Most people know Macy Gray as that girl from ‘I Try’ with the peculiar nasal raspy voice. Hopefully now she’ll be known as the artist who managed to pull off a cover album featuring the most eclectic mix of original material anyone could imagine. ‘Covered’ opens with…

Admittedly, my dedication to being strictly indie in 2002 made me frown upon, and consequently ignore, Norah Jones’ debut ‘Come Away With Me’, which tore down the walls between jazz and pop and scooped up many a Grammy in the process. It’s all the more ironic that…

In 2008 The Ting Tings worked their way into our collective music memory with their catchy …

The least we can say of Sinéad O’Connor is that, in public, she wasn’t ageing gracefully. If one song can redeem…

Of all the specialised music press lingo I’ve heard Visions described with (chill-wave, witch-house, cyborg-pop) I like the straightforward…

One of my best musical memories is sitting on the grass in the sun at a summer festival and knowing my musical horizon was…

Me, I’m an indie girl. Give me something lo-fi over a slickly produced R&B track every day of the week. I would even take it so far as…

The first time I heard Video Games I believed Hollywood sadcore was invented for me. Foolish of course, because the entire internet was…

Hot on the heels of the arrival of A Collection which I reviewed in the last issue of DS, comes the news of the imminent…

Another interesting British act that hasn’t been in the news for a very long time is Stereo MCs. Hailing from late 80’s…