It’s hard to shake off a feeling that one of the reasons broken beat hasn’t been given its critical due – certainly in comparison to other sides of the London soundsystem music continuum – is that ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) is increasingly omnivorous and, seemingly, rapacious. The latest course it has wolfed down is the 51 per cent of PIAS it did not already own (having bought 49 per cent in ...

Two classically-trained musicians steeped in free improvisation somehow come up with the offbeat pop record you didn't know you needed ...

The Beirut-based artist takes the accordion out of the beer halls of Bavaria and into the wide-open spaces of ambient ...

12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev ...