Music Features

22 October 2012

Taylor Swift - Bringing Country To A Whole New World

Taylor Swift brings out her fourth album Red today, so it seems fitting to look at how she’s brought country music from out of the corn fields and into the ...
19 October 2012

Alfie Boe Exclusive Video

Alfie Boe’s back with his new album Storyteller, and we’ve got a very special treat from Britain’s favourite tenor. We have snaffled ourselves the video for Alfie Boe’s fantastic version of ...
18 October 2012

The Balkans - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

While over the last few years the area’s become better known for strategic voting in Eurovision, the folksy music they trot out for the annual musical shindig isn’t anything like ...

6 October 2012

Whitney Houston's Best Songs

Whitney Houston was the talent of a generation. With the final songs she recorded before her death set to be included in the film Sparkle, which opened yesterday, we decided ...
5 October 2012

Best Bond Themes

Its 007 day everyone! With Adele (finally!) putting out her Bond theme, which you can listen too right here, we at FemaleFirst had a thumb through our record collection and ...
5 October 2012

The Beatles - Their Impact On Music

The Beatles played their landmark session on North West Tonight 50 years ago today, and while many today may not have heard too much about the Fab Four other than ...
4 October 2012

Ukraine - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

With us having a look at Poland’s best and brightest last week, it only seems fair to move on to their EURO 2012 co-hosts Ukraine. Again dominated by home-grown artists, Ukraine ...

4 October 2012

Nicki Minaj Has Changed Pop - For The Worse?

Nicki Minaj is definitely one for the headlines, with her high profile spat on the set of American Idol with fellow judge Mariah Carey just being the latest time that ...
1 October 2012

Muse - To The Stars And Back Again

Muse have never been ones for subtlety. Why do small and acoustic when you can draft in 5 more guitars, layer them up, add in some lasers and howl about ...
27 September 2012

Poland - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

Over this summer we all got to see a slice of Poland with the football world descending on the nation throughout June. One aspect of Poland we didn’t get to ...

24 September 2012

Green Day - How American Idiot Changed It All

With Green Day’s ninth album ¡Uno! hitting store shelves today, here at FemaleFirst we decided to have a look at the rise, plateau and rise again of Billy Joe, Tre ...
20 September 2012

One Direction and The Dangers of Their Fans

One Direction’s fan base is simply enormous, with the group selling out their 2013 tour in a matter of hours. The trouble is, that they don’t appear to be the ...
20 September 2012

Austria - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

Popping back out of the Eastern Europe for a moment, we travel to Austria. The country may be famous for alpine skiing and giving the world the Viennese Waltz, but there’s ...

17 September 2012

Are The EMA's Now Just A Joke?

Here we are at awards season once again, and we come to the ultimate contrast. The MTV VMAs and EMAs compared to the Mercury Music Prize. The cream of the UK ...
17 September 2012

Music Piracy Is Still Rife And Why Artists Should Work With It

With the music industry becoming more and more digital and music easier to get now than ever before, you would presume that music piracy might be so much of issue ...
15 September 2012

Lady Gaga and Showbiz's Weirdest Demands

After Lady Gaga’s slightly bizarre request to only have PG Tips in her dressing rooms for her upcoming tour, we decidied to have a look at some of the weirdest ...
13 September 2012

The Czech Republic - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

The Czech music scene is divided into two camps; the more mainstream, Czech speaking side and the indie loving English speaking side. To make sure that we give you a ...
12 September 2012

Gangnam Style - Korea's King Of YouTube PSY

It takes a lot of internet buzz to sit upon the YouTube music charts, with Carly Rae Jepsen, One Direction and Justin Bieber having dominated the charts for some time. ...
12 September 2012

Should Adele Do The Next Bond Theme?

Adele has become even stronger a favourite to become the voice of the new James Bond theme, after reports have emerged that she’s been spotted around Abbey Road studios. With the ...
6 September 2012

Italy - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

While Spanish music spreads its way around to South America and a lot of other European music using English language lyrics as a way of breaching national barriers, Italian music ...

5 September 2012

Carly Rae Jepsen - Staying On Top Of The Heap?

A few weeks back, we here on FemaleFirst had a look at the curse of the one hit wonder, utterly presuming that Carly Rae Jepsen was going to fall into ...
30 August 2012

Belgium - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

For years the butt of everyone’s Eurovision jokes, Belgium has got out from under the ‘nil pois’ cloud and bloomed into a truly interesting musical landscape. Despite being blessed with artists ...

23 August 2012

The Netherlands - Part Of The Worldwide Musical Bonanza

As The Netherlands isn’t really the biggest of places, it seems fitting that the large majority of the hottest Dutch acts sing in English. Targeting pan-European success as much as ...

22 August 2012

How Jagged Little Pill Changed Music

It was hard to exist in the 1990s and not be surrounded by Alanis Morisette. Beloved by all, the Canadian singer was a near constant on both the radio and ...