The Streets News

Mike Skinner admits he would not be an appropriate artist to compose a James Bond theme.

The Streets "Everything is Borrowed" 1-1/2 stars After carping about fame, rhyming about druggy paranoia and crying his eyes out about inner turmoil on his last album, Mike Skinner now sounds .. happy.

When a band's debut exceeds expectations, the remainder of its existence is often spent chasing after past glories, attempting to recapture the initial success and even critical acclaim.Until 2005's Don't ...

Mike Skinner has heaped praise on Leona Lewis and The X Factor . The Streets singer, who released new album Everything Is Borrowed last month, commented that the money made by the programme helps Sony fund less ...

Interviewed by David Downs October 8th, 2008 One-man hip-hop outfit The Streets - a.k.a. Mike Skinner - debuted with "Has It Come To This" on the respected UK label Locked On in 2001 before scoring fairly big ...

The Streets Everything Is Borrowed ****Mike Skinner has calmed down a bit from 2006's paranoid, flinty The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living .

Mike Skinner's recordings as the Streets marked the first attempt to add a degree of social commentary to Britain's party-hearty garage/2-step movement.

Always someone to wash his dirty linen in public, Mike Skinner has made an art of the everyday confessional.

The Battle Cats will perform in the Shubert parking lot. When the flagship building of the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center opens in 2010, the center "will have dance for everybody," says ...

WIMNa s Voices, the womena s media monitoring group blog, features a diverse online community of fifty women blogging on media coverage of women and a range of social, cultural and political issues every day.

"I get back from tour and suddenly it doesn't seem like much fun to be off my face at quarter to 11am... The rock'n'roll clichA© walks in then smacked me, carelessly racking out prang just to handle the ...

Breakdancing, also known as b-boying, breaking, b-girling, is an artform derived from hip-hop and its culture.

Metallica have maintained their hold over the UK albums chart, posting a second week at number one with Death Magnetic .

Mike Skinner aka The Streets talks to Bernadette McNulty over a mineral water Mike Skinner seems a changed man.

"Election 2008: Race, Gender and the Media" - A special panel discussion featuring Laura Flanders, Glen Ford & Gary Younge Submitted by lia on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 1:08pm. Thursday, October 2nd - 7:30 - 9 pm: ...

Metallica and Kings Of Leon each secured a second week atop the new U.K. sales charts yesterday , as Ne-Yo and Queen + Paul Rodgers won top five album debuts.

R&B singer Estelle is again leading the way in award nominations, this time picking up nods in five categories for the UK Urban Music Awards .

September 12, 2008 - "New York, NY - " Streets Talk DVD, the crossroad between the streets and the industry, is releasing the best installment of its critically acclaimed series on September 23, 2008.

The tracks of my tears The tracks of my tears Kirsty Sunday, 14 September 2008 18:07 Gah, had a highly emotional morning on purple-radio.co.uk, broadcasting an hour's worth of tunes that have soundtracked those ...

And again today, my smile is on & my hat is off to San Francisco's Mayor, Gavin Newsom for offering free yoga classes to the city and county of San Frcisco.