A Dutch Uncle is apparently a person who bluntly and sternly lectures or scolds someone, often with benevolent intent. The band by the same name thankfully does not have a stern or a blunt sound, but instead some great melodic and sometimes pleasantly haunt...

So if you want to have a fast track rise to super success as a band, it helps to have a few of the following; at least one brilliantly catchy but credible song, a support slot for a massive band on a sell-out tour and for a large multinational company to us...

These days anyone between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one is an anomaly if they haven't been in a band, it's just something everyone must do, along with trying out bleached hair and smoking a joint. Most people attempt a few chords, try to bash something...

Every year the same old story so it seems - the whole world clamours to snap up the golden festival ticket, then the lucky few (hundred thousand...) wait with baited breath as the line up unravels. Much debate follows as to the merits of who is headlining a...

The final day of festivities - everyone has Blur on their minds, headlining the closing evening of Glastonbury is a huge moment for the band, having just reformed after years and years apart, and in some corners having been on far from pleasant terms with e...

Awaking to clear blue skies and mid twenties temperatures, a blissful mood filled the air - sometimes the weather man gets it wrong and this years predicted monsoon weekend seemed to evaporate before it had even started much to everyone's delight. Kicking o...

Well waking up to rain is not the ideal start to Friday's proceedings, but the festival has a wet, muddy reputation where the weather is concerned - so anyone who came sans waterproofs and wellies has no excuses, and should get no sympathy. Walking from the...

Psst... if you haven't heard of Passing Clouds then listen up - if you loved Favela Chic before the City boys took hold, and you've been known to frequent Dalston Jazz Bar before all of London worked out they made the best Mojitos in town, then you will fal...

Okay people, we all know in the case of the tortoise and the hare, the tortoise won in the end - this fable however cannot be applied to all life lessons, festival ticket buying for example. Word on the street is that the amount of Bestival 2009 tickets lef...

Jessie Rose sure knows how to put together an outfit, which on the whole would bomb stratospherically on anyone else  - yet with her severely angular bob, half blonde half red, huge fake eyelashes, wide eyes and doll like face she falls flatly in the g...

Saturday the 1st of August - have you got plans? No we don't have time to meet you for a pint sorry, we'll be at Victoria Park in London watching some bloody brilliant music thank you very much... Now of course we will be telling you all about it afterwards...

So apparently we form a snap judgment within three seconds of being introduced to someone - and a large majority of our opinion is based on appearance. One can only assume that with this in mind, Baddies decided to make things simple for all of us and don a...

Summer is upon us, we are all about the blossom floating on the breeze, picnics in the park and enjoying the heat, blue skies and ice-cream based treats - and by God we need an appropriate soundtrack. Dreamy-synthy-poptastic-zen-dance-lullabies, that give y...

They say the best things in life are free right? The amazing people at Pure Groove in Farringdon seem to want to test the theory by putting on live in-store gigs on a regular, almost daily basis, for absolutely zilch, 100% free, won't cost you a penny.. for...

Dougy, Jonny, Lorenzo and Toby together are The Temper Trap - having met in Melbourne, Dougy worked hard to persuade Toby to form a band, and despite initial hesitations on Toby's part - thankfully resistance was futile, and the guys have been going from st...

Normally Phamous would expect to be at least a few months ahead of the pack in telling you about new music's hottest rising stars but in this case we will hold our hands up and admit - we should have written sooner! Frank Musik aka Vince has been on the rad...

It might be sold as the UK's answer to Texas' South by South West, but unfortunately for us mere mortals over the pond, we are not known for being blessed with baking hot summers and so this year's festival suffered somewhat due to the weather. Constant rai...

Every once in a while, a band pops up that is nigh on impossible to define - try as you might, three hundred choice words would barely scrape the surface. Thankfully that is the beauty of Everything Everything, a four piece that sound like they would be equ...

There are so many festivals on offer every summer, and in these credit crunch times wouldn't it be nice to combine a killer live line up with a beach holiday? Well in that case step forward for Beachdown Festival, set in the South Downs near Brighton - a de...

Who would have thought it... the new Horrors album is officially incredible, and a massive departure from their previous sound. Beautiful yet dark, melancholy yet euphoric, epic yet understated, the Southend boys have taken a new direction, moving on from t...

The Old Blue Last played host to Parisian trio The Tatianas' UK single launch party last week, in association with the lovely people of Fenchurch. Naturally, because the boys hail from Paris, they all exude an effortless cool and undeniably sexy swagger, wh...

We all wanted to go to Austin, Texas a few weeks back to see and be seen at uber music event, South by South West - widely accepted to be one of the most influential and well respected occasions on the worldwide sonic calendar - but saving those pennies in ...

Phamous: What would your perfect 24hours involve?
Lady Sov: Football, maybe rave it up a bit, I'm quite simple really, as long as I'm with people and I'm laughing. I could laugh all da...

News broke yesterday that YouTube (owned by Google) would be systematically removing all professional music videos, due to an ongoing battle between the channel and PRS (Performing Rights Society). The two parties have not been able to agree new license ter...

Remember when you were at school and sometimes people would pass notes around, somehow you got missed out and it felt like everyone else was in on a brilliant joke - everyone except you. Or maybe one Christmas your brother got the shiny red BMX you had been...

Isn't it the worst when you discover there's a brilliant gig you want to go to but it sold out months ago... Fortunately Gumtree usually comes up trumps - Ebay always seems to be ridiculously overpriced these days. However, if you want to avoid the tedious ...

What's in a name? Quite a lot it seems -  blessed with a particularly excellent and memorable name, 21 year old Mica Levi is the lead singer behind Micachu and the Shapes, a band that are currently making very exciting ripples throughout the music worl...

