On his upcoming second album, Overgrown, UK electronic saviour James Blake includes a collaborative effort with Wu Tang Clan pack leader RZA in what is a stand out track on an album filled with stand...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 5th April 2013
Last year, Biffy Clyro were playing to a sold out audience at the O2 Arena in London, yet they were not the main billing on the night, with Muse taking top billing on that faithful...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 5th April 2013
Britain, like many other Western countries today, is in a recession, in which just about every ordinary person is feeling the pinch. Four people, who don't seem to have much of a clue about the...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 5th April 2013
Kate Middleton Due Date. Kate Middleton has rested our collective worries by at last announcing the due date of the future King or Queen of England during a Royal trip to Scotland with husband Prince...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 5th April 2013
Grime MC Wiley has walked out on his label Warner Brothers in an explosive rant on Twitter during which he claimed that he 'don't need' the label any more. In his now deleted Tweet, the...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 5th April 2013
Jada Pinkett-Smith has gone on record to address one of the most dogged rumours circulating around Tinseltown for the past few years, revealing what really is the deal with her marriage to Will Smith. During...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 5th April 2013
For Magic Johnson, knowing his son was gay didn't cause him any discomfort, dissatisfaction or disappointment because he was proud of his middle child no matter what his sexual preferences are or any other nagging...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 5th April 2013
Steve Carell had his home surrounded by heavily armed police and SWAT teams from the Los Angeles Police Police Department earlier this week, but not because he is actually a drug barron or was being...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 5th April 2013
The anticipation surrounding the upcoming fourth season of Arrested Development is at fever pitch and yesterday (April 4) the good people at Netflix attempted to ease our hyperactive excitement by announcing the airing date of...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 5th April 2013
Supermarket powerhouse Target have found themselves in a sea cow-sized PR disaster, after the supermarket chain re-branded the 'Dark Heather Gray' dresses being sold on their website as 'Manatee Gray' once the dress sizes reached...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 5th April 2013
Does everyone remember that time when Princess Diana dressed up in drag so she could accompany Freddie Mercury, Kenny Everett and Cleo Rocos to a London gay nightclub? No we'd never heard the story either...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 2nd April 2013
Not every holiday you go on leaves you pining to go home, but a recent excursion to Hawaii that went awry by Heidi Klum and her family probably had them crying out for a return...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 2nd April 2013
Chris Brown: I Lost Everything. Singer Chris Brown has apparently been reflecting on his conscience and perhaps unsurprisingly he didn't like what he saw. So maybe this is why he is showing a much softer,...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 2nd April 2013
If this is a joke then fair play, because Lindsay Lohan's latest cry out for attention might be her funniest yet as the troubled star left everyone scratching their heads by announcing her pregnancy via...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 2nd April 2013
Coldplay's second album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, has been named the nation's favourite in a list compiled by the listeners of BBC Radio 2. The 2002 release was named the top album...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 1st April 2013
Maroon 5 are one of those bands that just don't know when to slow down, and the constantly at work boy band are as busy as ever it would seem following the announcement that they...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 1st April 2013
Joan Rivers may be nearing 80 and is probably made predominately of plastic now, but that still hasn't stopped her from regularly speaking her mind in a bid to knock people down a peg or...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Game of Thrones has begun it's third series on HBO, with the massively successful fantasy-action show looking to continue the phenomenal run of form that it has been on since it first aired in 2011....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 1st April 2013
Lindsay Lohan has a history of mishappenings occurring to her when getting out of vehicles in the past, and upon her arrival in the Brazilian island of Florianopolis the actress managed to escape with a...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Well it's taken a solid 23-years of brainstorming and experimenting, but Chris Brown has finally come to the conclusion that hitting women, in any capacity, is not a good idea. The R&B singer, whose troubled...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
A pop-up Jimi Hendrix shop has opened in the city where Hendrix first began his rise to fame, London, offering a collection of rare and unusual memorabilia for sale including a mosaic of the guitar...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 1st April 2013
Justin Bieber is clearly trying his best to make his ongoing tour of Europe his most memorable, as the the singer has been involved in yet another bizarre incident on the continent, this time at...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Music producer, writer and innovative force behind some of pop music's most famous songs Phil Ramone has died, aged 79, at a hospital in New York. The man nicknamed 'The Pope of Pop' passed away...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Say what you like about Lindsay Lohan and her continually disintegrating personal life, the girl sure knows how to full column inches week after week. In her most recent court case, in which she is...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Simon Fuller, the UK-born media mogul behind the massively successful Pop Idol (which ultimately spawned American Idol and the various international variations of the show), has settled a long-standing battle between himself and his production...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Brit actress Sheridan Smith will be reuniting with her Jonathan Creek co-star Alan Davies to her reclaim her role as Joey Ross, the supernatural investigator sidekick of Davies' titular detective character, in a Bank Holiday...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 1st April 2013
N-Dubz star Dappy, real name Costadinos Contostavlos, was lucky to escape with his life after a run-in with a man armed with a cup made entirely out of plastic (!) and possible filled more than...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Brett Anderson, the lead singer of the revitalised Brit-poppers Suede, admitted to the newspaper the Daily Star that the band's comeback album, Bloodsports, is more than a quick money maker as the band are now...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 1st April 2013
Cory Monteith, who stars as Finn Hudson in the comedy/musical/drama show Glee, has admitted himself into rehab voluntarily as he struggles to cope with his 'substance abuse' problems. This is not a first for the...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
This may be one of the finer stories I have had to write in by time at Contact Music, the story of how the late Princess Diana snuck into a London gay club without being...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st April 2013
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...
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