Superstar Swedish house DJ, Avicii, has caused a stir by releasing a promo mix for 2013 that dares to tread from the beaten track. The set includes slightly more than the generic minimal to maximal/build up, big drop formula by incorporating elements of country and folk amidst live instruments...

Here’s a live review of the band’s landmark gig at Alexandra Palace from November last year. I originally submitted it as part of the MA in Newspaper Journalism at City University. Now I’ve got my marks back, I am free to publish. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the...

The world is a pretty messed up place, and sometimes I do feel as if I’m the only sane person left.  Am I the only one who sits in despair at parts of mainstream culture? Perhaps I’m getting old before my time? Or perhaps, Mitt Romney, Murdoch, Jersey Shore, and Kim Kardashian – I’m...

As you may (or may not) have noticed, there have not been as many music reviews posted on YKTS lately. This is not because I have fallen out of love with music, far from it, but because I have been writing for altsounds.com. View my entire body of work on my altsounds profile. Reviews below...

Paul Smyth returns with another guest review. Do you agree? Lana Del Rey comes from money. Her dad is a millionaire. Now, to review her album……without prejudice. When I first saw Lana Del Rey on Jools Holland’s Later… I could not believe my eyes and didn’t fully trust my ears.  I...

2011: the first year of a new musical decade. Guitar music began to free itself from the shackles of formulaic indie-pop, slowly rising from the ashes by delving into broader retro influences; punk brashness replaced by Fleetwood Mac intelligence. Elsewhere, dubstep continued its mainstream...

It’s Thursday, meaning the weekend is hours away. To get you in the mood for the beats, here is the Breakage remix of ‘No Light, No Light’ by Florence and the Machine. Unfortunately, it has not yet been released so we have to settle for a radio-rip. Nonetheless, it is simply...

YKTS welcomes Paul Smyth back for his second review: Two weeks ago, before hearing this album, I went to see Jeffrey Lewis play at Heaven. On hearing the album now I realise that many of the songs he played that night were new, but you would never have known that from the audience reaction, he...

This week we go Dutch, courtesy of this mixtape from up and coming House producer/DJ, Dr. Papasov. Check out his website for more free tracks: Definitely ‘Thirty Funky Minutes’ to kick-start your...

YKTS introduces its first guest writer, Paul Smyth, for this review. Visit Paul’s Youtube account here and photography work here One minute and sixteen seconds into track eight of this extraordinary and lyrically beautiful album my 9 year-old- son said in a surprised tone: “at last a...