I love new music. There’s something about hearing the latest and the greatest and knowing that this song, or these songs to be more accurate most of the time, will be with you for the duration. But then there’s also something great about discovering tracks you somehow missed from ages Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 4 – Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #47: Brooke Alexx, Isaia Huron, John Errol, Jelani Aryeh, Sorry
Being human is a complicated business. We love our mothers. We struggle with weird and frenetic thoughts. We get caught in existentially sapping lockdowns. We drive across country on a bus decorated with marigolds (or something like that) and we wonder if this wonderful called love, which feels so perfect Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 3 – Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 2 – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #46: Love Level, Kartell & Tim Atlas, José González, Lauren Auder, Will Stratton
Are you frazzled? L Is life too intense and too full-on for you to collect your thoughts and think about what it all means, if it in fact means anything at all? Then sit down and listen to these five tracks which offer you not only lyrical introspection and thoughtfulness Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 1 – Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #45: G Flip, KUČKA, MAY-A, Odette and yergurl + Eurovision 2021 update
Life isn’t simple; we all know that. But expressing the many and varied things that life can throw at us can often feel like mission impossible when we’re dealing with break-ups or falling in love or wanting celebrate, really celebrate, the wonderful inspiring women in our lives. Thank goodness then Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: #44: Sumner, Kinder, Peach Tree Rascals, Cat & Calmell, CamelPhat + #Eurovision update
It’s been a tough year and while vaccinations are in the offing around the world, we’re a long way from being out of the pandemic woods just yet. So, it’s good that there are five songs by five supremely talented artists who talk about life, love and the human experience Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #43: FLAVIA, KRANE, San Holo, Porter Robinson, Harry Nathan
Love, so its formidable PR machine goes, is all wonderful, all the time, right? Well, no, not really; for all the people caught up in the rapture and ecstasy of the start of love’s sweet romantic journey, there are plenty of others sliding off the cliff of despair (not a Continue Reading