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Devil’s Spoke – Laura Marling
Laura Marling may not have had a string of Number One hits, but it’s her understated success with critics and music lovers which suggests her hauntingly beautiful music will be around for decades to come. I have only listened to Devil’s Spoke, the first release from I Speak Because I Can, [...]
Music On My Mind is a new blog series I’ll be doing for the site. Enjoy!
Empire of the Sun
Enough.said.
The XX
First up is a band that I have been hopelessly addicted to since I got their album in August. The XX have that rare ability to create minimalistic music that packs a certain punch. I am [...]
Digital file-sharing is not going to go away. It is a passion for music which sustains such habits, and yet it is also a passion for music which argues that it cannot go on. Falling sales revenues raises fears that fewer and fewer artists will be able to fund themselves and their music if their [...]
While the hype around Lady GaGa has much more to do with her insanely dangerous style choices than her music, she has been lauded as an icon of the YouTube generation. In spite of her classically-trained pianist skills, I suspect her success has a lot more to do with her quick-thinking and publicity-savvy management. Combining [...]
Ranked 18th on The Rolling Stones’ list of “greatest guitarists of all time” in 2003, John Frusciante is best known for being in Red Hot Chilli Peppers but is also a solo artist in his own right. He caught my eye when I watched this very old video of Anthony Kiedis and himself performing [...]
Often, music is the only thing that can fix my mood when I’m sad, depressed, bored, lonely or all these things.
Below is a list of my favourite songs that, no matter what, always help lift my mood up and restore some zen in my mind!
Radiohead – The Tourist. (click to get mp3)
PLEASE watch the video [...]
The last (and first) time I saw Arctic Monkeys was when I was living abroad in Maryland in 2006. I spent a day or two in Baltimore and they blew me away. Since then I’ve been pretty loyal and own 99% of every song they have ever recorded or performed live. Seeing as I’ve only [...]
