Soundblab can't help but feel a little bit guilty when we greet Dum Dum head Girl Dee Dee in the bar area of Manchester 's Sound Control. The poor lass is stuffing down a salad as fast as she ...

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If you've got your ear to the queer/feminist DIY punk underground, chances are you'll be well up on MEN. If not, well - do you like super funky, dance floor conquering pop influenced by dub, r...

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Celebrated guitarist, songwriter and producer Richard Warren finally emerges from the shadows of Echoboy to deliver his emotionally raw debut solo album, Laments. After spending five years touring the...

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Glamorous young singer/songwriter and guitarist Gemma Ray has created a wonderfully inventive and diverse covers album, entitled It's a Shame About Gemma Ray, as the follow up to her award winning...

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Garage pop darlings and full-time glamourpusses Dum Dum Girls are following up the release of their fuzzy, warm-hearted debut I Will Be on Sub Pop with a European tour, including UK dates in London, S...

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Paul Heaton has had a long and meandering musical career. Initially finding fame in the 80s with indie socialists The Housemartins, he went on to become one of the most successful songwriters of the 9...

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Mark Everett has had a busy year. In 2005, his band Eels released Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, a sprawling and intensely personal double album widely considered his masterpiece. But then: no...

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I caught up with James Smith after Hadouken!'s set in the Sunday Best arena for a quick jabber about Huey Lewis, beats and priapic mice... Hadouken! were incredible today, you definitely laid wast...

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Trash Kit are a London-based trio of face-painted rhythm bandits who make thrillingly asymmetric, no wave-style bursts of noise incorporating everything from Afobeat to Filipino rhythms. In amongst al...

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Daniel Martin-McCormick has an air of authenticity about him. Exuding an intense and slightly frazzled vibe which belies his unspoiled, youthful looks, it's easy to imagine him as a righteously an...

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Richard Hawley is one of the UK's leading singer/songwriter/producers working today. A passionate fan of rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, country and all manner of 'roots' m...

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Gregg Davies aka electro act Savier recently took time out from his busy schedule to chat about new E.P Serenade My Enemy exclusively to Soundblab. What is the main message behind Serenade My Enemy? ...

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I stumbled on the music of William Fewer-Reed, aka Blue Crystal Fire, by accident while searching on MySpace for another band with a similar name. So entranced was I by the collection of disorientatin...

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Take the intelligent dance music of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, add some tinny 8-bit madness and a big dollop of the inventively structured sounds coming from the more experimental end of the dubstep...

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By Richard Morris The first time you hear It's a Heatwave, the debut album by Manchester's Hotpants Romance, it sounds like bludgeoning, shrill noise made on the cheap by madwomen in a hurry. ...

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These New Puritans' George Barnett talks to Richard Morris Soundblab catches up with George Barnett, These New Puritans' drummer, just after their explosive gig at The Leadmill in Sheffield on...

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Richard Morris catches up with kind-of-indie, kind-of-dance London band Is Tropical to talk about squat parties, being approached by Russian oligarchs and the hotness of Justin Bieber. Is Topical are ...

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Leeds-based five piece This Many Boyfriends' charming brand of winning indie-pop is gaining fans throughout the country. After a difficult conception ("We've had more line-up changes than...

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Whole Lotta Love If you haven't already heard the name Maika Makovski being whispered your way, you soon will. When she was just 12-years-old, Maika was already writing songs and at 15 gained majo...

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Industrial Renaissance: Soundblab interviews Excepter Excepter are a six-strong experimental noise group from Brooklyn. Renowned for their long improvised live performances and for the hundreds of hou...

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Down in the west-country town of Cheltenham, there's an experimental folk/acoustic talent brewing going by the name of Andrew Villanelle. His innovative style is leaked through the likes of his gu...

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It's a clear-skied, surprisingly warm Saturday afternoon in February and Soundblab has elected to spend it in the scruffy but homely environs of Leeds' renowned Brudenell Social. While a gang of kids...

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The Ruby Suns formed in 2004 when Californian Ryan McPhun relocated to Auckland, New Zealand. They've released two albums of dreamy, experimental synth pop, 2005's eponymous debut and Sea Lion in 2008...

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Egyptian Hip Hop: four lads, still in their teens, from Manchester who, since late last year, have managed to gain a remarkably strong toehold in the mainstream media, with several mentions in NME...

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Wetdog are one of those of bands who can single-handedly restore one's faith in modern music. Why? Because they're an all-girl band with a sound that's a bit no wave, a bit riot grrrl and a whole ...

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