Music


Please help me win this competition!

 After winning the Newsroom UK's last competition with my article on how to survive the summer on just your student loan, I have been entered into their second competition. This time my article is about the decline of the record label and features Greek thrash band Suicidal Angels' frontman, Nick. Please read, click the link multiple times and pass around (the article with the most hits wins)

Thanks!

http://www.thenewsroomuk.co.uk/contributor7_3.php

Three of the month

Here’s my three albums of the month which are worth investigating.

Royksopp - Senior

Artist: Royksopp

Album: Senior

Released: Monday September 13th

Label: Wall of Sound

Genre: Electronic/'Electronica'

Price: £9.99 (HMV)

Concept albums were once commonplace in the music industry. Grand, innovative art forms, dabblers in the 'concept' included everyone from Pink Floyd with Dark Side of The Moon to Kraftwerk and The Man Machine.

Three for the month

Here's three records which have been released this month and are worthy of adding to your ipod this month while it's still here.

Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

Already described by some as the band's masterpiece, Montreal's Arcade Fire have moved away from claustrophobic remnants of Joy Division-esque isolation and closer to Coldplay and MGMT's mainstream territory on 2010's The Suburbs.

Top 10 tracks to download this month

My 10 essential tracks to download this month...

Live album: Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium

LIVE ALBUM REVIEW

PET SHOP BOYS

 

Video cutting excercise

Clips recorded by: Richard Pendry
Music: Isis - 'The Beginning and The End'
Cutting and editing by: Angela Davey
Special thanks to second year Journalism students for starring in it!

Video length: 1:33

video: 

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The Killers - Live From The Royal Albert Hall

Just in case you didn't see it in the U.M.M. mag and you feel it might be worth looking at, here's The Killers' Live From The Royal Albert Hall review, rather than Day & Age, Becci :P.

The Killers – Live From The Royal Albert Hall – DVD & CD