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My Fantasy Band: Nathan Nicholson, The Boxer Rebellion

Friday, 9 September 2011

How I helped to anoint PJ Harvey at music's biggest night

Friday, 9 September 2011

The Independent's Elisa Bray was one of the judges who chose the Mercury Prize winner this week. She reveals the passions behind the process.

Caught in the Net: Lord of the Rings' untouchable EP

Friday, 9 September 2011

Kurt Vile has recently been trekking around the UK, touring his wonderful album Smoke Ring for My Halo.

Cultural Life: Ms Dynamite, Singer

Friday, 9 September 2011

The Word On... Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, Ry Cooder

Friday, 9 September 2011

Marcus Barnes: Warehouse Project is over... for now

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Last October I made the two-and-a-half journey up to Manchester to visit the city's infamous Warehouse Project - a huge three-month long series of club nights, taking place in a warehouse space undern ...

Sam Gould: Scene check: Hip hop by the state

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

One of the things that has always impressed me about hip hop in the US is that there are simply so many different sounds. In a country as large and varied as America, local scenes really matter- call ...

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Everything Everything: Exclusive video interview

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Mercury Prize nominees Everything Everything speak exclusively to The Independent Online about the "curse of the Mercury Prize" ahead of the prize announcement this evening.

Exclusive video: The Other Woman by Caro Emerald

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Exclusively watch a live performance by Caro Emerald of her new single 'The Other Woman' which will be released on 19 September.

Marcus Barnes: A Special Kinda Guy: Getting Deep With Mr Gerber

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Guy Gerber is a DJ and producer whose sound has captivated me since I first discovered following my enlightening trip to Ibiza last September. It was his back-to-back set ...

Ryan Bassil: Mac Miller: Make sure you study up on your lyrics and get ready to sing with me

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Nineteen year old Mac Miller has quietly been making a name for himself. Since the release of his first mixtape 'But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy' back in 2007, the kid has dropped 5 more mixtapes, an EP, an ...

Marcus Barnes: Buzzin' To Be Here: Flowers And Sea Creatures

Monday, 5 September 2011

Hailing from Montreal, Flowers And Sea Creatures are a duo making some really refreshing music that refuses to be defined by genre. Comprising Belfast-born Graham Baxter and Athens-born Kosta Megalos, ...

Ed Cooper: The curse of the hype band

Saturday, 3 September 2011

OFWGTKA. No tongue talking here, nor any pig Latin. If you don’t know by now what this unpronounceable acronym means; then your time on your personal ‘blogosphere’ has been wasted. OFWGKTA is Odd Futu ...

Laura Marling - All hail the Queen of Folk

Friday, 2 September 2011

Laura Marling is the most gifted singer-songwriter working today. And with her third album, she's set for mainstream success, says Andy Gill

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Friday, 2 September 2011

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Little Britain given a whole new meaning

Friday, 2 September 2011

I've spent more of my life playing music than speaking. If I ever really wanted to express an idea, emotion or even a storyline, music has always been my first choice. But having released eight albums, I was keen to find a fresh approach for my ninth so this album started as something quite different – a script.

My Fantasy Band: Rou Reynolds, Enter Shikari

Friday, 2 September 2011

Don't look back in hunger: Musicians reveal their favourite foods in Rockstar Cookbook

Friday, 2 September 2011

Who would have thought that bad boy musician Noel Gallagher once had a Yorkshire Tea habit? Or that Razorlight partly chose to sign with Universal because the label took them out for a better dinner than their rivals? Both feature in Love Music Love Food – the Rockstar Cookbook, published in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The Word On... Red Hot Chili Peppers, I'm With You

Friday, 2 September 2011

Caught in the Net: Atlas puts Bradford back on the map

Friday, 2 September 2011

I was starting to get worried for a moment there: Bradford Cox (below), as frontman of art-rockers Deerhunter and in his dream pop solo project Atlas Sound, has been ridiculously productive in recent years – releasing six albums in four years, not to mention numerous EPs and demos.

Independent podcast: Richard Taylor

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Richard Taylor and David Wood's musicalisation of L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between for the West Yorkshire Playhouse marks a further departure in the development of that many-faceted genre we call musical theatre.

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