chrisnettleton has written the following articles:
Rhymes is back on the block, with a new record label, about to "Picasso a new picture" for us with this new 20 track tour de force featuring guest slots by Rah Digga, P.Diddy, Jaheim, Kokane, Kelis, Flipmode Squad and the diva herself, Mary J.Blige. Yet again, when it comes down to sheer rapping, Rhy»
Jazz Critic is going to love this record. Tunes like 'Welcome Home' are suave electronica painted from the pallet of Miles Davis's 'Kind of Blue' and, when grouped together with the more ambient spacey jazz sounds of 'Moon Light' and 'Spirits With Jiwe', we have a record that's certainly »
As Far as Superstar DJ/Artist/Producer albums go, this in one of those that plays in the Premiership, with a load of good collaborations and a good pop sensibility. The strong points for me are the Beck-ish 'Ubik' (I wonder if the title is a homage to the classic 808 State floorfiller?), the 'trance-»
" Sabrina (Sabrina Dhawan - Scriptwriter) and I wanted to make a film on modern Punjabi life as we know it. What better than making a film about a wedding because that is when the entire family comes together from all over the world? When family politics is at its height, romance in the air and illicit liaisons »
A concept album, a journey that leads you through twists and turns, swinging from full throttle boombastic rhyming to choppy R&B to crooning rap balladeering, 'Kaos' marks drum'n' bass artist Adam F's first foray into the world of hip hop, and on the strength of this, he's going to make a great big fat meteoric cra»
"Things just ain't the same for gangsters, times are changing.......I've seen them come , watched them go...watched the lawsuits
when they've lost their dough...
I've moved out of the 'hood for good, you blame me?...how would you feel if niggas wanted you killed?
....Cops is anxious to put niggas in hand»
I can't really write, 'cos I'm too busy bouncing around to 'Ugly', but best get professional and put pen to paper... Bubba Sparxx, hailing from Athens, Georgia, protegeé of superstar R&B producer Timbaland (responsible for Missy Elliot, amongst others), comes across as a Deep-Southern-Good-Time-Eminem Meets G-Lo»
...didn't really go to review this gig, but I was so impressed that I felt I had to give Goldrush
the big UP. Given that a certain Steve Lamacq was dancing to pretty much
the whole show somewhere to the left of me, I can only
infer that the stars are shining favourably on this likeable bunch.
....enough»
I hadn't ever heard Cooper Temple Clause before… at some points early on I was getting 'prog' alarm bells going off in my head… but what first felt like a pending aural emergency ended up winning me over… I liked his voice, and I liked the music, and though the cavern-like acoustics of Brixton did their many-lay»
Shortly due to appear, at an Arena near you, with Pennywise on the Deconstruction tour, Snuff have been around since 1986, emerging out of the post-Jam punk scene that also produced bands like the Mega City Four.Together with The Wildhearts, who appeared several years later, they came up with a sound that was to »
This DVD/CD single package is effectively a trailer for the 1 Giant Leap DVD/CD/LP Project which will come out later this year. This is the future. …at least the way I've always seen it. A project that, from the outset, has been 100% multimedia. Music and visuals created and recorded together, filling my head wit»
I first heard of Joe Jackson in 1979, specifically due to the pop genius of the deservedly massive hit: 'Different For Girls'. This collection comprises tracks from that time through to 1989. He is often compared to Elvis Costello, since their careers started at a very similar time. While both artists put a lot »
Hamburg five piece Hosh's first single seems to be pitched slap bang in the middle of the mainstream of modern rock, and it's pretty good. The single, 'Maria' has all the makings of a big rock hit, a big singalong chorus, nice quiet/loud drops… the second track 'Killer Ants' also doesn't disappoint. G»
Neil Hannon writes a pretty tune, I like the way it picks up, and the way the melody twists around….and the production and sounds are great. When I first heard it I thought…Hey…this is nice… …but the lyrics say nothing at all. Is this what you write when you've nothing to say, but still have a contractua»
Many people will know of Dido because hers is the haunting vocal that is featured in 'Stan' by Eminem. In fact… well he sampled her song 'Thank you'… and the rest is History.
