In rather surprising news, I’ve just learned that Justin Timberlake paired up with Mumford and Sun’s leading vocalist and songwriter, Marcus Mumford, to work on the soundtrack for the latest Coen brothers movie. Now, I’ve heard of much more preposterous collaborations before, not to say I’m having great expectations out of this either. The movie itself, called Inside Llewyn Davis, is centered around the character of an aspiring folk musician amid the 1960’s bustling New York…
David Bowie has just released a brand new track titled ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’. You can listen to the song and also watch the video here. he video was directed by Floria Sigismondi, who was also behind the videos for Bowie’s ‘Little Wonder’ in 1996 and ‘Dead Man Walking’ in 1997. ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’ is now available to purchase digitally. Bowie shocked fans and critics alike last month, when he broke his…
Silvertone, 1989 Hello, ZME. It has been a while, hasn’t it? You’ll have to forgive me. I fell off the face of this benevolent cyber-planet due to some bizarre misconception that I had anything better to do. Fortunately, a complete and utter submersion into academic navel-gazing had recently gifted me with the epiphany that, contrary to the elevated sense of self with which coming of age in the 90’s injected me, I really…
‘Radio’ is my favourite song by Lana Del Rey; the melody is one of dreamlike purity and you can lose yourself in a voice that is beautifully ethereal. But what do the lyrics mean? Not even they can stop me now Boy, I’ll be flying overhead Their heavy words can’t bring me down Boy I’ve been raised from the dead No one even knows how hard life was I don’t even think about it now…
David Bowie is back, ladies and gents! He surprised both critics and fans with his first song in ten years, releasing a new song on his 66th anniversary. “Where Are We Now?” was released yesterday on short notice, and after just one day, it comfortably sits at 1st place in iTunes, surpassing Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Will.i.am. He will also launch his first album since “Reality” in 2003, and bookmakers already gave it 1-6 odds…
Back in September, I wrote an article in which, amongst other questions, I asked Alex Day how he planned to achieve his goal of making it to #1 in the charts by 31st December 2012. He told me; ‘By working bloody hard and doing everything I possibly can! I’ll give it my all and then at least I won’t regret it if it doesn’t work out.’ Well, December has finally rolled around, and the song…
Okay, I have a confession to make. I like Justin Bieber. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I was a ‘Belieber’. But I do like him. There, I said it. And now we can move on and look at ‘Beauty and a Beat’-his latest music video. If I could describe this song in three words, it would be ‘fun’, ‘carefree’ and ‘catchy’. The video opens with writing which states; ‘In October of 2012…
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has revealed he is really interested in collaborating with Justin Bieber; well, I don’t really know what to say, but I guess that’s straying a little from your metal roots, isn’t it? It all started with this mash-up video, in which some guy put Slipknot’s ‘Psychosocial’ together with Justin Bieber’s hit single ‘Baby’ – thus, Psychosocial Baby was born. The video went viral, hitting over 12 million views, which apparently lit…
Considering the huge musical difference between Foals’ first two full-length efforts, the jerky math-rock yelps of ‘Antidotes’ and the eerie textured anthems of ‘Total Life Forever’, no one could accuratley predict what to expect when the Oxford five-piece announced the release date of new album ‘Holy Fire’, followed by the premier of new single ‘Inhaler’ last week. Although front man Yannis Philippakis has hinted at a heavier direction, I don’t think anyone could have predicted this. Anyone…
There’s some misunderstanding in The Vaccines, that’s for sure. Earlier this year, guitarist Freddie Cowan came out strong to criticize Rihanna, explaining she isn’t a real artist. “Rihanna isn’t an artist – she has 15 writers, 15 songwriters and 15 producers all fighting for space on her albums and she’s the face of it. I have nothing against it, but I don’t want to be associated with it.” Everything seemed fine, it’s a valid point…
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