Gary Allan Living Hard interview + “Watching Airplanes” video

Gary Allan - Living Hard

It’s raw and emotional. It’s freight-train-to-nowhere lonely. It’s hard-rockin’, no-apologies country music that has traded in its twang for a gravelly growl millions of fans recognize as the voice of Gary Allan …

Leon Jackson – The X Factor winner releases “When You Believe” for Christmas + videos

Leon Jackson - When You Believe

Leon Jackson, the 2007 winner of The X Factor, appeared on GMTV’s LK Today this morning. Lorraine Kelly talked to Leon about his win last Saturday night December 15th, his nerves throughout the show …

Seal “Amazing” Royal Variety Performance review + video

Seal - Amazing

Last Sunday, December 9th, The 79th Royal Variety Performance aired on ITV in the UK. The show took place in Liverpool at the Empire Theatre, in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II. One of the standout performances of the night was by Seal …

5 Bands to Watch in 2008: The Rushes, Parka, Ghost Frequency…

The Rushes

2007 has been an exciting year for new, up and coming bands, and 2008 looks to be another great year of music (fingers crossed). We have just a handful of bands for you to peruse, here on Band Weblogs …

Newton Faulkner “Teardrop” review, watch video + tour dates (highly recommended)

Newton Faulkner

Newton Faulkner is set to release his cover of Massive Attack’s “Teardrop”, off of debut album, ‘Hand Built By Robots’ on December 10, 2007. The first time that I heard the name Newton Faulkner, for some reason I pictured …

Godsmack Good Times, Bad Times Greatest Hits, Sully Erna + watch video

Sully Erna from Godsmack - drawing by Milek

For years, I had heard of the band Godsmack, but never really knew much about them. A friend of mine here in England recently read Godsmack frontman/founder Sully Erna’s autobiography, The Paths We Choose – and it was funny to find out that Sully comes from Massachusetts and now lives in New Hampshire – my old state…

Gwen Stefani Early Winter review + watch video

Gwen Stefani

I watched Gwen Stefani’s video for her single, “Early Winter” for the first time this morning. It’s good to see a video on TV before watching it on YouTube for a change – with the larger screen. “Early Winter” is off of her second album, ‘The Sweet Escape’ …