Archive for December, 2007
POP MUSIC / Pop Music
Monday, December 31st, 2007But jungle is still too London-dominated. To seduce the North it'll probably need "stars" to pave the way, faces people can latch onto. And few come more appropriate than Manchester's A Guy Called Gerald (right). His name is synonymous with the last Eighties E-fuelled acid techno venture ...
POP MUSIC / Pop Music
Monday, December 31st, 2007But jungle is still too London-dominated. To seduce the North it'll probably need "stars" to pave the way, faces people can latch onto. And few come more appropriate than Manchester's A Guy Called Gerald (right). His name is synonymous with the last Eighties E- fuelled acid techno ...
MUSIC
Monday, December 31st, 2007Yes, it's Arcade Fire - led by Win Butler ( above) - versus Kaiser Chiefs at the top of this week's chart.
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Classical Music
Monday, December 31st, 2007Considering that he used to be one of the terror names of 20th- century "difficult" composition, the scale of the tribute is astonishing. But while it will attract cynicism in Paris, where he has wielded power over the new- music scene to the point of paralysis, the ...
MUSIC
Monday, December 31st, 2007At No 3, celebrating their fifth album and almost as many line-up changes, are the Sugababes with Overloaded. With only eight years in the business they are spring chickens compared to Michael, who released a previous best of... compilation in 1998, the year the 'Babes first entered the charts.