Finally, with the arrival of England’s new Queen, we’ll be hearing less of that annoying young American woman. Lancashire…

The great thing about the new Black Eyed Peas’ album The Energy Never Dies (The E.N.D) is that it sounds…

Long ago I had written off Yeah Yeah Yeahs (YYYs) as just another boring indie band. I suspect that they were aware that I was not alone in my thinking, because new album It’s Blitz…

Peaches ~ I Feel Cream****

If the world was advertising for the position of Fabulous In-yer-face Lipstick Lesbian Dominatrix Babe, Peaches would definitely be the only qualified candidate. The album starts with Serpentine,one of several awesome tracks in which Peaches asserts that she has outlasted the electro clash scene…

Canadian Tiga Sontag is back with another album full of bleepy electro pop and daft vocals. His young fans are gonna love it. Fans of fairly groovy bass lines and drum loops are gonna love it. Those of you that like weird lyrics sung in a deadpan voice…

What a remarkable young lady Utada Hikaru is. At the tender age of 26 she has sold more than 50 million albums and in the process broken a host of Japanese records; fastest selling this, biggest selling that with three of her albums in Japan’s top ten selling albums of all time…

The eclectic lads from Sweden are back with a follow up to 2006’s breakaway hit Writer’s Block. Okay there was an instrumental album a year ago but that was released as “therapy for the band” they said. So, the first album proper since from the indie rock band who gave us the unbelievably catchy Young Folks…

Bravo Pet Shop Boys! The band that critics claim lie at the midway point between New Order and the Smiths, haven’t been this brilliant in years. Yes is triumphant. The whole album is giddy with first-time love. Joy explodes from every pore. From opening track, the catchy Love etc…

For a band that created such a buzz back in 2004 with their debut release it’s actually hard to remember why when listening to their third album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. There’s nothing here with any excitement – the melodies are limp…

Fortunately few artists ever have the tangled, drug-addled histories of this artist. One time girlfriend of Mick Jagger, Faithfull almost lost, not just her career but also her life due to heroin addiction throughout the 1970’s