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If you’ve been paying attention, something very interesting seems to be happening in the music world at the moment. Youngsters seem to be everywhere – taking old influences and putting their own spin on things. And we’re not talking early twenty-somethings, but kids in their mid-to-late teens. First there was…

It’s hard not to be suspicious when politicians endorse music. You only have to look back to the Britpop movement – and that thing called ‘Cool Britannia’ – to see what can happen when pollies start frothing at the mouth over our favourite bands. More recently, there were Gordon Brown’s…

They may sport skinny jeans in press shots, but if their debut album is anything to go by, Peace are bringing back baggy. There’s enough funky drumming, pounding keyboards and surreal lyrics about love to thrill anyone whose top musical moment from last year was seeing the Stone Roses reunite.…

It’s hard not to feel a little sorry for Palma Violets. Four London lads who – like The Vaccines, Arctic Monkeys and The Libertines before them – have been anointed as the saviours of British guitar music. It’s a familiar story. There they were earnestly going about their business…

Now you’ve been through our extensive Essential Listening 2012 series, which includes all our top choices from a past twelve months of albums, gigs and tracks, here some of our frankly super talented band of writers pick out their own favourite album of 2012, each making a convincing argument for…

For the uninitiated, Angus Stone is one half of Australian brother-sister folk duo, Angus and Julia Stone. While his first solo album, ‘Smoking Gun‘, was released under the moniker Lady of the Sunshine, this time his name is proudly emblazoned on the front. From that alone, one can assume ‘Broken…

The View are sick of being called ‘scallies’. In their early days they were styled – by the press and themselves – as Scotland’s answer to The Libertines; confrontational, irreverent and armed with an exciting run of clattering punk singles. But while The Libertines implosion was fairly spectacular, The View’s…

So, Maximo Park are back. If that’s a sentence that fills you with any sort of measurable excitement, the good news is that you’ll be pleased by what follows in this review. To be fair, if you’ve never liked Maximo Park before, there’s likely to be no reason why this…

In the late 80’s, somewhere on the east side of the Berlin Wall, a young girl was developing a love for the world of performing arts, particularly ballet and opera. When the wall eventually fell, that same girl was drawn to the Western pop music that, before then, was mostly…

With only charming accents to betray their Belgian roots, The Black Box Revelation are a collision of the best garage rock sounds each side of the Atlantic. Those accents, and they are charming, belong to frontman Jan Paternoster and drummer Dries Van Dijck, who are only 22 and 20 respectively.…

In only two albums, Melbourne natives Little Red have already navigated 50 years of pop music. While their charming debut ‘Listen to Little Red‘ was a fun, 50’s doo-wop party album, their sophomore release ‘Midnight Remember‘ is rooted in decidedly more modern sounds. Related news: Review: Ducks Ltd. – Harm’s …

For such a well-kept secret, it’s quite impressive that LA’s Letting Up Despite Great Faults can already boast of airplay on BBC News and rave reviews from the US music press. Letting Up, as they are known casually, achieved both recently, after soundtracking a new Facebook trailer. The video was…