As the nights grow longer and the days grow shorter there’s a lot more time for sitting down and just being quiet and warm in your home while you reflect on your life. If you’d like to accompany that with some appropriate music, here are five of my selections for some of the Most Beautifully […]
Read more "Top 5 Most Beautifully Depressing Songs"When I first listened to Romantic Works, I didn’t pay any close attention to it. Without my attention, the instrumental album – with its soft piano lines, slow-building strings and occasional atmospherics – seemed to blur a little around the edges, and I started to assume that the songs were largely the same. This is, if […]
Read more "Review [ALBUM]: Romantic Works – Keaton Henson"Two-man rock band Royal Blood took to a Dutch radio station this past week to cover Lana del Rey’s ‘West Coast’. The distorted guitars, Mike Kerr’s voice, and the laid-back, organic tempo all make for a very, very sexy cover that demonstrate how much they deserve their recent Mercury Prize nomination. A pity their tour’s […]
Read more "Cover of the Week: ‘West Coast’ (Lana del Rey) — Royal Blood"I was talking to a friend a few days ago about how it’s been quite hard to find any new music that really excites me these days. She happily mentioned this supposed study that supposedly revealed that our capacity and excitement for new music dips after the age of 24. I insist that I am not too […]
Read more "Too old for new music?"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"
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