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will.i.am: #willpower - review

(Interscope) What with his TV talent show duties, a voice acting career and an ambassadorial role at Intel (its five-note musical ident is inelegantly shoehorned into Geekin'), it might look as if making music is no longer will.i.am 's chief concern. Th

Karl Hyde: Edgeland - review

(Universal) The uncertain zone at the margins of London, where city ends and countryside begins, is the preoccupation of this new album from Karl Hyde, on a break from his dancefloor-pumping, Olympic ceremony-scoring day job with Underworld. Like many th

Same Trailer Different Park - Kacey Musgraves

After listening to Same Trailer Different Park, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s first album for Mercury Records, it’s clear that this is a girl who has something to say. A true language artist, Kacey nimbly spins webs of words to create the qu

The Best of McFly Tour

McFly are back on tour, performing all their biggest hits so far, supporting their latest release 'Memory Lane'. The group have proved that they are as popular as ever with Dougie being named winner of I'm a celebrity and Harry winning Strictly Come Danci

To Be Loved - Michael Buble

To Be Loved is the eighth studio album from vocalist, songwriter and global sensation Michael Bublé. It includes four original tracks and ten covers, and features the single "It's a Beautiful Day".

Charli XCX - review

For most new young artists, carving out a niche tends to involve paring one's sound or persona down to its essence. For 20-year-old Charli XCX , though, the process of finding her voice seems to have involved piling ever more sounds and references into t

Charli XCX - review

For most new young artists, carving out a niche tends to involve paring one's sound or persona down to its essence. For 20-year-old Charli XCX , though, the process of finding her voice seems to have involved piling ever more sounds and references into t

Javelin - 'Hi Beams'

Brooklyn's Javelin mastered the art of cut-and-paste bedroom digi-pop on their first long player, 2010's 'No Más'.

Hi Beams - Javelin

Hi Beams is the new album from the duo, which includes the tracks 'Light Out' and 'Judgement Nite'. NME gave it seven out of ten summing the album up as: 'Samples are out but booty-shaking hooks are in'.

Supermigration - Solar Bears

This is the follow up to 2011's She Was Coloured in and includes the tracks 'Stasis' and 'Love is All'. NME gave the album six out of ten describing the album as: 'Psychedelic electronica to remind us of that thing called summer.'