The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP ‘Is Is’ dropped a couple of days ago, and whilst not being particularly interesting to talk about I think the band deserve some recognition for their consistent efforts. A brief intro (one shouldn’t be required, but unfortunately, it is). Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a three piece indie band from [...]

Unfortunately, being a mere human means that I have to take a break sometime in the year- I’m on holiday at the moment but will be back to full time blogging on Monday, so bear with me. Thanks for reading, and see you soon…

About two months ago a little sound snippet arrived on Radiohead’s website: a whirlwind 2 minutes long, this casually released recording was actually short sections of the songs that would make up their seventh studio album. Since that time I have been anxiously awaiting the release of said album- provisionally titled “7″, which should occur [...]

Unfortunately, time constraints and a slow computer at work experience mean that I can’t do a full length post today, but there’s a lot of fresh, interesting music to cover so I thought I should at least write something short. My Quick Tip for today is an Australian 5-piece band called Operator Please, comprised entirely [...]

Update: The links have been re-posted- they should be up for another 2 weeks or so…
“The next Lily Allen”- those are the words that have been following newcomer Kate Nash around since her single Foundations smashed its way onto the charts, swallowing up the rule book and all the while proving that you don’t have [...]

As much as I hate to write this, I really, really like Rihanna’s latest chart-topper Umbrella. It causes a burning sensation in my mouth every time I say it, but she has obviously found the winning beat, vocal and lyrical style that the world wants, which is the reason why its been sitting comfortably at [...]

Hopefully, the musically inclined members of the blogosphere will agree with me when I say I’m pretty fed up of reading about Beth Ditto and her daily schedule; NME is one of the main culprits, and its hard to go one wee without seeing a double page spread about her featuring a nude photo shoot [...]

James Murphy has done extremely well out of his electro-pop hybrid style of music: chances are you won’t know he is but his latest musical project LCD Soundsystem has produced two great albums which were both well received. On top of this he runs his own music label, Death From Above, and is constantly in [...]

You have to wonder what was going through Prince’s mind when he pushed for his new album “Planet Earth” to be included with every copy of the Daily Mail this sunday. The only possible answer is that he is delirious, or partially insane: this move has caused a massive uproar in the music industry as [...]

Sheffield is a very happening place in the music world at the moment: since the Arctic Monkeys broke the rules with their two albums about the ordinary life, it seems there have been plenty of Sheffield hopefuls trying to emulate their success with simplistic. It’s a constantly changing scene, but one thing stays constant, and [...]

I don’t want to take credit for the content of this post: upon recommendation from my friend Mike, I had a quick listen to Scouting For Girls… I was fairly surprised by what I heard, and felt compelled to write something brief about them. I can’t quite understand why this band aren’t already huge: they’ve [...]

My friend showed me this damn cool video a couple of weeks back, and I don’t this beatboxers efforts should go unnoticed. Imagine this: kitchen beatboxing… take a look!

It just occured to me that I was sailing past the 2000 visits mark; it was only a couple of weeks ago when I broke 1000. Again, I would just like to say thanks, and I hope this makes interesting reading… the only reason I keep doing these “X visits” posts is because I so [...]

It has happened to all of us: you turn on the radio or MTV and that song is playing. Yes, that one: the one that has been the bane of your life for the last month, that song that penetrates your conscience due to the fact that it is radio-friendly and annoyingly memorable. Recent examples [...]

In a move confirmed today by some of Apple’s iTunes representatives, the Apple music store will see lower prices for albums across the board. After an announcement yesterday that Universal would not be continuing their partnership with Apple, there must have been some nervousness in the Apple headquarters. It seems the announcement that many albums’ [...]

With the populatrity of dance acts such as Simian Mobile Disco and Justice, it might seem as if Daft Punk are beginning to lose their hold on their target market- they haven’t released any new material since 2004. Under the alias of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have created some seriously cool [...]

As usual with albums, I’m fairly late on this, but I only just listened to my Dad’s copy of the new Editors album, An End Has A Start, which sees them changing their sound and turning dark in a big way. If you can’t be bothered to listen to the tunes, you only have to [...]

I hope that many members of the blogosphere tuned in for the Concert For Diana last night, which was excellent, both in terms of its message and the huge amount of bands who turned out in a tribute to the Princess Of Wales. It’s also really important to recognize the huge amount of effort put [...]

It appears that Justice have the smarts to match their seemingly endless ability to remix tracks and make them sound much better than the original; their new video for D.A.N.C.E.-their hit single- uses a frustratingly simple idea to great effect. Before I reveal too much, just watch the embedded video below, which features some cool [...]

Well, I have been struggling to find a band worthy of writing about recently, after becoming completely immersed in the new Interpol album. But before I start talking about them (Again), I will talk about my latest favorite new band, The Whip. Their latest song, Divebomb, has been described by some as “the best song [...]