• Artist of the Month: Yuna Zarai

    With the release of her self titled album in late April, Yuna Zarai has emerged as a truly unique artist. Having released a self titled EP in 2008, and her album, ‘Decorate’, in 2010, Yuna was already a star in her native Malaysia before being discovered online and subsequently signed to Fader Label. This multifaceted Malaysian […]
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    Artist of the Month: Charlene Soraia

    A sophisticated sound sitting on the sensibilities of intimacy and honesty, one can’t help but marvel at Charlene Soraia’s expressive and enchanting melodies. A fusion of folk with tones of jazz, her sound echoes the ambience of Simone White crossed with Corinne Bailey Rae and entwined with a touch of Zero 7. Charlene Soraia is […]
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    Coldplay’s Album: No Spotify, Rdio or Rhapsody – No Streaming

    It has emerged that Coldplay will not be distributing their latest album, ‘Mylo Xyloto’, via music streaming sites such as Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody. Handlers of the EMI band have sited the reason for this decision as being that Coldplay want the album to be experienced as one cohesive piece as opposed to as individual […]
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    Artist of the Month: Ed Sheeran

    Potentially the definition of versatility, Ed Sheeran has the flows, the vocals, the instrumentation and most of all the writing to slot into pretty much any genre. He literally does it all, sings, plays guitar, beat boxes and raps (although he claims it isn’t rapping). With the September 12th release of his first album which […]
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    Lady Gaga’s Manager Has the Right Idea: Free Music

    Speaking at Facebook’s F8 conference, Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s manager, put forward this simple idea; free music. His words “If it was up to me, I’d give away the next album and put it on every handset that I can put it on…” Not a bad idea, not only for the consumer but for the […]
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    Will Facebook’s Twitter-like Subscribe Replace Pages

    It seems Facebook is now following in the footsteps of Twitter by allowing what can be seen in Facebook terms as one way friending or in Twitter terms following. Facebook, however, have opted to call their unidirectional relationships ‘Subscribe’. The concept of followers was arguably pioneered by Twitter with the vast majority of sites that […]
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    Artist of the Month: Aaliyah

    This August marks 10 years since the extremely beautiful and equally talented Aaliyah Haughton tragically lost her life. Singer, dancer, actress, an influence to a generation, Aaliyah encompassed passion, sensuality, and a sense of magic that seamlessly permeated through everything she did. Visually stunning and vocally enchanting, the mesh of her musical and aesthetic style […]
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    Rap Duets, Rap Duets, Everybody’s Doing Rap Duets

    It has been confirmed that Lil’ Wayne and Drake will be collaborating on an album once they get their solo efforts out of the way. This news following the initial success and reception of veteran Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaborative effort ‘Watch the Throne’. Watch the Throne is arguably the biggest hook up since Jay […]
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    The Secret Behind Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass

    It’s easy to forget that Nicki Minaj is in fact a rapper. Visually she fits neither established conventions of female rappers to date. These being boyish swag and over sexualisation. Aesthetically she is closer to resembling an R&B singer and this is also audible in her somewhat melodic delivery. Ronald Williams, cofounder of cash money, […]
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