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Alexandra Burke is “on cloud nine” after landing a £3 million US record deal. The 20-year-old singer - who shot to fame after winning British tv talent show ‘The X Factor’ last December - gushed about the five-album deal with Epic Records on her blog.

Basement Jaxx, The Streets and Dizzee Rascal are performing at this year’s Wireless festival. The organisers of the music event confirmed the trio will take to the stage in London’s Hyde Park on July 4.

Global Gathering today reveals the magnetic headliners set to make waves at this summer’s festival. Set to cause a commotion this year will be time lords of techno Orbital, electronic heavy weights The Prodigy and bullish beat maestros Pendulum.After selling out Brixton Academy in hours and with a second well on its way, Orbital have also con…

The second release from Ruarri Joseph’s album, Both Sides Of The Coin is the lovely Hope For Grey Trousers which I just can’t seem to get enough of at the moment! - Not grey trousers obviously, I’m more of a dress person.The single tells the story of some poor unfortunate bloke who seems to be having the worst day / month / year of his life as the …

It’s very rare these days to stumble across a musician who can perform song after song beautifully and without over-reliance on a backing band or studio editing… finally we have found someone who can give us everything we could want, in the form of Alela Diane.Alela is the folk musician to check out at the moment; using each of her son…

Franz Ferdinand have announced details of the release of a new single, No You Girls, through Domino on April 6th 2009.
Taken from their recent album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the single will also feature remixes from the legendary Vince Clarke, Noze and John Disco.The single was produced by Dan Carey and the band as part of the album sessions whi…

It is with great sadness that we announce that Gang Gang Dance’s imminent European tour has been cancelled. An electrical fire started in the backstage area at Amsterdam’s Paradiso club, where all of the band’s equipment was stored after a show there. Unfortunately that show was the first of their European tour. With most of their equipment and sof…

Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear return May 25th with a new album Veckatimest (pronounced veck-ah-tim-est) , the follow up to the 2006’s critically adored ‘Yellow House’.Featuring contributions from Beach House’s Victoria Legrand and classical composer Nico Muhly, the album is named after a beautiful uninhabited island off the coast of Massachusetts. Veckat…

London four-piece Animal Kingdom are set to launch their imminent tour with a nice treat for fans. Their debut single ‘Chalk Stars’, in a limited edition of 500, will be available only for fans at the shows. Each single is an original. The 500 sleeves together make up one single image drawn by artist Thomas Hicks.Hicks constructed …

Jasmine and I sat next to each other at the Adam show and while we were waiting for the show to start, we were brainstorming on what to blog about??! Soooo, I saw my friend Kate Lanphear, Style Director at Elle magazine sitting in front of us and couldn’t help but dig on her outfit! To check it out and let me know what you think, click “read more.”