Think about this. What if Shakespeare had miraculously appeared smack bang in the middle of the modern day pop landscape and begun composing songs for the likes of Lorde, Carly Rae Jepsen, Beyonce Knowles, Icona Pop or even Idina Menzel? Or zipped back – or forward but not as far Continue Reading
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Now this is music #37: Manfred Kidd, Lemonade, Nick Hakim, Fantastic Fantastic, Perfume Genius
More music to warm the heart, cheer the soul and keep summer alive and kicking no matter where you may be. With the artists hail from diverse parts of the globe – Australia, Sweden, UK and the USA – they all share one thing in common, which is an Continue Reading
Now this is music #36: Buchanan, Mansions on the Moon, Generationals, Salt Cathedral, Javelin
Whoosh! Was that another second, another hour, another frantically busy day of life screaming on by? Yes it was, and while it is energising and thrilling to a point, and gets the blood pumping and the juices flowing, there comes a time when you need to ramp things down, Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 songs I discovered while travelling in USA in 1989
1989 was a big year in many ways. Emperor Hirohito died, the USSR left Afghanistan while the Polish Communist regime began talks with the dissident Solidarity organisation, Hungary dismantled 240km of barbed wire along its Iron Curtain border with Austria, President P. W. Both of South Africa met with Continue Reading
Rap like an Animal: The Muppets want to know “So What’cha Want”?
If The Muppets, in all their glorious sweet hearted hilarious lunacy have taught us anything, apart from the fact that a good aggro drum soul is de rigeur for any song (thank you Animal), it’s that there is nothing they cannot do. NOTHING. They have performed in an old Continue Reading
Now this is music #35: GEoRGiA, Vaults, Kwamie Liv, RDGLDGRN, HANAH
I hear ya – it’s been a grindingly long week with little to enjoy but a burrito for lunch and a wine at the bar on Wednesday night before heading home on a crowded train. It’s precisely why these five songs are what you need right now. They’re by Continue Reading
Happy 40th birthday ABBA: Live at Wembley Arena to release this September
If you thought that ABBA are done celebrating their milestone 40th year, think again. Along with the Waterloo Deluxe album release, and books ABBA the Official Photo Book and ABBA The Backstage Stories / The Treasures, and The Story of ABBA by one of the band members Björn Ulvaeus, the Continue Reading
Now this is music #34: Marz Leon, VÉRITÉ, Ibeyi, Zola Jesus, Moxie Raia
Let’s hear it for the thrill of new music! But not just any old “new” music, grabbed just because it happens to be close and within downloadable reach. Rather as we throw out the old, the tired and the has-been, purging our iPods of songs that have had their Continue Reading
Now this is music: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes soundtrack
The prognosis is damn near unanimous, even if the degrees of effusive praise may understandably vary – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of the best movies of the year, and certainly the best blockbuster to emerge thus far in a year of lacklustre contemporaries (Transformers: Continue Reading
Now this is music #33: The Hics, Mapei, T V Å, Kite String Tangle, Lowell
It’s time my friends to musically zip around the globe! From Sweden to USA to Australia and back to the UK via Canada, I’ve gathered together five amazing songs by up and coming artists from around the world that have that something irrefutably special about them. All of these Continue Reading