Wednesday
Feb222012

Wiley - Evolve Or Be Extinct (Video)

Grime legend Wiley is back with some sick visuals for the title track from his latest LP 'Evolve Or Be Extinct'. Love the beat, and love the bars - still won't be following him on Twitter any time soon though. Pick up a copy HERE.

Tuesday
Feb212012

Adele sells 716,091 copies of '21' since Grammys

On the same night she picks up two Brit Awards, HITS Daily Double have just announced that Adele has had a massive week of sales following her 6 Grammys last Sunday. According to HDD, the London-born singer/songwriter sold a staggering 716,091 copies of '21' over the past week, beating off competition from the late Whitney Houston's 'Greatest Hits', which sold a mere 170,294 in comparison. Worldwide superstar, doing 90s numbers, a year after the album's release date.

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Tuesday
Feb212012

Ed Sheeran & Adele share the spoils at 2012 Brit Awards

Tonight was a good night for singer/songwriters at the Brits, with Adele & Ed Sheeran picking up 4 of the biggest awards at London's O2 Arena. Following her incredible 6 Grammys, the wonderful Adele came back home and took Best Female & the prestigious Best Album awards, with Ed Sheeran being named as Best Male & Best Breakthrough artist on his first visit to the ceremony. Many more to come for both in the future no doubt - check out the full list of winners after the jump.

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Tuesday
Feb212012

The House Of Coxhead looking for new writers

After 20 months of basically doing this on my own, The House Of Coxhead is now looking to branch out and bring in a couple of writers to help with the daily running of the site. I recently reached 500,000 hits and that lead on to me getting the wonderful Alya Mooro on board (also writes for MTV Wrap Up & Soul Culture), who will be contributing 3 in-depth reviews a month to the site.

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Tuesday
Feb212012

Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis & Tyler, The Creator - Rella (Video)

Not the biggest fan of Odd Future but their latest visual offering, which is directed by Tyler, is nothing short of genius. The track features Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis & Tyler himself, and will feature on the forthcoming 'The OF Tape Vol. 2'.

Tuesday
Feb212012

What do you make of the Rihanna & Chris Brown remixes?

After much speculation surrounding the former superstar couple, Rihanna & Chris Brown last night went ahead and released two remixes, 'Birthday Cake' featuring Chris Brown and 'Turn Up The Music' featuring Rihanna. Now I'm all up forgiveness, but after reading what Chris Brown did to Rihanna back in 2009, is there anyway that he deserves be forgiven, and be on a track that is basically all about the couple having sex? Check out both remixes after the jump and let me know what you think. Sending out all the wrong messages to young girls about domestic violence, in my opinion.

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Tuesday
Feb212012

Rudimental - Spoons (Feat. MNEK & Syron) (Video)

AH YEAH! Here are some stripped back visuals for the deep, soulful and groovy new House single from Rudimental, which features the enchanting vocals of MNEK (who is just SEVENTEEN!) & the wonderful Syron. For those of you who are new to Rudimental, they are a four-piece production outfit from London, who cover a wide diversity of generes, including Drum & Bass, Garage & Dubstep. Their D&B remix of Ed Sheeran's latest single 'Drunk' is available HERE and you can pick up 'Spoons' on their Facebook for FREE! One of my favourite tracks for a long time.

Tuesday
Feb212012

The Warehouse Project adds second date to Easter weekend

Due to popular demand, The Warehouse Project will now be operating for two nights over this year's Easter weekend - the Easter Sunday show which went on sale two weeks ago is now completely sold out. Below are details of the second show for that weekend, which will take place on Easter Friday 6th April, and features Eric Prydz, Axwell, James Zabiela, John Digweed & more. These will be the only Warehouse Project events before the main 2012 series kicks off at the end of the year. Tickets are HERE and details of the venue will be released on 22nd March.

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Tuesday
Feb212012

Beach Break 2012 Announce Line-Up

Beach Break Live, one of the UK's most loved student festival, have today announced their biggest line-up to date with Chase and Status, Dizzee Rascal, Friendly Fires, Nero, Maverick Sabre, Labrinth, Wretch 32 and many more on the bill. This week's number one DJ Fresh will be performing live, as well as Ben Howard, Delilah, Ghostpoet, Skream, Benga, Mistajam, The Whip, Scroobius Pip, Toddla T, The Milk, Clement Marfo & The Frontline and the legendary Hostpitality will be taking their artists to Beach Break Live 2012. All the info you need is HERE and HERE is where you can get tickets.

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Tuesday
Feb212012

Shakira signs to Roc Nation

XXL have today revealed that Colombian songstress Shakira has signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation for management purposes, and will join the likes of Rihanna, Wale, No I.D., Santigold, S1 and Melanie Fiona. The news may come as a surprise to many, but Shakira has sold more than 60 million albums and won 12 Billboard Latin Music Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards - making it another shrewd business move by Mr. Carter.