Contributed by Bruce Rave The Noisettes caught lots of ears with the pretty “Never Forget You” from their second album. Lots of peeps didn’t realize that this UK band was seriously raw and bluesy on their fine freshman outing. They updated that disc’s “Sister Rosetta” for this year’s Twilight soundtrack. It’s the Noisettes the way I [...]

Remixed and re-recorded from the original version which is on the band’s fourth studio album ‘The Antiquated & The Arcane’, Cornish gypsy-folk band 3 Daft Monkeys release new single ‘Days of the Dance’ on 13 November. The new single has been mixed by Jim Lowe (Stereophonics, The Noisettes, Amy...

Remixed and re-recorded from the original version which is on the band’s fourth studio album ‘The Antiquated & The Arcane’, Cornish gypsy-folk band 3 Daft Monkeys release new single ‘Days of the Dance’ on 13 November. The new single has been mixed by Jim Lowe (Stereophonics, The Noisettes,...

Houston’s The Tontons released an enchantingly short five-song EP, “Golden”, today. It’s an oddly eclectic blend of torch-songs, sonic blues, soulful indie rock, and even one track, “Charlie”, that sounds more like Tin Pan Alley. The band moves fluidly between song styles that would fit on records by Morcheeba (“Big Calm”, 1998), The Noisettes (circa [...]

*Katie Melua* in a leather corset channelling Janis Joplin? *Ricky 'Kaiser Chief' Wilson* and *David 'James Bond themes' Arnold* dressed as sailors playing ukuleles? Number one hit maker *Example* doing a rare acoustic set? Chart-busters *The Noisettes* playing live on the bar? *Matt Cardle*’s...

Blandt andre Bruno Mars, Noisettes og Iron And Wine leverer musik til vampyrhistorien

The Twilight series has thus far featured many beautiful things… supernatural creatures, Robert Pattinson and three incredible soundtracks. Today, part one (yep there’s two parts!) of the soundtrack for the fourth installment of the series was announced with Angus and Julia Stone contributing track no.2, alongside artists like The Noisettes, Cider Sky, Bruno Mars, Theophilus [...]

The tracklist to "The Twiight Saga: Dawn">Breaking Dawn - Part 1" has finally been unveiled, and there are a few surprises. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/immaculate-noise

Brainchild of producer *Guy Chambers *and Shoreditch club impresario *Ross Clarke*, *The Orgasmatron * has been running for just over a year now and has so far featured *Beverley Knight, William Orbit, Goldie, **Katie Melua, Kirsty Almeida, The Noisettes, Example *and most recently at the July...

Bang Bang , la mixtape de l’été #5 - Cover Me  - Mixtape Dernier volet pour la mixtape de l’été en association avec le programme  Bang Bang de Pure FM . Pour cette conclusion, retrouvez une collection de covers coup-de-cœur. A écouter et à télécharger. Enjoy! Last part of our series of mixtapes in association with the radio show Bang Bang  on Pure FM . For this last edition, we gathered a collection of covers coup-de-cœur. Stream, download, enjoy! MP3 - Bang Bang, la mixtape de l’été #5 - Cover Me Tracklist :: Atoi: Army of Me (Björk cover) :: Bonjay: Camelia (Caribou cover) :: Robyn: Every ...

View a photo gallery capturing some of the acts who performed at the 2011 V Festival including Ellie Goulding, The Wombats, Ocean Colour Scene, The Noisettes and N-Dubz (whose Tulisa made her debut as an X Factor judge at the weekend). Photos by Gobinder Jhitta

WHAT: V Festival WHEN: August 20-21 WHERE: Chelmsford and Staffordshire, England WHO: Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, Dizzee Rascal, Rihanna, Katy B, Wiz Khalifa, Chromeo, Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, Ellie Goulding, the Noisettes, Aloe Blacc, Ronson">Mark Ronson & the Business Intl, Glasvegas, Stornoway, Winston">Alex Winston, Wolf Gang, Eminem WHAT: Strøm Festival WHEN: August 15-20 WHERE: Copenhagen, Denmark WHO: Aphex Twin, the Orb, Girl Unit & MC GQ, Ben Westbeech, Lone, Egyptrixx, Jatoma, Brandt Brauer Frick, Guido WHAT: Krake Festival WHEN: August 15-21 WHERE: Berlin, Germany  WHO: The Field, Oval, Emika, Three Trapped Tigers, Legowelt, Jimmy Edgar, Mika Vainio WHAT: Helsing ...

A lot of people will recognise the collective members of Aloosh. The core duo, Jodie Scantlebury and Alastair McNeil, have both paid their dues over the years and built up a respectable pair of CVs. While the former has lent her vocals to the likes of the Noisettes, Cee-Lo Green and Kele Okereke; Alastair, under his production name Yila, has worked on the Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip LP Angles, and recently finished producing the latter’s solo debut. Having met while supporting Roisin Murphy they formed Aloosh and below we have the premiere of the new video for ...

You can try any number of tricks but even the best songwriters don't know how they do it, as a new BBC2 show proves How do you write a hit song? Through the decades, many books have been written on the subject – usually by people who aren't songwriters themselves – using analyses of previous hits to come up with solutions. Music industry publication Billboard recently revealed the stats of all the songs that had featured in the magazine's Hot 100 charts. Since the 50s, songs have become longer , from an average of 2.36 minutes to 4.26 ...

Items under the hammer include: personal DJ lesson from DJ Yoda, chance to have Goldierocks (BBC Radio 1) DJ at your house party, a studio session with Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, private cinema for you and 60 friends at Rich Mix, Noisettes frontwoman’s famous silver boots, tickets to Bestival and Camp Bestival, tickets to