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 [...]

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 – [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Ok – so it’s been a bit wet for the last two years, but surely this means the sun is due to shine on the East End festival this year??! Tickets for 2010 are being sold through TicketWeb HERE. The tickets are £33.33 plus booking fee (smallest with Ticketweb so that’s where we got ours). [...]

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. [...]

Alexandra Burke may have beaten Diana Vickers in X Factor; but there’s every chance she’s going to be less commercially successful. Alex has just released a new video called “All Night Long” – it’s a strong pop song, but a bit derivative. The video is very similar to Lady GaGa’s Just Dance and early reactions [...]

If, like I, you have been reading articles under headlines such as ‘Deadline day looms for ailing EMI’ or ‘EMI facing crisis’ you could be forgiven for assuming that EMI was in fact an acronym for England’s Music Industry as a whole, rather than the forlorn single enterprise it is. Consensus amongst analysts of the [...]

Ok so it’s been banned by Youtube – but we managed to track it down on Vimeo. Not sure it’s meant to be 100% serious, but around this time of year….as the sun bleaches my hair to be a slight “strawberry blonde” colour in certain lights, I’m glad someone is fighting to end the persecution [...]