Kurran & The Wolfnotes : Q & A Thanks to Mumford & Sons for cementing the new-fangled flourish of the alt-folk scene in the UK last year after the great work done by Noah & The Whale et al the year before, the talent just keeps a coming. Take Kurran & The Wolfnotes as an exciting example...

Foreign Office : An Introduction Welcome to the new decade. A time for change. Optimism. Hope. Or the stark realisation that's a load of shite, that we're still in the same position we were last decade. The only things we can see will be different is a slightly bluer, posher and...

Free Energy : Interview Philedelphia based Free Energy are already perching precariously upon a mountain of buzz coming from home and abroad. It’s the type of buzz that can bury a band before they have the chance to capitalize on early demo material and release even so much as a single...

Creed : 'Rain' Praise the Lord! Pearl Jam-wannabe Jesus fanciers Creed have reformed! And Lo, a wave of blank stares and apathy did sweep the land, save three wise elves and an orc who did minimise their World of Warcraft to download it...

Corrine Bailey Ray : 'I'll Do It All Again' Before I write this review for Corrine Bailey Ray's new single "I'll Do It All Again" I must admit something. I found "Put Your Records On" painfully cringeworthy and completely unlistenable...

The Kabeedies : 'Rumpus' e are (officially) out of the recession. And we are (supposedly) about to enter Spring. To add to the general feeling of all things bright and uplifting come the quirky, wacky sounds of the Kabeedies...

Plastiscines : Interview As one of the first signings of Nylon Records in New York, the Parisian all-girl guitar-wielding group Plasticines are back with their sound expanding sophomore record this year. The rock’n’roll of their former effort still exists...

What or Who to watch out for in 2010 The Noughties are over and we have to say goodbye to the first decade of the Millennium. It is a shame because there was many zeitgeist breaking moments in the decade in the music world. The irony then, that 2009 was a pretty nondescript year, is not lost...

Albums of The Decade : 2000 - 2009 I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of seeing television programmes lamenting what a piss poor decade the so-called ‘noughties’ have been. I mean, a decade is just a period of time definable by the fact that it spans exactly ten years...