Pop Princesses 2010 CD Compilation

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Free competition to win one of 3 copies of Pop Princesses 2010

Buzzin Pop Music has 3 copies of the new PopPrincesses 2010 CD compilation to giveaway in our free to enter competition.

To enter the competition all you need to do is correctly answer the following question:

Who had a recent hit with ‘Bad Romance’?

Send your entries to freecompetition@buzzinmedia.co.uk with Pop Princesses 2010 in the subject line (any other subject title will be not be entered) with your answer and your full address and contact telephone number.

This Buzzin Pop Music Pop Princesses 2010 Competition ends on 17th April, 2010. The editor will randomly choose 3 winners.

The editor’s choice is final.

Naylor’s love of classic sixties pop and rock music and in particular the melodic harmonies of that period shine through in his latest release Little Speck of Blue. His rich and shimmering 12 string guitar playing has become the bedrock of his recordings after first hearing The Byrds Roger McGuinn’s jangling guitar early in his career.

After a brush with stardom as a member of the Tim Friese-Greene and Warne Livesey-produced band Salvation Sunday, Marvin opted for the life of a jobbing musician – touring the world with covers bands. But he never quite gave up the idea of writing music of his own, and in 2004 released his first solo album, Monsters and Mad Things.

Flight of Billy Balloon (its title inspired by the lyric of Scott Walker’s Plastic Palace People) followed in 2008 and is a collection of dreamlike, cinematic songs full of pastoral English psychedelia, warmth and whimsy. On merit of the album, Fatea Magazine awarded Naylor with the Fatea Innovation 08 Award.

Little Speck of Blue has already been supported by national and regional radio, with BBC 6’s Tom Robinson calling the track ‘Epic’, which is a pretty good recomendation.

Once heard, Little Speck of Blue is hard to dislodge from the memory and is one of those rare songs whose appeal cuts across generations: it’s as likely to delight fans of Flaming Lips and Grizzly Bear as those of the Beatles and the Byrds. And remarkably this richly-detailed wall of sound is all the work of one man – Winchester’s Marvin B. Naylor.

Marvin B Naylor – Little Speck of Blue

Massive R&B Spring Collection 2010 CD

Massive R&B is back and this time is bigger and better!

The Massive R&B Spring Collection 2010 CD is now available to turn your Winter nights into Spring weekends with the hottest urban tracks around, including huge exclusives from Jason Derulo with In My Head and Rihanna’s hit track Rude Boy.

And Buzzin Pop Music has 3 copies of this great new R&B CD compilation to giveaway in our FREE COMPETITION

FREE COMPETITION

Free competition to win one of 3 copies of Massive R&B Spring Collection 2010

To enter the competition all you need to do is correctly answer the following question:

Which Rihanna hit single is included on Massive R&B Spring Collection 2010?

Send your entries to freecompetition@buzzinmedia.co.uk with Massive R&B in the subject line with your answer and your full address and contact telephone number.

This Buzzin Pop Massive R&B Spring Collection 2010 Competition ends on 14th April, 2010. The editor will randomly choose 3 winners.

The editor’s choice is final.

Massive R&B Spring Collection 2010 will be released on March 15th on UMTV.

mini viva

Frankee & Britt, better known as Mini Viva, release their follow up to the 2009 top ten hit Left My Heart In Tokyo, with the irresistible new single One Touch, which is out on May 3rd through Geffen records.

Another guaranteed dance floor filler, One Touch takes a cheeky nod at the eighties sound of Chicago house and hi-nrg and looks set to become a massive hit.

Described by POPJUSTICE as ’so amazing it will make your head explode’, One Touch is pop gem that is perfect for dancing round the living room getting ready for a Saturday night out with the girls!

Mini Viva are currently applying the finishing touches to their debut album and last week launched an interactive online show called Viva Mini Viva! featuring the girls online every Friday between 4.30pm and 5pm in the UK.

The Mini Viva girls will be live and ready to answer questions from fans (via questions through Mini Viva’s Facebook and Twitter).  There will be cool competitions and exclusive live performances too, so it’s going to be a great way of kicking off the weekend and essential Friday viewing.  The show will be broadcast from their brand new Ustream channel, which will allow the live streaming to take place.

It is all go for Mini Viva right now and they have also announced a UK tour on which they will be accompanied by the dance troupe Diversity. Mini Viva will also play at the Isle of Wight Festival on June 11th.

