A couple months ago I wrote an article about some very famous bands that became very famous under false pretenses. The reaction was mostly positive and there were a few comments on other famous bands/musicians that I missed in my [...]
The great British festival season is upon us. It is the chance for the UK’s festival goers and music lovers to take in a large selection of top artists, and of course the upcoming acts as well. There is just [...]
As always the mighty Muse sure know how to wow the crowd and blow the roof off the place, and performing at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium on the 1st of June 2013 goes, it was no exception! It was the [...]
As someone who can be found with earphones stuck into the side of his head on a near constant basis, it is fair to say that I, like many of you, love my music. I firmly believe that one of [...]
Not many bands can draw a crowd from so many generations. From 6 year olds in banners bigger than they are to teens with My Chemical Romance tattoos to middle age punks with Bad Religion jackets they are all being [...]
Back in 2000, a friend of mine turned me on to Grinspoon. He was a surfer and discovered them, I think, from hearing a track of theirs on a surf movie soundtrack. He then tracked down a copy of debut, [...]
It would be fairly dumb not to accept the relationship between sex and music – if most songs are written about love and loss, the majority have a rogue sexual element, and some songs, like “Baby Got Back” or “The [...]
Beyonce Knowles, Queen B to her fans, is quite simply a superstar. She’s easily one of the most prominent and prolific singers on the planet right now and it’s hard to find anyone else with quite the same current gravitas, [...]
It wasn’t so long ago that music videos were no more than an after-thought, or a luxury to appease egotistical rockstars who wanted to further their own mythology. But now, with the age of music TV, and Youtube, they are [...]
Rating: Release Date: 3rd of June When Miles Kane released “The Colour Of The Trap” in 2011 he proved he was much more than just that lead singer from The Rascals or that other guy in The Last Shadow Puppets. [...]
On paper this was a bad idea. Re-recording classic hits with younger, more relevant stars is the kind of tired move you would expect from artists such as Rod Stewart or Tony Bennett, but John Fogerty’s 9th solo album ‘Wrote [...]
Isn’t it a crying shame when you hear such a great song with wonderful words that are just so well written, or perhaps, mean a lot to you, then, something bad happens. “Did he really just say that? Surely not!” [...]
