You know how we love our random Scandinavian pop music. Well tomorrow night the particularly barking As In RebekkaMaria hits us up for one of her first UK shows. Formerly the singer in Danish-Swedish band Lampshade, she's since released her solo album 'Queen of France' on the continent. Spoken about in the same breathe as the likes of Robyn and Lykke Li, she's had amazing reviews for her quicky electronica back home and we're......

Good new girl groups are far and few between. While we may have loved Sugababes back in the day and Girls Aloud are still owners of our heart, for everyone of them there's also been a Clea, a Mania and a Frank. Now, more than ever since the time of Spice Power, new girl groups are trying to make it, with Red Blooded Women being one name in a long list. Put together by......

There aren't many concept albums about the lives of rad 80s car designers. And there are even less that are the brainchild of a Welsh psychedelic bard and an American avant-garde hip-hop twiddler, and feature a podgy sex-obsessive on guest vocals. Which is one way of saying that Neon Neon's gleaming 'Stainless Style' is a pretty unlikely record. "It's a biographical show," explains a well-groomed Gruff Rhys, usually of Super Furry Animals. Tonight each......

If you've happily bounced around to Super Furry Animals hits over the last 15 years, you were probably a bit wowed by the sleek production of Neon Neon, a joint project between Gruff Rhys and eclectic bleepster Boom Bip. They'll be popping up at Wireless on Saturday, but if you fancy catching them do a full live gig, they'll do one of their first UK performances at Cargo on Sunday complete with guest stars Har......

Love your Scandanavian synth pop as much as we do? Well get ready to squeal because Annie is back in town. If you were a fan of her 2005 album 'Anniemal', we're guessing you are probably a blogger, a Norweigan or a serious music head, because bugger all people bought it. Those of us who did have been waiting with baited breathe ever since and now she's back with new Xenomania / Richard X......

Whilst celebrated anniversaries generally include the first, tenth, twenty-fifth and so on, we'll afford a dodecadecimal exception to Raster-Noton. The German label has never been much for conformity, so why should they start now? Occupying a space between experimental electronic music and the dancefloor, the label's artists succeed at being simultaneously both but neither. We've never had the good fortune of hearing any club DJ drop one of their tracks into a set and......

Tonight marks the end of Wednesday's most famous club night - Nag Nag Nag. Borne out of the electroclash wave in the early naughties, Jonny Slut, Fil OK and JoJo De Freq have been packing the underground lair of Ghetto with many a fashionable wreck every week since. At it's peak everyone wanted in from Bjork to Justin Timberlake, Bono to Christina Aguilera but it was the crowd of metro sexual DIY rule breakers......

Sure, you’re hungover, quite possibly bloated, and probably rather haggard, but the fun of the Bank Holiday weekend doesn’t have to stop there! We’ve got a great line-up of activities all week long to fuel you through your blissfully short four-day workweek. Monday: Forecast says rain on Bank Holiday Monday, so why not sleep in (as though that bears suggestion), laze around all day, and save your energy for the evening? Head to the......

If you happened to miss both the Camden Crawl as well as the Stag and Dagger, all hope is not yet lost for you catching an urban festival this season. This weekend the Dot To Dot festival runs through Bristol and Nottingham, but organisers are starting the party early in Hoxton on Thursday with the cutely-named mini-event Hox To Dot. Hopefully you were smart enough to have already requested Friday off work, but if......

Ether 2008 is well under way, and last night Radio Soulwax Presents… made sure to kick it up a notch. For the UK premiere of the tour film Part of the Weekend Never Dies, Belgian electro band Soulwax had taken over the Royal Festival Hall, and as well as showing the film in the auditorium (twice), guest DJs such as UK DJ Riton played sets throughout the night. The film paints a picture of......