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Category: Music

  • Jack Peñate – Tonight’s Today

    I fly to Thailand tonight – I’ve finally finished packing, the rain just stopped pouring and just as the sun started to beam through, Jack Peñate’s new single Tonight’s Today came on the radio. A very different sounding track, It’s a brave move changing your sound as much as Peñate has from his debut album Matinee (which got old,…

  • Radio One Live Lounge: The Fray – Heartless and a little man called Kanye

    I don’t really need any more convincing to be a bigger fan of The Live Lounge, but Radio One and their guests just keep churning out more outstanding tracks.  The Fray’s cover of Kanye West’s Heartless being one of them. Kaye West appears to be a popular choice to cover too.  Soon to be super group,…

  • Crazy Cousinz feat Kyla – Do You Mind

    Between job hunting and writing my next installment for eZine Zani, I’ve taken five minutes out to lapse back into one of my biggest passions; music.   If you haven’t already, you’ll be hearing Do You Mind by Crazy Cousinz featuring Kyla all over radio stations and clubs over the next couple of weeks.  I’ve resisted the…

  • Kevin Yost – Insight

    My on-going job search has pretty much been accompanied by Last fm for the last week or so, leading me to discover deep house DJ, Kevin Yost and his track Insight. It’s from his Hypnotic Progressions album and with over a hundred releases since 1996, I’m surprised I haven’t come across his really rather good…

  • Daniel Merriweather says Change – listen up UK economy

    Not only am I looking for work but I’ve just heard on the radio that I’m one in two million doing so.   I’ve spent the last four hours or so scouring the internet looking for both freelance and permanent posts.  So far, with very little reward.  So naturally, on a fruitless task, I got…

  • Escape the cold with Deadmau5 & Jaded

    Over the last couple of days I’ve been starting to think about my 2009 trip to Ibiza.  It’s not a holiday I want to get into doing every year (if nothing for other than the fact I simply couldn’t afford to) but this year, my flights are already booked to see in the big 30.…

  • Little Comets – One Night In October

    I’m not usually a huge fan of indie music simply because it seems there’s just one band after another releasing pretty much the same track.  However, I’m quite taken by Newcastle’s latest export – Little Comets.   Formerly known as Free Runner, Little Comet’s debut single One Night In October has all the ingredients required…

  • Out of Office – Break of Dawn 2008

    Pre New Years eve carnage, I was at the gym doing interval training yesterday and heard the end of a track I just had to hunt down.  Amazingly, I managed it find it going on the basis of very few lyrics – ‘suitcase at the door’ and ‘we’ve got a love’.  I knew of the…

  • Radio One Live Lounge – the gift that keeps on giving

    Christmas is usually a time involving stuffing yourself with mince pies and turkey, lazing infront of the TV and unwrapping more than one gift you didn’t really want.  Don’t get me wrong it’s not that I’m ungrateful, I’m just more a fan of giving as oppposed to receiving and sadly it seems there isn’t a Christmas that…

  • (Set your) Heart on Fire with Cut Copy

    I’ve been working at a digital agency the last couple of weeks, which not only has been a lot of fun but also introduced me to one or two great new tracks.  First on the list is Hearts on Fire by Australian band Cut Copy.  It’s from In Ghost Colours, their second album that reached…

  • Beyoncé gets fierce with fashion

        Beyoncé?  Sorry who? Beyoncé Knowles’s alter ego Sasha Fierce has taken centre stage complete with medieval, robot inspired get up reminiscent of Madonna’s Jean Paul Gaultier number.    Fashion mogul Thierry Mugler, (known more so for his fragrance Angel these days than his 80s power dressing), has been commissioned to design Beyoncé’s (rather,…

  • Trackback #1 UNKLE – Lonely Soul

    I decided to take to the sofa last Sunday, not leave the house and fill my afternoon with movies.   Danny Boyle’s The Beach was one of them.  At eight years old, it’s maybe quite an old (very good) film but its soundtrack still packs a punch with tracks such as  Mory Kante’s Yeke Yeke and William Orbits…

  • The End…of London’s club scene?

    Following the announcement The End is to close in January 2009; the ill fate of four more London clubs has been sealed.  Supposedly some of the glitziest clubs of London (and regular hang outs to C-list celebrities), Café Royal, Paper, Dolce and Chinawhite now add to the list of clubs to close.  In January this…

  • Sunday soundtrack #2: Pryda – Armed

    Under the aliases Sheridan, Moo, Cirez D or Pryda, Eric Prydz continues to release euphoric, floor filling beats.  Armed by Pryda (released in April 2007) may have potentially been bypassed by better known tracks Proper Education and Call on me with THAT video but deserves a mention in its own right.   Discovered yet again thanks to the…

  • Sunday Soundtrack: Georg Levin – Leisure Suit

    Thanks to the wonders of Last.fm, I came across a lovely little laidback track by Georg Levin called ‘Leisure Suit’.      One half of electro pop slash house act Wahoo, Berlin based Levin has been musically minded since childhood, playing in bands and experimenting with recording equipment.    After meeting Alexander Barck from Jazzanova (co-founder…

  • Take Me Away – Damian Wilson feat. Ann Bailey

    Thanks to a free sampler CD by CR2 records that I picked up in Café Mambo, Ibiza (which turned out to be awesome) Take Me Away by Damian Wilson has become the latest dance track I’m obsessing over.  Sadly, the particular remix I’m after by Searle, mixed by female Danish duo Delicious would appear not…

  • George Benson & Nuyorican Soul – ‘You can do it baby’

    Sunday morning, the sun was shining and on my walk to indulge in a bit of every girls favourite pass time (shopping, unoriginally) my shuffle did me proud.  George Benson & Nuyorican Soul’s ‘You can do it baby’ couldn’t have been a better choice to accompany what was more than likely the last of the…

  • Olympic Airways – Foals; How to make your heat skip a four minute & twenty-three second beat.

    We’ve been talking in the office about going to see Foals for a while now yet never quite got round to getting tickets as that thing called ‘work’ kept getting in the way.  I first saw Foals at Radio One’s big weekender this summer and was instantly transfixed by the catchy off beat drumming and…

  • Dimitri from Paris – Talkin’ All That Jazz (Stetsasonic mix)

    This time next week, I will be dancing my not so huge ass off in none other than Space, Ibiza (post warm up at the amazing Bora Bora).  With good friends in tow, one of whom will be celebrating her big 30, we’ll be lucky enough to be busting our moves to Dimitri from Paris…

  • Samin – ‘Heater’ and THAT accordion.

    I can’t help but smile as I write this as it reminds me of a time filled with lots of laughs, free drinks and a friendly argument.    Pounding the treadmill this evening (I wish), a particular music video grabbed my attention with cuts of people dancing crazily in various shapes akin to my own…