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Review of Take Me Home by One Direction
At a time when the survival of boy bands was indeed questionable, groups such as JLS, The Wanted and the newly reformed Take That struggled to keep the idea alive. The most notable success story Read more…
At a time when the survival of boy bands was indeed questionable, groups such as JLS, The Wanted and the newly reformed Take That struggled to keep the idea alive. The most notable success story Read more…
It has been a hectic year for last year’s winners of the X Factor and now Little Mix have just released their debut album DNA. Between attending award shows, doing promotions and recording in studio, Read more…
Worldwide superstar Rihanna is currently dominating global charts with “Diamonds,” the first single from her brand new album Unapologetic. “Diamonds” is Rihanna’s fastest-shipping single of her career to date and also her fastest growing airplay Read more…
Green Day’s anticipated new album ¡Uno! is proving to be of the same high standard that their other nine albums have had. Green Day first came to international recognition in 1994 with their first album Read more…
My faith in modern popular music was obliterated by the dubstep, techno, and dance genres of this generation. Until about a year ago, my musical taste buds had been sorely deprived of any exciting new Read more…
Calvin Harris is back with album 18 Months following his 3 year departure. When I say back, I stray slightly from reality; he’s been blasting through nightclub speakers and radios alike for the past two Read more…
If you like songs about cigarettes and alcohol then Alt-J probably aren’t the band for you. The alternative indie pop four-piece from Cambridge are almost anti-Oasis in their musical approach, with songs about war photographers Read more…
It has been a memorable and meteoric 12 months for Lana Del Rey. She won Q Magazine’s Next Big Thing Award, received a much-coveted Ivor Novello Award and has since appeared on top shows across Read more…
With The Abbey Road Sessions, pop diva Kylie Minogue has hung up her trademark gold hot-pants in favour of a more sophisticated sound The album has been released to mark the Australian singer’s twenty-fifth year Read more…
Ham Sandwich: that band with the silly name. Still, it’s definitely not forgettable. Formed in 2003, the band have worked considerably hard since then to ensure the name Ham Sandwich stays in our heads. Their Read more…
So Girls Aloud are back together then? Sorry, correction, they never actually split up in the first place, did they? They were just “taking a break to focus on solo projects”. Cheryl Cole had her Read more…
The Dirty Epics are a band on the rise. Formed in 2007, The Dirty Epics consist of SJ Wai on vocals, Richie Power on bass, Darren McCoy on guitar and Gary Nethaway on drums. Their Read more…
9 Crow Street is Emma Fraser, Dean Ryan McDaid and Melissa McDermott. Started in December 2010, perched on the corner of their namesake, 9 Crow Street quickly developed a reputation for its deadly vintage clothes, Read more…
Hype is a funny thing. It can make heroes of some, but for others it can be a fatal shot against their hopes of a sustainable career. However in the case of Jake Bugg, it Read more…
If there’s one thing that Halloween is incomplete without, it’s a good rip-roaring monsterfest. Today’s modern horror films tend to lean more towards the psychological and the symbolic and at worst lean towards the bare Read more…
In a niche heavily occupied by the likes of Adele and Alicia Keys, Leona Lewis’ highly-anticipated album Glassheart needed to make its mark. With a mixture of sounds, ranging from typical powerful ballads to sharper, Read more…
Jake Bugg is an eighteen-year-old singer-songwriter from Nottingham who has attracted so much attention with his retro folk style that comparisons with the likes of Bob Dylan, John McClean and Donavan are scattered across the Read more…
Three years on from The Resistance, the Devon stadium rockers return with their sixth album and a degree of scepticism from their devoted fanbase. Frontman Matt Bellamy has talked up the album as “something radically Read more…
After a wait that seems a lot longer than it really was, Ellie Goulding has returned with her second studio album, Halcyon. Halcyon is a follow up to Goulding’s 2010 album Lights which reached number Read more…
A thundering guitar followed by the noticeably deeper voice of The Vaccines front man Justin Young opens the band’s second instalment, Come of Age. A confident title suggesting change, the band may have fallen short Read more…
It’s all go for Róisín O. In the past couple of weeks she has performed on The Late Late Show, had Ian Dempsey name her track “Here We Go” Song of the Week on his TodayFM Read more…
After an extended sabbatical The Killers are back with their highly anticipated fourth studio album, Battle Born. Following the Las Vegas quartet’s highly criticized ‘misstep’ that was 2008’s Day & Age, Flowers et al work hard to recapture Read more…
Fresh from a break from the music business, which saw her reunite with gorgeous motorcross racer husband Corey Hart and give birth to their first child, Pink is back with her new album, The Truth Read more…
The Dub boys done good are back with (in case you didn’t already get it) their third studio release “#3”. Since the release of their last album, “Science and Faith” in 2010, the band have Read more…
Sinead Brennan talks to three quarters of Superhanz about their latest EP and plans for the future When you hear the word Superhanz you might think of the cocaine addicted musician Super Hans from Peep Read more…