In the throes of a recession, thousands of people have found themselves without employment; either falling victim to redundancy and other job-loss circumstances yielded by the economic downturn, or freshly graduating from school, college or university into a stark and hostile job market which sees employers able to force potential applicants through flaming hoops just [...]
March 12, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Books & Poetry, Reviews
Premiered just moments ago on The Sun’s website, here is Yasmin‘s follow-up single, “Finish Line”. Produced by Labrinth, the song speaks of the demise of a relationship, and is a special track for the up and coming singer. The video shows Yasmin in a range of fly outfits (and a pointy bra) exchanging tormented looks [...]
March 7, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Music, Music Videos
On Friday 25th February, Tinie Tempah performed to a sold out London crowd at Hammersmith Apollo in his biggest headlined concert to date. Disturbing London – the name of Tinie’s label imprint – served as an apt description for the packed show which saw 5000 teenagers, a sprinkling of industry heads, and his parents all [...]
March 6, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Events, Gigs/Concerts, London, Music, Reviews
In this strange and hilarious interview, Westwood comments on Trey Songz‘s weight loss, struggles with the word “plethora”, and they also talk groupies, touring, and Trey’s new album. After the jump check out the second part of the interview where Trey tries to destroy Westwood’s office. [...]
March 6, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
interviews, Music
Looks like Lloyd‘s cat has gone missing Lloyd was on the mission to croon the word “p*ssy” as many times as humanly possible on this latest record. Even peppered with p*ssies, the cut is produced by Kanye West and offers up heavy doo-wop influences with female harmonies, hand-snaps and retro instrumentation. Apparently, “Miss That P*ssy” [...]
March 1, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Music, New Music
The never-aging, ever-sexy Lenny Kravitz invites us to “Come On Get It” on his brand new single. Lifted from his forthcoming album, Black and White America, set for a summer release, “Come On Get It” will serve as the first release. LISTEN: Lenny Kravitz – “Come On Get It” [Source] [...]
March 1, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Music, New Music
This Saturday (26th February) Kid Cudi took to his Twitter account, @wizardcud, to announce, amongst his stream of twitter rambling consciousness, that he has left his label and will be forming a new label. While not yet confirming his new label home, he has assured his followers that he is still cool with mentor Kanye [...]
February 28, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
., Arts Culture News, Music
The Bawse unveils the visuals to Ashes to Ashes mixtape jaunt, “10 Bricks”, featuring Cash Money CEO Birdman. [...]
February 28, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
New Music
Brit-winner and pop man of the moment Tinie Tempah has launched an online game in support of his latest single, the Ellie Goulding assisted “Wonderman“. Similar to games like Super Mario or Sonic online, the Wonderman game sees users playing as a tiny Tinie Tempah in a world full of themes from his debut album, [...]
February 28, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Games, Geek, Music
As anticipated from it’s success at the Golden Globes and Baftas, Brit film The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth and centred around King George VI’s journey to overcome a speech impediment at the start of his monarchy, was last night’s big winner at the 83rd Academy Awards (the Oscars). The King’s Speech took many of [...]
February 28, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Film, Film & TV