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We premiere the new video for the 23-year-old Welsh musician's single on Push & Run
23-year-old Welsh singer and musician Ifan Dafydd returns this 2012 with a new outing on label Push & Run entitled ‘Treehouse’ and ‘To Me’, two pieces of richly textured songs with soaring strings and melodic pianos. Having previously chopped ‘n’ screwed Emeli Sande’s ‘Daddy’ and reworked Gang Colours, Dafydd was championed early on by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Huw Stephens, Sinden and Jamie xx, bringing him fast into the limelight. Here we premiere his new video alongside his recommendations...
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U.T.R.B, Sekuoia, Troy Gunner
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There will be welcome returns (Adele, the Beach Boys), fond farewells (Etta James, Clarence Clemons) and exciting debuts (Nicki Minaj, Deadmau5). Here's what to look out for this Sunday
This weekend, 78 prizes will be distributed at the 54th Grammy awards. Some statuettes will go to veterans, some to newcomers â€' and many will probably go to Adele. But nobody watches the Grammys for the prizes: here are 10 better reasons to follow Sunday's broadcast.
Never mind that the bestselling artist of 2011 is nominated for six awards â€' the big news is Adele's live comeback. Four months after she cancelled her US tour to undergo throat surgery, the English singer is still America's No 1 act and her performance is the night's most anticipated set. Adele last appeared at the 2009 Grammys, where she won best new artist and best female pop vocal performance.
After decades of relegating dance music to the non-televised portion of the proceedings, the Grammys have woken up and smelled the dubstep. For the first time, a DJ â€' Skrillex â€' has been nominated for best new artist. And producers are building an outdoor stage for their celebration of electronic thump. Canadian DJ Deadmau5 will reportedly perform his remix of Foo Fighters' Rope â€' assisted by the Foos themselves â€' while French DJ David Guetta will perform I Can Only Imagine with Lil Wayne and...
As reported, beloved Welsh singer Tom Jones teamed up with Jack White for an installment of the Third Man Records Blue Series, a collection produced by White at his Third Man studio in Nashville. Consequence of Sound points out that the collaboration-- a cover of blues cut "Evil" (made popular by Howlin' Wolf")-- is here via BBC 6 Radio, and it features White himself.
The legendary Welsh crooner's cover of Howlin Wolf's single is now online
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Adele will appear on 60 minutes Sunday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Click here to watch a preview.
Need a Friendly Fires fix for February? Well, even though they won't be playing live as a until March for the Future Music Festival in Australia, Jack Savidge will be getting behind the decks to DJ at a few venues in the UK and Ireland over the next month. The last of these dates, at Plastic People in London, will be the first of Jack's own night co-hosted with Edwin Congreave of Foals.
10th Feb Thompsons Garage, Belfast
18th Feb The Pavilion, Cork
24th Feb Plastic People, London
The long-absent Odd Future member, Earl Sweatshirt, proves his return with his new song, "Home."
Singer speaks about vocal problems before her Grammys comeback
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As Odd Future fans and New Yorker readers both know, OF member Earl Sweatshirt has been M.I.A. since the group began attracting attention (it's presumed that he has been at a youth camp in Samoa). Back in November, OF leader Tyler, the Creator engaged in some heavy trolling by claiming that Earl had returned from whereever he'd been all this time-- but this time, it looks like he might actually be back.
The long-absent teenage MC appeared to start a fresh Twitter with an announcement of being home.
Van Halen might be on its way to a sixth career No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart -- unless Adele's "21" stands in the veteran band's way.
The first bash will take place in Hoxton on February 24
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Rocker reckons being lumped in with '21' singer means they're 'doing something right'
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Tyler, the Creator Tweeted the artwork for the Odd Future collective album OF Tape Vol. 2, which is scheduled for release on March 20 through Odd Future Records. Visually, it's characteristic Odd Future, featuring the face of OF associate Lucas Vercetti.
Fancy showing off your impeccable taste in music? Share your playlists with us
From next week we'll be changing the format of the Now Listening series â€' and we'd like your help.
Each week we'll be inviting a reader to share with us a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. We'd like a selection of between six and 10 tunes â€' ideally ones released in the last few weeks, but there'll be room for a few oldies as well â€' along with a line or two about each.
