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Adele at the BRITs

This video of Adele singing ‘Someone Like You’ at the Brit Awards 2011 has been everywhere of late. Her ‘comeback’ album 21 (if you could really call it that, since she was performing throughout the period between 19’s release in 2008 and now) was recently at number one in 14 countries. The world’s gone crazy […]

Bingo at Ultra Music Festival, Miami

Bingo at Ultra Music Festival, Miami

Ultra music festival (UMF)/Miami Music Week starts this Friday, and as usual, has a stellar line up of electro acts on its three-day bill. From deadmau5 to The Chemical Brothers and Underworld, it’s set to be another great year. Barcelona’s SONAR is my focus for this Summer (and my first ever festival abroad), but I’ve […]

Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke

Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke

Once upon a time, Burial and Four Tet got to together to make a delicious slice of dubstep-inspired synth called Moth. Music bloggers across the land fawned, we played it on repeat and sighed at the marvel of such a perfect unison. Then, just two years later, they did it again. But this time added […]

Obsessed with Wye Oak

Obsessed with Wye Oak

There’s something about the mixture of Jenn Wasner’s haunting voice and Andy Stack’s uber-modern folksy influence on their third album, “Civilian”. The title track of which is one of my favourites of 2011 so far, without a doubt. They’ll be playing at SXSW and are currently touring the US, but there are sadly no plans […]