Some bands don’t need to do a lot to be continually adored by their fans and critics alike. If their style is so good and catchy then why bother changing things dramatically as long as you can continue to write good songs? The Futureheads are a band who have been masters of the British post-punk [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Max
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The world of pop music, which is ever-changing in trends and fashions every hour of every day it seems, is an incredibly fickle one. For one thing, there is the injustice of a songwriter who tries so long to break into the upper echelons,deserves to in fact, and is unrelenting in his/her attempt to breakthrough. [...]

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Max
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Woking is not a great place to live, truth be told. I live between there and Guildford and whilst the latter is quite pretty and full of wonderful things to look and at, the former isn’t really much of those things. The recession has, admittedly, wrecked a lot of business in the area and things [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Max
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So here I was, ready to type a post about why Abbey Road studios, a building that was reportedly under threat and rumoured to be sold by EMI, should be saved. As it turned out, the reports were completely untrue. EMI published a statement on Sunday saying that the building will remain under their ownership, [...]

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Max
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Marina Diamandis, aka Marina And The Diamonds and part-Welsh/part-Greek, is definitely a person who quite likes to mix honest and blunt songwriting with pop music that is just a bit OTT and a bit dramatic in nature. That is what brings us to The Family Jewels, her debut LP following a string of successful EPs [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Max
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