Have you noticed everyone's going theatrical this year? Britney, Take That and now, taking it to the Moulin Rouge max, Ludacris. The huge intro on Theater Of The Mind raises the expectation bar, but can the highest ever selling southern American hip-...
Perhaps surprisingly to some, Bass Generation marks ten years in the career of Swedish producer Jonas Altberg, whose arduous brand of house under the Basshunter moniker has only fallen on mainstream UK ears since early 2008. Yet he's risen through th...
Songwriting as catharsis is clearly effective. Otherwise why would it have been done by the likes of Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and so many others, so successfully?
Their trick has been to make it accessible to an au...
Released just four months after Today! in July 1965, The Beach Boys' ninth album was at first deemed by some to be a regression. Its predecessor had, on its second side, revealed the now studio-locked, pot-guzzling Brian Wilson's knack for melancholy...
In July 1962, Bob Dylan - four months after releasing his unremarkable first album - was signed by prestigious music publishing company M. Witmark & Sons. Over the three-year term of his contract, he transformed himself from covers-dependent naif to ...
Dancehall has burst the doors of the Urban scene wide open in the last few years. With artists like Sean Paul and Elephant Man leading the charge, ' Beenie Man- the 'Gal dem Sugar - is back to reclaim his crown.
Back To Basics is just what it claims ...