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Music in March: Killed by 9V Batteries and Extraperlo
Paris-Berlin machine rock, continental breakfast from Barcelona and Austrian pot-washers –spring is blossoming in many ways on the music scene! Café Babel’s music diary for March
album, switzerland, berlin, barcelona, sophie hunger, austria, leonid kuchma
Music editors pick: Mogwai, Disco Drive and Maria Peszek
Spanish pop, Scottish post-rock, Franco-American bluegrass, Italian punk experimental and Polish sex scandal songs - the editorial team's soundtrack of 2008
album, best of cafebabel.com, fuck buttons, electronic music, pop music, culture, culture calendar
Music: Keane, Antwerp Gipsy-Ska Orkestra and Katharina Nuttall
Piano rock from the UK, Balkans from Belgium and Blue Monday in Norway – October’s best music picks kick off a European autumn
album, euro-pop, britpop, belgium, katharina nuttall, keane, antwerp gipsy-ska orkestra
The Verve, Mo’Horizons – music in August
Plus: the Budapest beats of Gelka, Mañana - Switzerland’s answer to the Verve and Istanbul electronic rhythms with Zi Punt - monthly music picks
album, manchester, gerka, the verve, culture, culture calendar, music
Music in July: Carla Bruni, E-Quad, Ari Koivunen
French First Ladies, Dutch idealists, Italian poets-cum-abrasive rockers and Finnish 'Rock Idols' – it's Europe's monthly music picks
album, carla bruni, pop music, my own parasite, rock, e-quad, ari koivunen
Sweden's Lykke Li: heartbreak leads to electro pop
Lykke means 'happy' in Norwegian. Li's debut album has led to a European tour, and she’s hyped as one of 2008’s biggest new stars. But chart positions don’t make the 22-year-old singer happy
album, pop, elektro, youth novels , leonid kuchma, lykke li, sweden
Music in May with The Fratellis and Paul Weller
A freakshow from Germany, Scottish guitar rockers, an Italian in California and the return of the Woking Modfather – the best music to catch this month
album, musikagenda, my baby wants to eat your pussy, robert delirio, the fratellis, european tour, cd
Music: Portishead, Hooverphonic and the Lo Fat Orchestra
Where do these bands get their names from? We sweep the UK, Belgium, Switzerland and France for our monthly music pick this April
album, youth, men and women, strasbourg, european tour, europe, france
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: 'the English are a hard audience to win over'
Ten years since the release of Air's first album 'Moon Safari', one half of the French duo, 38, talks Czech audiences, being a vanguard of the European electronic scene and why Air are not like Radiohead
British band The Cure are back
Plus charming French-Finnish duo 'The Duo', a tasty Swedish morsel of Jens Lekman, chic Danes 'The Fashion' and slightly unusual Italians Avvolte Kristheda - the best bands in March
album, italy, denmark, finland, united kingdom, sweden, europe
Roxana Rio, The Moog and DJ Missill
New Year kicks off with Mexican aspirations, Norwegian mix up of styles, a French princess of the turntables and a surprise coup from Hungary. This is the European music agenda for 2008!
Tillman Otto: ‘People should burn if they wanna burn’
‘Gentleman’, 32, is a true reggae adherent and honorary Jamaican in German skin. His musical diaspora defines a pan-reggae notion of 'how small we all are in the jah jah world'
album, identity, corruption, germany, peace, turkey, cologne
