Before arriving at the Royal Albert Hall I was already one bottle of wine into the night. The queue for the bar inside the venue was so big that me and the girlfriend made the sensible decision to each buy a bottle of wine, so as to avoid having to go back to the bar…
My A-Z round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Single Of The Week Foxes – ‘Let Go For Tonight’ The second single from their debut album and this is a much more accomplished listen than their first cut. With a bombastic backing tune and a hugely danceable vibe, with Louisa…
Aussie psych-rock trailblazers Tame Impala are supporting Arctic Monkeys at their sold-out Finsbury Park gigs on 23 and 24 May – and have announced a one-off warm up show at the Oxford O2 Arena on the 22 May.
Electronics giant Samsung have launched a new initiative to unearth new talent in the UK, with the help of celebrity mentors Paloma Faith, Idris Elba, Rankin and Gizzi Erskine. The ‘Launching People’ project aims to find ‘people with original ideas, people with energy, with get up and go, people who dare, who embrace what’s new,…
The build up to this year’s BRIT Awards was all about how shit it would be – thanks mostly to last years particularly insipid ceremony – but it turned out to be just about on the right side of acceptable. It wasn’t what I would class as entertaining – nothing with James Corden presenting could…
London-based collective Jungle are an exciting prospect. We know this because they made the BBC Sound of 2014 longlist and have just signed for XL – so they must be good. So far though, most of the talk about Jungle has been just that – talk. Or what these days people like to call ‘hype’…
London-based indie-fuzz revivalists Yuck returned with their second album Glow & Behold last year, following the departure of their frontman. Instead of resting on their laurels, they were straight back in the studio at the end of 2013 and have a new EP ready called ‘Southern Skies’. Today they’ve revealed the second track from the…
If I gave out some kind of award for remix of the week, then this would probably win it for the next month at least. I don’t normally feature remixes per se, as there’s so many of them flying about it would be a full-time job in itself trying to collate them all. I usually…
Black Hippy member Schoolboy Q releases his new album Oxymoron next week (preorder: Oxymoron), which is promising to be an early 2014 hip hop highlight. To further excite you ahead of the album’s release the West Coast rapper has revealed ‘Blind Threats’, which features Raekwon. Listen to the moody ‘Blind Threats’ below:
The UK Top 40 singles chart will soon incorporate data from online music streaming services, according to Radio 1’s Head of Music George Ergatoudis. Ergatoudis revealed the plans during a speech last night at the Radio Academy Playlists: What Makes a Hit in 2014? event in London. Traditionally, Radio 1 has used sales data direct…
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