Dido is the sister of Rollo Armstrong, the dance producer and one of the main creative forces in Faithless. She's classically trained»
Nought open their eponimous instrumental debut album with 'The Fans', which is a symphonic journey from Can-meets-Swans-like beginnings through jazz through into driving rock, constantly changing and mutating, avoiding the pompous flabby noodling of prog. , main composer James Sedwards, leading a band j»
I'm a musician and songwriter. I could be accused of having no integrity if I wrote a song that I felt was CRAP solely in order to make money. If I submit a load of songs that I am happy with for an album, however, it is entirely likely that the record company could choose a single that may not necessarily be represent»
I caught about half of the set of first-on support Snake River Conspiracy.On record they consist of Tobey Torres on vocals (She's a girl….why do Americans have to persist in giving girls Boys Names??) and Jason Slater, one of the founder members of Third Eye Blind, being Mr. Studio Wiz . For their live show the»
The album opens with 'Lightbulb Sun', the title track opening the album in a kind of dreamy way that kicks in, reminds me of Talk Talk, quite late eighties choices of sounds, and then we are turned in mood by the beautiful vocal and piano of 'How is Your Life Today?', a flight of fancy like Danny Elfman m»
What happens if you hate the body fascism and uniformity of today's pop??…Maybe you're a bit different, a bit of a rebel, but what happens if you can't stomach the macho posturing and uniformity of today's rock?? …Isn't that what rebels are supposed to listen to??… Music to get under your parents skin??….»
Back in the late sixties and early seventies the german music scene was very big on experimentation, so much so that a lot of styles that we currently accept as established genres...well those guys invented them, for instance Kraftwerk started around this time.
Faust are one of the inventors of 'industria»
What A brilliant opening!! The staccato 'Nicotine, Valium, Vicodan, Marijuana, Ecstacy and Alcohol…..'vocal of the single 'Feel Good Hit of The Summer'. The sound quite fuzzy and fat, almost heavy T-Rex …. This song kicks like Warrior Soul's 'Love Is A Drug', and few things do that! I wish I'd seen the ba»
Roni Size's new eighteen-track opus opens with a sequel to 'Railing' from New Forms. The tone is a lot darker, bleaker… more industrial and dark techno sounding. While the Mercury prize winning 'New Forms' was a very polished produced song-ey album, 'In the Mode' sounds much more dry, fat and (ironically) underg»
When I came out of the cinema I ran down the street, as fast as I could, just for no reason other than the sheer rush of doing so…It is THAT kind of film, leaves you feeling high and emotional, set in Durham during the Miners Strike in 1985, an eleven year old striking miner's son with a dead mum and a glass jaw sent t»
See... because Twist are girls, the automatic thing say is they sound like Hole/L7/Kim Gordon/Bikini Kill [delete as applicable], yet, if I was to compare them to anyone it would be early Nirvana. Good tunes but never simple formulaic songs, powerful without ever being turgid, in a laid back devil-may-care betwe»
This year the artistic director of the South Bank Centre, David Sefton, is leaving, and as a send off, has basically booked all his favourite bands to play in a season called 'Outtro' before going off to be the artistic director at UCLA. The Fall played last week, but I had the misfortune to miss that, and Faust are»
It opens with a chain gang, in a field in the middle of somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Hey!…welcome to the Corn Belt in 1930's America. The colours and photography are instantly stunning… and then we see our heroes making their escape…. For this film the Coen Brothers have gone into the classic road m»
It is pathetic the way different races get typecast. Think of the way Irish people or Scots people are portrayed, for instance, but for the most classic example, look at black people. Though it is ,to an extent, flattering, the original Shaft led the way to black guys being portrayed as 'cool' in films. It spawne»
....In days of old when knights were bold there was a show called Rapido, hosted by Eurotrashmeister Antoine de Caunes, a former music journo.....In days of old when knights were bold we were allowed to hear about Manu Negra, Les Negresses Vertes, Young Gods and other top continental bands that get ignored in »
Belgium is the New York of Europe.That's my conclusion. Arty, experimental,tinged with punk rock attitude and velvet cool, I wasn't aware of Venus before today, my only windows into Belgium being the fineries of dEUS and The Evil Superstars. Tom Waits groovy, Miranda Sex Garden ethereal, sometimes verging on 'Not a Lo»
