Pete Cashmore, Author at NME

Roots Manuva – ‘Banana Skank EP’

These are fine times indeed for British hip-hop, with mainstream artists and underground acts both thriving, a burgeoning battle scene picking up millions of...

Dodgy – ‘Stand Upright In A Cool Place’

One day, Dodgy may go down as a guilty pleasure of the Britpop years – for all the amiable camper van buffoonery, the likes...

Album Review : Millimetre

Album review: Terence J McGaughey seems to be a thoroughly nice chap – a mainstay of Belfast’s fanzine scene, and establisher of Ireland’s only gay...

MGMT

Put on MGMT’s ‘Electric Feel’ and close your eyes: you could be listening to the background music to a love scene in Miami Vice....

The Courteeners

‘No You Didn’t, No You Don’t’ reveals Liam Fray of The Courteeners is probably a very polite, quiet little man, if the unutterable mediocrity...

Liars : There’s Always Room On The Broom

If Performance are the sound of someone storming drunk into a discotheque and showing off, then Liars are the sound of someone drinking alone...