Floats, dancers, steel drums and dozens of sound systems shaking the ground and perforating eardrums with everything from soca, dub, hip-hop, reggae, jazz, house and calypso – it's time for...
Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Piccadilly Records, Rough Trade, Spotify...
As Britain cack-handedly extricates itself from 40 years of mutual entanglement with Europe, I find myself doing a ‘Brentrance’ - if that’s the opposite of Brexit - having moved (sort...
After keeping us waiting for a decade, Coldcut are now unleashing tunes, videos, memes and games on a practically weekly basis. This weeks, ping in my inbox is 'Robbery', another...
Each year thousands of new acts throw their hats Soundcloud links into the Pyramid shaped ring that is the venerable Glasto Fest's talent competition. We've now reached the longlist stage...
The idea of setting in stone 200 tracks as the undisputed greatest works of music in a given year is slightly daft (especially in February the following year). What is...
The penultimate part of the top 200 countdown brings numbers 26-50 and every single one of these tracks could and arguably should have featured higher up the chart. PLAYLISTS Listen to...
Have you listened to 100-200 yet..? You have, excellent...
Time for numbers 101-150 in the 12th edition of the Music Like Dirt Top 200 tracks of the year. PLAYLISTS Listen to the top 200 at your own leisure with playlists on...
A dozen years in and the Music Like Dirt end of year 'best of' gets later and later but hopefully the music remains ever fabulous. Here's part one (numbers 151-200)...
New band or artist? Fancy playing one of Glastonbury’s main stages? Glasto’s emerging talent competition is back with an amazing opportunity to WIN A SLOT ON ONE OF THE BIG STAGES AT...
Hold the mince pies and pause the Strictly Christmas special, there's still time for a sack full of entirely non-seasonal ditties to fortify you...
After a punk induced sabbatical the monthly round-up of the finest new music is back with - as ever - some gems. Swedish alt-pop trio Wildhart deliver the catchiest put...
"It’s a match made in dancefloor heaven: Swedish house maestro Mr. Tophat and pop phenom Robyn have come together for 'Trust Me,' a three-tracker of dark disco and luscious grooves...
They promised 'Only Heaven' was the first of new "material of various types" to come and true to their word Coldcut have announced an EP of the same name. ...
