For those younger music lovers, Rod Stewart may be as far away from cool as imaginable. 2013 saw his album ‘Time’ reach No.1 in the UK Albums Chart 34 years after his last one. This rejuvenated commercial success follows five albums of ‘The Great American Songbook’ where Rod turned to old cabaret-style classic tunes from [...]
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Tags: 1960's · 1970's · Album Review · Rock · UK Albums
Visage became closely associated with London’s fashion conscious new romantic movement in the early 1980s as founding members Steve Strange and Rusty Egan were hosting club nights at Blitz nightclub in Great Queen Street, London. Along with Midge Ure they formed the band in 1978.
They recorded a demo but it wasn’t until [...]
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Tags: Album Review · Electro Pop · Pop
Katie Armiger is still only 19 years old but already she is a stalwart in the music business, having won a singing contest in Houston at 14 and recorded and toured an album before she reached 15.
Armiger has since released two further albums, both of which earned impressive chart positions and further growing the appeal [...]
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Tags: Album Review · Female Singers · Pop · UK Albums · UK Singles · Videos
Back on October 15th 2010 a wonderful demonstration of the strength of people power occured when hoards of Lupe Fiasco fans stormed the Atlantic Records HQ in New York demanding that they release the rappers third album.
A few months on and the wait is finally over, first came the release of the excellent single The [...]
Tags: Album Review · Hip Hop · Male Singers · Pop · R&B · Rap · UK Albums · UK Singles · Videos
On her second album Beautiful Imperfection, Asa once again manages to fuse her Nigerian roots with contemporary soulful pop with a wonderful collection of uplifting, intelligent and well crafted songs.
While her self titled debut album became the vehicle for Asa to sing about her ’state of mind’, writing songs about social and [...]
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Tags: Album Review · Female Singers · Pop · R&B · Ska · Soul · UK Albums · UK Singles · UK Tour · Videos
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