Podcast: Emily Barker
The podcast is back, with folk country gem Emily Barker as featured artist, while amongst the sterling new tunes are a track from newcomer Ylva Ceder, an eponymous and mysterious glam dance from Mountain Machine and a raucous opener from Mower.
The Fall and Rise of Shoegaze Maps' Mercury nomination this year has spotlighted a quietly building shoegaze revival. James Buckley's debut book is billed as the world's first shoegazing novel. Here he charts the fall and rise of "the scene that celebrates itself" and suggests you're never alone when you're a 'gaze fan...
Obituary: Tony Wilson
The Madchester godfather's passing amounts to more than the death of an impresario. Indie kids across the generational divide have cause to mourn, says one admiring writer.
Bella Union: 10 Years Wiser
Bella Union, home to Midlake, Howling Bells, Fionn Regan (pictured) and Stephanie Dosen, is a whole decade old this year. Founder Simon Raymonde gives us the lowdown on the first 10 years and the label's two special birthday concerts...
Sly Stone: The Return
A headlining appearance at London's Lovebox Festival this summer marks a return to the live scene for a unique and much-missed talent. Herewith, notes on one funky customer.
Podcast: Kieran Hebden Four Tet's Kieran Hebden talks to Ben Hogwood about his new album collaboration with Steve Reid, and Claire Colley is your guide through some gem-like new music, featuring The Ripps and Alasdair Roberts.
RnB Season 2007 - preview Beyoncé, Smokey Robinson and Al Green head a month-long celebration of RnB in London
Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver
With his autobiography and a new Best Of compilation album out, is it time to reappraise Prince Charming?
Resonance FM - profile
The first of our new series of features profiling music industry figures and organisations bigs up the London-based arts community radio station.
Captain Beefheart - retrospective
The final five of Don Van Vliet's 13 albums have been remastered. One fan considers why the Captain's peers lauded him while the mainstream remained indifferent.
2006 in review
Review of the Year: Albums
What a year for albums 2006 has been. Records set, careers forged, fans found - and that's all just Arctic Monkeys. Find out what our music editors and writers made of this year's releases.
Review of the Year: Live Music
A slew of new festivals and industry consolidation in the live sector were all well and good, but still it was the bands and artists who dominated. Step forward our faves of 2006...
Review of the Year: Tracks
With "real" music well and truly to the fore again, 2006 proved a great year for albums - but it looked as though the single was dead. So, long live the track!
more features
Arthur Lee - obituary
A tribute to the singer and guitarist of 1960s band Love, who has died after a battle with leukaemia at the age of 61.
New Music Guide: 12
The Scandinavian edition, featuring
Shadow Parade, The Heavenly Music Corporation, Mono/Noise, Paulin Voss, Blue On Blue and The Ruling Class.
New Music Guide 11
From Dublin to Dortmund via Glasgow and, erm, Mars...
In this issue: The Olympus Mons, Pilotlight, We Yes You No, Biont, Fram and Fallen View. more unsigned guides
Syd Barrett: Shine On
The co-founder of Pink Floyd has died, aged 60. But, says one fan, it feels as though the world has been mourning his genius for decades.
Podcast: John Howard
The inaugural musicOMH.com podcast features tracks recorded live at the inaugural musicOMH.com live night, featuring John Howard and Eileen Rose, plus a selection of rather fine new music.
New Music Guide: 10
It's the tenth edition of musicOMH.com's New Music Guide already.
In this issue: Throcke, Roebeck, Jamie Radford, Brody and Quint, Nixon and the Burn and The Wake.
New Music Guide: 9
Our queen (all hail HM Lily Allen) has lately trilled about LDN. We stalked the city in pursuit of ace new artistes.
In this issue: Revere, Frankie, The Tacticians, Silver Lions, Claire Toomey and JayFisher/Apple Rabbit.
New Music Guide: 8
As Radiohead (unsigned!) once stated, anyone can play guitar. So we've searched for people who can play keyboards. We found: PlayRadioPlay!, Ti Corley, Ratatat, Unknownn, Sussie 4 and Astrobotica Supra De'Nova.
New Music Guide: 7
From Glasgow to Chicago we travel (virtually, you understand) to bring you the delights that are:
Stanton Delaplane, Gig, Cusack, Hips Like Cinderella, Kim Wayman and Otter Petter.
New Music Guide: 6
This time:
Sons and Lovers, The Madeleines, Von Kleet, Redneck Renegade, Sparrow House, Sebastian Clark.
