When Azealia Banks dropped her single Anna Wintour back in 2018 it announced the coming of a record that was capable of being an international dance floor anthem. It was deserving of the commercial success that Azealia’s break out hit and cult favourite 212 had received. Two years on, post a critically acclaimed world tour, some outrageous press junkets and sit down interviews, and continued output of quality music, we still have no album. It’s not even known if Azealia Banks has a record deal. Nobody can say that this artist is not incredibly talented. …
Author: Lewis McNair
Is This A New Beginning For The Live Music Scene? Lady Gaga curates virtual concert and benefit for COVID-19. Is this a new beginning for the live music scene? She has raised $35M USD (£28M GBP) and curated the One World: Together at Home, televised benefit concert, a live-streamed, brand new virtual concept that will support the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 solidarity response fund. The lineup includes appearances from Gaga herself, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Alanis Morissette, Green Day, Andrea Bocelli, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Pearl Jam, John Legend, Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Billie Eilish and…
The singer was “drugged for four weeks, raped, and taken abroad” Duffy’s debut album Rockferry arrived in 2008. It was the same year as Adele, Leona Lewis, Gabriella Cilmi, and Estelle reigned in a post-Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black world. All of these women achieved international success. On the surface, it looked like it was a really exciting time for women in UK music. Duffy’s breakout hit, Mercy, went to number 1 in 12 countries and won the singer a Grammy. After her sophomore effort Endlessly dropped in 2010, industry commentators blamed a muted reception to the project on the…
Lewis James offers his take on the 62nd annual recording academy ceremony With TMZ reporting Kobe Bryant’s death to the media before his family had been informed on the morning of the 2020 Grammys awards, it sums up what is wrong with Hollywood. The entertainment industry, when at its best, can offer a critical reflective commentary of the current day. However, with the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, America is facing the struggle of what value it puts on respect and decency, and its people are as divided as they were was during the Vietnam War. RIP to the…
Canadian musician Tim Baker is everything you want to see from an acoustic set in a Jazz bar basement in Dalston on a Tuesday night – pure talent & charm. The former lead singer from renowned indie-rock Canadian band Hey Rosetta! has released more solo material this year and is currently touring the UK & Europe. Now Baker releases The Side Door Sessions EP which was recorded live in intimate, non-venue spaces during the winter of 2018. Baker’s debut critically acclaimed solo album ‘Forever Overhead’ was released early 2019, which was followed by a solo single and EP ‘The Eighteenth…
This independent artist’s star continues to keep to trend and rise and 2020 will be the year that this accomplished music industry consummate remerges as the industry boss she was born to be. From the Settle Washington’s underground music scene to Spelman graduate, to muse to the greats of both the music and fashion elite, and then taking New York City and London town by storm; Kimberly Nichole Johnson has had one hell of a journey in this business. A true representation of an independent artist – after a wildly popular stint on a reality singing TV show…
Over the past few years, it has certainly felt like something has been brewing in team Xtina’s camp. There was the Morocco gig in 2016 which saw her break the record for the most attend concert of all time (a live audience of 250 thousand people), the Whitney Houston tribute in 2017 at the AMA’s (Houston when alive said it was only Christina that was vocally fit to sing her song ‘I Run to You’) and then 2018’s arrival of the album ‘Liberation’ – an LP lauded by critics in acclaim being described as “Aguilera at her most artistically emancipated”.…
From nightclub door girl to a 2 time Grammy winner – the rise of Kosovo born British pop sensation Dua Lipa was meteoric on her self-titled debut. Her critics would say too fast in fact – how on earth did this girl go from walking down Carnaby Street to one of the world’s biggest pop stars in what seemed like only 5 minutes?
One of the UK’s most important British music exports has called for the resignation of the Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg after the Politian claimed the Grenfell Tower fire victims did not use “common sense”. The remarks have caused such uproar across the cultural spectrum that party chairman, James Cleverly, has been forced to come out and make back step’s on the eve of the Tory’s election campaign. Stormzy later went on a 24-hour long twitter rampage, declaring the British government had “Blood on their hands”. Other music stars such as Adele, Rita Ora, Raye…
In October 2014, Kesha Rose Sebert and her mother, “Pebe” filed a suit in a California court of law against Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald, claiming sexual assault, battery and seeking to invalidate the singers recording contracts she signed with the music producer aged 18. Countersuits from both Gottwald and Kesha would follow, however by April 2016, New York Judge Shirley Kornreich dismissed all of Kesha’s counterclaims against Dr. Luke. Kesha and her legal team appealed the injunction decision, and on June 7, 2016, Kesha recorded in a verbal deposition stating all the allegations details. The woman has gone through hell. Kesha…