The List
31 July 2008
Róisín Murphy may be the fashion A-list’s darling, but she’s also responsible for a decade of glorious pop nuggets. Claire Sawers talks to her about her sartorial flair and equally spectacular back catalogue

The Sunday Times
15 Oct 2006
Just a voice, a guitar and 250,000 balls
Jose Gonzalez’s music is spare and serene, but his latest project has added bounce.

The Sunday Times
29 July 2007
Wallflower can’t believe he should be so lucky
Disco darling Calvin says he has, in fact, never thrown a party, but hanging out with Kylie is some compensation

The Sunday Times
09 July 2006
Son of Brosnan, but very much his own Romeo
Sean Brosnan may have inherited his father’s swagger, but the rest is all his own work

The List
19 June 2008
They say a person’s character is formed by the time they’re seven. According to Fred MacAulay, his was pretty much good to go by age five.

The Scotsman
19 February 2004

PS, I made my own good fortune
You would never guess it from looking at her, but the shy, petite girl that has just walked in, dressed in a candy-striped pink jumper and twirling a strand of blonde hair round her finger is Ireland’s current number one fiction writer.

Metro
08 June 2005
From her emergence as a kooky soul-barer in the early 1990s, singer-songwriter Tori Amos has developed and matured into the writer of this year’s The Beekeeper, her politicised ninth album. Born in Baltimore, she now lives in Cornwall with her British husband.

The Sunday Times
21 January 2007
A chip off the old rock
A career in music must have been a daunting choice for a young man whose parents are songwriting legends, but Ben Taylor, son of Carly Simon and James Taylor, seems unfazed.

The List
5 June 2008
Floating somewhere between Feist and Björk, 22-year-old Lykke Li’s breathy, sugary vocals got a bouncy, electronic makeover when Björn Yttling, of Peter, Björn and John produced her debut album.

The List
28 February 2007
 

Brighton singer-songwriter Natasha Khan’s debut album, Fur and Gold, is a dreamy, fairytale world of wolves, wizards and facial glitter.