Min kontakt med musiken från Mali är tämligen begränsad. Första gången jag visste att jag lyssnade på den var när jag tog del av Damon Albarns resebeskrivning i toner i början av 00-talet. Sen dess har jag lyssnat på Amadou & Mariam (som fått skit för att de låter för europeiska e...

I'll be damned if The NME hasn't done it again: Blur is reuniting. According to Billboard, the band will reform for "an open air show in London's Hyde Park next summer." The show is booked for July 3 and will......

The (International) Noise Conspiracy The Cross of My Calling (album) Har alltid tyckt att bandet är lite ojämnt och lojt på skiva, men betydligt bättre live. Så tycker säkert flera och nu är det hög tid för oss att omrevidera. Det här albumet är riktigt bra från början till slut. En end...

The music is terrific. The liner notes, some might argue, are even better. To top it all off, Give Me Love was issued by Damon Albarn’s delightfully idiosyncratic Honest Jon’s label. In other words, its got indie written all over it, in every possible sense of the term. However, with a t...

Today's Guardian reports - 'The whirlwind romance of French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni is set to reach the operatic stage. The highlight of English National Opera's 2009/10 season is the newly commissioned A Dangerous Liaison with a libretto based on the French best-selling book Carla...

The concept of an inside look at The Gorillaz sounds great. Bananaz is a documentary that takes you into the world of a band that very few people know anything about. The extent of knowledge on The Gorillaz, for most people, ends with the fact that they are a band that is made up of cartoon characte...

(credit: Fred Perry Subculture) Dude may have played guitar in the group, but that doesn't mean he's too keen on getting back with the boys and starting the recording process, right?  In a recent sit-down with NME (who, let's be honest, would orgasm in their collective fanboy pants to be able t...