Before the days of being friends with music legends like Tony Bennett and Brian May, Lady Gaga was once just that lady who did ‘Just Dance’ and ‘Poker Face’. We knew she made really catchy pop music, but no one really caught on to her talent. Then, she did her first BBC Radio One Live […]
Read more "COVER OF THE WEEK: ‘Viva La Vida’ (Coldplay) by Lady Gaga"One moment it’s J-Pop, the next it’s earsplitting metal: welcome to the madness that is BABYMETAL. The teenage trio stormed through Europe last week, playing Paris and Cologne before hitting the Sonisphere Festival in the UK over the weekend. At Knebworth, they found themselves taking photos with and attracting new fans in the form of the […]
Read more "Review [GIG]: BABYMETAL @ The Forum, London"This week’s earworm is a song from songwriting extraordinaire Sia. The video for the song, featuring 11-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler from the show Dance Moms, pretty much went viral, and features Ziegler performing an intricate – and very creepy – dance routine. Sia went on to perform on the TV talk-show circuit, including Ellen Degeneres and Jimmy Fallon […]
Read more "Earworm of the Day: ‘Chandelier’ – Sia"Following Sam Smith’s massive success Stateside, the Disclosure track ‘Latch’, one of the earliest songs (after Rudimental’s ‘La La La’) to feature Smith’s top-notch vocals, has just reached platinum status across the pond. America’s affection for British vocal powerhouses is pretty evident (given the dizzying stardom of the likes Adele and Florence + the Machine, for […]
Read more "Latching onto success: Disclosure + Sam Smith reach platinum in the US"Happy Fourth of July to our friends across the pond! What’s more American than country music? Here’s a lovely performance of ‘Jackson’ by legendary country duo Johnny Cash and June Carter from 1967. The wonders of Youtube, ladies and gentlemen. And, just to tickle your earbuds a bit more, here’s a spine-tingling cover of the […]
Read more "Happy Fourth of July! Here’s some country music."Not many artists can cover an Arctic Monkeys song and get away with it, but Scottish electro trio CHVRCHES have taken on ‘Do I Wanna Know?’, and they played it like they owned it. They’ve clearly put a lot of work into it, with a chilled-out vocal loop and their signature pulsating synth rhythms running […]
Read more "COVER OF THE WEEK: ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ (Arctic Monkeys) by CHVRCHES"English singer-songwriter George Ezra first popped up on the radar with an appearance on the ‘Introducing …’ stage at Glastonbury in 2013. Following the release of his second EP ‘Cassy O”, Ezra’s debut album Wanted on Voyage has finally hit the shelves (and our iTunes and Spotify accounts). Which calls for my first proper album review. First […]
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