Like a cooler Meltdown festival, the bill for I'll Be Your Mirror London was handed over to a band to curate - Bristol trip hop survivors Portishead... more
For the first time in 25 years, three Brit acts top the US album charts. Joining Adele and Mumford & Sons is Marsha Ambrosius - you may think you don't know her but you do ...... more
Baby Dee is a fiftysomething transsexual with a penchant for bucolic torch songs Angus & Julia Stone are very possibly the world’s favourite Australian indie-folk brother/sister duo.... more
Nico meets Björk is hardly mosh-pit music — but eerie sounds and childlike vocals make Swedish act Fever Ray the most talked about on the festival circuit.... more
A British singer with the spontaneity of an old-school rhythm 'n' blues belter. At 22, Bryn is poised to join the homegrown, retro-soul ranks of Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson.... more
A new breed of musical talent will be in record-breaking mood on the South Bank, the Brits are taking over the American charts and Dirty Pretty Things are back.... more
Madonna is the most fearless she's been in years, perseverance will be rewarded for the latest Portishead album and it’s a wild ride with Courtney Pine.... more
David Smyth defends Jay-Z as the Glastonbury headliner, considers why being a movie A-lister is a hindrance to a music career and discovers what's new on the net.... more
Alex Turner's side project, The Last Shadow Puppets, is a debut of extraordinary promise, The Accidental could improve with time and Anita Wardell has an impressive go at scat-singing.... more
There could well be a catfight in the Geldof household over Klaxons frontman Jamie Reynolds. Reynolds was spotted him arm-in-arm with Peaches last night, but the lothario has also been getting close to her kid sister Pixie. Pixie, 17, has been hanging around the band like a starstruck groupie for months, and finally got her claws into Jamie this week
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Portishead's first London show in many years showed what they have become: a formidable, uncompromising sextet who can be fearsomely loud and emotionally draining, says David Smyth.... more
Tickets for the muddy music festival Glastonbury slip away fast, so register now to ensure you're in the running on 6 April when they go on sale.... more
Popular Scratch Pervert turntablist Mr Scruff, DJ Cash Money and the rotund figure of Chicago House pioneer DJ Sneak are all in action over the weekend.... more
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