December
In the space of a year, Big Deal have gone from strumming Big Star’s Thirteen together in a bedroom in East London to having one of the most successful debut album’s of 2011, Lights Out. We chatted to Alice Costelloe and KC Underwood (Big Deal) about the distorted heartbreak of their debut, ‘Lolita Pop’ and triumphing over techno. When you formed the...
October
Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Ed Shereen has hit the big time. Moving to London at the tender age of 16, he’d already played over 1,000 shows and independently released five Eps and albums before he was finally signed last year. Marie Wood had a chat with Radio 1’s man of the moment. You’ve had quite a big year you got picked up by...
October
The UK’s commercial dubstep pioneer Katy B is playing at Nottingham’s RockCity on 18th October and Birmingham’s O2 Academy on the 20th October, so polish up your Air Force 1’s and head to katyonamission.com for tickets. 69 interviewed Katy about her life, her inspiration and her music: A heart pounding beat reverberates, an alarm sounds and then a...
June
Alexis Jordan is the shooting teen star on both sides of the Atlantic. Releasing her third single, Hush Hush, from her self-titled debut this month this nineteen year old is not your average teen dream. Singing before she could talk and writing songs at just 11 years old, the South Carolina native was opening up for Smokey Robinson at a Stevie Wonder tribute in...
Our inner Duranie is letting out an over-excited squeal as we wait nervously, humming the opening bars of ‘Rio’ under our breath, for a transatlantic call from Duran Duran’s ever dapper co-founder, Nick Rhodes. A 30 year career, 13 hit albums and 80 million records sold Duran Duran have never been a band to follow the crowd. Whilst many of their fellow 80s...
A girl with a razor-sharp fringed wields a baseball bat as a denim clad guy in blacked out wayfarers swaggers up alongside, playing a killer riff as a bonfire of guitars blazes in front them. Brooklyn’s Sleigh Bells have officially become the coolest duo on both sides of the Atlantic blowing away bloggers and fans alike with their thudding electro beats,...
