From her image, to her music, Aaliyah was the perfect pop star. Her style was distinct with jet black hair that hid one of her eyes, combined with a tomboy attitude that effortlessly oozed sex appeal. Boys everywhere fell for her, and girls everywhere wanted to be her. Although Aaliyah did not have the best…
Despite being shunned by the Critics Choice Award at the Brits and the BBC Sound of 2012 poll, the 27 year old Londoner has been steadily growing in popularity for the last 2 years, and this week, Jessie Ware releases her debut album Devotion.
Mumford & Sons have released a track from their forthcoming sophmore album Babel. ‘I Will Wait’ was premiered by DJ Huw Stephens yesterday evening on BBC Radio 1 and has caused controversy amongst many of the bands’ fans for not being “new music”. The track is in fact a reworking of a song on their…
‘Heatwave’ has all the components to suggest it will be great. Released following a week of the hottest temperatures of the year, girls in bikinis dancing around a pool in the video, the godfather of grime is rapping about a heatwave, what can go wrong? It is a guaranteed number 1 without even hearing it,…
The theme of Ashes is clearly heartbreak. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Kyla La Grange, who is a Cambridge Philosophy graduate, said she wanted to “tap into that feeling of being really fucked up”, but sadly, Ashes doesn’t quite deliver. In fact, the dramatic love songs make this seem more like a Twilight…
It’s just turned 5pm on a sweaty Monday in Cardiff. A short stroll down the back-alley-esque Womanby Street takes me to one of Cardiff’s most prestigious music venues; Clwb Ifor Bach (AKA ‘Welsh Club’ for the English speakers). Upstairs are former Gallows frontman Frank Carter, and former Hope Conspiracy guitarist Jim Carroll; they are Pure…
Championing the genre of ‘future pop’ just as 4AD label mate Grimes did with the release of Visions earlier this year, Montreal duo Purity Ring’s debut is brimming with throbbing synths and dreamy vocals. Consisting of vocalist Megan James and everything else-ist Corin Roddick, the pair have created one of the most exciting, critically acclaimed…
Cast your mind back 12 months and you might remember hearing about this new girl on the block, Kreayshawn, as her exciting electro hip hop sound generated one of the underground club tracks of the summer, ‘Gucci Gucci‘. At that point, there was a lot of hype, and since then she has been working on…
Pure Love have faced quite a bit of stick since they formed last year, with lead singer Frank Carter leaving Gallows behind him to create the band. To go from hardcore to pop rock is quite a feat but they seem to be pulling it off very very well. Clwb Ifor Bach, one of Cardiff’s…
‘Vegas Girl’ is teenage heartthrob Conor Maynard‘s second single, following on from the success of his debut single ‘Can’t Say No‘ which went to number 2 in the UK charts in April. ‘Vegas Girl’ follows a similar path to his first single with his *NSYNC style, breathless vocals and catchy R&B beat. The lyrics are…
This week, rock royalty No Doubt, have returned with new music taken from their forthcoming album Push And Shove which will be released in September, and will be the band’s first studio album since their 2001 record Rock Steady. The first single ‘Settle Down’ was premiered on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show in the US on…
Northern Irish trio, Two Door Cinema Club are giving their new single ‘Sleep Alone’ away for free. The track was premiered on BBC Radio 1 tonight as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest record in the world’, and is the first new music from the band since their 2010 album Tourist History, which sold over 1 million copies worldwide. In February,…
On March 1st 2012 the video for ‘Call Me Maybe’ was uploaded to YouTube and it quickly became one of the biggest selling singles of 2012. In the four and half months that it has been around, it has racked up almost 160 million views and has gone to number one worldwide. However, it’s success…
Since the release of Michael Jackson’s concert-documentary movie This Is It in 2010, the genre has taken off as everyone from JLS to Justin Bieber realises there is money to be made, and Katy Perry is the latest member of pop royalty to release her own. Documenting her professional highs, and personal lows, the whole…