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
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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
Now this is music: 1000 Forms of Fear by Sia (review)
In a world of out there, hard-to-miss pop divas, all of then clamouring for attention via outlandish costumes (Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj), faux or actual controversial content in their songs or videos (Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus) or glass-shattering vocals (Mariah Carey, Xtina, Florence and the Machine), Australian Sia Furler Continue Reading
Just dance! The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Remixed by Eurovisionaer
It’s been 2 months since the large ship-shaped stage at Copenhagen’s B&W-Hallerne fell silent and dark, the representatives of each of the 37 competing countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 sang their last (for that week at least) and the enthusiastic audience members went home, counting down the Continue Reading
Now this is music #32: Alison Wonderland, Low Roar, Seinabo Sey, La Roux, Dream Koala
It’s time to take a turn for the contemplative, the meditative with a collection of songs that recognise that life is not always kind or good to you. In the case of these songs that variously deal with getting through the hard times, surviving the end of a failed Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 great songs I discovered via In the Flesh (season 2)
One of the most gripping, fresh-voiced and emotionally authentic shows to have emerged in the arguably crowded zombie genre in the last couple of years has been BBC3’s In the Flesh, a series that looks at the way in which society reacts when the undead apocalypse, known in this Continue Reading
Home is where Coldplay’s video for A Sky Full of Stars is
This was not a good week to be Andrew the ardent Coldplay fan. Not only did I fail to get tickets to their one-and-only Ghost Stories concert in Australia, at the Enmore Theatre, a mere 15 minutes walk from where I live, but I also ended up having to Continue Reading
Now this is music #31: Bleachers, Ghost Estates, Go Wolf, machineheart, Little India
Yep, I know what you’re all thinking. The teddy bear (above) should be up and dancing, rather than lolly-gagging around in plush toy bliss. And while normally I would say “Hey just let the bear sit a spell; being played with by children a lot is exhausting”, in this Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 great songs and artists I discovered via The Blacklist
*The post contains some minor spoilers so tread carefully if you haven’t watched the full season just yet* A strange and unusual thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Well, truth be told, not that strange and unusual at all really since it has happened to me a number Continue Reading