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Pharrell Williams, Jungle: Pharrell Williams/Jungle: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 11 September 2014

He looks dapper, and he opens the show with a brilliant blast of robot funk, but the R&B pioneer is a bit too reserved on ...

Omar-S: Just Ask The Lonely (FXHE)

Review by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 1 April 2005

THE FIRST TIME you listen to Omar-S (Alex Smith), especially his debut solo album for his own FXHE Records, you're going to be confused. Which ...

Basement Jaxx: Remedy (XL)

Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 8 May 1999

CAMBERWELL CARAT! ...

LCD Soundsystem: American Dream

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 31 August 2017

IT'S BEEN SEVEN YEARS since the last LCD Soundsystem album, This Is Happening; but it doesn't sound as though the band's creative mainspring James Murphy ...

Armand Van Helden: You Don't Know Him!

Interview by Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, February 1999

ARMAND VAN HELDEN IS BACK ON FORM — AND BACK IN THE CHARTS. BUT WHAT'S THE MAN WHO SWAPS GENRES MORE OFTEN THAN SOCKS AND ...

Cut Copy: 'It's Certainly Not Knob Twiddling'

Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 14 October 2005

When they are not letting off fireworks in people's houses, or rugby tackling Mylo off the stage, Australia's Cut Copy are the future of synth-pop. ...

MTV's Unconventional Amp Takes A Stab At Reinventing Popular Music for the 21st century

Report by Matt Hanks, Memphis Flyer, 27 March 1997

SO YOU'VE HEARD about this new craze that's all the rage with the kids. Although it has yet to produce its first teen idol, 'electronica' ...

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 ...

Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg: Jane Birkin: Je T’Aime… Moi Aussi!

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 24 January 2003

FOR THOSE of you who missed it, the general premise of the current TV ad for Kronenberg 1664 lager is as follows: If Britain were ...

Apres Nous Le Deluge: The Nouvelle Vague Of Pop Francaise

Report and Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, July 1998

"THERE’S NOTHING HAPPENING in England right now. It’s like 1975. Deep Purple for me are like The Prodigy. Led Zeppelin are Chemical Brothers." Daniel Auxerre, ...

Pharrell Williams: O2 Arena, London

Live Review by Kate Allen, Rock's Backpages, October 2014

AT THE AGE OF 41 and with an estimated net worth of $80 million, why would Pharrell Williams bother submitting himself to the rigours of ...

Skrillex: 02 Academy, Glasgow

Live Review by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 22 April 2012

HERE THEY come — the tiger-print leggings, the vest tops, the T-shirts soon to be removed. It is 8.40pm. This 80-year-old art deco venue in ...

Basement Jaxx: Itchy and Scratchy: In Praise of the Basement Boys

Comment by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, March 2007

BEING OF a certain (old) age, I’ve pretty much grown out of dance culture. If I’m really honest, I was already semi-alienated before the rave era ...

Gangsta House

Report by Simon Reynolds, Spin, May 1998

Speed garage, a hybrid of house and jungle, has conquered British clubland. ...

Marc Spitz: I Wanna Be Adored/Eric Winick: Lay Me Down

Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 10 May 2000

NO ONE ROCKS harder in rock and roll theatre than the hangers-on. Rocks, that is, the category of knowingness, like a playwright. Gets corrosive in ...

Kanye West: 808s & Heartbreak

Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, January 2009

AT THE END of August, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis was waiting for her flight to the Democratic National Convention in Denver when a fellow passenger ...

Coldcut, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: You Spin Me Round

Overview by Martin Aston, Q, November 1997

"Two turntables and a microphone," are, says Beck, "where it's at." For more than a decade Technics 1200 record decks have provided the backbone of ...

Deadmau5, Portishead: Portishead: Hammerstein Ballroom/Deadmau5: Roseland, NYC

Live Review by Maura Johnston, The Village Voice, 12 October 2011

AT A LIVE MUSIC event, your eye naturally is drawn to what's happening onstage: guitarists thrashing and sawing at the air, vocalists preening between yawps, ...

The Avalanches: Since I Left You

Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, May 2001

YOU SHOULD HEAR the things people say about The Avalanches: "Basement Jaxx meets The Beta Band," "Stardust crossed with Stereolab," sample-based music with the freshness ...

My Computer: Vulnerabilia

Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 2002

New Manchester duo fuse druggy songwriting and dance beats with astonishing results ...