Core News — The latest Ross Allan Meltdown show with Josephine interview and live acoustic tracks. Subscribe to the feed to get updated about fresh mixes in the future. Ross Allen – The Meltdown on Ministry Of Sound Radio 2010-12-13 with Josephine [Hotfile dow... more info

Rollo & Grady — Music Magazines :: Best Album of 2010 American Songwriter – Black Keys – Brothers Clash: Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Exclaim!: Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Fact: Forest Swords – Dagger Paths Filter: LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening ... more info

kata rokkar... — The Books “A Cold Freezin’ Night” Kanye West  “Runaway (Full-length Film)” LCD Soundsystem “Drunk Girls” Judgement Day “Cobra Strike” Weekend “Monday Morning/Monongah, WV” Arcade Fire  “The Suburbs” Blockhead “Th... more info

Guardian Music — (Angular)Making sense of the Essex quartet's second album is like reading the runes on the side of a monolith. The central proposition is interesting enough, as the band's youthful mastermind Jack Barnett pits brass and woodwind against the digital ... more info

Guardian Music — We organise our listening by tracks and albums, but it's the isolated moments that provide pop's most immediate and repeatable pleasuresAt the end of Scissor Sisters' Night Work LP there's a track called Invisible Light, which features 2010's best gu... more info

Altsounds — *NME* today names These New Puritans top of* NME's 50 Best of Albums of 2010* with their second album,* Hidden*. The relatively unknown Southend outfit fought off stiff competition from well established artists including Arcade Fire, and LCD S... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Rough Trade listed These New Puritans at #3. NME listed them as #1. The UK magazine's full list of favorite albums of the year, below...... more info

NME — Plus Foals' 'Spanish Sahara' crowned best track more info

NME - Radar — Stalker, one of those drag/witch house fellas over at Tri Angle Records just did a suitably dirged-out new reworking of TNPS' 'White Chords'. Cop a download: These New Puritans - 'White Chords' (Stalker Remix) more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonWe've grown accustomed to seeing live performances of classic albums but it takes chutzpah to grant that treatment to a record that's only nine months old, with the Britten Sinfonia no less. Led by 22-year-old twins Jack and George Ba... more info