BBC Radio 1 has a long standing tradition of having visiting pop artists perform a cover of one of their contemporaries and has led to some amazing results like when 30 Seconds to Mars covered Kanye West or Haim covered Beyonce. Sometimes…. well sometimes they don’t turn out so well.   This time around Charli XCX, has delivered, offering up […]

Hundreds of revellers have been left disappointed Cambodian authorities to revoke the license for notoriously hedonistic festival KaZantip to operate just 24 hours before it was supposed to start.   Ticket holders arrived at the bridge to Koh Puos island ready to commence their festivities only to be met with disappointment as police had erected a 2 meter high metal barricade, preventing […]

It didn’t take Maroon 5 long after the release of their fifth studio album V to announce their world tour (just a single day!) but they sure did take their sweet time in announcing their Asian tour dates.

  American pop sensation Katy Perry is returning to Manilla on May 7 as part of her latest worldwide tour. The stop in Asia is in support of her latest album Prism which debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 100 before she takes off to Europe and South America.

It’s always intriguing when you click on a band’s Facebook page and of their 10,000 odd followers, you have 4 friends from different countries of origin and with wildly divergent music tastes that all ‘like’ their music. So began my foray into Cambodian Space Project and ironically enough, the first single that I am to hear from the band is also […]

As more people begin to use music streaming services, the paid subscription service has reported a 60 percent growth in its user numbers. Rhapsody, the company which helped pioneer the subscriber pays model in the music streaming industry has reported an unprecedented jump in user numbers. In April last year, the service had 1.7 million users but now, despite operating in […]

Well another year of Grammys has wrapped up and unless you’ve been living under a rock you’d have heard all about Kanye West almost pulling another “imma let you finish” on Beck, Madonna still not realizing she’s older than your grandmother and Rhianna wearing what looked to everyone else to be a giant birthday cake as a dress. But despite […]

Just a few short weeks since their regal wedding ceremony in Selby Abbey, Yorkshire, singer Jay Chou and Hannah Quinlivan have just held a second wedding in the luxury hotel W Taipei.   The ceremony was reported to be for his elderly maternal grandmother, who was unable to take the flight to England for the couple’s ceremony last month. Aged in […]

The organizers of popular Eastern European music festival KaZantip just can’t seem to catch a break. The festival, which has already had to shift location twice in the past two years, was due to be held in Cambodia for the first time, but local tourism officials are pulling the plug before the event even begins due to the festivals corrupting influence on […]

Jimmy Fallon has made his fair share of celebrity friends over his years hosting his late night TV show and the full strength of his star power was on full display last night when he assembled a crack squad of musicians to perform a special rendition of ‘We Are The Champions’. In order to commemorate the New England Patriots victory in the […]

Taylor Swift’s latest album ‘1989’ was the best-selling album of 2014, and now she has taken action to prevent eager money-makers from profiting from her songs.

Katy Perry’s half time show at the XLIX Superbowl had it all. From animatronic tigers, digital stage effects, dancing sharks and big name musical guests like Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliot, Katy Perry’s performance almost outshone the action on the field.

Cambodian blues act KROM are making waves internationally with award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles playing their newest single Mama Blue” on his world music show, offering glowing praise of their latest offering.

Taiwanese media outlets have revealed that Chinese pop superstar Jay Chou has married long time girlfriend Hannah Quinlivan in England on the eve of his 36th birthday.

Mac Demarco, the scraggy haired troubadour from Canada, with his gap toothed smile and carefree demeanour has cemented himself as the clown price of indie rock over the course of his three records. He’s also just commenced a whirlwind world tour that will see him touching down in Australia, North America and Europe playing at major international festivals like Coachella in addition to […]

Chris Brown has gotten himself in trouble with the law yet again. According to The Huffington Post, Brown has again had his parole revoked when it was revealed that he attended a concert where a gun battle broke out resulting in 5 people being shot.

Veteran rockers AC/DC and seven time Grammy Award winning diva Madonna will join a slew of young stars in performing at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards that will take place on February 8th.

Superstar Lenny Kravitz has been booked to perform at the after race performance for the Formula 1 Petronas Malaysia Grand Prix (F1) on March 29.

2014 was a pretty awesome year for music, but as always, there was no shortage of songs to make your ears bleed. There were hundreds of contenders but these eight were easily the absolute worst of this year’s trash.

After reigning supreme on the music charts for months last year, Meghan Trainor has just announced she’ll be playing an exclusive performance at The Coliseum, Hard Rock Hotel, Resorts World Sentosa on Apr 23.   Meghan has wrote her own song at the tender age of seven and exploded into the public’s consciousness with the success of her hit song […]