Bruce Springsteen’s first album of original songs with the E Street Band since he lost the vote for change in 2004 starts with guitars --a wall of angry, droning treble that, for the three minutes of “Radio Nowhere,” is blessedly louder than the oceanic static of bent truths, parti...
Everybody who'd pre-ordered it received their download of Radiohead's In Rainbows at the same time - public and critics alike. The physical product, for those without computers to aid their au...
Following up her underperforming debut Ruby Blue, former Moloko frontwoman Róisín Murphy is back with her second solo album. Now signed to EMI, she's made her most coherent album yet...
Still, it's just a big joke, isn't it? Not supposed to take them seriously, are you? That's the thing which distinguishes The Hives with, say, Razorlight. Both have lead singers who freque...
With Romford clearly remaining in Karl Hyde's blood, it's also clear he knows all there is to know about West Ham and their legacy of frustrating unpredictability. And so it is with his band...
If your notion of prog begins and ends with Yes, prepare for a treat. The missing link between Ozric Tentacles' Erpland and Pink Floyd's Meddle sat under a palm tree on a Balearic beach, AMO1&...
In reality though, the two bands are a long way apart, though both are at a similar stage of development, this being the Autumns' fourth album. Kelly's vocals are indeed soaring but there'...
Once the very notion of instrumental hip-hop seemed ludicrous. Hip-Hop is a genre built around two turntables and a microphone, where the MC is King, where the rhythm and the rhyme collided in gloriou...
If all that sounds a bit lofty, give it a listen. An early statement of intent comes from the single What Am I Fighting For?, a resilient and feisty number with a gritty bass line. But these guys are ...