Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. I’ve had female-fronted British band Wolf Alice on my list for possible inclusion in Future Pop for almost a year, but I was unsure if they were just a bit “too cool for school,” with their nerd-mocking music video and Angela Carter-inspired name. Do they… Continue reading Future Stars: Wolf Alice (Chess Club Records)
Live Review: The Big Reunion (series 2) at Hammersmith Apollo
Last night I went to see the bands from the new series of The Big Reunion perform live together for the first time. I attended the same event last year, with the acts from the first series, and I can’t say that the new show was anywhere near as exciting, but it was still a… Continue reading Live Review: The Big Reunion (series 2) at Hammersmith Apollo
Want to make it in the music industry? Come to tonight’s Pop Meetup!
Tonight This Must Be Pop’s Industry Meetup returns to Match Bar in central London for another get-together of great pop-loving minds. Come and join us to chat, meet new people in the music industry, gossip and share advice on working in pop. We’ll be there from 7pm in the VIP area at the back, and… Continue reading Want to make it in the music industry? Come to tonight’s Pop Meetup!
Future Hits: The Young Ones
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week's Future Hits playlist features five new singles by young male acts that should soon be soaring up the charts. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux_tVP_125k4wWKMF57o8zZF] Tracklisting: The Vamps – Last Night One Direction – Midnight Memories 5 Seconds of Summer – She Looks So Perfect Martin Garrix… Continue reading Future Hits: The Young Ones
Future Stars: Bebe Rexha (Warner Bros)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. If there’s one unreleased album I’d love to hear, it’s that of Pete Wentz’s reggae-electro-pop band Black Cards. I saw them perform a great live set in London, but they split and the album was shelved. I now realise the key to the songs’… Continue reading Future Stars: Bebe Rexha (Warner Bros)
Future Stars: SOHN (4AD)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Electro-soul singer/producer SOHN (real name Toph Taylor) is touted as one of the big new acts of 2014, but actually he has been around since 2005 under the name Trouble Over Tokyo. Although Toph is from London, as Trouble Over Tokyo he was more… Continue reading Future Stars: SOHN (4AD)
Future Stars: Years and Years (Unsigned)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Multi-talented Olly Alexander seems to be in a race against himself, as his music and acting careers both progress at breakneck speed. You might know Olly as Jakob (Cassie’s stalker) from Skins, and he’s the lead in the new Belle and Sebastian musical film God Help The… Continue reading Future Stars: Years and Years (Unsigned)
Future Hits: Eurodance
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week's Future Hits playlist features five new European dance tracks which are set for chart success here in the UK. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux8kem-9ERWhmPTX0V61Qzdu] Tracklisting: Zedd ft. Hayley Williams – Stay The Night Klingande – Jubel Tujamo & Plastik Funk vs. Sneakbo – Dr Who Faul… Continue reading Future Hits: Eurodance
Future Stars: Soak (Goodbye Records)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Soak is the strange pseudonym of androgynous 17-year-old female singer, Bridie Monds-Watson. She is the first act signed by Chvrches (a Future Pop act themselves) to their label Goodbye Records, but sounds more like another Scottish act, Camera Obscura. Even more confusingly, she's actually… Continue reading Future Stars: Soak (Goodbye Records)
Future Stars: Strange Talk (Wind-Up Records)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Youth is a topic covered exhaustively in pop music, and I find that it’s often characterised too dramatically, glamourising the reckless, rebellious side. Young Hearts, the new single by Australian band Strange Talk, is a more idealised, fun and sweet representation, and it might… Continue reading Future Stars: Strange Talk (Wind-Up Records)