more than just music
After playing around with his sound on his brilliant last album Who Built the Moon? and the three EPs that followed, Noel Gallagher returns to a more traditional sound for the first of two new tracks that will feature on Back The Way We Came: Vol 1, celebrating ten years of the High Flying Birds. […]
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After lulling us in with the Last Man On Earth the first single from their new album Blue Weekend, Wolf Alice turn up the guitars and drums and let the anger flow with their new single Smile. I was already looking forward to the album after single number one, but, wow! Now I’m really looking […]
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I’ll be honest, I’ve never been bothered one way or another about Claudia. I’ve seen her occassionally on Strictly where she is funny sometimes and I’ve never listened to her on the radio. However I saw her being interviewed on the Graham Norton Show on BBC 1 and liked the sound of the book, so […]
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I’ve wrote about the brilliant Joe Turner back in September when he released the amazing video of Retina live. Well, he’s back todaywith new music, and it’s superb. It’s taken from his new EP which is due later this year. Joe says “Too Much is a track that means a lot to me. I’ve been […]
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This is one hell of a tune. I could hear Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye singing this. Instead, it’s Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak! Two artists who have very good solo careers already, but have now teamed up to produce soemthing which to my ears is magical, real and authentic. There aren’t messing around, this […]
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I’ve been a fan of Wolf Alice for a good few years. They have released quite a few EPs and two cracking albums, My Love Is Cool in 2015 and Visions of a Life in 2017. Now they have returned with a very different single, The Last Man on Earth which starts with Ellie’s voice […]
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Greenland is the new Amazon Prime movie starring Gerard Butler. If you have seen any of his recent movies – Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen and Angel Has Fallen – you know what you are going to get. He plays John, who works in construction in Atlanta, Georgia, and lives with his estranged wife, […]
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While some music memoirs try to glamourize the stories, Sing Backwards & Weep by Mark Lanegan does the exact opposite. I first became aware of Mark when his band The Screaming Trees released the single Nearly Lost You in 1992. By then, the band were already on their sixth album. I picked up the single […]
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I’ve been a fan of Little Dragon for a few years and this new track The Other Lover featuring Moses Sumney is great. The voices of Yukimi Nagano & Moses Sumney blend beautifully, while the music is just brilliant. The brass elements are very similar to Submotion Orchestra. Love it.
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Sometimes you don’t have to write a thousand words when three will do – I LOVE THIS!
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