Alexis Petridis
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories - review
On YouTube, you can find cameraphone footage of an advert for Daft Punk's fourth studio album that was beamed out from the main stage at last month's Coachella festival.
Savages: Silence Yourself - review
(Matador) Thus far, this year's hotly tipped alt-rockers have sounded weirdly flaccid and aimless: listening to the albums behind the hype, you find yourself wondering how the bands could be bothered to make them. That is not a problem with the debut froSavages: Silence Yourself - review
(Matador) Thus far, this year's hotly tipped alt-rockers have sounded weirdly flaccid and aimless: listening to the albums behind the hype, you find yourself wondering how the bands could be bothered to make them. That is not a problem with the debut fro
Public Service Broadcasting: Inform-Educate-Entertain - review
More a concept than a band, Public Service Broadcasting repurpose old propaganda films to artful, stirring effect - but what does it all mean? The credits on the debut album by London duo Public Service Broadcasting mark it out as a unique prospect: it
Beyonce - review
Openings to concerts come no more bombastic than that of Beyoncé's Mrs Carter tour. There are huge video screens offering moody footage of gothic architecture and the singer dressed conservatively for 18th-century France, sundry pyrotechnics, the unveiliMusic Weekly podcast: Austra and Sam Amidon
Katie Stelmanis is the vocalist with Toronto electronic sextet Austra . After spending the last couple of years touring with the XX, Grimes and the Gossip, they're back with their sophomore album, Olympia. Katie joins us in the studio. We also meet SamIggy and the Stooges: Ready to Die - review
They can still make a racket, but maybe they don't need to any more - oddly, the best songs on the new Iggy and the Stooges album are the ballads Promoting the new Iggy and the Stooges album, Iggy Pop has struck a combative note. Among the serried ranks
Snoop Lion: Reincarnated - review
Despite featuring Miley Cyrus, the drummer from the Police and a heavy Rastamouse influence, Snoop Dogg's reggae rebirth somehow fails to convince Keen observers of the former Snoop Dogg's career may note that Reincarnated - on which he reinvents himself
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito - review
(Polydor) Longevity wasn't chief among the attributes of the alt-rock bands who emerged at the start of the noughties. Most of them are vanished or - perhaps worse, trudging glumly on in the face of diminishing returns. In fact, only two artists could re