Guardian Music — This minimalist, text-only site is on a 'daily quest for a music-based high'Who are you and what's your blog called?I am Mark Emsley and the blog is called ireallylovemusic. All lower case, all one word. Thank you.Where are you based?The English Outb... more info

Guardian Music — The man music journalists love to hate helped One Direction break US chart history. He's not just any old megabastard"Promise not to be offended," said the Guardian. "But would you write us a piece in defence of Simon Cowell?"Offended? I'm THRILLED. ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Kristof Németh Hungarian pop rockers The Moog have a new album out on April 10th: Seasons Change In The Underground. Sounding more fuzyy and rough-and-the-edges than their 2009 album Razzmatazz Orfeum, this new batch of song s contains the u... more info

Guardian Music — (Ghostly International)There's a chilly rigour to the orchestral compositions of Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, the singer/writer behind Copenhagen's Choir of Young Believers. But then, this is an unusual "choir" – one that projects a feeling of isolati... more info

Big Stereo — Been in a dark mood lately, listening to Bauhaus and Nine Inch Nails. So when I got this in my inbox it immediately drew me close. It has a very 90′s and early 00′s vibe to it and I can’t complain. For any ex goths, Depeche Mode, and Interpol f... more info

Guardian Music — (Mute)VCMG stands for Vince Clarke and Martin Gore, who were Depeche Mode's original and primary songwriters before the former's 1981 departure to make electronic pop with Yazoo and Erasure. The clamour for the duo's reunion started way back then, bu... more info

XLR8R — Ever since the news broke that Vince Clarke and Martin Gore, two of the founding members of Depeche Mode, had reunited after 30 years to create Berlin-inspired techno under the name VCMG, a strong sense of curiosity has surrounded the music. The duo&... more info

411 Mania — They have about 20 songs ready to go… more info

Guardian Music — Hayward Gallery; Trafalgar Square, LondonYou enter through the teenage bedroom and are instantly back to the 1980s. Arthur Scargill pronounces from the posters, Lord Sutch is still alive and screaming, Jeffrey Archer is foolishly suing the Star. The ... more info

Guardian Music — (Loaf)Michael Lovett, the young Londonder who is NZCA/Lines, has said his desire is to create a solo, British version of the collaborations between the producer Timbaland and the singer Aaliyah that transformed R&B in the late 90s. He hasn't managed ... more info