News and opinion from the world of music.
Crazed conspiracy theories or elaborate musical masterminds? One reporter goes on the trail of the best and worst of the music industry’s "tallest tales" online. We all know the classics. Elvis is alive (can’t fans just accept that the King died from overstraining on the toilet?). Paul McCartney is dead. Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain […]
Continue ReadingShe is a singer, dancer, and a political hot potato. Waggling her hips in Indonesia’s "dangdut" style, Inul Daratista is hitting the big time and courting controversy as she goes. The public loves her, the president’s husband has danced with her, but hard-line Muslims in Indonesia are up in arms. "Dangdut" itself is not a […]
Continue ReadingNightclubbing in the Ivory Coast capital is a rich experience if you can get from your front door to the entrance without meeting a local militia gang. From afar, Abidjan – with its skyscrapers overlooking surrounding lagoons – could resemble any European city. But the “Paris of west Africa” has little to do with the […]
Continue ReadingGoing to war can be thirsty work, especially when you’re holed up on the border with a small but desperate army of fellow hacks for company. As gambles for gateways to the war in Iraq went, the ghost town of Silopi on the north border seemed at times like a serious mistake. Days before the […]
Continue ReadingSerbia’s most famous singer said her life was the stuff of fairytales – the poor peasant girl who became her country’s most famous singer before the age of 30. But why, if 10 million Serbs adored her, she asked, couldn’t the rest of the world? The answer is 29-year old Svetlana Raznatovic – "Ceca" to […]
Continue ReadingThe original Charlie’s Angels film released in 2000 was surprisingly fresh and funky. With its tongue firmly in cheek, the film had real fun with the notion that three beautiful ladies could use every feminine trick in the book to fight crime. And yes, this mostly involved shaking ass and thrusting cleavage in order to […]
Continue ReadingNightclub lovers look away now, a dance anthem anti-Christ is on the warpath… Putting it simply, dance music is trash. It blighted the 1980s and 90s and it continues to blight the 21st century. But why is it trash? After all, it keeps hundreds of thousands of young people happy. But popularity shouldn’t be equated […]
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