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IN THIS ISSUE...
Duffy
The NEW first lady of Soul
Riding high on the crest of a soul-wave that has witnessed Duffy race to Number One in the charts with the Lulu-stomping ‘Mercy’, the ash-blonde spark plug grabs a Fifties microphone for leverage and pipes up to her own reigning creation on the iPod stereo.
Gnarls Barkley
Double trouble from the hip-hop maestros
Mindful of their appearance, the follow up to 2006’s multi-platinum debut ‘St. Elsewhere’ has been christened ‘The Odd Couple’ – a reference no doubt to their serial killer aesthetic. Allegedly.
MGMT
Brooklyn's sonic adventurers
Spawning glam-rock gems that recall Spiders From Mars, MGMT’s freaky future sonic adventures and child-like charm have captured the ears of everyone far and beyond the borough of their adopted Brooklyn.
Jamie Liddel
Uncovering an electronic enigma
The experimental producer turned belt-it-out soul singer is moving in loftier circles these days, with high-profile fans and a swish new PR firm behind him, who also handle the likes of Mrs Ritchie.
Mavis Staples
The woman, the voice, the legend...
Born in Chicago in 1939, Mavis was a million selling artist by the time she was 17 with The Staple Singers – the gospel family group led by her father. It’s a long and richly rewarded career.
Tom Middleton
Full of Eastern promise
Clash was in China’s industrial city of Shanghai to witness a cross cultural musical exchange brought together by Smirnoff, proving that it’s possible to have original nights both home and abroad, set their cat amongst the pigeons by enlisting the help of one of the world’s most eclectic DJs
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Better the devil you know!
“I could be spending time fucking my wife instead of wasting it on you!" screams Anton Newcombe as he roundly barracks a journalist, just moments before Clash is due to fire their own questions at the explosive Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman.
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Recorded in London and New York in 1973 to a backdrop of infidelity and egotism, ‘Aladdin Sane’ saw Bowie break from musical convention and transcend Glam Rock, the movement he had spawned.
Junior Boys Vs Carl Craig
Matt Didemus of Canadian indie, electro-pop duo, Junior Boys, engages in a session of mutual interrogation with the prolific, influential and much celebrated Detroit techno and future-jazz pioneer, Carl Craig, who has recently produced a Grammy nominated remix of their track, ‘Like A Child’.
Write On
Groove Armada
Rockand Rules
Jean Michel Jarre
Niche Or Naff
No Rave and Clowncore
Private Passions
The Raveonettes
Stalker
Madonna
Polls Apart
Pop Fiction - musicians in movies
The Draytones
Tokyo Police Club
Camille
Scanners
The Last Shadow Puppets
Future Loop Foundation
Son Of Dave
The Prelude
Portishead
The Indelicates
Martina Topley Bird
Radioactive Man
