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Guardian Music — Eyes – We Are the iiEyes(From Slutty Fringe)Aim for greatness and you'll inevitably fall short and wind up sounding silly. With this in mind Chicago electro-funk trio Eyes feel free to experiment. Their songs see-saw from brilliant to irritant... more info

Guardian Music — TRC are blending hardcore severity and grime braggadocio. But is it white-boy folly or a credible new fusion?Hardcore and grime have a number of similarities. Both are insular, shouty, effusive, male-dominated scenes with gigs where there is as much ... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Meet Bear Hands: Too Pure's latest darlings, connoisseurs of fragile, echoey indie-pop, fans of animal masks and Lethal Bizzle chains: [...] Read more! more info

Stereogum — Before talking about NME's seventh annual cool list, it's kind of cool to look quickly at the 2007 Top 10 to see who's still ... cool. Lethal Bizzle? Barely. Amy Winehouse? Lucky to be alive. Ditto Keith Richards. Beth Ditto? No. Last year one, ... more info

Guardian Music — John McDonnell: The misguided pop efforts of Lethal Bizzle, Tinchy Stryder and Skepta have massively dented grime's street cred with no commercial success more info

AngryApe — The rapper admits he wants to get to know the singer better more info

Pitchfork — It's looking like M.I.A. pulled a Jay-Z with her retirement talk earlier this summer, as clothing company Diesel has announced a few of the musical acts playing a big party it's throwing, and she is among them. Let this be a lesson to musicians and j... more info