Catch a band early enough and as their career goes from strength to strength you get a brilliant smug sense of satisfaction - all your friends know for a fact that it was you who 'discovered' them at one of their initial gigs, and when they appear on Friday...

So you want to make it big in the tough scene of electro wonk (if that is in fact truly a 'scene'... answers on a postcard please) - what would be a good way to start? Playing with the kings of the malleable and hard-to-pin-down disco punk genre, Daft Punk,...

2 days, 40 venues and 150 artists equates to a sure fire fun filled, sweat drenched, beer stained and mosh pit crushing weekend.. Yes, it is nearly that time of year again, The Camden Crawl takes place on Friday the 24th and Saturday the 25th of April acros...

Southend-on-Sea, known for having the worlds longest pleasure pier among other things might be that place formally known for where the late Ian Dury contracted polio, but now should be recognized for its far more relevant and creative music hub.
Musical ...

The purpose of blogging seems to be to tell the entire world the intricate workings of said blogger's life, thoughts and future plans - whether they are riveting or not. To show anyone who will look the last mishmash teddy they have made by hand, or the lat...

So this Valentine's day you might get a card or two from a secret admirer, some kinky underwear/chocolates/champagne/flowers from a lover, or a few bottles of wine to sink with your friends whilst going over all past and present romances with a fine tooth c...

Born and raised in Manchester, Josephine Oniyama has one of the freshest female singer-songwriter sounds to be launched onto our airwaves in quite some time. Part rock and roll, part folk, part soul and part indie, Josephine is an artist that is hard to def...

Touted by all and sundry as the brightest new star on the female singer/songwriter firmament - Little Boots has a lot to live up to. With barely any releases under her petite, no doubt vintage belt, and only a handful of live gigs, no one would blame Victor...

So you think the 80's revival has run its course - that jumpsuits, leggings and oversized t-shirts are set to disappear from the shelves in 2009? A decade so musically referenced over the past year - beyond the realms of all possibility so it seemed - one m...

Flanked by her two, straight-off-the-catwalk, identikit dancers sitting silently beside her in TV interviews, and with Space Cowboy her constant beats collaborator, if an entourage maketh the star then Lady Gaga has been on the ascent for some time. With a ...

This fabulous singer-songwriter, producer AND multi-instrumentalist (phew!!!) just blew me away when I saw her perform live at a sold-out, packed to the rafters gig in Soho Revue Bar recently. The space was perfectly chosen, its seedy glamour complimenting ...

Simple and straight forward ideas are hard to come by these days. I'm not knocking the fact that everybody seems wonderfully ambitious, but concepts, campaigns, callaborations, experiments, entertainment the whole lot can sometimes get very new-fangled - es...

Broken Hearts consist of Amber and Nisha. Please don't write them off as a 'Cheeky Girls' for the intelligentsia, oh no no. This hyper-talented duo already have their own radio show, Sunday evenings at 9 PM on Q Radio; have been chosen to design a capsule c...

Having watched the ethereal Ladyhawke AKA Pip Brown wandering through a post apocalyptic inner-city landscape in her 'Paris Is Burning' video, alternately showered in feathers and sparks, I was intrigued. The song was irresistible and the video demanded yet...

Patti Smith
By Anna Bang

Phamous69 salutes the Grande Dame of punk, Patti Smith! P69 was lucky enough to get a super secret squirrel invite to her performance at  auction h...

BAND TO LOOK OUT FOR:
By Gemma Cairney
 
This Australian indie troop bring the sunshine with them with their up-beat nostalgic pop.Their single 'Too Much To Do' can be bopped along to on the phamous69.com jukebox and was released March 17th.&n...

12 minutes with Krissi Murison, deputy editor of NME...


1.How are you feeling right this second?
Car sick

2. What's the funnest thing you've done this year so far?

Friday the 8th February saw a host of A-listers from the alternative scene mixing it up at Phamous69.com's relaunch party at Andaz in association with Hpnotiq, Siete Leguas tequila and Tiger Beer. JimmyJane candles made the event even headier with the scent...

The more gigs I go to, the more I've started noticing a divide between the musically trained and the musical newbie. Both have the potential to offer an appealing sound, with the newbie often having a more 'anything goes' experimental style and the musicall...

Photograph by Tom Beard

You can find her in her myspace album cavorting with socialite model Alice Dellal and Dev aka Lightspeed Champion (of former Test Icicle fame); you can find...

Photo by Scott Trindle

It's Saturday. It's 2.30 in the afternoon and there's not much time. Jazz is bellowing very appropriately from the dusty speakers of The Black Gardenia, loca...

It was a Sunday night, that summer resistance to reality had long since evaporated in the bitterly British cold air, and I was still in an empty state of pondering after a week's worth of free drinks, exhilarating bull shit swapping and fabulous shoes other...

Photo by Scott Trindle

Loopy Laura, the perfect use of alliteration for the small bomb of bonkersness that is Laura Dockrill aka 'Dockers MC'.

Consciously and sub-conscio...

Team Mega Mix & Tapedeck, or Tapedeck & Team Mega Mix, both incredibly hot right now DJ duos of London Town!

Originally from Harrow, Alax & Seb are Tapedeck and have managed to g...

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This is a refreshing part of a more positive hip hop movement as opposed to the bitches, hoes and bling bling world of the mainstream. 'The Gift of the Gab' forme...

The sheer scale and ambition of Adam F's 2001 long player, Kaos: The Anti-Acoustic Warfare, prompted many of this "little white kid in the corner"'s doubters to chew their words, while one of the album's many high-profile hip-hop guests, LL Cool J, said Ada...

www.roughtraderecords.com
An impressive album by the relatively unknown Jeffrey Lewis, signed to Rough Trade Records. This first album adopts a rawness that is fresh and rarely seen these days in the overproduced music world. The sound of Lewis and his g...