This is a good album. It has engaging melodies, excellent production values, and no fillers. Why, then, is it so unexciting?

Twenty years since their demise, and The Smiths still ignite enough obsessive fandomania to warrant this: the story of Beaky, Mick and Titch... 

The enigmatic Rufus Wainwright put on a fantastical cabaret style show to remember at the Eden Project on Tuesday (10 July).

As a representative of the "rap intelligentsia" (his own words), Busdriver does a fair job of reminding us that hip hop is not dead.
 

Looking refreshingly nondescript in a plain t-shirt and kecks, and armed only with a mic, 25-year-old Darren Foreman showed the iTunes Festival crowd exactly why he’s the current UK beatboxing champion.

Perform at the Minack on a sunny day and you’ll have to fight for the audience’s attention, but then with pirates, gunpowder and a 8000 strong harem Prince of the Burning Sun looked like it could deliver the goods...

You might be aware that Glastonbury ‘happened’ recently. Back after a two-year hiatus, God once again decided to empty his bladder over Worthy Farm for the festival’s duration. 

So what do you get on the 'debut' album by the granddaddy of Scottish indie; the guy who should have found fame a decade ago?