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Daft Punk: Homework (Virgin CDV 2821 £14.99)

Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 17 January 1997

ONE OF the intriguing side effects of the techno revolution is the way it has re-trained the ears of the pop market to accept instrumental ...

Daft Punk: Human After All

Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 19 March 2005

THE THIRD album from Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manual de Homem Christo, the self-styled cyborg rulers of Parisian disco-pop, was initially trailed as a harder and ...

Daft Punk: French Pop: A Long Way From Françoise Hardy To Daft Punk

Overview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 1 February 2003

IT IS no surprise that France has only just got around to its own equivalent of Top Of The Pops. In a country where philosophy ...

Top of the Itpops

Guide by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 19 January 2001

IF YOU want to know what most people think of Italian music, look no further than the Internet. One English language site dedicated to Italian ...

Phoenix: It’s hip hop to be square

Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 23 June 2000

Phoenix are French and funky and like some very uncool records indeed, says Lisa Verrico ...

Caravan Palace: O2 Brixton, London

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 3 February 2020

IF YOU WANT TO ANNOY CARAVAN PALACE, call them electro-swing. When the French band launched in the late Noughties, they were leaders of a scene ...

Chilly Gonzales: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 31 July 2014

BILLED AS a "masterclass" by a self-styled "musical genius", this unorthodox cabaret-style show by rapper, composer and piano virtuoso Chilly Gonzales wavered uneasily between motivational ...

Madonna: Koko, London

Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 16 November 2005

THE LAST TIME Madonna played this venue was, as she reminded us, 22 years ago. Then, she was just another struggling blond singer/dancer/actress living on ...

Madonna: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff ***

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 25 August 2008

HOURS BEFORE Madonna launched her Sticky & Sweet world tour in Cardiff on Saturday, the phenomenal pulling power of history's biggest ever female pop star ...

Justin Timberlake, Romeo, Craig David: Justin Timberlake: Justified; Craig David: Slicker than Your Average: Romeo: Solid Love

Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 1 November 2002

MICHAEL JACKSON may be all but written off, so there's a vacancy for a King of Pop. Having once been betrothed to Britney Spears, the ...

Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse: Record Shopping with Mark Ronson

Report and Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 24 September 2010

He may have fallen out with Amy Winehouse but the A-list producer finds a soulmate in a fellow vinyl obsessive ...

Caravan Palace: Every woman, every man, join the Caravan Palace love-in

Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 19 August 2019

The eccentric electronica band have become a festival favourite and online hit — despite being completely useless at social media. ...