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My Disco are a screechy minimalist trio from inner-city Melbourne. As was once the wont of screechy minimalist trios worldwide, they recently forsook the loving bosom of their homeland in favor of working with the king of screechy minimalist trios...

Photos by Harley Weir Styling by Aldene Johnson

Bands tend to treat the "Influences" column on their MySpace page like their own personal peacock parade. A chance to puff their chest, display their plumage, and concoct the most eclectic, obscure and populist list possible. Most of the time it's just...

If you've entered 2008 feeling somewhat underwelmed by the crop of new bands on the cards, you may at least find some solace in the fact that you're definitely not alone. While the past few years have hardly thrown up a succession of life-changing...

Sian Alice Group are a cute gang of friends from all over Britain who naturally gravitated to London because it's a safe haven for weirdos. Mentored by Jason Pierce of Spiritualized and including Jesus and Mary Chain

There’s rarely anything positive to say about the Daily Mail or the Mail on Sunday, but it wasn’t the toughest decision in the world to buy a copy of the paper the other weekend when it offered a free copy of Jean Michel Jarre’s <i...

LUPE FIASCO The Cool After he messed up Tribe's lyrics at the Hip-Hop Honors, Lupe pretended that he was never a fan of Tip and Phife, but rather had spent his whole life bumping Spice 1

I'm in love with Baltimore. A little weird as I've never actually been there. To me, it's an exotic wasteland of derelict warehouses strewn with the victims of Edgar Allan Poe tales, fringed by those highrise projects you see in The Wire, while...

25 POEMS, 3 RECIPES AND 32 OTHER SUGGESTIONS (AN INVENTORY) You could be forgiven for feeling a little let down with London’s current crop of DIY punk activity. Alternative comedy, however, although roughly the same age as punk