Music Features

8 May 2013

Best European Music Festivals

Festival season is just about to start barrelling over the horizon, but while thousands of music fans already have their tickets booked to their favourite festivals here in the UK, ...

7 May 2013

Hugh Laurie and the Other Actors Turned Musicians

Hugh Laurie has release his second collection of bluesy hits on us in the form of ‘Didn’t It Rain' and perhaps the biggest shock of all since the actor decided ...
2 May 2013

Rudimental - From Hackney To Top Of The Charts

Rudimental are on track to add chart topping album to their list of achievements, with the Hackney quartet already having had a duo of number one singles. To celebrate, we're ...

29 April 2013

Blues Icon Bob Brozman A Look Back At His Career

Brozman had been found dead at his home in Santa Cruz, CA on the evening of April 23, 2013 With the news of his demise came the realisation that world ...

29 April 2013

Emeli Sandé Breaks Chart Records, But Does She Deserve It?

Emeli Sandé broke a chart record that had stood for half a century this week, as her album spent its 63rd week inside the top ten of the UK charts. The ...
26 April 2013

JLS’ Split Gets Me Suspicious - Opinion

JLS have grabbed the music headlines this week by announcing that this will be their final year together, but something about the split seems more than a little fishy to ...

25 April 2013

Daft Punk, Snoop Lion and Artists Who Changed Their Styles

Snoop Dogg released his first record under his new reggae persona Snoop Lion, and his sudden and slightly odd transition from rap to the much more relaxed music of Jamaica ...
24 April 2013

Calvin Harris - The Secrets Of His Success

Calvin Harris hit headlines this week with the news that he’d broken Michael Jackson’s record of the most top ten chart hits from a single album, with the DJ beating ...
20 April 2013

The Best Of The Backstreet Boys

The Backstreet Boys mark their twentieth anniversary today, and the five guys will be celebrating the landmark with an event at the Fonda Theatre, which will handily also be streaming ...
19 April 2013

The New Wave Of White Rap

Eminem was for many years not defined by his music or his lyrical panache, but by his ethnicity. The white face of rap, Marshall Mathers was an exception from the ...
17 April 2013

Have Paramore and Fall Out Boy Finally Killed Emo?

  For the best part of a decade, both Paramore and Fall Out Boy have been on the playlists of many an angry teenager, mad at the world for a multitude ...
16 April 2013

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - A 'Maps' Retrospective

The Yeah Yeahs Yeahs have returned, so in honour of Karen O and her two cohorts returning to the album charts after a three year absence with Mosquito, we’ve decided ...

8 April 2013

One Direction and The Wanted Feud Again - Opinion

One Direction and The Wanted are back at each other's throats on Twitter, with band mates from both sides throwing sniping comments at each other on the social networking website. After Louis Tomlinson ...
4 April 2013

Can Miley Cyrus Ever Escape Hannah Montana?

Miley Cyrus is looking to do the hardest thing for any teenage star, break out of that comfort zone and launch an entirely new career as an adult. As she enters ...
3 April 2013

Georgi Kay - ‘Ipswich’/ ‘In My Mind’ Double A side

Georgi Kay has been turning heads in her native Australia for the past couple of years; her beautiful melodies, androgynous looks and heart-breaking voice getting her noticed – and stopping ...

31 March 2013

Haim - Ready To Conquer The World

Haim are a band that has got a whole lot of people excited about what they might do in 2013, with the musical world seemingly at their feet and with ...
29 March 2013

Nile Rodgers - The Unknown Genius

Nile Rodgers’ is a name that many out there won’t be too aware of, but his musical signature is scrawled all across the world of pop in the late twentieth ...
28 March 2013

Glastonbury's Line-up Once Again Proves Its Quality

Glastonbury announced its full line-up this week and we for one are rather impressed not just by the names playing, but that they still let Glastonbury maintain the identity of ...
27 March 2013

Ant And Dec Prove The Power Of Personality

Ant and Dec are currently on track to do the incredible and reach the number one spot on a wave of nostalgia and goodwill with the re-release of their 1994 ...
27 March 2013

M83 and The Impact Of Electronic Music On The Movie World

M83 released the titular track from their soundtrack for the Tom Cruise sci-fi action flick Oblivion and the track’s brilliance has once again proved how much the growing presence of ...
25 March 2013

Chvrches - Can They Convert The Masses Too?

Chvrches release their third EP Recover this coming week and see the Scottish band try to become the latest electronic artist to cross the chasm and become a major mainstream ...
23 March 2013

Why The Saturdays Need A Number One

The Saturdays look set to finally get their first number one single in the UK with their latest track ‘What About Us’, but with the demise of Girls Aloud now ...
20 March 2013

Should The X Factor Take Better Care Of Its Contestants?

Nicole Sherzinger getting in the studio with Jahmene, tweeting the picture you see above on Monday night, but what struck us was quite how rare it is for the X ...
19 March 2013

Daft Punk's New Album - What We Want To Hear

The rumours surrounding an impending new album from Daft Punk have been all but confirmed after a picture leaked on Twitter showing a list of 13 new songs being registered ...