Mini Viva UK Tour dates:

Tue 23-Mar Margate Winter Gardens

Wed 24-Mar Cambridge Corn Exchange

Thu 25-Mar Rhyl Pavilions

Sat 27-Mar Manchester Apollo

Sun 28-Mar Liverpool Empire

Mon 29-Mar Wolves Civic Hall

Tue 30-Mar Glasgow Cylde Auditorium

Thu 01-Apr Newcastle City Hall

Fri 02-Apr Swindon Oasis

Sat 03-Apr Plymouth Pavilions

Mon 05-Apr Oxford New Theatre

Tue 06-Apr Leicester De Montford

Wed 07-Apr London Hammersmith Apollo

Thu 08-Apr Bristol Colston Hall

Sat 10-Apr Portsmouth Guildhall

Sun 11-Apr Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre

Tue 13-Apr Nottingham Concert Hall

Wed 14-Apr Sheffield City Hall

Thu 15-Apr Brighton Brighton Centre

Sat 17-Apr Cardiff CIA

Sun 18-Apr London Hammersmith Apollo

Mon 19-Apr London Hammersmith Apollo

Wed 21-Apr Brentwood Leisure Centre

Thu 22-Apr Preston Guildhall

Sat 24-Apr Manchester Apollo

Sun 25-Apr Bradford St Georges Hall

Mon 26-Apr Wolverhampton Civic Hall

mirrorkicks - podium

Produced in a home built studio in the basement of a family home in Streatham in South London, the self titled debut album from the London band Mirrorkicks is released on April 19th.

The band are whipping up a storm with their live performances, Mirrorkicks have already built up an impressive fan base, including XFM’s John Kennedy who invited them to play at one of his live club nights in February as well as support from Razorlight, who hosted a DJ night following the bands headline performance at The Water Rats venue, also during February.

Over the past few months Mirrorkicks have raised some impressed eye-brows with their unique online version of Leona Lewis’ Bleeding Love; and their debut single, Turning Up, has generated interest on the other side of the pond, with talks of collaborations and touring on the West coast later this year.

Their latest single Anything has been playlisted on XFM amongst others and the band have also been mentioned recently on Radio 2.

The next single from the album is easily my favourite track from the new album, Podium will be released a week before the album on April 12th. Well worth a listen, check out Podium by Mirrorkicks below:

For more information visit the Mirrorkicks mySpace.

Hip Hop star Jay Z performed the track on his recent appearance on the BBC’s Jonathan Ross Show, in case you may not have seen it here is the video ;

Jay Z – On To The Next One

If you missed Jay Z chatting with Ross, the interview itself was quite amusing, here it is in two parts;

Less is more as they say, but in this case, the phrase can only be applied to the amount of clothing worn in the clip – everything else is excessive bordering on obscene.

The super-stylized, Warhol-esque video begins with a scantly-clad Rihanna playing air-drums on a less than responsive kit, while the background drum machine lets a dance-hall beat rip and shake. One of the next shots comprises multipe Rihannas, shaking in a bright kaleidoscope of African colors, stylized with comic book style Pop Art layering and animated lions, before moving onto the super-ripped object of her desire, whose pants she soon pulls back to check for sufficiency.

The style is impressive, and the overt sexuality of Rihanna herlyricsand video itselfhaveensured the song’smega-hit status. Speaking of which, the video has received over 8.4 million hits on Youtube as of March 4th.

In a kind of backwards victory for women’sequality, the lyrics of the song, both, advocate male teasing and mockery, and a love of rough sex – a wise and winning combination in anyone’sbooks, and a surefire way to win over millions of young, sexually-frustrated fans. Lyrics include:

“Come here rude boy, boy
Can you get it up
Come here rude boy, boy
Is your big enough
Take it, take it Baby, baby
Take it, take it Love me, love me.”

and:

“I like the way you touch me there
I like the way you pull my hair
Babe, if I don’t feel it, I ain’t faking
No, no.”

Whatever you think about the lyrics, or the apparent direction of today’s youth, the sound, technique and style are undeniable. Both, Rihanna and the object of her desire, are super-fit, clad in designer clothes, and edited at a super-stylized and perhaps seizure-inducing pace.

It seems that Rihanna’s superstardom will continue its upward trajectory at a seemingly unlimited velocity, or at least, as far as censorship is willing to allow

r kelly

One of the biggest names from the nineties onslaught of R&B music, R Kelly has continued to make music and is still mixing it with the current top names in the genre, writing, performing and producing the music that he loves and again topping the R&B charts last year with his album Untitled, which is generally being hailed as a classic.

