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  Best Coast

  In The Studio

  Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino on baring all for album number two… Read More »

  06 Feb 2012
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  Sleigh Bells ‘Reign Of Terror’

  First Listen

  Returning this month with their second album, ‘Reign of Terror’, Brooklyn-via-Florida duo Sleigh Bells are hell bent on making a cacophonous comeback. Read More »

  01 Feb 2012
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  Preview: HMV Next Big Thing Festival

  Read our ten picks for the festival… Read More »

  02 Feb 2012
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  Blood Red Shoes ‘In Time To Voices’

  First Listen

  Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell return this year with their 3rd album, ‘In Time To Voices’… Read More »

  27 Jan 2012

What A Week With John Kerrison #11

Good Friday fellow people-folk, and welcome to the warm embrace of familiar jokes and … Read More »

• By JJ Dunning, 10 Feb 2012
• Tags: Bull testicle pie / Down with milk / John Kerrison / Khulekani Mgqumeni "Kwakhe" Khumalo / Pussy Riot / Vladmir Putin / What A Week / Zombie / Zulu Singer not dead

Dry The River ‘Shallow Bed’

First Listen

Nominated in the BBC Sound of 2012 Poll, Dry The River have marry a quaint folk sound to … Read More »

• By The Fly, 10 Feb 2012
• Tags: Dry The River / History Book / interpol / Peter Katis / Shallow Bed / The National

Chairlift

Interview

They’ve negotiated an inter-band break-up, and could now sit an A-level in Roxy Music. Caroline Polachek tells Lisa Wright how Chairlift have “grown up”… Read More »

• By Ben Homewood, 09 Feb 2012
• Tags: break up / brooklyn / caroline polachek / chairlift / mgmt / something / young turks

Beth Jeans Houghton

Interview

She’s the arty eccentric behind 2012’s weirdest pop album, but, boy, is Beth Jeans Houghton clumsy… Read More »

• By Dan Stubbs, 09 Feb 2012
• Tags: beth jeans houghton / clumsy / fire / hooves of destiny / mute / new year's day / yours truly cellophane nose

The Black Keys

Interview

It “smelt like shit” but, as The Black Keys skid past their tenth birthday, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney tell Ben Homewood why they named an album after a van… Read More »

• By Ben Homewood, 08 Feb 2012
• Tags: attack and release / Beyonce / brothers / carl barat / dan auerbach / el camino / interview / kings of leon / Lady Gaga / Michael Buble / patrick carney / the big come up / The Black Keys / the libertines / the strokes / The White Stripes / thickfreakness / Touring / van

Field Music

Interview

Sure, you’d expect them to hang out in cafes jotting killer couplets, but did you know one of them used to dress like Wacko Jacko? Harriet Gibsone talks to Field Music’s Peter and David Brewis… Read More »

• By Harriet Gibsone, 06 Feb 2012
• Tags: Field Music / led zeppelin / Michael Jackson

Errors

Interview

Making their third album, ‘Have Some Faith In Magic’, quite-literally brought the house down. Camilla Pia speaks to Errors’ main-brain Steev Livingstone… Read More »

• By Camilla Pia, 06 Feb 2012
• Tags: Errors / Have some faith in magic / panda bear

Speech Debelle

Interview

Three years ago her debut album scooped the most high-profile award in British music. But was it a blessing, or a curse? Speech Debelle talks to Daniel Ross… Read More »

• By Daniel Ross, 06 Feb 2012
• Tags: Big Dada / Corynne Elliot / Freedom Of Speech / Mercury Prize / speech debelle