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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 days ago
Rod Stewart has made chart history by scoring a UK No 1 album, 34 years after his last one.
Entertainment
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 3 days ago
Bonnie Tyler said she gave it her all after the UK's entry finished 19th out of 26 countries in the Eurovision song contest.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 5 days ago
In a recent interview with Idolator, Australia-born pop star in waiting Betty Who was asked about her musical influences. She listed people like M83 and Oracular Spectacular-era MGMT. However, one listen to Betty's recently released debut EP, The Movement, and it's clear that while those two might have been wafting around atmospherically in the background, bigger pop names such as Katy Perry, Robyn and a clutch of female singers from the 80s bear a bigger influence.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 week ago
Fatboy Slim will return to headline Bestival for its 10th anniversary this year, having been one of the headliners at the first event.
Enterprise
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 week ago
Google launched a subscription music streaming service on Wednesday, stealing ahead of its arch-rival Apple and mounting a threat to other providers such as Spotify.
Entertainment
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 week ago
There was much crowing about "real music" being tarnished by TV talent show fodder when Matt Cardle's cover of the Biffy Clyro's Many Of Horror (re-christened When We Collide) reached number 1 in 2010. And yet, epic ballads that work perfectly when performed in front of a choir and a waterfall of pyrotechnics are swiftly becoming the band's forte, as shown again on new single, Opposite. Despite an opening line that might shock Louis Walsh if it were performed in front of him ("You are the loneliest person that I have ever known"), and another lyric that talks about suturing wounds, there's a brilliant lift into Opposite's chorus that would work perfectly with a montage of a contestant's best moments. Either way, the trio have never shied away from embracing rock's more epic moments, and have clearly utilised the larger video budget that comes with having a number 1 album for their latest video, premiered here. Featuring what looks like singer Simon Neil having a nice leisurely stroll around some fields, the images are soon intercut with slow motion footage of the band being flung from a moving car. Not to give away the ending, but it's not looking good for Simon to be honest.
Entertainment
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 week ago
In 1983, when Bonnie Tyler was first asked to represent Britain at the Eurovision song contest, she turned it down. She was rapidly approaching the height of her career: her single Total Eclipse of the Heart had gone to No 1 in the UK and later that year would hit the top of the charts in the US. To do Eurovision on top of that, "I didn't think it was fair! It just didn't seem right," she says, bright blue eyes widening under thick false lashes. "But now is the perfect time."
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 weeks ago
"The world turns on its dark side", proclaims the opening music of A Child of Our Time, the Oratorio which English composer and pacifist Michael Tippett began writing on the day that Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and which tells the story of the murderous events that led up to Kristallnacht in 1938.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 weeks ago
Blur are on the verge of recording a new album, judging by their strongest hints yet.