Pilotdrift is from the Piney Woods of East Texas. Like it sounds, the state line of Texas and Arkansas runs directly through the middle of their city, Texarkana. Now, any preconception as to what a band from there might sound like should be thrown out the window. Pilotdrift is an exploratory unit moving through atmospheres, stories, melodies, electronics, and orchestrations with surprising sonic precision. Pilotdrift truly exists in its own atmosphere and would be just at home on Saturn as...

John Butler Trio BIO April 28th 2008 For the John Butler Trio it has been a long journey. Ten years ago in 1998 John Butler was busking on the streets of Fremantle, West Australia. 3500 self funded cassette sales served as the foundation for becoming Australia's most successful independent artist ever. Fast Forward to 2008 and his label Jarrah Records has now been responsible for 800,000 CD sales in Australia. Their latest release Grand National has received international acclaim ...

"Every song's got to be a killer. There isn't any point otherwise. Who needs another average song in their lives?" Jez Williams, January 2001. When Doves stepped back into the studio at the start of 2001, they knew exactly what they wanted to achieve. It was time to rip up the past, move on and become the band they'd always wanted to be. Their debut album Lost Souls released 12 months earlier might have exceeded expectations both critically and commercially (it sold 160,000 copies in the UK ...

Avril Lavigne is a girl who knows what she wants. And when it came to writing her eagerly awaited third album, The Best Damn Thing, she had one very clear goal in mind: To make it fun. While touring in 2004 for her last album, Under My Skin, which sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, the Canadian-born punk-pop dynamo found that her favorite songs to play were the faster, more up-tempo songs - so she resolved to make a record that captured the kind of high-spirited, full-throttle energy ...

Safe Trip Home is the warm, moving and wonderfully musical third album from Dido, the London-born singer-songwriter with the cracked-crystal voice. The first, you might remember, was No Angel, a record made when Dido was a part-time backing singer with a tiny budget and no label. When that record's heartfelt snap-shots of life were released in 1999, nobody, least of all Dido, expected the album to eventually become the planet's biggest seller of 2001. The similarly affecting follow-up, 2003's...