Have you ever wished ABBA could be your life guides, there in the tough times with words of advice, leaping out of your bedroom wardrobe to give you company when you’re all alone, and, of course, singing you into a better frame of mind with songs like “Dancing Queen”, Continue Reading
Music
Now this is upbeat fun music: Dagny, Isador, Blonde Maze, Saints of Valory, Striking Matches
It’s my birthday! Well. really my birthday eve since the big day is actually tomorrow when I shall be an age that I shall not reveal, but close enough. And of course, being a birthday, that means there must be joy, celebration and some thoughtful rumination on life’s great Continue Reading
Now these are beguiling beats: Millie Turner, BAYNK, Oliver, Satin Jackets, RAYE
Let’s face it – life gets knda boring with just the one beat keeping you company all day everyday. It’s good to mix things up, keeping a multitude of beats coming and going – and no, before any of you go that way, this is not an encouraging to Continue Reading
Now this is music #99: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chela, Rae Morris, Butter, Noah Slee
Ever have those moments in life where you feel like a good song would not only soundtrack things perfectly but add immeasurably to what you’re going to? Or at least emote or articulate better than you’re managing at that point? You’re not alone, and these five artists have not Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 fantastic songs recommended by Grizzly Bear
I am a huge fan of Grizzly Bear. So when I found an article on Entertainment Weekly where the band’s Ed Droste talked about his favourite current music, I knew there was a better than even chance I’d love a lot of what he picked. And lo, I was Continue Reading
Now this is music #98: courtship., TOULOUSE, DENM, What’s So Not, R3hab and Quintino, Siobhan Sainte
Harmonies. Attitude. Intensity. Euphoric escape. They may not seem to have much in common but all of them talk of life, of distilling the part of it that you are at that moment in time and living it, breathing it, being it. In other words, having a pulse. All Continue Reading
Now this is upbeat chilled music: Maya Jane Coles, Basenji, Tusks, J.Views, Anna of the North
Life is relentless. It has a momentum that is fierce and uncompromising, racing hand in hand to a future only it seems to know, leaving us hanging on for dear life. Or maybe that’s simply how it often feels. The truth is we do have the power to call Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 memory-rich songs
Songs, like smells, have the ability to instantly take us to places and times that played a formative, or in some cases, memorably incidental, role in our lives. It can take only a bar or two and suddenly the memories are flooding back, immersing us once again in that Continue Reading
Now this is music #97: Ionnalee, Butter, Future War Bride, Queenie, Bien
Who wants a beige life? No one in their right mind that’s who, which is why you need to listen to artists like the ones following who chart their own course, put real thought into their artistic expression and pour it into songs so unique and vividly listenable that Continue Reading
Gaga: Five Foot Two reveals that stardom is not always a personal nirvana
SNAPSHOT In Gaga: Five Foot Two, Lady Gaga narrates how loneliness has pervaded her life as a star. It also shows scenes of her struggling with chronic pain due to fibromyalgia, as well as a snippet of an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in which she lists a Continue Reading