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Rachel Hurd-Wood: a modern gothic starlet

21.08.09
To date, Rachel Hurd-Wood's bodice has been ripped by Ben Whishaw, Ben Barnes and James Purefoy, and she's still only 19. Hettie Harvey meets costume drama's newest discovery... ... more

CDs of the week

07.08.09
James Yorkston's Folk Songs gets stronger as it goes on and Joshua Radin's record needs a little more substance.... more

With Facebook, even spooks are just like us

06.07.09
What's the Persian for schadenfreude? I don't know, but I imagine that in between cursing infidels, oppressing his people and grooming his silly beard, Iran's supreme lunatic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had a jolly good laugh at our expense this weekend... more

London Gig Guide

22.05.09
Britney Spears brings her circus to the 02 and Daniel Merriweather comes to the Bloomsbury Ballroom.... more

Off the record: The Top 10's back on trend

27.03.09
The charts are worth following again — and it's all thanks to the download revolution.... more

Double Hallelujah at top of the Christmas charts

22.12.08
It was a double Hallelujah at the top of the charts as X Factor winner Alexandra Burke won the battle for Christmas number one ahead of Jeff Buckley's version of the song.... more

Hallelujah - at last a Christmas number one that touches a chord

19.12.08
Leonard Cohen’s anthem looks set to top the charts — and one fan of the veteran singer is delighted that a song long treasured by very few has touched so many... more

Best CDs of 2008

19.12.08
From funk to fado, our critics round up the albums of the year.... more

Off the record: Leonard Cohen gets the X factor

28.11.08
Cohen's Hallelujah is set to be the Christmas number one thanks to Simon Cowell. How did it become a universal anthem for our age?.... more

Radiohead lead the pack as Mercury Music Prize nominations announced

22.07.08
Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele were today all nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize. Also up for the gong are Elbow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Neon Neon.... more

Off the record

30.05.08
My Morning Jacket perform a gorgeous new song in the back of a cab and the Connaught has a musical makeover.... more

Out at proud

02.05.08
Hip bar and gallery, Proud Camden, has been reborn in a stylish stable and the celebs are coming out in force to see what all the fuss is about.... more

CDs of the week

31.08.07
New albums from Hard-Fi, Kano and Spike Wells are among the top CDs of the week. ... more

CDs of the week

03.08.07
This week's CD releases include The Coral, Molly Johnson and cockney-voiced artist Kate Nash, Lilly Allen's hottest competitor.... more

The nobody who won a Novello

01.06.07
David Smyth this week looks at guitarist-turned-singer Scott Matthews, some downloadable White Stripes and Kanye West's latest eclectic offering.... more

Heartache making Kate a star

13.04.07
Kate Walsh came from nowhere to storm the iTunes chart with an album of songs about old boyfriends. 'I fall in love 10 times a day,' she tells Alastair McKay.... more

Critic's choice: Pop

13.02.07
Negative noises from online bloggers should not stop gig-goers enjoying US indie acts Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Cold War Kids.... more

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    The geeky-girl solo artists descending on the music scene

    Kookiness is what sells music these days and these opinionated artists have it in spades, says Jasmine Gardner

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