Muso’s Guide’s Upcoming Festival Live-Blogs – With Vodafone VIP

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that, together with Vodafone VIP, we’re going to be bringing you a shedload of exciting stuff throughout festival season this summer. And not just as regular old Muso’s Guide, but as Vodafone’s official music blogger.

There’ll be live blogs direct from 10 (TEN!) festivals including Latitude Festival, The Big Chill, T in the Park, Hard Rock Calling and GlobalGathering, and more than that too. We’re going on the road with a camera crew, which means we’ll have the chance to quiz a shedload of artists playing both the bigger and the smaller stages at these festivals and more. Exciting. … Continue Reading

Showtime @ Cargo – with Wiley, Glamma Kid

We here at Muso’s Guide are currently SCREAMING with anticipation for Showtime at Cargo, as presented by The Heatwave. It’s going to be insane. And we thought we’d try paraphrasing, but instead we’ll just tell you what they about the probable show of the year – heck, it saves a page-worth of “OMGs”, does it not? GO! … Continue Reading

Live at Leeds 2011: Muso’s Guide’s Recommendations

I love Leeds (it’s where I live and everything). One of the main reasons that I love Leeds is because it plays host to what is undoubtedly one of the healthiest and most vibrant live music scenes of any city in the country. Since Live At Leeds came into existence in 2007 (a day long event mimicking the format of events like Dot to Dot and Camden Crawl), it’s been steadily growing into its skin with more impressive line ups each year. I’ve been looking at the schedule for this year’s excellent roster of artists, and I’ve been excitedly planning my jagged trips from venue to venue (a plan which will inevitably turn into hanging out in the Brudenell all afternoon, getting quietly drunk). And so, after some thoughtful pondering, here are Muso’s Guide’s five warmest recommendations for Live at Leeds 2011:
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Muso’s Guide and Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes present: A Free Friday Night, 18th March 2011

We’re off out to spin records again! This Friday, 18th March, we’ll be at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes in London to play you a few of our favourite songs. And it’s free! … Continue Reading

Röyksopp And A Few Videos

Röyksopp are a Norwegian electronic music duo Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. They’re known for their experiementation with various genres pertaining to electronica, stylistically including House, Drum and Bass and Afro-American sounds. They’re also known for their eccentric dress sense. Formed in 1998, they have produced a plethora of albums, their latest Senior released in September last year. … Continue Reading

Come And Get Your LiTTLE FiX – Gig 7 Feb

Take two world class musicians, Bill and Rhianna who bumped into each other on stage a couple of years ago, add a couple of whiskey-fuelled, post-gig heart to hearts and what do you get? A mixture of warming lyrical soul and odd instruments from corners of the world that makes up Little Fix. … Continue Reading

Gang Of Four – Interview

Since their inception in 1978, Gang Of Four have been widely hailed as one of the leading bands for the post-punk movement. Known for their lyrical emphasis on political and social ills in society and influencing some of the largest names in the past decade such as R.E.M, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Nirvana, this English post-punk rock band are now back with their new album Content. This album, their first for sixteen years, sees founding members Jon King and Andy Gill continue to deliver more of their stripped down mix of punk rock, whose intelligence is as liberating as it is provocative and thrilling. Here singer Jon here tells us a little more.  … Continue Reading

Muso’s Guide Presents: New Year’s Eve Pop Party!

Muso’s Guide is throwing its second ever NYE Pop Party! Come and join us at The Abbey Tavern in Kentish Town for wall to wall hit and pop gems! It’s 9pm to 4am, and once again, it’s free entry.

Expect to hear Destiny’s Child, Buzzcocks, Hot Chip, Pulp, Christina Aguilera, Bjork, Pet Shop Boys, Jay-Z, M83, Talking Heads, Girls Aloud, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Hercules & Love Affair, Aaliyah, Katy Perry, Robyn, Everything Everything, Annie, Jackson 5, Daft Punk, Janelle Monae, Phoenix, Kanye West, Lady GaGa, Cut Copy, Eve, LCD Soundsystem, Kelis, Yeasayer, The Supremes and more.

The hits, all of them – non-stop pop. Come down and dance with us!

Red Bull BPM app to launch with Drop The Lime, Riton and Sinden

The new and spangly Red Bull BPM app is launching, on Wednesday 1 December at the equally sparkly-bright East Village in Shoreditch, London. To get tickets, all you have to do is enter your details on Red Bull’s site – and keep your fingers crossed your names will be pulled out of the hat. … Continue Reading

Download The Horn Hunt – Raptor (Aztec Remix) for free

The Horn Hunt

Leeds-based duo The Horn Hunt are gearing up to release their second full length album, Depressur Jolie, in February on White Label Music, but before that we’ve got a taster for you – you can download the Axtec remix of the album’s lead single ‘Raptor’ for free right now. … Continue Reading