About Talia

Should you find yourself in the Mile End area tonight, three great London bloggers will be coming together for the first and maybe last Shattered Satellite party. Promising a night of Arthur Russell tinged pop, Django Django, Colouring In and Al Cool & the Stranger …

One of our favourite musical discoveries last year was the very brilliant future funk of Janelle Monae. Signed to Atlantic Records over here, we were promised that she’d be releasing music in early 2009. As is often the case in the music world that release …

If you have been craving a little math-rock recently (and we know you have), then make sure to head down to the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen tomorrow, when arguable two of the UK’s best, This Town Needs Guns and Talons will be hitting the stage. …

Not content with festivals putting tickets on sale the minute doors from the previous year have shut, the Camden Crawl is today getting in on the bandwagon by putting tickets for it’s 2010 event on sale next week, 29th October. Held next year on May …

Intrepid music journalists that we are, just over a year ago we tipped a hot, unsigned South London talent called Rox. Since then her music has been featured on a Rimmel advert, she’s been signed up by the mighty Rough Trade and has prepared an …

Fulham rapper Example has been knocking about for a few years, first releasing records on Mike Skinner’s The Beats label, before returning this Autumn with a new label and a new sound. The Ibiza sounds of first single ‘Watch The Sun Come Up’ have propelled …

Imagine Muse, Take That and Paul McCartney all on one small stage in London. It doesn’t often happen does it? Thanks then to Gary Barlow, Lord of Pop, who has just announced details of the very first BBC Children In Need Rocks held at the …

In a world where playing conkers at school is probably these days banned thanks to health and safety regulations, we have to be thankful of the madness of two of our favourite promoters, John Power and Tony Poland, who have decided now is the perfect …

There are few things we’ve enjoyed more about staying in on a Saturday night in the last few years than the prospect of watching X Factor and then forgetting to go out by spending so long pretending we’re just as good by belting out Heart’s …

My Tiger My Timing are a five piece band from New Cross that have keeping our iTunes on shuffle for a good couple of months now. With the likes of Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and New Young Pony Club’s Andy Spence on board with production …