No one can say they didn’t see these two brats coming! Justice, who’s name the world (well at least that part of the world that loves to dance) chants with emotion and whose first album is awaited with bated breath ever since the French duo revolutionised dancefloors with two radically different hits. First, the housey and uplifting “Never Be Alone” which plunged clubbers into full on hedonism. Then, two years later, the striking and screeching “Waters of Nazareth” that brought darkness onto clubs worldwide with its glitchy rhythms and sombre mood.more...

Coasting is the easy option. Having the balls to recognize that things aren’t right and doing something about them is much harder. It may have taken Sune and Sharin a little while but they made the right decision in the end- both personally and creatively- and ‘Lust, Lust, Lust’ is where the two worlds collide. more...

Grime is a seismic new chapter in UK music. Burning brightly from the grimey satellite communities of central London - Hackney, Tottenham, Bow, Peckham - a fresh scene is thriving, and the longer it continues to do so the deeper it continues to infiltrate popular culture and set root in the English culture. That scene is begrudgingly labelled grime, and the Run The Road albums are the first catalogue of its most gifted exponents and their already seminal recordings. more...

An evolving The hiss of tape may seem nostalgic in the land of digital recordings and MP3s, but for Montreal’s The Stills it’s more than an scratch from the distant past. That hiss recalls the band’s very beginnings, because without a simple, chunky-looking four track tape recorder The Stills just wouldn’t be. more...

The Streets' first album - 2002's Brit Award and Mercury Prize nominated Original Pirate Material - was a brilliantly witty and original snapshot of 21st century reality. It was also the next step forward for the great tradition of British pop songwriting which stretches from The Who and The Kinks, to Madness and The Specials, to Blur and Pulp. more...