If you'd be interested in contributing, email adam.boult@guardian.co.uk with the subject line "Now listening" and tell us who you are, and one or two tracks you'd include if you were to compile a playlist.
To give you an idea of the kind of thing we're after, take a look at this week's Film&Music playlist â€' and let us know what you think below.
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Rapper posts artwork of 'OF Tape Vol 2' and says it'll be out on February 20
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Nero, Justice and Noah And The Whale are also confirmed for the Manchester festival
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We will be heading out across Europe again this summer to play a host of festival dates and we can now tell you about the first couple of events we will be playing at. We have already announced via Facebook that we will be playing at Gurtenfestival in Switzerland, which takes place from 12th until 15th July, but we can now reveal we will be playing at Sonar Festival in Barcelona between 14th and 16th June. If you can’t make it to either of these, we will be performing plenty more shows across the continent and throughout the summer, so be sure to check back soon to find out more.
14-16 Jun Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain [Tickets]
12-15 Jul Gurtenfestival, Bern, Switzerland [Tickets]
Sigur Ros, Justice, Hot Chip have also joined the festival's roster
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UPDATE: Best Coast Tweets, "LOUtallica + METallica are 2 different bands the latter being one of mine + Bobbs favorites We are honored 2 be playing," and "stop worrying about my life and live your own"
Haha, remember when Bethany Cosentino called the Metallica/Lou Reed album "the worst thing I've ever heard"? That apparently didn't stop Metallica from hand-selecting Best Coast for their new Atlantic City festival, Orion Music & More.
Singer will play six UK shows as part of his first European run
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The London rapper will play the stadium show on June 23
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Adele and Coldplay help UK acts nab highest market-share in 15 years
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'X Factor' finalist says Jack and Meg's fans haven't taken too kindly to his reworking of 'Seven Nation Army'
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Bon Iver, Beck, St. Vincent, The Shins, Feist and the newly announced solo project from Jack White will be featured at the Sasquatch! Music Festival.
Florence And The Machine, Bombay Bicycle Club, Deadmau5 have also been added to the bill
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Reminiscent of deeper cuts on the last few White Stripes albums, "Love Interruption" is an unusual but tantalizing lead track.
For all the cynicism about money-grabbing majors, labels still offer artists the security they need to produce their best work
In the thread beneath one of my most recent articles about the 2012 report on digital music from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, StevieBee123 asked: "Sorry â€' what exactly do we need record companies for again?" LawlessGreed replied with a question of his own: "If there is no music industry, how are musicians supposed to earn a living from their work?" to which malcolm replied: "Try, ehhh, selling direct to the pubic ... no brainer!" That discussion, as well as one I had on Twitter has highlighted a certain confusion regarding what today's record labels actually do.
It's true the internet has been brilliant for artists in many ways, giving them an alternative route to make contact with and sell directly to fans, but record labels do much more than distribute to retailers. I recently spoke to Ed Sheeran's producer, Jake Gosling (more of which will appear in next week's Behind the Music), and asked why Sheeran had decided to sign with Asylum/Atlantic, part of Warner Music Group. After all, by working extremely hard for years the two of them had been able to record numerous EPs on their own, get to No 2 on the iTunes charts with one of them, get millions of hits on his SBTV video for You Need Me as well as...
Interview From Our Time In Brazil. ( lmfao at hodgy and frank is on BSD? sick)
Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger" bounds 8-2.
A whopping seven debuts dot the top 10, led by country superstar Tim McGraw. His "Emotional Traffic" drives in at No. 2 with 68,000 sold.
Photo by Eirik Lande
Update: This track is not entirely new-- it's an instrumental version of a remix of Rui Da Silva's "Touch Me" that he made with DJ Yasmin and aired during a BBC 6 Essential Mix last year.
This week, the label Young Turks guest-hosts the midday show on Australia's 94.5 FBi Radio. On yesterday's show, they premiered a new track from Jamie xx, called "Touch Me". It comes in at about the 49 minute mark in the above stream.
The MIA, Annie and Sugababes producer says he doesn't think there's a 'big evil piracy network' behind album leaks
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Singer says her performance will be 'nerve-wracking' but 'very exciting'
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The 23-year-old says she's "immensely proud" to be performing at the ceremony in Los Angeles next month following surgery on her throat.
