Another year, another shortlist for the Mercury Prize, another exciting way to tap your line of credit with the bookie. 2007 belonged to Klaxons' Myths Of The Near Future, who went on to collaborate with Rihanna, so you know this... CONTINUE READING MERCURY PRIZE 2008 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR YOUR GAMBLING PLEASURE»
Posted on July 23, 2008 (5 comments)
Tags: Adele | Alex Turner | Alison Krauss | British Sea Power | Burial | Elbow | Estelle | Mercury Prize | Neon Neon | Radiohead | Robert Plant | The Last Shadow Puppets
The tents are collapsed, the recycling collected, the hippies headed to the showers (j/k hippies don't take showers). Bonnaroo '08 now belongs to the chemically enhanced memories of its campers, and to message boards worldwide as people bitch about... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: IT'S A (PHOTO) WRAP»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Adele | Alison Krauss | Bonnaroo | Brendan Benson | Drive-By Truckers | Jack White | José González | M.I.A. | Robert Plant | T-Bone Burnett | Tegan And Sara | The Fiery Furnaces | The Raconteurs | Vampire Weekend
When we snoozed through a clip of the premiere of lovely Lily's BBC Three show, we offered up four points of advice to make her next installment less painful. And she listened to us! About not booking Cuba Gooding, Jr.... CONTINUE READING LILY ALLEN & FRIENDS FAILS TO ENTERTAIN»
Posted on February 21, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: Adele | Lily Allen
Amy Winehouse and Rihanna performed, Foo Fighters and Kanye West won, and the show was "was largely free of surprises" according to AP. Sounds like the Grammys, but alas, we're talking about the Brit Awards. At least instead of will.i.am,... CONTINUE READING 2008 BRIT AWARDS LIKE 2008 GRAMMYS, BUT WITH MORE MIKA»
Posted on February 20, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Adele | Amy Winehouse | BRIT Awards | Foo Fighters | Kanye West | Mark Ronson | Paul McCartney
The BBC conducted a poll of 150 music critics regarding the new bands they see breaking out in '08. For those of you who read the lists by British experts we posted a couple weeks ago, the top 10 shouldn't... CONTINUE READING BBC POLL PICKS 2008'S BREAKOUT ARTISTS»
Posted on January 7, 2008 (15 comments)
Tags: Adele | Black Kids | Duffy | Foals | Glasvegas | Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jongs | MGMT | Santigold | The Ting Tings | Vampire Weekend
If you really had the power of foresight, and its outer limits were the ability to predict next year's breakout music artist, in this fiscal climate it'd be about as lucrative or useful as Isaac's albino-eyeballed painting-predictions about people you... CONTINUE READING BRITISH EXPERTS PREDICT 2008'S BREAKOUTS»
Posted on December 21, 2007 (47 comments)
Tags: Adele | Duffy | Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jongs | MGMT | Patrick Wolf | The Ting Tings | Vampire Weekend | Wavves | Yeasayer
