Released on July 14, 1999, The Writing’s On the Wall became Destiny’s Child’s highest selling album and spawned some of their most iconic songs — one of which led to the group's first GRAMMY win. Not only did the album establish Destiny's Child as a household name, but it fi...
It's rare in today's zeitgeist to have a relatively new artist achieve the success you've seen recently. But now that you have the following, it becomes about following it up. So after the astronomical success of "Beautiful Things," does that make releasing your debut album stress...
prolific as she is, she churns out some songs that don’t quite fit into the FCL template, and so she’s taken on the KASHKA alter-ego to begin releasing those songs, which swap the Lovers’ sunny summer acoustics for a subdued, wintry electronic sound, probably more appropriate for Toro...
“Honestly, the songs just poured out of me,” she explains. “I didn’t plan on releasing another album so soon, but once I started writing, it felt like they needed to be out there. There were things I wanted to say, and when I met Jared, something just clicked and it felt...
Jack Bauer:Imagine some sort of super epic situation. Chaos on all sides, perhaps a dragon breathing fire, posers everywhere getting slain, Five Finger Death Punch breaking up because they realized how much they suck, Tool releasing a new album (hahahaha). Now I want you to, without focusin...
Don’t you love when you can tell a song is by a particular band within seconds of the opening riff? It seems too often that when an older act is releasing new music, fans are told teased that it sounds “like their early material” — and thus, they’re often left disappointed when...
when Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade were both releasing and touring all the time, I would just be writing for whatever was in front of me, whatever band was actively making a record that season. That’s who I would be writing with that band in mind, you know, whether it was Wolf Para...
s Doggystyle/Geffen Records release,The Blue Carpet Treatment. The album, which was both a commercial and critical success, featured three beats from Dre, including the production for "Imagine," the blockbuster track that also features a vocal appearance from the producer, in addition to vocals ...
I’ll leave that idea hanging for now, but for me this feels like more of a new move than the idea of copying a longlist format from another award, and feels somehow more in the spirit of Sir Arthur to me. In the red corner,Niall Harrison #TeamLonglist: ...
The situation for the limosa birds is so severe that organisations such as the RSPB are ‘head-starting’ some chicks (taking chicks from the nest and rearing them in captivity before releasing them when grown). To add to their problems, Black-tailed Godwits were considered a great delicacy ...