Clare Lydon

Livvi Frank – Automatik I loved Livvi Frank’s last effort Now I’m That Bitch – her personality was a gust of fresh air in anane breeze of RnB guff. This is her next single and we still reckon she’s flying the flag for slick, R&B pop the like of which Britney would go offroad for [...]

Putting together three or four minutes of musical perfection is no mean feat, but 2008 has thrown up some sparkling gems from the pop rubble. Here’s our pick of the singles of the year, headed up by a trans-atlantic love story and a spot of memory loss…

Over the last few years, Damon Albarn has dabbled in world music, composed an opera, reunited Blur and conjured up this, the third Gorillaz album, so we imagine that he must have afforded himself a wry smile when Robbie Williams collected his Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s Brits. Has Robbie really done more for [...]

Two Door Cinema Club produce delicate indie rock that’s a little bit woooh, a little bit waaay. As guitars twang and keyboards plink (for that’s what keyboards do), crowds chant lovingly in the background and happiness soars. That they’re signed to a French label just adds to their certain mystique, which says something when you [...]

The first Singles Club of 2010 has five rampant slices of next-decade style pop that borrow liberally from the last century. Time-travelling pop you might say…

This week’s Singles Club features women smearing and dancing, pregnant men and one imitating Brian Harvey. Has pop finally gone mad? Some might say….

This week’s Single Club features artists who in their 20s, 30s and 40s – Frankie’s Holly Johnson turns 50 next February, so we just missed out on featuring another decade. Next time. Time to gargle this bunch of new videos and see if they make you belch with pleasure or pain…

The knowing irony of Robbie’s new album title has been somewhat deadened by his recent comeback performance on the X Factor – even if he might claim he was being postmodern, wink to camera. Whatever, three years on from the generally panned Rudebox, the question isn’t is Robbie’s new album any good but rather, is [...]

This week’s Singles Club is not covering Cheryl Cole’s new video because… Well, because we just reviewed her album and frankly she’s getting enough coverage in the greater world isn’t she? So we thought bugger it. Just so we’re clear. What we are featuring though is the likes of Alphabeat, Addictive, Imogen Heap, Foo Fighters, [...]

There’s been a flurry of hype around Miike Snow and their eponymously titled debut album – as the band themselves admit it’s something they never expected when they got together to “mess around”. But they’ve got form – of the trio behind the sounds, singer Andrew Wyatt has just finished Daniel Merriweather’s new album and [...]