Fernando Torres scores the winner as Spain beat Germany to lift Euro 2008. 1. Coldplay-Viva La Vida/Lil' Wayne-Tha Carter 3 Both albums are amazing in very different ways, inseparable. Beginning with Coldplay, their 4th album marked a welcome return to form for the band, after the disappointment of X and Y (still a great album). this album proper restored my faith [...]
An earthquake in China kills 8000 people 1. Death Cab For Cutie-Narrow Stairs In a month of 4 fantastic albums, Death Cab just edged it for my favourite of the month (they are my favourite band after all). I go through phases of thinking this is amazing and the album of the year, and phases of being disappointed by it. It is their best album musically by along way, but Gibbards lyrics are somewhat too literal, and not the dark and subtle stuff of [...]
Surgeons at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital perform the first operations using bionic eyes , implanting them into two blind patients. 1. The Last Shadow Puppets-The Age of the Understatement Once again Alex Turner comes up with a strong contender for album of the year (2009 is unlikely to be any different). This album is a fantastic blend of driving rhythms and soft crooning ballads, all with a brilliant nostalgic feel to it. Alex Turner is fast becoming the best British songwriter [...]
The Good, The Amazing and The Cheeeeese below Death Cab For Cutie-Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Mariah Carey-All i want for Christmas Ron Sexsmith-Maybe this Christmas Wham-Last Christmas Coldplay-Have yourself a Merry little Christmas Low-Just like christmas Bing Crosby-White Christmas Mel&Kim-Rockin' Around the Christmas Time East 17-Stay Another Day The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl-Fairytale of New York [...]
newly leaked Kid Cudi, super boo. gonna be massssiveee. the crookers remix of day n nite is gettin loadsa airplay. download link below + the song off of A Kid Named Cudi with Wale. Kid Cudi-Super Boo Kid Cudi-Is There Any Love? (feat. Wale)
London Heathrow Terminal 5 opens to mass protest, and large scale operational problems. The best albums and gigs of March 2008 1. Frank Turner-Love, Ire & Song These days, it's not often that an album grabs you from the first chord and you just and listen through every track, without doing anything else. Frank's perfect blend of folk/rock with his punk heart from his Million Dead days, combined with perfect tales of loneliness and epic social commentaries makes for [...]
noooooooooooooooo so she is dead, rendering Sylar's whole storyline for the past season almost pointless? no time for in depth recap for this episode so just a few thoughts. aparently this is hoe Elles body birning scene should have been... According to a blog post by Greg Beeman, the scene in which Sylar burns Elle's body was originally written a little differently. "There was a final shot Jeannot designed for this scene that ended up being cut out. It was a huge crane shot that swooped away as Sylar stood over Elle's burning body. [...]
incredibly late on this one. but its worth it. not gonna write alot (wait for review of the year: march), but serious they are amazing. M.Ward is a brilliant musician and Zooey Deschanel is a great singer and songwriter. only listened to this album 1nce and its already creeping into my 2008 top 20. link below to their Smokey Robinson cover... She & Him-You Really Gotta Hold on Me i have been listening to loads of albums i missed over the year today, and after the disappointments of ushers "here [...]
just saw the collaborations on youtube this morning, pretty much the first ive seen of the show this year, and alexandra definitely deserved to win. jls with westlife was embarrassingly cheesy and eoghan singing with boyzone was much the same. ronan keating must be about 100 now. anywho, the above video is of alexandra doing beyonces "listen", a song i dont even like, but she performs it so well. when beyonce comes on it does kindof show how much better real artists are than reality tv winners though, she absolutely merks it. wonder how much she got paid for those [...]
the very best of february. 1. Laura Marling-Alas I Cannot Swim The Reading born indie-folk songstress finally gets an album out, and it's superb. 12 perfect tales of teenage romance. From the perfectly poppy Cross Your Fingers to the epically dark Night Terror. The potential this 18 year old shows is frightening. courtesy of Sean~regular blogger at There's Affection To Rent This is a hot album. she is hot in a weird albino way. adele [...]
no explanation needed. just listen. link below Kanye West, Lykke Li, Santogold-Gifted im listening to the new wiley album. i dont undestand why one of the best grime producers in the world/uk has an album in which he only producers (coprod at that) one of the tracks on it
It is incredible that Mr Hudson has gone from headlining libraries spring 2007...to supporting Kanye West...to signing to his label...to featuring on his album...to co-producing on his album!! incredible! Mr Hudson (and the library-there is some confusion as to whether they are going to be credited on his next album or what? they still play live with him) have such a crazy unique indescribable sound ( read this guardian article from march 07 ). Anywho, the Kanye connection has had a clearly huge influence on his new single, there will be tears. Hudson is on the vocoder and the song [...]
no idea what this is from, maybe LUPE.N.D. which is going to be a triple alum, apparently his last. i dont believe it. rappers say that they are retiring all the time. anyways, this is fucking awesome, the beat on this is amazing. dont know who produced it, but they have done a great job! download below... Lupe Fiasco-Hustlers and customers best rapper alive? edit: i have now heard this is most definitely an old demo!
After Damon Albarn announced the band were going back into the studio to see what they could create NME had this exclusive today... Blur are reforming to play live next year, NME can exclusively reveal. The full line-up – Damon Albarn , Graham Coxon , Alex James and Dave Rowntree – will play their first gigs [...]
"Blood Bank" is Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon's) new EP and is much in the same vane as his fantastic debut "For emma". except for the last track...in which he seems to be using Auto-Tune. Someone should tell him that Auto-Tune is for people who cant sing well, not for someone who has one of the best voices in music... Makes for pretty interesting listening anyway! this is what his record label has to say of the EP, set to be released in January... "As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about [...]
they have some great pop songs!! "New Year" is a pop song written by British group Sugababes, and Jony Lipsey, Cameron McVey, Felix Howard, Matt Rowe and Paul Simm for their debut studio album One Touch (2000). It was co-produced by Lipsey, McVey and Simm. The song was released as the album's second single in the winter of 2000 and reached the top fifteen in the United Kingdom, where it sold 75,000 copies. It also reached the top thirty on the Irish Singles Chart, but failed to make an impact on the [...]
nooooooooooooooooo. ok so Sylar was never gonna really die...when I first watched this episode for some reason I thought this was possible, and I also thought Clare might be dead for real. How was I so stupid? I suppose the huge build up to the eclipse as a major event that would have massive repercussions for the Heroes etc etc made me believe 2 of the biggest characters in the show could be killed of within 10 seconds of each other! Turns out all their powers were just turned back on when the eclipse [...]
Coldplay were amazing on Saturday. First date on the UK arena tour, so so goood! Check out this budding young journalist/sociology student/waste Sean's review on his blog here download new song "glass of water" from their recent ep "prospekts march" by clicking below... Coldplay-Glass of Water
pretty sweet. new album next year? apparently shes been playing loads of new stuff live. click below to get the mp3... Laura Marling-No Hope in The Air
broooklyn we go hard production by kanye of course. at first i thought it was just a sample of shove it, but santi has a verse on the end, and (much as i hate to admit it) out shines jay-z. cant believe i forgot to include her in the 2008 awards, she truly has been one of the best new artists. download "brooklyn we go hard" from mr wests blog (this'll get deleted otherwise), download here I find it so funny that Kanye leaks so many tracks on his blog now, both his and jay-z's, [...]
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