Polly Scattergood: Polly Scattergood
Features
You'll know within seven minutes whether you've got the stomach for Polly Scattergood, a youthful Brit School graduate with the name and appearance of a consumptive Dickensian match-girl.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009
Shontelle: Shontelligence
Features
Shontelle Layne has inevitably drawn lazy comparisons with fellow Bajan R&B export Rihanna, but her debut reveals her to be a rather different proposition.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Features
The only good news is that Blood on the Sand is a better than the first 50 Cent game. But bettering one of the worst games of all time is hardly an achievement, and fans needn't get excited.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009
Howling Bells: Radio Wars
Features
Howling Bells raised some eyebrows with their debut album's antipodean take on melodramatic gothic guitar pop.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
Features
It's been a vintage year for Australian dance, with offerings from Muscles, the Presets and Midnight Juggernauts all conspiring to suggest a third summer of love is brewing Down Under.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 23, 2008
One Little Plane: Until
Features
Her moniker comes from a 40s Disney cartoon, and with her cutesy, dreamy voice and a flurry of tambourines, bells and xylophones you could be forgiven for thinking a five-year-old had raided the school music box.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 23, 2008
Pop preview: Pete Doherty, London
Features
When a man is tired of London, he is apparently tired of life. Pete Doherty is a man proving that quite the opposite is true. After several years of helping the police with their enquiries and intermittently making music in the capital, he has lately made a decision less informed by rock'n'roll, more, seemingly, by Phil'n'Kirstie: he has downsized to enjoy a new pace of life in the country.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 23, 2008
