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Music highlights of 2009

Music highlights of 2009

7 Jan 2010

Best bit of something for nothing When Spotify let UK users sign up for free this February, the floodgates were open for hours of random music searches. (Beatles, Fugazi, Metallica, no; Battles, Can, Phantom Band, yes) Non-stop, customised radio – and…

Fabric Live 47: Toddla T

Fabric Live 47: Toddla T

(3 stars)9 Aug 2009

For those of you who slept on this young scamp’s debut from May this year, Skanky Skanky, here’s a summation of his loves and passions in one fast and furious mix for the ever reliable Fabric stable. He sets his stall out with a track that speaks…

Indie Music Video Festival

Indie Music Video Festival

At the forefront of innovative music videos

29 Jul 2009

A whole new type of manufactured pop will find its way to Edinburgh this August. For like Gorillaz and The Archies before him, POL Arida does not exist as flesh and bone, but only on screen as a variety of pixels, animation and imagination.

The Hold Steady

Singles & Downloads

16 Oct 2008

The challenge for The View is to avoid ‘doing a Fratellis’, i.e. delivering an underwhelming second album thereby massaging the feeling that all your early promise was based on one good song. Sad to say, the rowdy but slight jangle of ‘5 Rebbeccas…

Roots Manuva

Roots Manuva

2 Oct 2008

The likes of Dizzee Rascal and Mike Skinner might have higher profiles but there’s only one true king of British rap music and that’s Roots Manuva. London-based Rodney Smith has continued to amaze and delight with his idiosyncratic and original take on…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Rock’n’roll agony aunt

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Rock’n’roll agony aunt

18 Sep 2008

Dear List, I’ve just bought the tightest keks in Europe and a vest so day glow it could send a Geiger counter wild at 50 paces. Flag me up some how now danceable indie gigs at which to flash my hot new garb. Beth, Maryhill. Flaunt your new dapper…

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Soul Biscuits at Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Fri 22 Sep

18 Sep 2006

HIP HOP Expanding his Remix brand yet further - it’s already a regular nationwide XFM show and the longest-running night at Cargo in London - the genre-skipping Eddy Temple-Morris has now turned the XFM Remix into a touring club, which gets its…

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