How happy am I? We just go the new Beck album! Well… we got the new Beck album if you’re a European user. And I am a European user, so I’m happy - although it’s a selfish kind of happy.
I’d sort of let Beck fall by the wayside a little. Odelay was the sound of [...]

Hearing “What You Won’t Do For Love” on the overhead speakers in the deli across the street today absolutely made my morning. Then finding out that we have a significant chunk, if not all, of Bobby Caldwell’s entire discography made my week. And THEN finding these youtube clips pretty much made my whole [...]

I have not been able to stop playing The Presets latest album Apocalypso since it was released last month. Not since The National’s Boxer has an album received this much of my constant attention. Everything I like about 80’s, Industrial, Synthpop, Dance n whatnot is wrapped up in this tight lil [...]

I caught Truckasaurus opening for Apparat at Neumos in Seattle at the end of May. I wasn’t paying much attention at first, but then I noticed they were armed with Game Boys and projectors and it piqued my interest. They sounded a bit like a lo-fi Modeselektor, and they were actually more entertaining [...]

Earlier this week the musical talents of Agyness Deyn were unleashed upon the world and, outside of the fashion press, no one batted an eyelid. That’s what someone should have told Agyness collaborators the Five O’Clock Heroes: you can bring a model to the recording studio, but you can’t make them listen to her sing.

A few notables today, some of ‘em from old favorites…

Today we welcome Brighton’s finest Skint Records fully back onto the site. So if you’re a lover of Fatboy Slim, The Lo Fidelity Allstars, Dave Clarke, Midfield General and others and are in the UK, get clicking.

Hang around in the more underground sections of London’s music/art/ whatever scene for long enough and two things are almost guaranteed. Firstly, you’ll know at least one person who played a zombie in ‘Shaun Of The Dead.’ Secondly you’ll know at least one person who is in/ was in/ slept with/ fell out with They [...]

It feels very retro to describe something as “the latest dance craze sweeping France”  - I thought that dance crazes stopped sweeping nations at some point in the late eighties. But I was wrong – and here are some French tektonik dancers to prove it. Retro the phrasing may be, but tektoniks has spread in [...]

We’ve had some really great albums land on the UK side of things over the last few days. Here’s my mix of the good and the ‘interesting’ (yes, I’m looking at you, so-called Russian Madonna.)

The Long Blondes, Couples: Not sure where to begin with this one. I loved the last LB record (as my glowing eMu review attests), but Couples is a pretty radical departure. A collaboration with dance producer Erol Alkan, Couples is a lot more dependent on synthetic rhythms, neon-like synths and twitchy guitars. It’s really not [...]

A nice surprise arrival on the site today: the Egyptian Lover catalogue.

Everything from gurgling electronic music to buoyant kiddie pop hits the racks at eMusic today — here’s a spin through some of the notable titles!

I don’t know much about Alex Attias, although something tells me I should. AllMusic’s Andy Kellman, always a great source for hidden gems, counts his 1999 single “Transitions” as one of the strangest and thrilling singles to ever bear the label “broken beat.” As usual, he’s right.
But I’m here to talk about another hidden [...]

The excellent new Noze album hit the site today. If the thought of Tom Waits making house music makes you smile from ear to ear, this one is for you.

In these days of digital downloads and industry turmoil it is so easy to feel disconnected emotionally from the hype and release of any body of recorded music. So imagine my surprise and delight when I was sent into a fanatic FURY upon noticing what had been tagged in two normally unexciting fields of [...]

Ladyhawke is my most recent musical crush – I’ve known and loved her for about a week. After Friday’s disappointing through-a-window-darkly Ladyhawke experience, I was determined to see her properly, even though that meant squishing into the painfully overcrowded Cubana - crutches, gammy ankle and all. Ladyhawke, aka New Zealander Pip Brown, sounds like a [...]

Porkpie hats; eighties cocktail frocks; Winehouse-eyeliner; pastel tights; skinny jeans, obviously; checked shirts, granddad cardigans and Converse, Converse, Converse. Camden’s always been London’s Indie Central, but during the two days of the Camden Crawl the area becomes slightly monocultural – anything goes so long as it’s indie.
In fairness, the modern indie fan prays in a [...]

A couple of things that I’ve been spinning recently.

Time to share my Muxtape. Thursday last week I was DJ-ing at Lovelife, a night put on in Camden’s Lock Tavern by my friend Anna-Marie. I was part of a four-woman DJ team, consisting of Anna-Marie, myself, Marianna and Annabel. Given the similarity of our names we called oursleves Les Annaquites. We were briefed to [...]