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My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Aloe Blacc – ‘Wake Me Up’ Having appeared on the Avicii number one as an uncredited artist we now get his own take on it. It’s not a huge departure from the original, but forgoes the dance feel for a more straight-forward […]
Robin Thicke has released a new single despite being surrounded by rumors. One of the rumor that has been circling since a day or two is that Robin Thicke has engaged to his girlfriend April Love. This rumor seems to have footings due to the fact that various resources are corroborating it now. Robin Thicke, […]
Who remembers David Sneddon? David won the BBC’s talent show Fame Academy, a pre-cursor to X-Factor, in 2002. His subsequent debut single went straight to number 1, and then he kind of vanished. So what happened? You might put it down to the possibility that perhaps he wasn’t that talented, or the show itself was […]
Summer is finally here, and there’s some big albums coming your way to help soundtrack the long and sunny days of July. Here’s my pick of the best albums coming out this month – which ones are you looking forward to hearing? 7 July Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail New Order – Live at […]
With the Blurred Lines album and song now behind Mr Thicke, but possibly not the controversy, he’s now moved onto a new album from which this is the first cut, all about his estranged wife ‘Paula’. ‘Get Her Back’ is an ode to his wife but if this was the sort of thing my partner […]
This week’s single releases – 26 May (Part 2) Part 2 of Phil Lickley’s roundup of the week’s top new single releases. See Part 1 here. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – ‘Mermaids (EP)’ [rating:3.5/5] I’ve never been a big fan of Nick Cave and this song, in some ways, emphasises why but also […]
Cassidy teams up with two heavy hitters of the music world with Jessie J being the primary contributor here, her wobbling vocals lifting the song to more heights with Thicke feeling the lesser of the contributors, his verses being a little bland. The seventies Earth, Wind and Fire feel will bring in an older audience […]