Jaimie Hodgson, Author at NME

Radar Tip Of The Day 26: Computer Magic

I didn't half chortle when I discovered Danz from Computer Magic's birth name is Danielle Johnson. Of all the legions of solo female cred-pop...

Radar Tip Of The Day 25: Reptar

Reptar were the most talked-up discovery at this year's SXSW. The Athens band bring a slapstick cartoony sense of giddy fun to the elecltro...

Radar Tip Of The Day 24: Deptford Goth

It's near impossible to use the word avant-garde to describe any form of music, unless it's like Phillip Glass, without sounding like a right...

Radar Tip Of The Day 23: Austra

The other day I caught our reviews desk in another one of their zenned-out bliss-states, while a pile of un-checked pages mounted up between...

NME Radar At SXSW 2011 – Wiz Khalifa, Brother, Odd Future

Despite a series of literally breathtaking sets from Montreal's Suuns, if there's been one definitive SXSW 2011 band it's Odd Future. It's truly staggering...

NME Radar At SXSW 2011 – Suuns, Dom, Puro Instinct, Arson Anthem

Every year I attempt to dream up a new way of coining the magic of Austin's South By Southwest music conference/massive fuck-off festival. But...

Radar Tip Of The Day 22: Foe

The word 'sleazy' at some point over during the Nineties seemingly got co-opted by 'tudey 'rawk chicks' with a penchant for the beatier side...

Radar Tip Of The Day 21: Ex Lovers

Ex-Lovers make the kind of heart-in-mouth indie-pop that when it comes on, you realise there's been a real lack of on the radio for...

Radar Tip Of The Day 20: The Weeknd

The Weeknd is taking slow-jams back into the fast lane. Part of Toronto's swish-looking art collective known as XO (formerly She's So Lovely), with...

Radar Tip Of The Day 19: Psychologist

We heard Pscyhologist about the same time we came across the early James Blake releases last year, but while the latter's profile sky-rocketed in...