Adam Steiner

Ahead of the release of her debut album the spoken-word chanteuse reveals all about its composition, and how it's forming the base of a novel to be released next year...

From Gainsbourg to Air, our Gallic pals have a rich musical heritage. Here's a handful of current bands and artists you might not know...

With an enviable setting just outside Paris and line-up boasting some of the best rock and roll bands on the planet, could this festival justify its status as a calender mainstay?

The boy from Chicago's latest album is a dark affair, and marks a new phase in his career from which there may be no return to the pop-happy days of old...

As a sexual icon, Taylor walked a fine line between a body gorged on strong features and the potential to easily become bloated by pregnancy or the slightest weight gain but it was this straddling of the divide that made her so unique and enduring a figure

Much has been expected of the debut from the Brum boys, but they have done little to justify the hype...

With David Bowie's new album released today, we take a look at the belief that he recorded some of the greatest post-krautrock music in history behind the Berlin wall...

Over a decade since their first album, Karen O have emerged as the enduring heroes of the last great music scene...

The Canadian has been taken to the heart of the music press, but there's still a jury out on whether he's a true original...

The second round of auditions for a new reality show, Sent To Coventry, is now underway, and a pilot is expected in the coming months. What effect will it have on a city still showing the scars of World War II?

The Canadian electro-noiseniks are just about to release their third album, here's a guide to what's gone before.

Natasha Khan returns with her third album, and in it proves she is everything Rihanna, Minaj and Swift are not...

The Leeds boys' debut was produced by Ryan Jarman of The Cribs, and in the time-honoured style of the lo-fi legends they've come out with a collection of raucous punk tunes...

With three biopics in the pipeline, interest in the late singer-songwriter has never been greater, but it is impossible to see them truly eliciting the ethereal power of the nearly-legend....

Bellamy and his boys are back with a new record that has attracted controversy for its appropriation of dubstep; have the band finally given up their position as left-leaning megastars...?

The Brooklyn art-rockers return with their follow-up to the hugely popular Veckatimest, and they have succeeded in splicing a melange of genre's into an accessible collection of retro jams...

The Mercury-prize winners scored a smash with their eponymous debut album; is their follow-up an extension of the measured atmospherics of that first record?

Rock we Seine happens on the outskirts of Paris and is chock full of top names, but how does it shape up to it's English cousins?

They've been away a while and hope is of a return to form after their disappointing last album; but have Kele and the boys delivered?