XXXtina's sex tape
We find it a bit weird that no one has picked up on the fact that a Christina Aguilera sex tape has emerged. Featuring the diminutive wall-flower locked in a loving embrace with another woman and all...
View ArticleTenderoni is the night
We did a (pretty piss poor) thing about Kele 'not in Bloc Party at the moment' Okereke's first solo single, 'Tenderoni', the other day. Now a video has appeared so we're putting that up too. Sometimes,...
View ArticleDoes she ever sleep?
Surely, tonight of all nights is a good time to unveil another Beyoncé video, is it not? It's not like there's anything else going on is there? Plus, this is Beyoncé's fourteenth single to be released...
View ArticleFinders Keepers
Not only did we forget to write about this song a few weeks ago but we've also managed to leave it off the Friday Catch-up feature, which in turn, we forgot to actually do last week. Needless to say,...
View ArticleNew Musick Monday
Nothing, nudda, zip. Not one of the acts we gave our full backing to have made any kind of impression on the UK hit parade, not even M.I.A who has had acres of free publicity after that video. We have...
View Article"U want me to be somebody who I'm really not"
This is the official first single from M.I.A's third albumthat we mentioned yesterday when we were going on about how she'll probably never sell any records. Unfortunately for us, it's a massive,...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Treats by Sleigh Bells
Derek Miller (guitar/production) and Alexis Krauss (vocals) make up Brooklyn noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells. Not only do they make music your mum used to warn you about - "it's just noise" is actually...
View ArticleBeck = the indie Beyoncé
We all know that Beck is prolific - he covers albums in a day, helps produce records by Stephen Malkmus and Jamie Lidell, is on the new Twilight soundtrack - but such is his work rate that some amazing...
View ArticleBefore the ash cloud
This is the rather great new video for Wildbirds & Peacedrums new single, 'Bleed Like There Was No Other Flood'. Filmed in Iceland and continuing the visual water theme started with the forthcoming...
View ArticleAll the (not so) single ladies
This is the new single from Kylie Minogue. It's called 'All The Lovers' and is taken from her millionth album, Aphrodite.Very nice.
View ArticleNew Musick Monday
It seems our mild indifference towards Foals second album didn't put people off buying it; entering at number 8, it's the band's second top ten album in a row. However, their debut peaked at no. 3, so...
View ArticleBludgeoned to death with a baseball bat
There's much to hate about Jo Whiley - that voice, her fawning over every new band as if they were the second coming, creating Fearne Cotton - but perhaps her biggest sin is the legacy of The Live...
View ArticleWar! What is it good for?
You must know how it works by now. If not, allow us to remind you; a new band start generating some buzz, we miss it completely, then six months down the line we catch on and tell you about it as if...
View ArticleFriday catch up: Videos with lights in them
There are rumours circulating that Swedish pop supremo Robyn's record label wanted her age to be kept out of interviews or at least played down, simply because she's over...wait for it...30 years of...
View ArticleNew Musick Monday
We need to have words. Seriously. Move closer, sit down and just fucking listen for once. How could you let Kelis' new album enter at no. 42? For those of you without a degree in maths, that means she...
View Article"Shake your tamberella"
Everyone hates Mark Ronson. We get it, don't get it twisted; it's that ubiquity, that smirk, those horns, the fact that he's a good-looking chap with some nice threads. But at the same time, it's weird...
View ArticleFlash in the pan?
Hands up who remembers the Klaxons? You do!? Seriously? OK, well they've spent the past fourteen years working on the follow-up to the Mercury-winning Myths of The Near Future and finally the first...
View ArticleA song about having your willy cut off
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti have a pretty amazing new album out at the beginning of June. Entitled Before Today and released via the legendary 4AD label, it's a brilliantly odd mix of psych-pop, glam...
View ArticleTwisted Firestarters
We've always had a slight problem with Arcade Fire. Sure, Funeral had its moments and some of Neon Bible was OK, but the general fawning of critics mixed with THE VERY SERIOUS expressions the band seem...
View ArticleWARNING: This video features a lady playing guitar
This here is the video for Rihanna's new single (in the US), 'Rockstar 101'.Rumour has it that her label have already got Rihanna working hard on a 'poppier' follow-up to last year's Rated R, a record...
View ArticlePower play
Apparently this is the first single from Kanye West's fifth album, Good Ass Job. After all the hullabaloo about him 'violating' Taylor Swift's right to freedom of speech, it's nice to have him back...
View ArticleTruffles, anyone?
Who doesn't enjoy a good scrap? Well, there's a bit of a humdinger taking place at the moment between the never-knowingly subtle M.I.A and New York Times journalist Lynn Hirschberg. Basically, the New...
View ArticleNew Musick Monday
Right, is this some kind of pathological disorder we're dealing with here? Do you want to make us track down each and every one of you (yes, all twenty!) and talk sternly at you for ten minutes? For...
View ArticleThe day the Musick (blog) died...
That's it. It's over. Musick is no more. Thanks to everyone who read it and commented, but it's time to move on...See you soon maybe.
View ArticleLadies and gentlemen, 3mins30secs...
We weren't about to leave you with nothing. Musick is dead, but in its place is 3mins30secs, a brand new blog that picks up where Musick left off.CLICK HERE PLEASE
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