It’s not quite as shocking as finding out that, say, Fiddy Cent breeds Pekinese dogs, but it’s up there. After years spent almost exclusively wrangling a style of deeply conscious,...
It would be easy to get the wrong idea about Akon if you judged him solely by his conduct on stage. Throwing members of the crowd on to the heads of other paying fans? Why, that’s merely an...
Anyone with just a passing interest in Glasvegas will already be well aware that frontman James Allan’s favourite album of all time is ‘A Christmas Gift for You’ by Phil Spector....
Beholden to a formula like any other popular brand, Kanye West was in danger of becoming just another hip hop commodity following his third album, ‘Graduation’, a self-satisfied effort...
Surely anyone even half interested stopped holding their breath long ago for the return of hard-rock/soft-metal heroes GNR, who have been missing in (in)action for a boggling 17 years. The...
We could never understand why critics fell hard for The Killers while repeatedly digging up, punching, pissing themselves over and promptly re-interring the corpse of Shed Seven. On the nagging...
Railing against Gary, Howard, Jason, and Mark (that’s in alphabetical order – lest fans imagine some slight against their fave) is like flailing at the Matterhorn with a mitten or,...
Telling the truth is a compelling tool only if every grim detail is revealed – just watch ‘Sleeping Dogs’ to count the reasons why. So, when Beyoncé announced that her...
You got the sense, listening to Essie Jain’s debut album ‘We Made This Ourselves’, that the young, NY-based Londoner had never let her hair down. This was piano folk of such...
If nothing is quite lost in translation – our American cousins have long been au fait with distortion pedals, decibel excess and tripped-out heaviosity – then the My Bloody...