New Music Guide: 5
From the brand new to the heroically out of contract, we have:
Juliet, Asphalt Thieves, Driving South, The Roxie, Eugenie Arrowsmith and Feedback Seed.
New Music Guide: 4
Our fortnightly expedition into the interweb (and our unsigned guide email account) this time rendered:
tapes'n'tapes, Voxtrot, Karva Checkpoint, Emma York and Galactica and 66e.
New Music Guide: 3
A ripe crop:
Venus Bogardus, Breathehope, Team Everything, Heartbreak High, A Women Of No Importance and Yules.
New Music Guide: 2
More unsigned gems, including:
William Besson, Paul Wilkes, 52 Teenagers, At Sea, The ColdNews and The Pitchfork Disney.
Massive Attack: Collective collected
Steve Hands takes stock of the Bristol massive as they wade into their 15th year and dreaded "best of" territory...
Talking Heads: Re-released In Light
As their entire back catalogue is reissued on CD, Steve Hands wonders just how influential David Byrne's band has become.
Tom Waits: Watch Him Disappear
Steve Hands checks out a "biography" of the gravel-voiced troubador as he assumes iconic status 30 years in to his career.
Best Of '05, By The Best Of '06 gUiLLeMoTs, The Boy Least Likely To, The Pipettes, Yeti, ¡Forward, Russia!, Five O'Clock Heroes and iLiKETRAiNS look back at 2005 and forward to 2006.
Eminem: The Final Curtain Call?
Is the man known variously as Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers III really hanging up his microphone? Azeem Ahmad takes a look at Eminem's remarkable career to date.
Kate Bush: Mystery Maiden?
The iconic English songwriter returns after 12 years with new album Aerial. Richard Ings glides over a unique career.
Def Jam Records
Russell Simmons' hip-hop label celebrates 25 years in business this year, and Steve Hands helps pour the champers.
Bow Before Bauhaus
Steve Malins catches up with the post-punk originators of goth rock as the lauded pioneering quartet go touring and get set for a comeback album.
John Lennon: Working Class Hero
Richard Ings ponders the working class hero's life beyond The Beatles, as told by his wives Cynthia and Yoko Ono.
Michael Jackson: Essential?
Steve Hands delves below the image, headlines, trials and tribulations to appraise Jackson's music career and legacy.
Duran Duran
The Fab Five's biographer Steve Malins profiles the highs and lows of the Notorious Le Bon and co ahead of their UK tour, first biography and new DVD.
Don't Look Back: London
A season of All Tomorrow's Parties gigs, with Iggy & The Stooges, Dinosaur Jr, Mudhoney and The Lemonheads, beckons. Steve Hands looks forward.
Joe Meek
Steve Hands delves into the murky life of the world's first independent producer, a genuine innovator now hailed as a genius ranked alongside the greats.
Richard Hawley
A showcase of new LP Coles Corner and a chat with Steve Lamacq about music and romance at the first Album Club night. Helen Wright sups some ales.
Can
Remastered versions of the revered German improvisational rock group's classic albums drag Steve Hands back in time - to Cologne, 1968.
Fairport's Cropredy Convention
The event that picked up where the Cropredy Festival left off. Barnaby Smith gets the lowdown on what this unique event has come to mean.
Brian Wilson: SMiLe
The Beach Boys legend completes his testament to '60s pop's immortality. Steve Hands meets one of the true greats and hears the SMiLe album.
Live 8: London
It was the biggest global music event in history. Tom Woods was amongst the 150,000 people at Bob Geldof's Make Poverty History shindig in Hyde Park...
review of 2005
Nine editors make lists of albums and singles of the year, plus 2005's opera and classical highlights and a round-up of some of the year's most memorable theatre productions in London.
the odes series
An Ode To... Metallica
Jim Cosby looks back at the early days of the saviours of heavy metal, now one of the biggest bands on the planet, with a magnifying glass and rose tinted specs to hand.
An Ode To... Ryan Adams
Barnaby Smith goes full circle with the boy from Jacksonville as he revisits Whiskeytown territory.
An Ode To... Tim Buckley
Barnaby Smith wrestles with the cult folk songwriter's considerable legacy, 30 years to the month since his untimely death.
An Ode To... Pilate
The latest and greatest band in a critically-acclaimed wave of new Canadian music, profiled by David Welsh.
An Ode To... Kristin Hersh
Join Natasha Tripney as she takes stock of the acclaimed Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave co-founder.
An Ode To... Pavement
David Welsh looks at the career of Stephen Malkmus' celebrated indie band.
