If there was graffiti to match Billy Idol's new greatest hits album, it wouldn't read 'Idol was 'ere'. Instead, the message coming through loud and clear from the original punk rocker's third best-of collection is ‘Billy is 'ere... still'. The rocker is nearing ...
Having come to our attention when John Peel declared himself a supporter, as well as winning a Diesel Award, the London-based fivesome, Infadels, signed to Wall Of Sound and knocked out a cracking deb...
The third part of Cooder's 'California Trilogy' sees him combine the best of all his areas of expertise. It's for sure that whether you're a fan of his Americana, his guitar playin...
You need The Presets in your life. The Sydney-based duo are another example - joining Cut Copy, Wolfmother and the like - of the tremendous wave of ingenuity emanating from Australia and the superb Mo...
It seems like an eternity since Tricky’s critically acclaimed Maxinquaye was released and he was being hailed as the pioneer of trip hop. But 1995’s not that long ago, so what’s clea...
When the announcement was made a few weeks ago about the release of Sigur Rós' fifth studio album, you could be forgiven that somebody, somewhere was trying to pull an elaborate practical j...
For the Notwist, the gradual adoption of IDM idioms was less a paradigm shift than a complementary outcome, with the clicks and cuts that permeated Neon Golden and its 1998 predecessor Shrink providin...
The cornerstone of the Team Love roster and its first signing, Omaha's Tilly and the Wall are like the aural equivalent of their label's logo-- a pastel-hued cartoon of a bespectacled teenage ...
Any proper insomniac can recite the consequences of a few frantic, sheet-twisting nights: lethargy gives way to elation, reason falters, your teeth start to throb, and a vague sense of uneasiness grad...
Next year will mark the 10-year anniversary of the emancipation of Aimee Mann, and she will be the first to tell you that she has made far more money running her own record label than she ever made as...