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22 year old singer-songwriter Lauren Pritchard has the type of background you might associate with shiny, manufactured pop. Born in Tennessee, she moved to LA, lived with Lisa Marie Presley and then headed to NYC to take to the stage appearing in the original Broadway …

Every third Friday of the month, Cosmic Slop heads to underground dancefloor The Drop in Stoke Newington to play an ecletic rare selection of psychedlic funk, soul and rock’n’roll from the 1950s onwards. This month’s Slop sees the regular DJ team joined by Mahssa Taghinia, …

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 …

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 …

Tonight Amy Winehouse will be hosting her own clubnight ‘Snakehips at The Monarch’ on Chalk Farm Road. On Saturday night we spotted her chatting to the amazing DJ Bioux in the small room at Proud and now it seems the pair will be going head …

It seemed ages away when we first mentioned it only last month, but this year’s iTunes Festival is now well under way. Koko has been rocking overtime under the deluge of gigs that span the entire month of July and feature over 60 bands. Tickets …

Recommended to us by London girl gone global Estelle, today’s Listen! Up Tawiah made her mark on our pod with her smooth soulful grooves, and her excited performances during Mark Ronson’s live shows. Born in Battersea, she’s a former Brit School classmate of Kate, Amy …