For her follow-up to Jewellery Mica Levi has got back together with The Shapes and created a record entitled Chopped and Screwed…. Self-described as “classical crunk” the trio collaborated with London Sinfonietta – one of the world’s leading contemporary orchestras no less – to create this concept album.
The concept behind the album was

Between Fallon, O’Brien and Letterman US talk shows are channeling indie, alt-pop and all round quality live performances to the masses.
Letterman already had Best Coast on his show earlier this week but the The National also returned bringing their darkly romantic gothic-Americana sound with them in the form of ‘Conversation 16′.…

In an interview with EyeWeekly.com French director Vincent Moon discusses the influence of his Take Away Shows (La Blogoteque), his waning interest in Western music, artistic provocation, film-making and what he really thinks of Arcade Fire.
“They’re not good people, that’s it. And I don’t mean the whole band—I mean the leaders of the band…

Rihanna has a message to all the tabloid paparazzi and Perez Hiltons out there, it seems she wants to be left alone.
So her latest garish video ‘S&M’ comes with an over-18 verification on youtube, whips, chains, banana swallowing, ball-gags and Perez pissing on a pink fire hydrant as she sings “Sticks and stones may…

It only happened a few hours ago but thanks to Audioperv we can bring you Best Coast performing ‘Each and Every Day’ live on Letterman – there are some old school indie / Nirvana vibes going on.
Tubridy just doesn’t get the sames acts does he?…

In the run up to the release of his fifth, and reportedly final, album from The Streets Mike Skinner has released a free-to-download mixtape entitled Cyberspace & Reds… featuring Wretch 32, Scru Fizzer, Loudmouth Melvin, and Kano just to name a few.
As usual Skinner covers the ins and outs of everyday life, good telly,

State Intervention #8, our first of 2011, happens today.
Find out more on Twitter and Facebook. See you later.…

Next week Cut Copy release their third studio album entitled Zonoscope…. The follow up to In Ghost Colours will be released on Modular Records, the band have already released two singles ‘Where I’m Going’ and ‘Take Me Over’ and now for the price of a tweet you can stream the entire record, see cutcopy.heroku.com.

Interpol have just released live footage of ‘Success’, ‘Barricade’ and ‘Stella Was a Driver and She Was Always Down’ recorded when they played Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Each clip is introduced by Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen.
“There’s nothing more I love than music video, and there’s nothing more I love than Interpol,” he…

Number 1 in BBC’s Sounds of 2011 poll Jessie J has announced her debut Irish show in Dublin’s Academy on Thursday April 7th.
Tickets for the ‘Do It Like A Dude’ singer go on sale this Friday, February 4th at 9am priced at €14.50 from Ticketmaster and usual outlets – MCD.ie will have a presale…

Number 1 in BBC’s Sounds of 2011 poll Jessie J has announced her debut Irish show in Dublin’s Academy on Thursday April 7th.
Tickets for the ‘Do It Like A Dude’ singer go on sale this Friday, February 4th at 9am priced at €14.50 from Ticketmaster and usual outlets – MCD.ie will have a presale…

John Barry, the English film score composer best known for his Bond music has died aged 77. Barry scored 11 soundtracks for the Bond franchise as well as scores for Born Free, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves… – he worked on over 70 feature films in total.
His career spanned from from

In an interview with Spin.com, Pavement‘s Bob Nastanovich has ruled out the chances of the band recording any new material stating that chief-songwriter Stephen Malkmus is not interested – Nastanovich says “… it’s sort of disappointing that it doesn’t seem like a realistic possibility that any new music would be made. At this point, Stephen…

Minimal techno and electronic maestro Ricardo Villalobos returns to Dublin on Friday, March 11th – this time to the more intimate setting of The Academy having lifted the roof of The Olympia last April.
Tickets cost €25.50 on Tickets.ie, doors at 11pm.…