Avicii: “I still feel lucky” Avicii is back! This September he will release his debut album ‘TRUE’, and Spotify has talked to him about the new single, genre mixing and how he copes with his unimaginably hectic tour life. We met Avicii at 2:30 am in a dressing room, just minutes after he had performed in front of over […]
Month: August 2013
The sounds of September courtesy of Playlists.net
We present you the music selection that our friends from Playlists.net have handpicked for this month. Easy Like Sunday Morning When Playlists.net was just a kid, Sunday’s were boring. Homework to be done. School’s shadow cast over the day. Nothing to do. Nowhere open. Now we’re all grown up, we can’t get enough of them. Sunday’s are […]
Lady Gaga – Digital Culture From Present and Past
Stefani Joanne Germanotta, aka Lady Gaga, is a genuin pop queen influenced by David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Queen and the ’80s. She is recognized for her extravagant, versatile and outré contributions to the music industry through her performances, music videos and jaw-dropping fashion. The word crazy is no longer a question of definition when […]
#MusicMonday playlist brought to you by @MonaFims
Our friend @MonaFims has this #MusicMonday’s recommendations. We start this week with an Italian-born singer/songwriter: Mauro Remiddi known as “Porcelain Raft” and his beautiful “Drifting In And Out”. The next song in our playlist this week is a song called “Ghost” taken from ON AN ON’s debut album “Give” released earlier this year. We continue with a band from […]
Our Interview with Crystal Fighters
“Santana at Woodstock seemed pretty rad…” Sebastian Pringle from Crystal Fighters is in a hotel room in Lisbon when we reach him. There’s a festival tonight, another tomorrow, a string of gigs happening in the days after that. This is a band that love to travel and use the experiences they collect to inform […]
Coffee and Music
In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf‘ has enlisted the help of The Playlist Generation — a music branding company comprised of top global DJs, music supervisors, bloggers, musicians and producers — to curate the perfect playlist featuring amazing tunes from the past five decades. Turn up these coffee house favorites […]
Favorite Pre-Date Jams To Beat The Dating Jitters from Match.com
Going on a date can make you nervous. So there are a lot of people preparing themselves before going out on that with that special someone. We teamed up with Match.com to find the most popular songs to soothe pre-date jitters. Below are some of the survey’s highlights: Music is a Pre-date Must: 78% of single men […]
Amy Winehouse: #AMYS30 Playlist
As a child growing up, Amy Winehouse’s life was full of music. Sometimes it would be her dad Mitch singing Sarah Vaughan or Frank Sinatra songs around the house, other times Amy and he would harmonise together as he drove his black cab through the London streets. Over the years Amy’s mother Janis built up […]
Our Interview with The Strypes
“It’s like a hobby that’s got horribly out of hand…” From Cavan in Ireland, The Strypes have become fairly famous fairly quickly for being incredibly young guys into incredibly old music. Rarely, if ever, and certainly since 1965 has a young band been so in thrall to The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Who and […]
Our interview with Miguel
Miguel has the voice of a god, which is something that he shows more than ever when he’s performing live. We caught him right after a concert to ask some questions about his beautiful voice and the different personalities of an audience. We met R&B superstar Miguel shortly after he had stolen thousands of […]
