You’d never know Internet music phenom, Sandi Thom, was about to release a new album, would you? Over the last few weeks, there’s been a trickle of pathetic news stories about what a rocker she is and how ‘wasted’ she’s been since she became famous.
Blah blah blah.
I’ve made no secret of it before, but I hate it when musicians resort to making dumb statements to stay in the public eye. Especially when they have something to sell.
OK, let’s get up to speed on these Shadow Puppets people. The Last Shadow Puppets are Arctic Monkey Alex Turner and Miles Kane from The Rascals.
I trusted Alex Turner not to simply rehash Arctic Monkey’s type material and pass it off under a different name. Boy, does he deliver. This is good stuff.
The Age Of The Understatement has all the ingredients of an epic tune. Big drums, a galloping rhythm, Kane and Turner sharing vocal duties with a sense of suspense during the verses.
Praise be to Ronson! It wasn’t hard to spot the influence of Mark Ronson in Adele’s latest single, was it?
There’s all of Adele’s atmospheric moodiness in this track, but this time it’s married to an ambitious quasi-military snare drum, soaring strings and punctuated by clean sharp guitar lines.
The arrangement brings out the best in Adele’s voice as well. She’s on top form here, letting us see the full power of her voice.
You can’t keep Kanye out of the charts these days, can you? His latest, Flashing Lights, isn’t getting quite as much attention as his collaboration with Estelle, but it’s doing pretty well all the same.
Flashing Lights tackles the thorny issue of how famous folks manage to have affairs while they’re in the limelight. Basically, they can’t. And those flashing lights belong to the paparazzi that follow Kanye and his peers around everywhere.
BBC Radio 1 announced today (Monday 21 April) that the station will kick off the 2008 festival season with the biggest female artist on the planet headlining Radio 1’s Big Weekend – Madonna.
The event takes place at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May. Chris Moyles announced the big news and the full main stage line-up on his show this morning. The line-ups for the rest of the stages will be announced throughout the day on Radio 1. Read more & comment »
Alicia Keys will spend the next week having her foot surgically removed from her mouth for her latest comments in Blender Magazine. In her interview with the magazine, she drops the bombshell that she believes the US government created gangsta rap as a way to oppress the black people and that they were responsible for the deaths of Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur, because they didn’t want a strong black leader to rise to prominence.
Every year, Radio 1 throws a massive party, and they call it their Big Weekend. This year’s Big Weekend takes place on the 10th and 11th May at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent.
If previous Weekends are anything to go by, there’ll be a whole host of Radio 1 presenters there to host the event. And there’ll be a glittering array of the UK’s finest musical talent.
Although it’s a free event, you will have to register for tickets on the Radio 1 website to get in. Apparently the majority of free tickets will be reserved for people from the Kent area.
Cops And Robbers is to be the fourth single from The Hoosiers’ debut album, The Trick To Life. They’ve got their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks yet again, as the video for the tune whisks them off to Dickensian times for crimefighting capers.
I’ll admit, I was skeptical that they could continue the fantastic run of singles that they’ve had with this album, but the Hoosiers have come out again with an exuberant, fast-paced record.
The Wombats are firing out singles thick and fast at the moment. Their latest, Backfire At The Disco, continues in a similar vein to Moving To New York. In sharp contrast to their ode to insomnia, Backfire At The Disco is a relentless Indie anthem with healthy dose of floor filling goodness.
Following in the tradition of many breaking acts, Backfire was released a while back, before the band hit the big time. Now that the world has taken notice of The Wombats, they’ve decided to dust off this excellent tune and give their new fans a chance to buy it.
I like The Kooks, I really do. But do you get the impression that Always Where I Need To Be isn’t quite the stunning leap forward you expect from a band about to release their second album?
After having been fed a diet of She Moves In Her Own Way and Naive, I was kind of expecting a progression of their sound. As far as the single goes, though, Konk (the new album) looks likely to be disappointment.
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