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Artist of the Month: Yuna

Chisomo — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:00:47 +0000

With the release of her self titled album in late April, Yuna has emerged as a truly unique artist. Having released a self titled EP in 2008, and her album, ‘Decorate’, in 2010, Yuna was already a star in her native Malaysia before being discovered online and subsequently signed to Fader Label. This multifaceted Malaysian singer/songwriter/guitarist/entrepreneur [...]

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Artist of the Month: Charlene Soraia

Chisomo — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:02:53 +0000

A sophisticated sound sitting on the sensibilities of intimacy and honesty, one can’t help but marvel at Charlene Soraia’s expressive and enchanting melodies. A fusion of folk with tones of jazz, her sound echoes the ambience of Simone White crossed with Corinne Bailey Rae and entwined with a touch of Zero 7. Charlene Soraia is [...]

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Coldplay’s Album: No Spotify, Rdio or Rhapsody – No Streaming

Chisomo — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:50:13 +0000

It has emerged that Coldplay will not be distributing their latest album, ‘Mylo Xyloto’, via music streaming sites such as Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody. Handlers of the EMI band have sited the reason for this decision as being that Coldplay want the album to be experienced as one cohesive piece as opposed to as individual [...]

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Artist of the Month: Ed Sheeran

The CM — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:13:43 +0000

Potentially the definition of versatility, Ed Sheeran has the flows, the vocals, the instrumentation and most of all the writing to slot into pretty much any genre. He literally does it all, sings, plays guitar, beat boxes and raps (although he claims it isn’t rapping). With the September 12th release of his first album which [...]

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Lady Gaga’s Manager Has the Right Idea: Free Music

Chisomo — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:58:59 +0000

Speaking at Facebook’s F8 conference, Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s manager, put forward this simple idea; free music. His words “If it was up to me, I’d give away the next album and put it on every handset that I can put it on…” Not a bad idea, not only for the consumer but for the [...]

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Will Facebook’s Twitter-like Subscribe Replace Pages

Chisomo — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:21:36 +0000

It seems Facebook is now following in the footsteps of Twitter by allowing what can be seen in Facebook terms as one way friending or in Twitter terms following. Facebook, however, have opted to call their unidirectional relationships ‘Subscribe’. The concept of followers was arguably pioneered by Twitter with the vast majority of sites that [...]

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Artist of the Month: Aaliyah

The CM — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:42:06 +0000

This August marks 10 years since the extremely beautiful and equally talented Aaliyah Haughton tragically lost her life. Singer, dancer, actress, an influence to a generation, Aaliyah encompassed passion, sensuality, and a sense of magic that seamlessly permeated through everything she did. Visually stunning and vocally enchanting, the mesh of her musical and aesthetic style [...]

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Rap Duets; the New Meme?

Chisomo — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:52 +0000

It has been confirmed that Lil' Wayne and Drake will be collaborating on an album once they get their solo efforts out of the way. This news following the initial success and reception of veteran Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative effort 'Watch the Throne'. Watch the Throne is arguably the biggest hook up since Jay [...]

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The Secret Behind Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass

Chisomo — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:18:11 +0000

It’s easy to forget that Nicki Minaj is in fact a rapper. Visually she fits neither established conventions of female rappers to date. These being boyish swag and over sexualisation. Aesthetically she is closer to resembling an R&B singer and this is also audible in her somewhat melodic delivery. Ronald Williams, cofounder of cash money, [...]

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Could This Be The End of Album Leaks?

Chisomo — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:42:45 +0000

Music being readily available online before being released has been the bain of the music industries existence, but could this be the beginning of the end for album leaks. Well, maybe if you can afford to give your engineer(s) a Rolex. That’s just one of the measures taken by all star duo Kanye West and [...]

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