This week's Music Weekly kicks off with globetrotting DJ Darren Emerson, the man who helped put Underworld on the map with their stunning single Born Slippy. Emerson tells Paul MacInnes all about how Grandmaster Flash and Detroit house shaped his love of dance music, how Karl Hyde and Rick Smith gave him stage presence, and how the spate of MTV-led dance videos with nothing but ladies in bikinis depresses him.
Sandwhiched in between is our favourite type of filling: Singles Club. New Band of the Day's Paul Lester and guardian.co.uk/music's Tim Jonze join forces with Rosie Swash to discuss the latest tracks from Australian prog-electro duo Empire of the Sun, "Brooklyn Banshees" Telepathe, and New York twee-sters the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Lester waxes lyrical about bands with vision, but do we really need more multi-media manifestos in pop? And have Telepathe got mileage or are they all scene and no substance?
Elsewhere, Rosie meets the duo behind the international, genre-spanning NASA (North America South America) and finds out why it took Squeak E Clean and DJ Zegon six years to make their debut album (hint: it's got everyone under sun on it, including one of the last recordings Ol' Dirty Bastard ever made). Plus, the feature that remains nameless takes a nostalgic look at the close-harmony singing of the Everly Brothers.