Now among the host of R&B/Urban/Soulstars from those early days who are back out on the road, R Kelly is heading into Europe for a series of shows that will see him performing his own sultry style of music in Germany, Netherlands France and Brussels, before hitting the UK for four shows in April.

Twenty years on and R Kelly has sold a staggering 50 million albums around the world and in the UK he has chalked up an unbelievable 30 hit singles throughout his career. At the same time he has managed to write and produce for some of the most legendary names in the business, working with stars like Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Ciara and The Isley Brothers. He also wrote the international comeback song I Look To You, for Whitney Houston.

But it his fantastic personal back catalogue that fans will be eager to hear him perform at his 2010 concerts, songs like Bump & Grind, Shes Got That Vibe, I Believe I Can Fly and If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time, will have the fans moving in the aisles.

The full list of R Kelly European dates is;

Tuesday
23 March 2010
19:30
Palladium Köln
Köln Germany

Sunday
28 March 2010
19:30
Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt
Frankfurt/Main Germany

Monday
29 March 2010
19:30
Tempodrom
Berlin Germany

Tuesday
30 March 2010
20:00
Heineken Music Hall
Amsterdam Zuid-Oost Holland

Thursday
01 April 2010
20:00
Zenith de Paris
Paris France

Friday
02 April 2010
20:00
Galaxie
Amneville France

Saturday
03 April 2010
20:00
Messe Basel, Grosser Saal
Basel Switzerland

Monday
05 April 2010
19:00
Manchester Apollo
Manchester United Kingdom

Friday
09 April 2010
19:00
Hammersmith Apollo
London United Kingdom

Saturday
10 April 2010
19:00
Hammersmith Apollo
London United Kingdom

Sunday
11 April 2010
19:00
Civic Hall
Wolverhampton United Kingdom

R Kelly tickets are available through Viagogo, your online ticket exchange for concert tickets, sports tickets and arts and theatre tickets.

Scouting For Girls release new single This Ain’t A Love Song on 29 March. It precedes the release of sophomore album Everybody Wants To Be On TV on 12 April.

In 2008 Scouting For Girls became the biggest selling new British band of the year. Having toiled for ten years unsigned, the boys sold over 900,000 records of their eponymous number 1 debut album, and were nominated for three Brit Awards (British Breakthrough Act, British Single and British Live Act) to become the UK’s most successful new pop band.

Fronted by exuberant showman Roy Stride, Scouting For Girls quickly became renowned for their contagious piano-led pop songs (She’s So Lovely, Heartbeat, It’s Not About You), that connected with a huge audience and reaped multiple sell-out tours.

Those live shows grew as Scouting For Girls mania gripped, buoyed on by huge radio support, and venues were upsized across the country and sold out just as quickly. By the end of 2008, they had performed to hundreds of thousands of fans, and outsold bands twice their size in the live arena.

The initial recordings of their forthcoming second album Everybody Wants To Be On TV were ruthlessly scrapped after the Brit Awards in 2008, when the band decided it needed re-writing and re-shaping.

Whole tracks were dropped in Roy Stride’s mission for a collection of perfect pop songs. The resulting album, produced by Andy Green at Helioscentric Studios in East Sussex, is unshakeably bold and confident, a genuine step up in sound that loses none of the band’s early charm but builds and expands upon it as infectiously as only they know how to be.

This Ain’t A Love Song is a telling introduction to the new record. It is a hugely powerful, soaring song and a strong example of Scouting For Girls’ ambitious new sound, sculpted by Roy’s unflagging confidence and songwriting prowess.

It is a welcome return by this everyday trio, writing a bright new chapter of British pop for 2010.

For more information visit www.scoutingforgirls.co.uk

Here’s a ‘behind the scenes’ video of how the new promo video was made:

the dirty disco

Sista! is the latest single from The Dirty Disco, an electro pop band with a glam fetish, who are attracting plenty of attention from their live shows despite being currently unsigned and unpublished.

The single is released through the bands own label Stuck In My Head Records and was mixed by Dylan 3D Dresdow who has worked with Black Eyed Peas/ Will.i.am.

The digital release is already riding high in the iTunes Dance Chart and has peaked at number one on the Juno Records indie rock chart.

The Dirty Disco have attracted the attention of BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson amongst many others and have been described as ‘An unhealthy dose of Glam! Sleazy and above all irresistibly catchy pop.’

The Dirty Disco will be appearing in London at the Death Disco on March 31st, where entry is free.

Here is the video, The Dirty Disco – Sista!

For more information visit The Dirty Disco MySpace site.