Lady GaGa, La Roux: Slaves To Synth
Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 17 December 2008
The male guitar band is dead. The future is electro, female, DIY – and very in your face. Caroline Sullivan talks to the solo acts whose brave new pop is set to storm the charts in 2009
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