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September 08

Without a Karen in sight, this trio is made up of Mallorca-born pianist Marc Meliá Sobrevias ...

August 08

An instant Balearic classic that glides effortlessly between library music, film soundtracks, easy listening, acid rock and ...

July

Sampling or bastardising music from the past is certainly not a new trick. The leading exponents of ...

June 08

You have to forgive the name. Kraak & Smaak are from Holland after all. That’s ...

May 08

Fans of the Mr & Mrs Smith CD compilations will have heard Plantlife before. Fronted by musical ...

April 08

If you need some summer-conjuring sounds, the fast-rising Brazilian producer DJ Dolores has enough fireworks in his ...

March 08

At the age of just 18, Laura Marling is fast making her mark through a blatant talent for ...

February 08

The IT crowd are about to become the it crowd. Whilst one set of letters represents Hot ...

January 08

Somewhere on the outer perimeters of Soho and Norway, there’s a tiny but fascinating underground ...

December 07

On paper the idea of a jazz drummer covering house and techno classics is not necessarily a ...

October 07

Mark Ronson might have already added his trademark ‘bounce’ to a clutch of pop faves, ...

September 07

Bombshell – King Creosote

It’s fair to say folk singer Kenny Anderson is a songsmith extraordinaire. Holed up in ...

August 07

Fans of Sigur Ros need to sit up and take notice of the latest album by Future ...

July 07

It’s big, it’s loud and it’s a riot. The debut album ...

June 07

Digitalism are two young men from Hamburg who will be making a lot of noise in a ...

May 07

Nuclear-powered pop is how Swedish singer Robyn’s songs have been described – and you can hear why. ...

April 07

My musical radar has begun to detect exciting waves of female-led pop on the horizon; the Pierces ...

March 07

Here’s one for the Mrs Smiths out there. Delicate acoustics abound on this wistful and engaging ...

February 07

Being a lone singer from Wimbledon, you might think it strange that Jamie T is being touted ...

January 07

You don't often catch the words 'Australia' and 'great music' sitting merrily in a sentence together. But ...

December 06

This’ll be in a few of the more discerning best of ’06 lists. Hailing from ...

November 06

Please excuse us for singing our own praises, but many feel that our third compilation instalment is ...

October 06

Here’s a find. A girl with an angelic voice who plays a mean lap steel ...

September 06

Tapes n Tapes

If you don’t like your music raw or full of twanging guitars, turn away now. ...