Stars and Music News

Sam Sparro, ABC, Glasgow

October 4, 2008 – 12:43 am
The great success of the Australian-American-English singer Sam Falson's music is that it warmly embraces some of the least fashionable forms of pop, yet it still works as the rather high camp product of a singular artist.

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The legend of Xanadu lives again

October 4, 2008 – 12:42 am
In February 1968 a completely one-off song made it to No 1. It began with flamenco noodling and a voiceover in echoey Spanish. It employed a 35-piece orchestra, and told the story of a doomed romance, a brief love affair in a "black barren land", and the lament of a chap who came off second-best in a duel. There was a bitter spoken-word passage. And there were the eye-watering whiplash effects. It's not something you often hear in mild British pop songs. The lashes and Romance-in-Durango guitars made "The Legend of Xanadu" the first, and only, chart-topper for Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.

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My Fantasy Band by Jamie Reynolds, Klaxons

October 4, 2008 – 12:42 am
Vocals - Sandy DennyMy favourite vocals on records all contain a strong female voice. Sandy's vocals have that perfect combination of power and delicacy and seem to be delivered with an understanding of life experience.

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Alba silenced by horror mask

October 4, 2008 – 12:41 am
STAR dons Hannibal Lecter-style mask for latest ad encouraging young people to vote

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“Shogun” by Trivium

October 4, 2008 – 12:41 am
Heavy metal's a strange beast right now. None of the young guns have conquered it. Metalcore acts like Lamb of God and Shadows Fall have succeeded to a degree, but honestly, none of them have the staying power or mass appeal of a band like KoRn. Not one member of the metalcore militia has become that monolithic monster that metal needs at the top. Slipknot are the only "new gods" that fans have. No one can really touch them. In the mid-90s, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Pantera ruled the roost, but these days, Slipknot are the lone kings. Where's the young band that'll step up and spearhead the genre's next evolution? Trivium makes a valiant effort on Shogun, their third album. In fact, they're out for blood, storming the hill with samurai swords drawn. Even though the album may not prove earth shattering for heavy music, it doesn't matter ...

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“Kellie Pickler” by Kellie Pickler

October 4, 2008 – 12:40 am
Thank God, she's a country girl! Former American Idol, Kellie Pickler, is Southern by birth–she was born in Louisiana, raised in North Carolina—but she performs country music by the grace of God! With her shock of platinum blonde hair and her California Girl good looks, Pickler appears more "pop" than country on the surface. But didn't your mama teach you not to go judging a pop star on her looks alone? Pickler capitalizes on the fact that she's able to deftly straddle the line between pop and country on her second album, Kellie Pickler. The record is an easy-on-the-ears, juicy sliver of pop country that's sweet and endearing enough to convert even the staunchest anti-country music fan into a believer! For the most part, country songs live and die by the strength of the vocalist, since the lyrics are so crucial to the genre's fabric. Pickler's blessed with a twangy ...

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Album: James Morrison, Songs for You, Truths for Me (Polydor)

October 4, 2008 – 12:40 am
James Morrison wrote more than 70 songs before settling on the dozen that comprise this follow-up to the two million-selling Undiscovered – on the grounds, apparently, that these are the most personal.

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McCartney prepares for landmark Israel concert

October 4, 2008 – 12:39 am
Sir Paul McCartney was today preparing for his controversial concert in Israel, more than 40 years after the Beatles were banned amid concerns over youngsters being corrupted.

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Larry Ryan: Caught in the Net

October 4, 2008 – 12:39 am
One of the major albums of recent weeks is Dear Science by Brooklyn's TV on the Radio. Their previous effort, Return to Cookie Mountain, was named album of the year in 2006 by PitchforkMedia.com and the influential music site is slathering all over them again, declaring: "This is thrilling music... brainy and ambivalent, and more engaging for it. TV on the Radio remain a true 'event band', and the sign o' the times they capture here isn't audacious hope, or fierce revolution: it's confusion."

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Danielle Lloyd sexes up 2009

October 3, 2008 – 12:51 am
SEE sexy topless pics from the glamour girl's 2009 calendar that was shot in Dubai

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