Coming to you from Huddersfield via Berlin, Aaron Thomason’s sound hints that beats and folk might be nifty bedmates after all.

“We should take the road less travelled,” declared The Cribs on their 2004 debut. Why don't bands ever stick to their guns?

Candie Payne may be a talented lady but what’s perhaps more shocking is that she’s a normal person too.  

The huge success of Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not, meant that the follow up was always going to be received with baited breath.  

As you may have guessed from the album title, The Bees have a touch of the surreal about them. 

Intended to coincide with Spike Lee’s 50th birthday, this nine-disc set contains nine of the director’s works spanning two decades. 

Andrew Bird is from Chicago and can play guitar, violin, sing, whistle and fix the garden shed all at the same time.