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My Fantasy Band: Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Friday, 23 September 2011

Story of the Song: Bohemian Like You, The Dandy Warhols (2000)

Friday, 23 September 2011

A defining song of the last decade, "Bohemian Like You" is rooted in rock's paradigmatic "cars'n'girls" format. Courtney Taylor-Taylor, the Dandy Warhol's guitarist and principal songwriter, was at his apartment window watching traffic pull up at the lights below. "An early Eighties BMW 320i stops there with an amazing looking young woman behind the wheel," he says. "Her elbow was hangin' out the window at a jaunty angle and her roots were showing. She had a cool tattoo and her face was exquisite."

Tori Amos - A strange little girl grows up

Friday, 23 September 2011

Tori Amos tells James McNair why she has turned to Satie, Schubert and Chopin

The Word On: Velociraptor!, Kasabian

Friday, 23 September 2011

Caught in the Net: Twin Shadow rings the changes

Friday, 23 September 2011

Last week George Lewis Jr, the man behind the new-wave inclined, electro-pop act Twin Shadow, dropped out a new track called "Changes".

Nicole Froio: Rock in Rio: Back after a decade, and there to party

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

After ten years of absence from the city where it was originated, the festival Rock in Rio comes back to its roots next week. The internationalization of the festival deprived Rio de Janeiro of music ...

Sam Moir: Checan: ‘Expect more musical debauchery’

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

In June, 19-year-old producer Checan was invited to a studio session in the build up to Sheffield’s Tramlines music festival.

Nicola Roberts: Surviving teen stardom

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Hugh Montgomery: the porcelain pop princess' first solo album should finally silence the critics.

Roller coaster Ryder is on the way up, again

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Andrew McCorkell: The Happy Mondays front man has crawled from the wreckage with a book and a new album.

Marcus Barnes: A quick chat with Deetron, as Phonica Records turns eight

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Deetron is a Swiss native with an impressive history, having been entrenched in the house and techno worlds since the early nineties and still going strong. A highly-skilled DJ as well as an accomplis ...

Beirut - A travelling band's search for calmer waters

Friday, 16 September 2011

Beirut's Zach Condon found acclaim for music drawn from global influences, but the new album is more personal. He tells Chris Mugan about his desire to settle down

The Barometer: The Big Pink; Girls; Space Fight; Peaking Lights; Two Inch Punch; SBTRKT; Trash Talk; Girl Crisis; Pengilly's

Friday, 16 September 2011

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Caught in the Net: LA's lo-fi hero haunted by 9/11

Friday, 16 September 2011

Of all the things to emerge relating to 9/11, I wasn't really expecting to see anything from LA's lo-fi experimental pioneer Ariel Pink.

The Word On... Strange Merc, St Vincent

Friday, 16 September 2011

My Fantasy Band: Christopher Owens, Girls

Friday, 16 September 2011

Omar Shahid: 15 years since Tupac's death

Thursday, 15 September 2011

He was a thug but also a moral revolutionist, he was obdurate but also loving, he was a genius but also foolish. Despite the negatives, he is still seen as an inspiration and an icon across the world. ...

Tim Woodall: Preview: Transcender at the Barbican Centre

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Of all the one-word labels for contemporary music festivals out there – Meltdown and Ether at Southbank Centre, Grimeborn at the Arcola Theatre – the Barbican Centre’s Transcender is surely the finest ...

Marcus Barnes: Ministry Of Sound Reaches The Big Two-O

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

This weekend London’s world-famous Ministry Of Sound will host three nights of partying to celebrate 20 years since it first opened its doors. In those two decades it’s become a global clubbing icon, ...

'Nevermind': Smells like my teen spirit

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

With Nirvana's second album set to be re-released, 20 years on Fiona Sturges salutes an album that changed her generation.

Sam Moir: Skream: ‘I want to make sure once this fad dies out, I’m still standing’

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

“I didn’t say forget dubstep,” Skream says when I open the interview by incorrectly wording a past quote of his - “I said I don’t tie anyone with dubstep anymore.” Inside the small dressing room, ther ...

Grime Outside the M25: Ill Murk

Monday, 12 September 2011

Grime music has always been a genre naturally dominated by Londoners, it was of course born in the lesser privileged areas of the East end and has since thrived on the rapid fire lifestyle that the capital brings.

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Video interview: Public Enemy at Bestival

Monday, 12 September 2011

Chuck D of American hip hop group Public Enemy speaks to The Independent Online at Bestival, Isle of Wight.

Imelda May: 'The 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?'

Sunday, 11 September 2011

The experts all told her to ditch the rockabilly music. Now, the singer tells Nick Duerden how she's proved the doubters wrong, why she snubbed the Queen and what the Obamas gave her to keep her sweet

The A to Z of PoMo

Sunday, 11 September 2011

What do Roland Barthes and Boy George have in common? Marcus Field presents his bluffer's guide to the V&A's Postmodernism extravaganza

The Barometer: Real Fur / Kurt Vile / Founds / Rustie / Love Inks / Jacques Greene / Circles / Eagulls / Sea Pinks

Friday, 9 September 2011

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