Many hip-hop pessimists believe this to be the making or breaking moment for not only the infamous G-Unit clique but also their boss, 50 Cent. However, after one listen to ‘Curtis’ the reality will sink in that while the New York emcee’s words can be used to humiliate and retire any opposition, his doubters words don’t carry the same kind of weight.
Since the release of his multi-million selling ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, the music industry has change immensely. Album sales are down, overnight success stories are in fashion, and record labels aren’t interested in signing an artis... >>>
Former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has spoken out about the possibility of a full Blur re-union – admitting that he is “raring to record” again.
Speaking after months of speculation about the possibility that he would re-join his former bandmates for the first since 2002 later this year, Coxon seemed to hint that the re-union was now reliant on frontman Damon Albarn.
"Dave (Rowntree), Alex (James) and I are all talking. I talk to Alex the most. But theres four individuals in the band," Coxon told NME. "Were all really busy, but theres definitely a week [when were going t... >>>
Amy Winehouse is set to head back into the studio to work on material for the follow up to her 2006 album, ‘Back to Black’.
Following many publicised personal traumas including cancelled gigs, an overdose and failure to claim the Mercury Awards top prize, Winehouse’s dedication to release new material will come as great news to her worried fans.
The singer has insisted that: “Im sorted out. Nothings wrong with me” and told The Mirror: “I’m writing some new stuff and can’t wait to be back on tour.”
Ian Brown has slammed both Bono and Bob Geldof over the way they “hijacked” the G8 summit in 2005 with Live 8.
Both held in June, the G8 summit at Gleneagles featured an assembly of eight countries who had come together to draw up a package to solve both, the problems in Africa and the pressing issue of climate change.
Brown believes that the concert, however - which was held to raise awareness of the nationwide pandemics in Africa and featured performances from Madonna, Paul McCartney and Coldplay - took the emphasis away from the real issue being discussed by the politicians.
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Elvis Costello has turned Willy Wonka after putting 10 CDRs of new recordings inside the discs of 10 copies of his ‘The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years’ record.
Recording new takes of old songs on a cassette player Costello told Tenessean.com: “I didnt want to be like a Luddite, so I put them on a CDR, and I put 10 of the CDRs in 10 copies of the best of record that we released in April, and hid em in the shops in America, just to see whether anybody bought records anymore. And as nobodys found em yet and its now September, I guess nobody buys records anymore.”
CSS will headline the aftershow party for this year’s Diesel U Music Awards at KOKO in London.
The exclusive event on October 3rd will also feature performances from Good Shoes and Wiley, as well as DJ sets from MisShapes, Kissy Sell Out and Tapedeck DJ’s.
The aftershow party will be hosted by former ‘Popworld’ co-hosts Alex Zane and Alexa Chung, as well as E4’s, Grimshaw.
50 Cent has pulled his entire UK and European promotional trip in the wake of being beaten in the album chart battle by Kanye West.
The outspoken rapper was due to perform at the MOBO and Vodaphone Live Music awards this week, but his management have now confirmed he will not appear. He’s also cancelled a performance in Germany.
A statement released to MTV reads: "50 Cent is very sad to confirm that due to a last minute, unforseen and unanticipated change in his schedule, he will have to postpone his European Promotion Trip from Sept. 18- 25."
So not really knowing what to expect, I hit über fashionable Yo Yo at Notting Hill Arts Club to check out Ali Love, who has been the centre of considerable A&R hype for some time now. Stepping into a scene of what feels like an astonishing mix of punters left over either from Scissor Sisters or Elton John gigs with the odd hippie in the corner, I’m not so much curious anymore but plainly terrified of what I’ve gotten myself into.
Anyway, after some time of ignoring the fashionistas checking me out with a vengeance and the sleazebags coming up to me with a vigour, Ali enters the scene and turns a nightmare into a sweet dream. The funk-soul-cheese-(in a good way)-singer has the presence of a young Elvis and even th... >>>
The Cure have announced details of their rescheduled North American tour following the cancellation to concentrate on their forthcoming album.
The band will now tour America in spring 2008 as appose to later this year as originally planned and have included additional dates not included on the previously announced tour.
Before next years two month jaunt Rob Smiths men will play the Download festival in San Francisco as well as three dates at Mexico City.
Tickets for the shows are available now. For all your latest ticket information, check out the Gigwise Gig Guide,
Politics, for many of us, is this slippery slithering slope that we rarely chose to meander down for fear of sliding into the deep dark depths of ‘grown up’ conversation. For most of us, this is a world we music types do not titter too close to the brink of, afraid once swallowed into the blessed fray, we may never return. Gravenhurst, aka Nick Talbot, is not one to shy away from political discussions as Gigwise finds out. In fact, his blog is full of cruxes of the political kind.>>
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