Sold out The birthday event at the Southbank Centre will come from three of the venue's performance spaces. Marling and Lianne La Havas will perform sets in the Purcell Room, while Calvi, Gruff Rhys, Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny will...

Sam Genders’ superb, synthy sideline and dug out a cxhest of hidden treasures from the glory days of R’n'B… When? You’re tempted into synth Why? This is machine-made pop of the human kind If you’ve ever caught yourself smiling along to the pared-down...

It's an interesting one Turnstile, because it gives its bands and artist their own label. So Girls release through Phantasy Trashcan, Gruff Rhys through Ovni, Los Campesinos! Based in Cardiff, I spoke to Kev Tame from Tursntile to find out more about...

“We didn’t really look any further than just getting our album out there, so to have been able to travel the world playing it is mad,” he smiles, Y Niwl having toured with Super Furry Animal main man-turned-solo artist Gruff Rhys – both as his support...

Although Le Bon got her break collaborating with Super Furry Animals leader Gruff Rhys on his ‘80s coated side-project Neon Neon (who, incidentally, released a concept album on the maker of the Delorean), Le Bon’s own music is free of any such...

So after all that, my friend was probably right. The sod… And these cracks between definitions are where the seeds of Diagrams (the product of former Tuung frontman Sam Genders) grow from. Essentially, sounds like Tom Vek giving Sufjan Stevens a...