Jay Sean: Ahead of the race

Tagged with:

british, p, pop, seven

Published Dec. 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
634843-jay-sean--ahead-of-the-race

At seven o'clock on a freezing November morning in Osterley, a west London enclave so close to Heathrow Airport you can wave to the flight attendants as they pass by overhead and watch as they wave back, Hounslow's biggest pop star gets into the awaiting taxi with a smile that suggests the early start doesn't trouble him. In many ways, this is a typical day at the office for Jay Sean. He is due on breakfast television in an hour to promote his single "Down" (number three in the charts at the

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Eric Woolfson, Co-Founder of Alan Parsons Project, Dies at 64

Tagged with:

british, pop

Published Dec. 4, 2009 at 1:23 a.m.
634842-eric-woolfson--co-founder-of-alan-parsons-project--dies-at-64

Mr. Woolfson was a founder and the principal songwriter and vocalist of the Alan Parsons Project, a British group that took its ambitious, sophisticated progressive rock to the pop charts ...

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Dizzee Rascal: pop star of the decade

Tagged with:

british, james, joy division's, mercury prize, new order's, pop

Published Nov. 28, 2009 at 7:07 p.m.

The aspiring grime spitter featured in the first issue of OMM back in 2003 and made the cover in 2007. Now he's the biggest British pop star of 2009 ... On the evening of 19 October 2003, the crowds gathering on Tower Bridge to await David Blaine's emergence from his Perspex box heard a booming bassline bubbling up from the fast-flowing surface of the Thames beneath them. A small boat packed with revellers – notable among them the already familiar, wiry figure of Dizzee Rascal – had sailed

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Album: David McAlmont & Michael Nyman, The Glare, (MN Records)

Tagged with:

british, pop's

Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
586730-album--david-mcalmont--amp--michael-nyman--the-glare---mn-records

David McAlmont is one of British pop's most precious hidden treasures. His voice is a sublime and miraculous thing, able to convey unimaginable reserves of vulnerability and inner strength in one wavering syllable ...

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

N-Dubz and the second coming of Brit pop

Tagged with:

amy winehouse, brit pop, brit+pop, british, james, music, music', pop, seven

Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 7:07 p.m.

It has been a long, rocky road for homegrown urban music in the UK, but this year N-Dubz and a close-knit group of stars have stormed the charts. Ben Thompson hails the new Brit pop scene's key players ... It's just before 3am on a Friday in October. The paparazzi are still hunting for scraps on the street outside the glitzy May Fair hotel, like city foxes going through the bins. Supposedly there was an improbable summit meeting between Jordan and Cheryl Cole going on inside earlier. And Mel B

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

'It happened to me. It could happen to anyone at any time' | Corinne Bailey Rae

Tagged with:

amy winehouse, cast, glastonbury, james, pop, primal scream, radiohead, shed, wire

Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:49 p.m.

From out of the darkest place, following the sudden death of her husband, Corinne Bailey Rae is re-emerging with an extraordinarily intimate and impassioned album. Here she talks about grief and the redemptive power of music ... In the summer of 2007, Corinne Bailey Rae headlined the Jazz World stage at the Glastonbury festival. It was a fitting finale to a whirlwind 18 months spent promoting her eponymous debut album. Released in February 2006, it became one of the pop soundtracks of the

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Spandau Ballet, the Blitz kids and the birth of the New Romantics

Tagged with:

british, depeche mode, pop, punk, seven

Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:08 p.m.

A movement that went on to dominate the charts and fashion worldwide grew out of a small club scene in London in the early 80s. One insider recalls how Steve Strange and Spandau Ballet revitalised the UK music scene ... When my phone rang in January 1980, little did I realise its message meant: "Put out the cat. You're coming to the party of your life." The voice on the other end spoke without pausing: "My name's Steve Strange and I run a club called the Blitz on Tuesdays and I'm starting a

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

All Tomorrow's Parties | DVD review

Tagged with:

british, isle of wight, pop, portishead

Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:09 p.m.

(Warp) ... While music festivals have flourished in recent years, another venerable tradition, the music festival film, has all but died out. The best of those movies - DA Pennebaker's Monterey Pop, the Maysles brothers' Gimme Shelter and Murray Lerner's Message to Love (about the 1970 Isle of Wight festival) - not only served as documents of the times but did much to propagate the myth of the music festival as the locus of a ritualistic experience that united artist and audience. Into this

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Pop review: Maps, Turning the Mind | CD review

Tagged with:

depeche mode, james, pet shop boys, pop, spiritualized

Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

(Mute) ... James Chapman, aka Maps, is yet another British laptop electro one-man band, in the mould of Calvin Harris and Theoretical Girl. He comes from Northampton, got a Mercury nomination for his 2007 debut We Can Create, and, in a great many ways, has no distinguishing features in a UK pop landscape awash with arty 80s-influenced synth revivalists. Except for one thing. His second album is a masterpiece that stands with the best - Depeche Mode, Yazoo, the Normal - of the Mute label's

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Porcupine Tree - The Incident

Tagged with:

british, pop

Published Sept. 28, 2009 at 12:16 p.m.

Artist:Porcupine TreeReview:"I was born in '67/The year of Sgt. Pepper and AreYou Experienced?": Steven Wilson, singer-founder of thisdefiantly progressive-rock British band, puts his ideals up frontin "Time Flies," the propulsive, grand-jangle heart of TheIncident. He is as good as his reach. The title suite on thistwo-CD set is the Tree's finest hour: a mounting drama of memoirand real-news trauma, animated with slicing guitars, ghost-songelectronics, mile-high harmonies and smart pop bait.

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback


Featured Advertiser:
Keywords Keywords: