By the early 1980s, it seemed as though country music was even less cool than easy listening. The perfectly-coiffured Kenny Rogers; the less rebellious/inspiration-free Johnny Cash; the ultra-saccharine long-forgottens whose hairspray outrages caused you to splutter even when watching them on television. Has a music…

Had the terrible misfortune to have been stuck in a room for the last five days where there appeared to be a law of some kind that dictated that the only station to be transmitted was BBC Radio One. Yes, I was aware that the ratio of stone-cold classics versus click-track, auto-tuned drone was likely to be a tad…

If there’s one thing that shows the absurdity of language, it’s the phonetic alphabet. This seemingly impossible to crack code, designed, bafflingly, to make the artistry of language understandable to all fails on pretty much every level. Have you ever been taught the phonetic alphabet? You have? Ah, just me then...

The remarkable Antonio Domingos, an American pianist living in Portugal, has recently broken to world record for the number of times a piano key can be hit in one minute. So far, so hmm. However, this is no fluke or one-off stunt. Antonio has dedicated himself to becoming known for both his speed and stamina as a…

Since the early 90s, the wave of female vocalists (don’t get me started on the men...) who feel the best way to demonstrate their voice is to skip across as many notes as possible, managing to avoid anything approaching melody has become almost comical. This yodelling style certainly has its fans...or does it?

No ordinary bedsit programmer, NEJ!LAS (her name is a semi-reversal of her given name of Jen Sal) is the founder of a multi-national charity, Global Health Conscious, which has donated $2.5 million worth of medical aid to United Nation refugee camps across the Middle East. Now, NEJ is ready to unveil her…

Canadian electronic artist, Voldo Blanka, left the world of a touring rock ‘n’ roll musician to hone his skills as a composer for screen. Through this, Voldo began to look at his music as though it was a scene from a film, designing the sound around how one might feel or move in a certain environment. Tapping…

Over the courses of their careers, musicians often play around with genres, but none have made quite such a radical transition as Jak Chantler, who having previously played heavy alt-grunge with Kerrang’s ‘best unsigned band’ Kingskin, is now creating funk and soul infused tunes under the new moniker of Short Sharp…

Described as ‘probably London’s greatest alcoholic garage rock band’ and ‘a whisky-fuelled misdemeanour in musical form’, Albino, also known as the Alabama Bingo Nomads, aim to please listeners with their eclectic musical line up and their never-ending energy since 2005.

Introducing Tiffani Juno, a young London-based solo artist making a come-back in the music industry with her EP, ‘Go Hard’, after a tough few years. She projects her emotions strongly in her songs to share her struggles through depression, insomnia and her worry of failure. Creating her thought-provoking music…

Pluto Jonze, if you haven’t heard of him, is an upcoming Australian singer-songwriter, focused on maintaining the memory of the recently deceased David Bowie through his new single, ‘Swingin’ Like I’m Bowie’. The death of Jonze’s idol death caused him to have a difficult time, exclaiming that “last year sucked”, but…

Luna Blue, the Indie-rock and pop four piece, are in line to release a 6-song debut EP, filled with inspiration coming from all angles of the musical world. This song, ‘Borrowed Words’, embodies only some of these angles, but it isn’t difficult to latch onto what they’re selling. Meaning that the boys wear these…

Bet you’ve never heard of ‘electro-wave cabaret’, right? That’s because the genre’s inventors, Berlin based duo Feline and Strange are seemingly the sole purveyors of this niche sound, but they certainly know what they’re dong with it.

The Arctic Monkeys are one of those cult bands that drift in and out the public eye, dropping an unbelievable record every few years, but whilst we wait for their next masterpiece, teenage new boys from Italy, Five o Five, can take their place.

It’s not unheard of by any means to see people pursuing a career in music further down the line after having tried their hand at other things, but you can’t say that many have gone from working for the government to becoming an indie acoustic singer songwriter.

Yafit Rahamim-Fleisher, otherwise known under her latest musical moniker of Ciqala, is releasing her latest single, ‘Caving’ - an evocative track full of dark sounds and alternative rock stylings.

For all the rock and roll lovers out there, the genre seems to be picking up again in recent years with indie bands once again raising the profile of the style but not many of these are considered ‘proper’ rock and roll. However, Telford based band of four, Savannah, certainly can be.

As the charismatic front-man and songwriter of Barcelona based indie-pop band, Pablo and The Appleheads, the talented young musician is one who looks back into the history books of music for his influences. Classic acts such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones have always provided inspiration for Pablo who was…

Egyptian pop artist, Music Theory, is looking to break out of his local, uninspiring music scene, where the majority of music is sung in Arabic in order to display his talents as a songwriter.