Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week's Future Hits playlist features five songs by new pop acts which I think could be their breakthrough hits. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux_hgFzo5_W8bpK3ZT4E6kNI] Tracklisting: Rixton – Me and My Broken Heart Kiesza – Hideaway The Chainsmokers – #Selfie Cash Cash ft. Bebe Rexha – Take Me… Continue reading Future Hits: New Pop on the Block
Month: March 2014
Future Stars: Say Lou Lou (Columbia)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Now here’s an example of how a girlband can approach pop music from outside the mainstream while appealing to genuine pop fans at the same time. I wasn’t sold on Swedish-Australian twin sisters Say Lou Lou at first, which is why it took me… Continue reading Future Stars: Say Lou Lou (Columbia)
Future Stars: JUCE (Unsigned)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. What is this new trend for imitating 90s pop imagery and matching it with inferior “cooler” music? First we had the new videos by Haim and Iggy Azalea/Charli XCX, and now there’s JUCE, a hipster girlband who are rumoured to be about to sign to… Continue reading Future Stars: JUCE (Unsigned)
Future Stars: Catfish and the Bottlemen (Communion/Island)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. The name Catfish and the Bottlemen led me to expect a bumbly folk band but actually this Welsh four-piece make bright, energetic rock music. They live in a bed and breakfast in Llandudno, Wales, and have names like Van McCann and Billy Bibby that… Continue reading Future Stars: Catfish and the Bottlemen (Communion/Island)
Future Hits: Dancing Together
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week's Future Hits playlist features five new dance music collaborations which I'm tipping for chart success. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux_n9nvEag4MOLzv22ub7b_T] Tracklisting: Chase & Status ft. Ed Thomas – Blk & Blu Dansson & Marlon Hoffstadt – Shake That New World Sound & Thomas Newson – Flute… Continue reading Future Hits: Dancing Together
Future Stars: Royal Blood (Warner Bros/Black Mammoth)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. I’m not sure it’s fitting to feature Royal Blood under the title Future Pop, but they can certainly be labelled “Future Popular,” so for that reason I reluctantly include them this week. Radio 1 might finally get the new rock success story they’ve been… Continue reading Future Stars: Royal Blood (Warner Bros/Black Mammoth)
Future Stars: Lea Michele (Columbia)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. I was surprised to realise I hadn’t featured Lea Michele here while her album was in the works, but perhaps it was because Glee stars have a low hit rate when they attempt to become artists in their own right. Luckily, Lea has found… Continue reading Future Stars: Lea Michele (Columbia)
Future Stars: Shura (unsigned)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Shura is an English/Russian female solo artist, who is one of many artists recently to become “Internet famous” overnight thanks to Soundcloud and the music blogging scene. Her song Touch, the first she has posted on Soundcloud, got 100k plays in its first week,… Continue reading Future Stars: Shura (unsigned)
Future Hits: Boy Zone
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week’s playlist features five future hits by male solo artists. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux-VHsCtrwHgoaN7f6PcNTsf] Tracklisting: Aloe Blacc – The Man Elyar Fox – A Billion Girls Pitbull ft. G.R.L – Wild Wild Love Avicii – Addicted To You Jason Derulo – Stupid Love
Future Stars: Route 94 (Rinse)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. It’s hard to find inspiration to write about an anonymous dance producer, but now Route 94 (Rowan Jones) is on course for a no.1, I suppose I probably should. Although he’s been present on the dance music scene for a few years, and was… Continue reading Future Stars: Route 94 (Rinse)