By Jenny May on Aug 31, 2007 in 50 Cent, Albums, Band Names, Bands, Foo Fighters, Kanye West, New Releases, Pink Floyd, The Dykeenies, UK Album Releases, United Kingdom | 0 Comments
September is a busy month for UK album releases. There are albums coming out by bands and artists such as Hard-Fi, Sean Kingston, KT Tunstall, Siouxsie, Deborah Harry, Dykeenies, Eddie Vedder, PJ Harvey, Manu Chao, Mark Knopfler, Angie Stone, Foo Fighters, Joni Mitchell, Ian Brown, Pink Floyd’s 40th Anniversary Edition and of course 50 Cent [...]
By Jenny May on Aug 22, 2007 in Albums, Dance, Kleerup, Music, Myspace, New Releases, Pop, Robyn, Shows, Swedish, UK Charts, Videos, YouTube | 0 Comments
Robyn is a Swedish singer just coming on to the UK scene, and her latest single, “With Every Heartbeat”, (a collaboration with Kleerup) has been going around my head for days. She reached number 1 in the UK charts this month and I can hear why [...]
By Guest on Aug 15, 2007 in Calvin Harris, Music, Networking, New Releases, Parties, Pop, Videos, YouTube | 0 Comments
There’s quite an uproar surrounding Calvin Harris‘ UK contest “Merrymaking at Your Place” where Calvin is attempting to set a new world record for the most house parties happening simultaneously across the country than ever before. The event is set to take place on Saturday, August 18th 2007.
The contest has caused an absolute media frenzy [...]
By Jenny May on Feb 26, 2007 in Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Folk, Indie, Myspace, New Releases, Singer/Songwriters, Tour Dates, Wichita Recordings | 0 Comments
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will be touring this April in the US with Elvis Perkins in Dearland. In January 2007 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah released their second album, Some Loud Thunder which includes singles, “Satan Said Dance” and “Underwater (You and Me)”.
The Brooklyn and Philadelphia based indie band was unsigned when they released [...]
By Jenny May on Nov 30, 2006 in Acoustic, Bands, Coronet, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, New Releases, Videos, YouTube | 0 Comments
The summer festival season has come and gone but ever since I saw Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’s televised performance backstage at the Reading Festival, somehow it’s one of the most memorable performances of that weekend. Sam Duckworth aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly played his song, “The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Part One)” [...]
By Guest on Nov 1, 2006 in Amok, Bands, Cyclone Records, Inner Surge, Metal, Punk, Signals Screaming | 1 Comment
Canadian metal/hardcore band Inner Surge’s 2004 album “Matrika” has been re-issued by Cyclone Records through online retailers and is now available on Napster and Sony Connect. Rated in the Top 10 of 2004 by Punkcanada.net and a 10/10 by Space Junkies Magazine, the album was well received by music critics.
Along with re-releasing “Matrika”, heavy promotion [...]
By Jenny May on Sep 12, 2006 in Arctic Monkeys, BBC, Bands, Indie, Mercury Music Prize | 0 Comments
The Arctic Monkeys have won the 2006 Mercury Music Prize for their album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not‘. The awards show was broadcast on BBC 4 on September 5th and was presented by Jools Holland.
Other nominees were:
Isobel Campbell
Editors
Guillemots
Richard Hawley
Hot Chip
Muse
Zoe Rahman
Lou Rhodes
Scritti Politti
Sway
Thom Yorke
The Arcitc [...]
