David Guetta's brand is a hugely successful one. The Parisian poster boy is one of the world's best known DJs, filling clubs and boosting sales with his take on modern commercial house music. All that of course is ripe for the Ministry of Sound, who while broadening their canvas with fine co...
Late Of The Pier release their remarkable debut album 'Fantasy Black Channel' on Zarcorp / Parlophone. Produced by Erol Alkan, 'Fantasy Black Channel' is an album full of undeniable hi...
XX Teens are a five-piece from London whose musical manifesto is to add some depth and technicolour joy to the musical landscape. Their words, not mine. Welcome To Goon Island is their debut album. We...
A few years back, I'm flipping through the pages of a music magazine when I happen upon an article proclaiming a practically unknown Brazilian band named Cansei de Ser Sexy, or CSS, to be the grea...
Here's a mind-bending 'what if?' moment. This, U2's debut album, was originally to be produced by Martin Hannett, but at the last minute he withdrew, distraught over the recent death o...
The Famous Poet is a strange beast: half poetry, half indie-pop, and together these two genres have birthed an album whose two halves combine into something less than the sum of their parts. If this a...
2008 album from the acclaimed British Alt-Rockers, the 10th album by this exciting and inventive band fronted by Bobby Gillespie. Since the band's inception at the tail end of the '80s, their ...
At this point, it's almost redundant to note that Patti Smith was a poet before becoming a singer/songwriter. Her "transformation into a rock icon" (as Victor Bockris put it in his book ...
When Nomo put out their first album back in 2004, they were still doing their own take on what was essentially someone else's thing, namely the music of the king of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti. On their s...
Melodia, was recorded at the legendary Sunset Studios in LA with Rob Schnapf (who did their first two albums and Powderfinger's last). This fourth album comes after enigmatic front man, Craig Nich...