After weeks of speculation, it has finally been announced that Adele will be performing at the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, marking her first live debut since undergoing vocal surgery last year.
Jack White has revealed he will release his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, in April.
The Recording Academy uses the two weeks prior to the Grammy Awards to announce performers and presenters and executive producer Ken Ehrlich says Thursday should yield a "major interesting" announcement. Ehrlich tells Billboard that this year's telecast -- 8 p.m. Feb. 12 on CBS -- will feature 17 or 18 production pieces with about 22 songs being performed. "Arguably it's one of the biggest shows" in the history of the Grammys, he says.
Nashville singer says she's 'lucky' to have hooked up with ex-White Stripes man
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Maverick Sabre and Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley have also joined the festival's line up
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The singer and guitarist reveals he will release his debut solo album Blunderbuss in April.
The former White Stripe's first solo outing sounds slight at first but is brilliantly compelling on repeat listens
It was always going to happen, wasn't it? Sooner or later, serial collaborator Jack White was going to run out of people to work with (Brendan Benson! Alicia Keys! Insane Clown Posse!) and have to release a record all by himself. His solo album, Blunderbuss, is due through XL and Third Man Records on 23 April and was announced with little fanfare on Monday (his new site reveals his colour palette now includes duck-egg blue). The first taster from the album is Love Interruption, a lyrically bitter take on love (perhaps inspired by his recent divorce?). "I want love to stick a knife inside me and twist it all around/ I want love to murder my own mother and take her off to somewhere like hell or up above," he sings over a pretty Wurlitzer melody and acoustic guitar, while fellow Nashville singer Ruby Amanfu adds harmonies to a song that feels slight on first listen but is brilliantly compelling.
The Vaccines and Kasabian will also perform â€' and Jack Whitehall will host the ceremony
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read the headlines of Sweden’s redtops, as certain parts of the country have hit a newsworthy -35 degrees.
We’ve already started writing in the new year. For the past fortnight we have set up shop in an old theatre near the remote Swedish town of Alvsbacka (Latitude: 59° 43’ 0 N, Longitude: 13° 40’ 0 E, for all you GOS heads out there), between two vast lakes that have completely frozen over.
On arrival, 15 ft from the front door our van decided 7 tonnes of recording gear was all too much and rolled slowly into a ditch. After some futile struggling with snow chains and 3 twig limbed musicians pushing the back, we gave up and called the area handyman. He knew an 86 year old with a tractor who kindly offered to tow us out, once he’d finished his tea. God bless you, you beautiful gaffer of the night.
Most days are a steady -7 degrees, punctuated only by trips to the shed for more firewood and the occasional stint in the lakeside sauna (pants on, we are British after all). We share our lodgings with a pair of mice considerate enough to maintain a crumb free kitchen floor and keep the squeaking down to a minimum whilst we’re recording the melodeon.
We’ve...
The London rapper will appear alongside The Vaccines, Example and DJ Shadow
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The former White Stripes man talks to Zane Lowe about debut solo album 'Blunderbuss'
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On Monday, however, Jack White announced the April 24 release of "Blunderbuss," his debut solo album, which will be released on Third Man Records/Columbia.
They'll battle likes of Kasabian, Odd Future and Azealia Banks for gongs at next month's ceremony
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With the White Stripes officially in the rearview, it's time for Jack White's solo LP. The record is called Blunderbuss and it's out April 24 via Third Man/Columbia, according to his snazzy new website. Listen to low-key first single "Love Interruption" above.
Marcus Collins gives his reasons for covering The White Stripes and working in the studio with Gary Barlow.
Ex-White Stripes man will release debut solo album 'Blunderbuss' on April 23
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Minimalist composer Steve Reich will premiere 'Radio Rewrite' next year
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Terry Richardson Put Up Some Photos From Some Shoot With Tyler, Taco, Jasper, Lboy, LUCAS And Josh Terris ( go cop FERSHER mag). Click Photo For The Rest.
Tony Hawk Interviews ( Some) Of The Gang At Their Pop Up Shop In Australia. Sick!
BADBADNOTGOOD Releases The Jam Session of ORANGE JUICE With Tyler.
