Album: Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins, Unearthing (Lex)
| Unearthing began life as a 2006 essay by Watchmen author and comics genius Alan Moore, and has now, with the help of Warp offshoot Lex, developed into "a work of psychogeography" in multi-media form...
New Recordings
| Pop | Richard Thompson | (Shout Factory ***) | Throughout his long career, Richard Thompson has been justly celebrated as both a songwriter and a guitarist, and provides ample new evidence of each t...
Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle
| NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | The Associated Press | NEW YORK - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year , and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter. | ...
Manifesto
Manifesto, the debut release from Dan Berg & The Gestalt, may be one of 2010's best recordings. The composer/keyboardist—a Brooklyn native and former student of reed man Marty Ehrlich—has cr...
Now is the Time
An accepted kernel of jazz historiography states that cats who play what has ultimately become smooth jazz play it because they can't play the real music. But even back in the day—specifically th...
Kanye West Offers To Write Song For Taylor Swift
| Kanye West has offered to write a song for Taylor Swift and renewed his apology to the country singer via Twitter. | Over Twitter he said “I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that’s so beautiful and...
Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle
| NEW YORK — Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter. | West unleashed a torrent of emotions...
Grassroot program I Rhyme Like A Girl promotes confidence building for young women through hip-hop
| If you want an inside look at the state of women in hip-hop today, you have to go deeper than the mainstream. You have to look, listen and feel at the heart of the hip-hop community. You have to ack...
N-Dubz: 'We were naughty. We used to cause madness!'
| The three members of N-Dubz have overcome tough upbringings and personal tragedy to become the country's most entertaining pop act Straight outta Camden: Tulisa, Dappy (centre) and Fazer, aka N-Dubz...
Stars In Our Eyes: This Season's New Music Talent
| From witty rap and songs filled with extreme emotion to mesmeric electro-pop, we profile five young acts set to make their mark on the music world Lauren Pritchard: 'I'm an in-the-moment singer' HUR...
Top 10 albums of the autumn
| From Kings of Leon to Kanye West, Nicki Minaj to Robert Plant and Grinderman to Elton John and Leon Russell, we count down the best of the autumn's new releases Kings of Leon: a fresh batch of angst...
Reading Festival, Richfield Avenue, Reading
| Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood? Perhaps. | The phrase nostalgie de la boue - literally "nostalgia for mud", figuratively a yearning for debasement and depravity - could apply to the Rea...
KCRW and Om presents Si*Se
| Brooklyn-based Si*Se is known for blending sultry vocal melodies and electronic textures with dub and understated hip hop beats. Singer/DJ Carol C's voice evokes a sophisticated sensuality, singing ...
N-Dubz: 'We were naughty. We used to cause madness!'
| Dappy projects his small, wiry Anglo-Greek Cypriot self into an east London photographic studio at a little under a billion miles an hour. "Hello!" he shouts, his face only inches away from mine. "H...
Stars In Our Eyes: This Season's New Music Talent
HURTS | Who Hurts, aka 23-year-old Theo Hutchcraft on vocals and 26-year-old Adam Anderson on keyboards. | We say A Manchester duo unashamedly channelling the spirit of Ultravox and Depeche Mode with ...
Top 10 albums of the autumn
1 KINGS OF LEON Come Around Sundown (Columbia) 18 October | Perhaps it was the moment that they found themselves playing ping pong with Prince Harry; possibly they took the infamous incident in which ...
Various: Oi! A Nova Música Brasileira!
Buy it from | Buy the CD Various Artists Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira! Mais Um Discos 2010 | A welcome short cut to Brazil's prolific musical scene and its ever-changing hybrids, this well-packaged tw...
Breaking their habit
| They've called it all kinds of names: Nu metal, aggro-metal, punk rock, or, by the less inspired, alternative. But Linkin Park's music, agrees vocalist Chester Bennington, is hard to slot. | "I...
Hendrix, Handel And Rock's Classical Connection
What goes around comes around. | In the sixties, there seemed to be a lot more experimentation in music than today. Bear in mind, when a person got formal musical training in that time period, odds we...
T.I. Makes First Public Appearance Since Arrest
| Fellow rapper Nelly joins the MC as he performs at a club in Atlanta. | by Mawuse Ziegbe | T.I. isn't letting his legal situation hold him back from rocking the stage. | Just days after getting bust...
Lady Gaga Pops Up At Eminem, Jay-Z Detroit Show
| Pop star makes appearance at historic hip-hop concert. | by Mawuse Ziegbe | The stars definitely came out for Eminem and Jay-Z. | The hip-hop heavyweights brought big-name guests like | E-Mail this ...
Eminem, Jay-Z Fans Recall Favorite Moments From Detroit Shows
| 'I really feel sorry for everyone who did miss it but it was awesome,' says one fan. | by Mawuse Ziegbe, with reporting by Sway Calloway | There's no question that Jay-Z and Eminem's Home and Home T...
Eminem Turns Up The Volume In Detroit
| Night two of Home and Home tour with Jay-Z was even more energetic than the kickoff. | by Shaheem Reid | DETROIT — By the time Eminem got to "Cinderella Man," near the bottom of his set list o...
Kiss and State Fair are a perfect fit
| Was there ever any doubt that all the face-paint, fireworks, flashing lights and songs about licking it up and shouting out loud would be perfect for the Minnesota State Fair? | Making its first app...
T.I. Makes First Public Appearance Since Arrest
| T.I. isn't letting his legal situation hold him back from rocking the stage. | Just days after getting busted for alleged drug possession, Tip showed up in an Atlanta nightclub on Friday and ripped ...
Lady Gaga Pops Up At Eminem, Jay-Z Detroit Show
| The stars definitely came out for Eminem and Jay-Z. | The hip-hop heavyweights brought big-name guests like Dr. Dre, 50 Cent and Drake onstage during their two-night Home and Home Tour run at Detroi...
Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle
| September 4, 2010 NEKESA MUMBI MOODY (AP Music Writer) | (AP) — Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his...
The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Snoop And Dre Drop The Bomb On London!
| When Snoop Doggy Dogg--to give him his full title of the time--visited London with producer Dr. Dre in tow, NME's Dele Fadele was there to greet and meet them. This is an excerpt from the story publ...
K'naan tweets apology over 'insincere' performance
K'naan travelled to 80 countries this year as part of a World Cup promotional tour. The performer says he's tired, unhappy over a breakup and feels the urge to write new songs. (Handout/Canadian Press...
Akesifour Back With New Album To Be Launched On September 25
Before they introduced themselves as Ras Biggie (Andy Nii Okai) and Big Joe (Ntim Mensah) and together they form the musical duo Akesifour. I was a bit intimidated because of their looks and structure...
Kanye West Bares All on Twitter: 'I Wrote a Song for Taylor Swift'
| There's never a dull moment to be found on Twitter , and the rapper/producer proved it once again early Saturday morning (Sept. 4). | | After delivering on his for another week with a new track en...
