Taking Over The World 1D If there was an Olympics of boy bands then One Direction would be breaking world records all over the place. We’d put Liam Payne in for the boxing, Niall Horan for gymnastics, and Harry Styles, well it can only be the 100 metres, being the Casanova superstar that he is. Two years ago they were unknown, but after storming to the UK X Factor final in…
In June 2012, Rob Swire, producer and lead singer of Pendulum, announced on twitter that there would be no further Pendulum live shows and no current plans for a new album in 2013. Having been seriously impressed with their third studio album, ‘Immersion’ and seen them put on an incredible live show at Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena, I was disappointed to learn of this news. When asked why Pendulum were splitting, Swire responded; ‘We’re having…
Before the Beastie Boy Adam Yauch passed away from cancer in May of this year, he made one thing very clear in his will: no commercial can feature any music written by him. Along with other artists like Levon Helm of The Band and Tom Waits, Yauch was very much against the usage of music for advertisement purposes. While Yauch’s wishes may appear to be valid, but an article by Wendy S. Goffe in Forbes…
I don’t know who heard about these three feminist punk rockers (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich ), or Pussy Riot, until February this year, when they performed a protest song named “Virgin Mary, redeem us of Putin” in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, with their faces covered with some balaclavas. The song is about claiming Virgin Mary to become a feminist and banish Vladimir Putin, and criticizes the support shown to Putin by…
Last Friday, Lady Gaga, now 26, posted on her facebook page a picture with a tiny tattoo on her wrist, that seems to represent her next album’s name, which is: “ARTPOP”. She specifies, in a twitter post, that she wants “ARTPOP” to be written with capitals : make sure when writing about my new album/project ARTPOP that you CAPITALIZE the title, *its all in the details* good morning twitter! Lady Gaga…
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