7 guilty pop music pleasures everyone enjoys

Two of pop's guiltiest pleasures, Madonna and Blue, have new albums out today. To celebrate, we've decided to reveal 7 pop guilty pleasures that literally everyone, from your mum to your best mate, enjoys. Warning: this post is littered with earworms. Play the videos at your own risk. Never Gonna …

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09/03/2015
Chris Smith
Home Alone

5 actors who formed incredibly weird bands

Every now and again, famous actors get the urge to form a band. Most of them are pretty forgettable – Russell Crowe's 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, Keanu Reeve's Dogstar – while others are actually okay – Jared Leto's 30 Seconds to Mars, for example. Some, though, are just plain …

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03/03/2015
Chris Smith
Vinyl

March’s New Releases: Music

2nd March Chasing Yesterday – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds The ex-Oasis man returns with his hotly anticipated second solo album. Piece By Piece – Kelly Clarkson The American Idol winner's 7th (!) album is her first collection of original material since 2011. It features a collaboration with John Legend …

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02/03/2015
Chris Smith
Kanye West

5 of the strangest musical side projects

Every now and then, musicians get the urge to express themselves in ways their fans might not understand. So, they start a side-project, get it out of their system and then go back to their day-to-day lives. Here are some of music's strangest side-projects, from the good, the bad and…well, …

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16/02/2015
Chris Smith

Playlist: The Biggest New Artists of 2015

Thanks to the magic of hype and excitable music critics, we have a pretty good idea who the artists to keep an eye out for this year. We've compiled some of our favourites below; check them out! Remember: you can sell CDs with musicMagpie – even embarassing ones! James Bay …

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26/01/2015
Chris Smith
Snoop Dogg

The 6 weirdest music videos by otherwise normal artists

There are some artists we expect weird music videos from: Lady Gaga, Bjork, Aphex Twin – the list goes on. Sometimes, though, otherwise normal artists – y'know, the types who stick to the standard 'band playing in some sort of grand setting' or 'rapping in the hood' style video – …

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19/01/2015
Chris Smith
Nas

5 essential hip hop documentaries

Time is Illmatic, a documentary charting US rapper Nas' rise to fame and the massive influence of his classic album Illmatic, is released on DVD today and it's well worth picking up, even if you aren't a rap fan. Something about hip-hop makes it ripe for documenting on film. The …

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12/01/2015
Chris Smith