Music

  I threw The Spirit Indestructible onto my virtual iPod turntable with the sort of enthusiasm that can only be generated by a six year wait for a follow up to 2006’s chart-smashing Loose. (Yes Mi Plan, her Spanish-langauge album, arrived somewhere in the middle of that interminable wait but Continue Reading

  Sufjan Stevens, who once declared he would record an album themed for each of the fifty states of the USA before deciding it was too ambitious a goal for even an artist of his prodigious talent, may, and it’s an italicised may with more hedged bets and caveats than Continue Reading

  Pink is one ballsy in-your-face rock chick with enough sass and attitude to fuel several small cities. But she’s also warm, earthy, sweet, sentimental and unflinchingly honest in a way that few artists of her calibre are. And it’s the fusion of all those qualities that make her one of Continue Reading

  Ah spring … or autumn/fall if you live in the top half of planet earth … and the torrent of music that washes over during the year becomes a flood of Noah-like proportions as we head into the festive shopping season. So you can expect way more Sonic Bliss Continue Reading

  Time for another dive into the pools of musical goodness and see who has been creating beautiful music in the last little while. So sit back, strap on the headphones – memo to self: must get the ginormous ones so large that if they fell from my ears whole Continue Reading

  This information-drenched modern age of ours is a double-edged sword in many ways. On one hand we have the chance to not only hear the latest news about our favourite music artist/author/actor’s latest project but hear about it often from the person themselves. It is a level of accessibility Continue Reading

  It has been one of those weeks where I got a dreadful cold and didn’t do much besides sleeping, reading, and eating of comfort foods. So my choice of songs is resting heavily on music I heard last week. But hey they’re great songs and I would like to Continue Reading

  Die Tote Stadt, by feted composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, which fell into obscurity for much of the 20th century after it was banned during the Nazi regime to Korngold’s Jewish ancestry, is one of those operas that is immediately accessible and attractive to anyone without a natural predilection for Continue Reading

Another Tuesday and yes I hear you, Monday has taken it’s toll and you’ve arrived at one of those oddly pointless days of the week – not the beginning, not halfway through and not the blessed TGIF we all love. So here are 5 wonderful songs I have collected on Continue Reading

Malmö! Yes Malmö has won the three way “contest” between the capital Stockholm, Gothenberg in the west of Sweden, and itself. The city’s Hartwall Arena, which houses 15,500, considerably less than Baku’s Crystal Hall, will play host to Europe’s annual festival of song. Found in 1275 when that part of Sweden Continue Reading