Where else would you be able to meet up with a true music industry legend? You’re sitting there sipping on your Guinness whilst listing to his stories of turning down the chance to join the Red Hot Chili Peppers after John Frusciante threw in the towel for the first time immediately followed by another bad call of saying NO to join none other than the self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness Ozzy Ozbourne on his legendary Ozzfest tour. He continues to astonish you with the tales of major label debauchery in the late 90s and the early 00s and the many bands…

As I'm sure you've heard if you're bothering to read this post, Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke is set to release his first solo album through Wichita / Polydor on June 21. I had the pleasure of being invited to one of the first playbacks at Strongroom studios in East London.

Before I delve into the album track by track or rather my impressions of it here's a bit of background: according to the press release with Bloc Party currently in hiatus, Kele began his sabbatical at the gym, learning to kick-box and settling into the flat he had just…

Tue 23 Jun – The Dead Weather

quite frankly this band is what even the casual observer would call a supergroup. now they're not just an amalgamation of talent of bands you definitely will have enjoyed in the past - no - they are more than the sum of their individual parts… this band is truly and utterly super!

before I go on the reader must be advised that a) I'm a bit drunk after just having come home and having had what for my puny tolerance is a fucking shed load of Guinness and b) I was literally begging…

Eamon from Brakes lost his guitar at the Glastonbury festival and is issuing a plea to anyone who may have found it, lying in the mud outside the Leftfield Tent at Glastonbury, sometime between 3am and 7am on Sunday morning. It was a Gewa Tennesee Bluesbird, not worth very much monetarily (£120), but of priceless sentimental value (most of Brakes' two albums were composed on it). Anyone who knows of its whereabouts, please contact Rough Trade Records on 020 8960 9888 or email brakes@brakesbrakesbrakes.com with a photo, and Eamon will come and collect it and play you a gig in…

Release Date: 16.02.2007

Silver wedding: Compost Records celebrates it’s 250th release!!! More than 1.700 songs released, in the business for 13 years and still making mad noise! On our 100th jubilee Gilles Peterson said: “With great pleasure I pronounce Compost the most consistent and forward thinking record label of continental Europe.“ Even 150 catalogue numbers later, there is not the faintest reason for doubting this quote. Just take one look at the impressive list of newcomers on Compost in 2006: Nova Dream Sequence, Alif Tree, Marsmobil, Jean-Paul Bondy, Soil & Pimp Session, Muallem, Shahrokh SoundofK. Names you are going to…

London based up and coming producers Missing In Acton unleash their debut single on one of the hottest underground UK labels. An upfront electro houser in the floor filling style of Martijn Ten Velden, long sweeping hypnotic builds drop to a huge crescendo that’ll drive dance floors wild.

On the flip Missing In Acton show their dirty streak with a pumped up, thumping bass line for those tougher floors.

Recommended Tracks

1. Fonzerelli – Moonlight Party

2. Qualia – Call My Name

3. Love Assassins - Teardrops

4. Miami Dub Machine – Be Free With Your Love

5. Jonathan Ulysses…

Rave hero Stu Allan unleashes his brand new secret weapon “Far Away”. Teaming up with vocalist Phil Allen who also appeared on his massive anthem "A Feeling", Stu drops another full vocal hardcore bomb sure to fire up dance floors and get hands in the air!

2005 & 2006 have seen rave legend Stu Allan take his rightful place back on top of the scene. Having mixed some of the biggest hardcore albums around, had his biggest record “A Feeling” signed to Apollo / Universal, the biggest label in the UK as well as releasing numerous huge club anthems on…