Cheryl Cole: A Million Lights – review
While other Girls Aloud solo careers flounder, it seems Cheryl Cole can't lose – even with this pretty middling albumOf all the records granted a second lease of life as a result of the diamond jubilee...
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(Polydor)We're witnessing the Guettaisation of chart music: everything sounding like David Guetta made it. Or, indeed, Calvin Harris (who produced Call My Name here): both he and Guetta pump out...
View ArticleWireless 2012: festival preview
Going to Wireless this weekend? Here's our guide to the London mega-concert and how you can get involvedBack for another year, Wireless returns to what looks to be typical British music festival...
View ArticleWhy does Calvin Harris get so much stick?
Is the Scottish superstar DJ-producer merely riding David Guetta's ravey train or a homegrown pop giant we should be proud of?When Calvin Harris jumped onstage with a pineapple on his head and Jedward...
View ArticleThis week's new tracks
M83OK Pal (Mute/Naïve)No one has come close to, or actually tried, articulating the rich emotional life of a Blackpool slot machine like M83 has. It's a push-me-pull-you affair of bright lights and...
View ArticleThe V festival, day one – review
Hylands Park, Chelmsford"This is heaven," sighs Stephen Holt, founder member and newly reinstated singer of the Inspiral Carpets, surveying the sun-drenched, sweat-perfumed scene before him. Few others...
View ArticleDavid Guetta/Calvin Harris – review
Roundhouse, LondonIt is hard to think of two producers currently more likely to provoke purists to feather-spitting rage than David Guetta and Calvin Harris, who have distilled dance music into a clash...
View ArticleCalvin Harris: 18 Months – review
(Sony)In 18 months, Calvin Harris has undergone a transformation. Once the kind of fun-time top 10 botherer who would stick a pineapple on his head and gatecrash Jedward's stage, he has morphed into a...
View ArticleCalvin Harris: 18 Months – review
(Columbia)Given the number of hit singles that have already leaked out of it – six, including the current UK No 1 – the release of Calvin Harris's third album feels almost like a formality. Nothing...
View ArticleUK's million-selling singles: the full list
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the official singles chart, the Official Charts Company has ranked the top UK million-selling singles. See which songs make the list and which have sold the most•...
View ArticleMusic apps are the new albums. Or the new concert DVDs. Or...
David Gilmour, Lady Gaga, The xx and Calvin Harris app strategies show music industry experimentationEvery so often, the music industry gets sucked into a debate about whether the traditional album is...
View ArticleCalvin Harris threatens to sue BBC over claims about DJing
Scottish musician and producer says he never told Radio 1's Newsbeat it was OK for DJs to pre-record their setsCalvin Harris is considering suing the BBC over a story on Radio 1's Newsbeat in which he...
View ArticleCalvin Harris DJ controversy highlights the fading artistry of club culture |...
The latest mania for US electronic dance music takes its cue from stadium rock rather than the spontaneity of club cultureBack in the mid-90s, an act from the record label I ran at the time was...
View ArticleCalvin Harris: The secrets of my success
The chart-topping dance producer on why making great pop music is like making a ham sandwich – and the benefits of having a suntanMaking great pop is like making a great ham sandwich … It's incredibly...
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Blue Daisy Presents Dahlia Black | Calvin Harris Feat Tinie Tempah | Charli XCX | Little Mix | Emeli SandéBlue Daisy Presents Dahlia BlackFuck A Rap Song (37 Adventures)Reading this on mobile? Click...
View ArticleJustin Timberlake and Jay-Z to headline Wireless at Olympic Park
Other acts on festival bill as it moves from Hyde Park to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in July include Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, Emeli Sandé and Snoop DoggJustin Timberlake and Jay-Z will...
View ArticleBrit awards 2013: who should win?
Find out who the favourites are for this year's Brits – and let us know who you'll be rooting for on Wednesday nightIs this year's Brits lineup the most boring in living memory? A look through the list...
View ArticleJessie J's Domino was the UK's most played pop song in 2012
Domino edges out songs by Gotye, Emeli Sandé and Maroon 5, according to licensing organisation PPLJessie J's Domino was the most played pop song in the UK last year. The single, originally released in...
View ArticleOne Direction bound for Justin Bieber clash at Billboard Music awards
Bieber and 1D fight it out for the title of 2013's top artist, with added competition from Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Maroon 5One Direction will face off against Justin Bieber for the top prize at this...
View ArticleThe V festival, day one – review
Hylands Park, Chelmsford"This is heaven," sighs Stephen Holt, founder member and newly reinstated singer of the Inspiral Carpets, surveying the sun-drenched, sweat-perfumed scene before him. Few others...
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