HI!
it's very busy round here at the moment..
the office is in fact full of people measuring things and making lists but i have struggled my way to the photocopier to send you an office chart
sit back and enjoy..
1. It was all a dream by Zomby
2. Stayput by Aardvark
3. Percussion One by Percussions
4. Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never
5. Shyness is Golden by Kid606
6. An iceberg hurled northward through clouds by Gold Panda
7. An echo from the hosts that profess infitium by Shabazz Palaces
8. Conquistador by Yesterdays New Quintet
9. Larari-Olala by Jorge Ben
10. The perilous NIght: VI.- by John Cage.. played by Phillipp Vandre
11. Cactus by Objekt
12. La La by The Stepkids
13. Didn't cha Know by Erykah Badu
........right where's me sysex?
Thom
Adele’s Live from the Artists Den performance at the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club will premiere on public television Friday, February 3, 2012. Check your local listings at artistsden.com.
Photo by Jeffrey Herman
The Guardian reports that next year, minimalist composer Steve Reich will premiere a new work at London's Southbank Centre, based on two Radiohead songs. Titled "Radiohead Rewrite", the piece reimagines "Everything In its Right Place" from Kid A as well as "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" from In Rainbows. It will be performed by 13 musicians from the London Sinfonietta on March 5, 2013.
Katy B, Razorlight and The Levellers are also confirmed for Midlands festival
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Photo by Loren Wohl
Update: SBTRKT has also announced the release of a 12" vinyl single for the cut "Wildfire" from his 2011 LP. It's out February 21 on XL and features the original version, an instrumental cut and Drake's OVO remix.
UK bassman SBTRKT is about to begin a long tour in support of his excellent self-titled LP from last year. He'll play dates in Australia, Europe, the UK, and North America, including stops at SXSW and Coachella. Producer Travis Stewart will join the bill as both Machinedrum and one-half of Sepalcure for several dates. New signing to XL imprint Hot Charity Willis Earl Beal will also open.
What's the magic number when it comes to Adele's album "21"? 21, of course.
Example, Katy B, Spector and Thee Brandy Hips also join the event's line-up
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The rap collective will play five shows in March and April
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Hey, A Cute OF Tour. Around The Time OF Tape Vol 2 Comes Out. Click Photo To Get Your Tickets, Before Scalpers Get Them And You Complain About The Resale Price And Shit. K, Bye. P.S, Love.
Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" takes over atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, dethroning Rihanna's "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris, after 10 weeks and making history in the process.
It seems that every week, there is a new Adele-related accolade to tout. And this week is no different, as her "21" album hits its 17th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart
I'm so happy, think I could cry
Then the moment is lost to the sky
In the silence something is heard
Brings us back down crashing to earth
Heaven is a place
No one lied
It's rushing through your veins
Flooding your eyes
She's so worried the end is in sight
She could stay there for the rest her life
A peculiar pain within her arose
As the perfect frame couldn't be froze
Heaven is a place
No one lied
It's rushing through your veins
Flooding your eyes
It's hidden in your brain
The sweetest surprise
We'll be gone soon
Heaven is a place
No one lied
It's rushing through your veins
Flooding your eyes
It's hidden in your brain
The sweetest surprise
The mystery remains
Until we die
Thom Yorke posted on Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog that the band contributed a number of songs from their back catalog to the documentary film The Island President.
Thom Yorke also speaks out in support of the film's stance on climate change
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Noel Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane also shifted a lot of vinyl in 2011
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The song is his first new material since 'Everything Is New'
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No One Lied
The 'Pala' band will be working on new ideas in a seculded log cabin in Sweden
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Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about live music you've seen recently
Each week we publish a list of concerts our writers will be covering in the next few days, and we invite you to tell us about the shows you've attended recently or bands you're hoping to see soon.
Here's what some of our readers were looking forward to last week:
Saw Christina Perri last night in Glasgow. Very polished performance, but it was so...lovely that it's hard to hate. She can write a bloody good tune as well. Next proper band I'm going to see is Mastodon on the 7th February at the Barrowlands.
Friday is the rescheduled gig by The Horrors postponed from last October, the hotly tipped Toy are supporting. I shall be drinking Bath Ales....
