineup: Miles Haughton (vocals, guitar), Marcus Haughton (vocals, guitar), Louis Bhose (bass) and Oscar Manthorp... more info

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