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Agnetha: A - review
(Universal) Abba must be the only band to have turned down an actual, not mythical, offer of one billion dollars to reunite and though Agnetha FOne to watch: Ms Mr
They've yet to release their debut album but this American duo aren't afraid to think big. Fancy a duet, Justin Timberlake? Lizzy Plapinger is wearing a backwards marijuana-leaf baseball cap over her orange-violet-crimson hair, an acid yellow crop top, t
Rudimental: Home - review
(Asylum) Rudimental are four young men from London whose single Feel the Love was the closest thing Olympic London had to an official soundtrack last summer. Drum'n'bass tracks don't tend to conjure descriptions such as "feel-good", but the soul vocals oLou Doillon: Places - review
(Decca) Doillon, daughter of Jane Birkin, is of course saddled with all the goodwill afforded to celebrity offspring whose primary occupation is listed as "muse". Haters may hate, but this unconventional beauty has supplemented an acting and modelling ca
Cult artist Marcel Dzama: 'I try not to censor myself'
When Hollywood stars like Jim Carrey and Nicolas Cage started buying Marcel Dzama's work, what did the Canadian artist do? Apply for a job at Walmart. He didn't get it If you took a quick glance at Marcel Dzama's watercolours , you'd probably think they
New Kids on the Block: 10 - review
(The Block/Boston 5) The point isn't whether the boyband megalith whose faces hung on most 13-year-old girls' walls in 1989 have any decent songs, but that they're back (and have been since The Block in 2008) and now, neither new nor kids, are here fNew Kids on the Block: 10 - review
(The Block/Boston 5) The point isn't whether the boyband megalith whose faces hung on most 13-year-old girls' walls in 1989 have any decent songs, but that they're back (and have been since The Block in 2008) and now, neither new nor kids, are here f
Hurts: Exile - review
(Sony) What with the impeccable tailoring, the monochrome styling, and the slo-mo moodiness of their videos, Hurts should sound - or would like you to think they sound - like elegant despair. Alas though, the duo's Ultravox-indebted synthpop continues to
Dido: Girl Who Got Away - review
(Sony) By the early 00s, when her albums No Angel and Life for Rent were selling by the tens of millions, Dido had became a byword for bland; this was music to have dinner parties to. But even a song as lyrically lame as the title track ("I wanna mov