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Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis are the multi-talented Scottish duo known as The Cast, whose inventive use of vocal and instrumental harmonies brings a fresh approach to the most venerable traditional material.Their classic performance of Robert Burns' beautiful song Auld Lang Syne is the one promin...

Some Cities is a turbo charged, sonorous assault; at points crunching and urban, sounding like a midnight high-speed joy ride through the industrial beating heart of their hometown city Manchester. The album, Some Cities could only ever have been born in the North of England and is the sound of a fu...

The La's pricked up the ears of Pop fans at the start of the 90's with their retro sound meshing mid-60's British bands and 80's Postpunk. Their greatest success was realized with the hit single 'There She Goes', which garnered critical and fan raves. Here is their 12 song, Steve Lillywhite produce...

Product Description : Double CD plus bonus DVD in a gatefold digipack and slipcase, plus 32 page booklet Bonus DVD content: Lock The Box Interview- 35 minutes 4 minute trailer for documentary Two Live Tracks: "Champagne Supernova" Live at Knebworth 1996 "Fade Away" Live at the Metro in Chicago 1...

The name of Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris' solo project, The Other Two, is a joke about their status as the least acknowledged members of New Order. But the duo's Reprise/Qwest debut, The Other Two and You, is evidence that without Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner, the best they can produce is fla...

1996 compilation on Virgin featuring 18 of the best from thefirst two albums (1989's 'Cloudcuckooland' & 1992's 'Sense')by the English indie power pop band led by ex-Big In Japan guitarist Ian Broudie. Includes 'The Life Of Riley', 'Pure','Sense', 'Blowing Bubbles' and 'Sweet Dreams'....

The bad news: Alone with Everybody, the first solo venture by the Verve's ex-lead singer Richard Ashcroft, is not as good as the Verve's pinnacle departure album, Urban Hymns. The good news: it's really, really close. Urban Hymns's elongated, psychedelic space jams and reflective, occasionally plain...

Call it the great transitional album, spanning the gap between Pulp's self-consciously arty past and the commercial acceptance of 'Different Class.' 'His 'N' Hers' wasn't quite sure what it wanted to be, but spawned some good songs, most notably "Do You Remember the First Time?" Finally, it seemed, ...

It's What We've all Been Waiting For; Jarvis Cocker is Back. Jarvis' First Solo Album Follows on from his Controversial Online Only Single 'running the World', which was First Unleashed on the Public Via Myspace.com/Jarvspace To Coincide with the First Anniversary of Live-8....

You'd have to stretch back to 1967 to London's psychedelic underground (a time and a place that Blur is admittedly fond of) to find a band that revels as much in its Britishness. And on its third album, Blur takes 30 years of cool English rock, throws it into an art-punk Cuisinart, and ends up wi...