Tich
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Apreviously traded under her birth name Rachl Furner, gaining steady success as a singer-songwriter supporting acts such as Paolo Nutini, Pixie Lott, Justin Bieber, JLS and Olly Murs. She was signed by Mercury Records and released a single ‘Sticks & Stones’ in 2010, but a full album unfortunately never materialised.
All this changed however when she garnered support and major tweetage from X Factor ‘12 winner James Arthur, as well as The Wanted and One Direction, after covering their singles in her own front room and uploading them onto YouTube (#CleverGirl!). Now, rebranded using her childhood nickname and following the soft launch of EP ‘Candlelight’ back in December, Tich has released her official debut single ‘Dumb’. The song, taken from her forthcoming album which has been co-written with the likes of Matt Prime, Nick Jonas and Andrew Frampton, is about those times post-breakup when you realise – Doh! – that you’ve just been really stupid and gone and carelessly dumped the wrong guy. “You don’t know my mind, then again nor do I [...] Think I might have got this wrong, sorry but I didn’t know you were the one […] Now I know that you’re the one, sorry that I’ve been so dumb”.
But Tich ain’t dumb, far from it! Rather than entirely ditch her previous recording persona a la Duffy or Amy Winehouse, Tich has kept her look and sound largely consistent over the years. Still there are the tumbling black locks, eyeliner flick, sparkly/quirky girly tops, colour-contrast nails and heaps of bangles and chunky bracelets – she basically looks like model Daisy Lowe’s precocious little sister (apologies to real sister Betty Lowe are due, of course). Still there is her sweet yet husky alto voice, which breaks and cracks in just the right rock-chick manner and doesn’t deny her Midlands/London roots.The TuBE
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,"NEW UK single is.. (Drum roll) a little tune myself, @Eddrewett &
Jim Eliot wrote 'Dear Darlin' fav song from album!! Doing Vid next wk,"
Murs tweeted.
It will serve as the follow-up to chart-topper 'Troublemaker' and previous cut 'Army Of Two'.The Tube
Bastille
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announced their new single @ 3rd June, Laura Palmer, is releasing on 3 June. Taken from their chart-topping debut album Bad Blood, Laura Palmer is the follow up to the number 2 chart smash, Pompeii, one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of the year.
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vocalist with Rudimental, powerhouse soul singer John Newman launches
his solo career with Love Me Again, complete with a spellbinding
Vaughan Arnell promo.
Filmed at the gloriously retro Mildmay club in Stoke Newington (you
half expect Ronnie Kray to swagger in at any moment), Vaughan
authentically re-creates a late 60s Northern Soul night centred around
Newman’s brilliant stage performance.
Vaughan says: “I always like to work with young virgins and on this
job I was doubly excited, not only was it John Newmans debut video in
which we created a great collaboration, but it also was first time in
front of the camera for the young actor Tommy Lee.”The Tube
Queens of the Stone Age
new album – …Like Clockwork – is coming out on June 4th, and the robots are rumbling back to life with the new single “My God Is the Sun.”
Dave Grohl is playing drums on the new album, just as he did on Songs for the Deaf – which is arguably QOTSA’s best album. It’s easy to expect the new material to sound like Songs for the Deaf because of this connection, but that’s not so. Instead, “My God Is the Sun” sounds more like the follow-up, Lullabies to Paralyze.
Like Lullabies, the song is dark, brooding, and not quite
hummable. There’s nothing too immediate about the song (unlike past
“hits” “No One Knows” and “Little Sister”), but it does get better with
more and more plays, and from the song’s very first measure it’s
obviously QOTSA. I can’t wait for moreThe-Tube.
BRUNO MARS
Amazon Pretty much the biggest pop star in the world right now whose name isn't Adele, Bruno Mars is ubiquitous and prolific with it.
Both with and without his songwriting/production crew The Smeezingtons, Mars has had a hand in hits by Cee Lo Green, Sugababes, Justin Bieber, Adam Lambert and Alicia Keys,
and has scored a clutch of UK and US number ones under his own steam –
all in just a couple of years on the scene. Either he's the new Smokey Robinson or he's spreading himself so thin he'll be a chirpy pop gauze by 2013.
Well, he's not quite see-through yet. It's soon plain that Unorthodox Jukebox lacks the immediacy of 2010's Doo-Wops & Hooligans – there's no Marry You here, and certainly no global chart-topper like Just the Way You Are.
But it's appealing, generally engaging and all shot through with the
confidence of a man who must feel he's got the hit parade Midas touch.
Bar the odd misstep, he probably won't have a rude awakening.
Those stumbles are Show Me's wan facsimile of Musical Youth's Pass
the Dutchie (one of 2012's more unlikely influences) and the sugary
early 80s funk of Treasure, which is lathered in so much slap bass it
starts to sting.bbc
Speaking of Sting
– ouch – his spectre is all over first single Locked Out of Heaven, in
the clipped Message in a Bottle chords and Mars' yelping, staccato
delivery. But that's about the only time Mars allows his own identity to
be subsumed.
Otherwise, he's equally cosy fronting saucy semi-rock belter Gorilla –
"You get your legs up in the sky with the devil in your eyes" – and
sprinting on the spot to the unhinged electro-soul of the Diplo-produced Money Makes Her Smile.The-Tube
Union J
music video sees the four-piece prepare for an open mic night, where they travel to perform the new trackUnion J recently confessed that they cried when they first heard their debut single played on national radio.
Union J finished fourth in last year's X Factor behind Christopher Maloney, Jahmene Douglas and eventual winner James Arthur.
They will perform at this year's Capital FM Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium on June 9 alongside Robbie Williams, Taylor Swift and Jessie J.The Tube