A week later is the first proper gig of the year - Wild Flag on the good ship Thekla way down in the Bristol mud dock delta. I shall be drinking rum...
Field Music at the Fleece in Bristol is another I intend to go to....I am aiming on 52 gigs this year, so have to step up a gear...and probably earn more ££££...
If the Guardian wants to review the current tour by The Walkabouts, then they'll have to send someone to a place like Amsterdam, Berlin or Copenhagen, as the band can't get a gig in the UK...Last night's show in Vienna...
'The Island President' is a film about the Maldives, and the struggle of President Nasheed to get the voice of a small nation heard in the climate change debate.
Unless something is done to stop rising sea levels they will lose everything.
The country will be under water.
Some of our music was used to help tell the story.
The film won 'Best Documentary' at the Toronto film festival and will be screened this week at the Sundance film festival.
Thom
Adele added another achievement to her ever-expanding book of records as "21" returned 2-1 in its first anniversary on the U.K. album chart. Meanwhile, Jessie J started a second week atop the singles chart with "Domino."
Rapper will join Calvin Harris and Ed Sheeran in topping the bill at Welsh festival
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Guitarist unveils new classical side project
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Back in September, we reported that Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and legendary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki were making an album together. That self-titled LP is now set for release March 13 via Nonesuch.
The timeless voice of Etta James has inspired countless listeners for decades, and following her passing today, her vocal successors are paying tribute.
Toy have been turning up on a lot of ones-to-watch lists for 2012. Their debut single Left Myself Behind, a limited-edition 12in on the Heavenly label is a psychedelic delight. Their live shows â€' including a stint supporting the Horrors last year â€' have been widely acclaimed. Three members of the band used to be in the much-hyped Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, but don't let that put you off â€' they are a different proposition entirely, as Alexis found out when they came in to talk about being hot property for a second time.
Also this week, Alexis is joined by Michael Hann and Jude Rogers to review VCMG's Spock, Fucked Up's Year of the Tiger and Django Django's Default.
Leave a comment below or tweet @MusicWeeklyPod.
'21' has topped the Billboard chart for 16 weeks
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Singer's phenomenally successful second album has now spent 16 weeks on top of the US chart
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Jamie xx has teamed up with Caribou for a 100-minute mix as part of the Boiler Room Podcast series. The collab came as part of a celebratory event for the release of Radiohead's remix album TKOL RMX 1234567 at London's Corsica Studios. You can listen to that here, via Abeano.
Blue Ivy Carter's mom's "4" will vie with Brown's "Fame," Jennifer Hudson's "I Remember Me" and others in the Outstanding Album category.
Adele's "21" becomes just the 20th album in the Billboard 200's five-decade-plus history to reign for at least 16 weeks.
British pop star Adele tops the US album chart for a sixteenth week, putting her album 21 amongst an elite group of best-sellers.
"This is the first and last time I will comment" on her current relationship, the "Rolling in the Deep" singer wrote.
As expected, Adele's "21" spends its 16th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Its reign is the longest since the "Titanic" soundtrack also earned 16 weeks at No. 1 in 1998.
He also wants help from Janelle Monae, The Roots and Alicia Keys
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Band's new TV show also set to launch this year...
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Odd Future announce their LP release date and ten city tour.
We are pleased to announce our first live dates for 2012! We will be playing across Australia as part of Future Music Festival in March and will be following this with a show in Indonesia. It's gonna be huge!
03 Mar Doomben Racecourse, Brisbane, Australia [Tickets]
04 Mar Arena Joondalup, Perth, Australia [Tickets]
10 Mar Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia [Tickets]
11 Mar Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia [Tickets]
12 Mar Ellis Park, Adelaide, Australia [Tickets]
The spotlight has shone on the countless side projects of various Odd Future members for some time now, but the collective is back at work as a team again. The crew will release OF Tape Vol. 2, the follow up to their 2008 debut mixtape, The Odd Future Tape, on Odd Future Records on March 20.
Already named 'Artist of the Year' with 2011's top selling album and song, Adele has topped yet another list: karaoke. One in four karaoke performers chooses a track by the British songstress, making her the most-sung artist in the U.K.
