MUSIC PROFILE.

Getting To Know…Alaska.

Something low from this way comes…

Charanjit Singh – Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat

I went to Rough Trade looking for Middle Eastern Disco and came out with something that threw everything I thought I knew about electronic music on its head.

Rough Trade Staff Picks

Rough Trade is pretty much the bane of my life, every time I go in there I could (and have on occasion) spend hundreds of pounds on records. The problem is that they hooked me when I was just a kid.

Kytes and their favourite things.

Kytes know how to write and play music together effortlessly, but then I suppose they would since they started the band when they were all young enough to join the boy-scouts.

Fools Gold.

Fools Gold are a Los Angeles collective that weave together western pop with African rhythms and melody’s.

Hackman.

Hackman is a young producer from the South West of England, via Leeds, making big noises in the UK funky scene. Classically trained in the violin, he first turned his hand to producing in 2006 after ‘hearing Skream and getting

Gregk Foley.

When writing music reviews, it’s easy to slip into clichéd expressions and hackneyed opinions about an artist. So, in case any of the following falls into such categories, here is my only message: you need to listen to Gregk Foley.

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Suburbia.

American suburbs have Kevin Spacey smoking weed, cool introverted kids and pop-punk bands. Michael ten Pas took photos of American suburbs, just outside Atlanta, Georgia.

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Mitsuko Nagone.

The best things come in pairs - like hot twins, or double AKs. Mitsuko Nagone, a photographer from Japan, by the way of New York (then back to Japan) took…