Amazon have had their work cut out for them in getting noticed, but with a record like this, that seems impossible. Priorities is in-your-face, balls-to-wall rock music and it's the most f***ing fun I've had listening to music in a long time; it's actually hard to write this through my shrill singing and fierce body jerking. If you aren't affected by this within the first three songs then I think you might be dead or at least a very horrible person.
Rob Damiani's vocals ache with sass; he's enunciated and precise, note perfect and backed by a full bodied rhythm section. As he sings, 'And we'll never get fat 'cause we jump around like prats, getting drunk, getting away with it,' you can feel his warmth, his personality, and his love and appreciation for what he's doing and the fact that people are willing to give him money for it. Basically, he's frank and you don't find mainstream rock singers like that anymore, singers that are willing to put themselves out there and write their lives. Damiani is also responsible for the electronics and sampling that appears on the record, most notable on 'You Got It Girl' which sounds like the bastard love child of Depeche Mode and Incubus, clearly a talented fella The Tube.
Qeens of the stone age
Amazon They've delighted many, the harsh truth about Josh Homme's amorphous crew is that they haven't produced much to rival the ubiquitous thump of Feel Good Hit of the Summer or No One Knows in over a decade. Fortunately, Like Clockwork feels like a return to the smart but incisive grooves and melodies that made those songs such enduring anthems. As ever, there are innumerable guest appearances here, not least the return of Dave Grohl's thunderous drumming and Elton John's joyous piano on Fairweather Friends. But the album is dominated by Homme's razor-sharp songwriting, which ranges from the robotic pulse of If I Had a Tail to the succinct thud ofMy God Is the Sun and the wickedly infectious Smooth Sailing. The title track is best of all: a disarmingly fragile ballad that erupts noisily but artfully halfway through, it suggests that Homme may at last be making music with no hint of a sardonic raised eyebrow.gThe Tube
Mark Owen
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music video sees the star wandering around the city dressed as an astronaut, before he returns home to his family who are also dressed in space suits.
"I've been making songs for 20 years now and I don't really know what else to do," Owen said of his new project. "It's my hobby and my day job all in one.
"It feels better somewhere in my psyche to call it a project rather than a solo album, because so many people have contributed."
Owen's fourth solo collection The Art Of Doing Nothing will be released in the UK on June 10The Tube
Amazon ‘Hometown Girls’ is as raucously energetic as we’ve come to expect from The Strypes, picking up where ‘Blue Collar Jane’ left off with salvos of pin-point guitar riffs and lyrics that tell tales of life growing up in their hometown.
Drawing upon their adoration for vintage rhythm and blues, ‘CC Rider’ was first set to record in 1920’s America, whilst ‘Stormy Monday Blues’ originally harks from the jazz scene of the ‘40s. Both have been regular fixtures in The Strypes’ live arsenal – the versions that appear on this EP were recorded at a recent show at King Tuts in Glasgow, and even on record still portray the unbridled passion and energy of the band’s performances. The Tube
The Script
Amazon Back in the Chart @ 37 , Singer Danny O'Donoghue may train with Bono's vocal coach, but he lacks the fire-in-the-belly growl of the U2 frontman. His ultra-smooth style and mawkish lyrics seem to be lacking in any genuine sentiment and are reminiscent of Maroon 5 or OneRepublic at their worst. The relentless pleasantness of 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' will grind many into submission, but there's nothing here to suggest The Script have a long-term future in their current guise.The Tube
Lee Hyori
Amazon marked her grand return to the music world with the understated jazz-inspired ditty “Miss Korea.” The pre-release single, which peaked at No. 3, falls to No. 7 this week as official lead single “Bad Girls” nabs the top slot. The track also has a throwback feel led by piano, drum and funky guitar licks.Billboard
The music video for "Bad Girls" (with more than 1.5 million views) is a must-see with its “Gangnam Style”-like sensibility of Lee Hyori playing an evil stepmother and flashing her crotch in the story of a little girl (with some hilariously, out-of-control eyebrows) who grows up to be a sexy criminal.The -Tube
Iggy Azalea
Amazon “Bounce” video sees the Australia-born, Los Angeles-based rapstress and model adventuring through India in a vibrant Bollywood-inspired clip that’s fun, in a super-culturally-appropriative kind of way.
So there’s dancing and elephants and body parts that bounce and it does the trick, probably, not that it was even all that necessary. Let’s get serious for a minute: Could anyone stop this song from being a hit if they tried? look @ this