For his latest solo show, the Danish artist pits monkey opposite man at the V1 Gallery in Copenhagen
Sometimes a creative idea or concept is so fascinating, so full of creative potential, it is worth revisiting and exploring some more. This is exactly the thinking behind Danish artist Troels Carlsen's latest exhibition, Sipping from the Mirrors, at the V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. The collection of lithographs form a collection that has never been seen outside Basel before and highlights the skilful, unique detailing and distinctive style the artist has perfected throughout his acclaimed career. For Carlsen the exhibition is a chance to explore ideas of humanity, nature and duality, incorporating his early creative ... article continues »
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Adele and Rihanna helped pop albums outsell rock last year, according to the Official Charts Company.
Sales figures suggest alternative rock is in a dismal place right now. Will it ever recover? And should we care?
This year's Brit awards will be a melancholy experience for indie fans. The genre's big performers on the evening will be Blur and Noel Gallagher, a pairing that will evoke memories of the 1995 ceremony, when Britpop swept the old guard away, and thus highlight the contrast with the current state of play. The latest issue of Q magazine opens its review of the new Maccabees album with the rhetorical question: "Has there ever been a worse musical climate to be a guitar band in Britain?" The past is another country. The British public buys guitar music there.
Just before Christmas US music writer Eric Harvey compiled a list of sales figures for the top 50 albums in Pitchfork's end-of-year poll, inspiring the Guardian to conduct a similar exercise (see below). Each list prompts much the same conclusion. Of the five albums in Pitchfork's list that sold more than 100,000 copies in the US in 2011 only two (Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes) are indie artists. In the Guardian's top 40 the only alternative acts to pass 100,000 (the benchmark for a gold record) are Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Noah and the Whale, PJ Harvey, Radiohead and Laura Marling.
Of course critics' polls are not an authoritative measure and other indie artists exceeded 100,000 sales in the US (including Wilco, Feist, the Black Keys,...
Jacques Greene: "Arrow" [ft. Koreless]
Canadian producer Jacques Greene had an eventful 2011: he released the sublime single "Another Girl", ably remixed Kelly Rowland's "Motivation", contributed to the Radiohead remix album, and appeared in the music video for Azealia Banks' "212" (he's the glasses-wearing guy she's singing at).
David Bowie's 'Heroes' also proves to be a favourite with singing fans
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Band can't hold onto midweek Number One spot with 'Given To The Wild'
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The singer is only the sixth artist to top the social chart.
Some Footage From Norway Summer 2011.
A new study shows how difficult it is for European artists to gain pan-European success, even if their lyrics are in English
If you want to cross borders as a European artist, you had better sing in English. This may not come as a huge surprise, but the extent of the US domination of European airwaves and download charts might. A new report by Emmanuel Legrand, commissioned by the European Music Office and Eurosonic Noorderslag, shows how difficult it is for European artists to gain pan-European success, even if their lyrics are in English â€' and if you're a rock act, you may as well pack up and go home.
The study, based on data supplied by measurement and analytics company Nielsen, looked at the top 200 airplayed (taking into consideration the size of each station's audience) and legally downloaded tracks in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Poland, as well as on a pan-European level. From September 2010 to August 2011, with the exception of Adele, only American acts â€' including Jennifer Lopez, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas â€' managed to top the charts across Europe. That is, apart from Frenchman David Guetta, who is responsible for most of the tracks that helped put France in third place when it comes to pan-European airplay, after the US and the UK. One can, of course, argue almost all of his hits feature American artists. In fourth place...
We’re happy to confirm Adele has been nominated in three categories at the Brit Awards 2012 which will be held on 21st February in London.
British Female Solo Artist
British Album – 21
British Single – Someone Like You (Vote here)
Ed Sheeran is also tipped to take home at least one statue next month
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Adele, Coldplay, Florence & The Machine and Jessie J were among the British artists to earn multiple 2012 BRIT Award nominations, which were announced on Thursday (Jan. 12).
The '21' singer is set to return to the live stage after her recent surgery
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Arctic Monkeys, Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Florence And The Machine are also nominated
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Band will join the Stone Roses at Japan's Fuji Rock festival
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The former White Stripes man appears on 'American Pickers'
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Adele's "21" album hangs in for a whopping 15th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 124,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.
