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Rx Bandits: Musical Masterminds

If you have been a keen follower of the indy, punk, ska scene of the last 10 years, you will probably be aware of the RX Bandits. If not, then go and find out about them straight away, well after reading this article obviously! They started out as a ska band in the 1990’s and were a huge success straight out of school with their first proper release Half Way Between Here and There, when I was making office furniture in London.

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Scottish Rock Band Nazareth Releases New Album

These days what is found in the Scottish rock scene often makes many of us lovers of the genre want the good old days to come back and soon. We may find ourselves listening to those classic rock band that are long forgotten and praying that someday soon one of them would resurface. Well the wait seems to be over as the classic rock band Nazareth has recently released their newest album, ‘Big Dogz’.

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Anberlin

Put down your tax return forms, turn off your hr software update, basically just stop whatever boring task you are doing in your boring day job and take a listen to Anberlin!! Anberlin are rock band hailing from the alternative rock genre and emerging from the sunny delights of Winter Haven in Florida. The band have been around for approaching on a decade now and show no signs of slowing down. Anberlin are made up of lead vocalist Stephen More

Sziget Festival 2011

It was browsing through Wikipedia a few years back that first brought the Sziget festival to my attention. Based in Budapest, Sziget is one of the best international music festivals in Europe. Playing over seven days every August on the Sziget Island floating on the Danube between Buda and Pest, it represents everything that is great about music. Forget Glastonbury, Sziget is where all the great artists go to showcase their latest and greatest.

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Lady Gaga’s Next Album – An Ode To The Phenomenon

Lady Gaga has become the phenomenon because her outrageous antics effectively shifts focus away from the fact that the is a damn good singer. She may not be the best in the business but her albums contain really good music. She may not have lasted for long had she stuck to conventional methods to popularize her album. However, Lady Gaga the phenomenon has overtaken Lady Gaga the singer to such an extent that people are actually surprised that they like More

Albums we can never live without

Every album we become fond of can be closely linked to a very specific moment in our life. From the moment we got into music we started to compose the soundtracks to our lives. Every time you listen to that album you brought in the summer after you left school you wonder why you never took up one of those Secondary Teaching Jobs to enable you to re-live those endless summers where you didn’t have to worry about when the More

Singing in public

No, I’m not talking about karaoke, that destroyer of great music, but the embarrassing moments when you realise that you’ve been singing away to your iPod in public. Is there really anything worse than noticing your fellow tube passengers, coffee shop patrons or gym addicts are giggling away at you as you tunelessly hum along to a Britney Spears number? Because it’s always something really tragic. Why can I never get caught singing along to something cool like The Xcerts More

Invest in Good Headphones and Love Music

Music was once a commodity that you were so proud that you owned. You would actually go to a town or city just to visit a record store where you would buy a few records. Music of course became much less of a commodity when you could download an artist’s entire discography in less than a minute. You would have thought that this would change how we consume music. Perhaps unlike previous years where it has been ownership of the More

US Court Shoots Down UMG Copyright Case

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Armin Van Buuren

Performing and producing music in the house genres and trance, Armin has become a leading DJ around the world with 3 years being announced the top DJ among all artists in that music style. Born in 1976 in the Netherlands, he became an icon for the young generations not only because of creating extraordinary tracks, but also because of mixing other features and styles in his performances.

Armin graduated from high school in 1995 but his interest for music was More