Kelly Rowland Album Set to Cement Move to Dance Music
We’re hotly anticipating Kelly Rowland’s new album – and it looks like her third solo effort is going to establish her further into the dance artist. Her newly leaked song – On and On – produced by Brian Kennedy (famous for Rhianna’s Disturbia), is a definite mix of pop and dance building on her collaboration...
Lily Allen Smile? Not if you’re Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton thrives on being…well…a bit of a nob. It was this time last year when he got hit by Will.i.am after saying some fairly provocative statements about Fergy. This he milked for all it was worth afterwards – his faux over the top outrage belying the fact that he treats such things as an...
Young Musicians Waiting For Life to Perform
On Sunday night, the BBC will broadcast the final of its Young Musician of the Year competition. Contests between the country’s most un/talented people are a near constant source of TV entertainment, so I tuned in to last week’s semi finals to see what makes this show different from all the others. The man we...
JLS Announce The Club is Alive Release
JLS are nice guys – everyone saw them on X Factor as genuine friends wanting to be pop stars. Their new single reflects the problem with the TV pop competition though. They don’t want to make music particularly, they don’t want to write lyrics – they just want to be performers of songs, not musicians....
Sony Awards for Radio Broadcasting – Chris Moyles Beaten by Scott Mills
BBC6 Music picked up two awards at the Sony Awards last night – one Rising Star Award for Jarvis Cocker, while Adam and Joe won best Comedy. In conjunction with its recently announced muchly increased year on year listening figures, this is sure to add to calls to save the station Elsewhere Scott Mills managed...
The Virtues of Amateurism
“Sometime I’m going to do an essay called ‘The Virtues of Amateurism’ for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts.” Robert Kincaid, The Bridges of Madison County. Unfortunately, Robert Waller’s character never did write his essay on the virtues of amateurism. But it’s a good title, even if we...
Kele Okereke, Tenderoni
While we await Kele’s first solo album away from Bloc Party, here’s the first single to be released; Tenderoni. The release is packed full of synth and suggests he will be going in a bit more of an electro direction. In a press release Kele explained: “I plugged in synths with no idea what they...
Ke$ha and Kanye West get the Cartoon Treatment
You know you’re hitting the big time when The Simpsons send you up – so Ke$sha must be over the moon that “Tik Tok” has been featured on the opening of a music dedicated episode of the show. And she’s not the only one. Kanye West took on Cleveland Jr. in The Cleveland show –...
Britney Spears Telephone Demo Leak Here
So – it’s all a bit smoke and mirrors – but it has been suggested Britney Spears originally demoed Lady Gaga’s Telephone. Rodney Jerkins who produced the song claimed last year that he and GaGa had written a song from Spears’ Circus LP but it never quite made it to the final cut. Last year...
Susan Boyle Latest to Line Up Rap Collaboration
Susan Boyle is reportedly being lined up by Syco, her management company, to do a rap duet. A source told the Daily Mirror: “They are looking at ballads and more musical style stuff, but this time around they want to try to make her a recording artist – original material, and giving Susan a chance...
BBC 6 Music Sees Huge Increase in Listeners
Online listening figures from Rajar show that BBC 6 Music’s audience has grown by 50% year on year, clearly rebutting arguments it is not good value for money, which were invoked to justify it’s proposed scrapping earlier this year. You can still sign the petition to save the station here. Further argument is bound to...
Shakira Most Downloaded Latin Artist
According to research by Nokia, Shakira has totted up more music downloads in the last year than any other Latino artist. Here’s the top ten in full: Top 10 Latino Artists 1. Shakira 2. Alejandro Fernández 3. Camila 4. Luis Miguel 5. Legião Urbana 6. Thalia 7. Vicente Fernández 8. Chayanne 9. José José 10....
