Alice In Chains have had a remarkable career which includes multiple Grammy nominations, selling more than 17 million albums worldwide, topping the Billboard Top 200 album chart with two albums and 11 Billboard Top 10 hit singles. We thought now would be a good time to catch up with one of the original forefathers of early 90s rock, formed in Seattle in the late 80s and forever associated with the grunge genre. We spoke to William DuVall, Comes With the Fall frontman and the newest member of the band having joined in 2005…
Rihanna - Brixton Academy, London - November 16th
The last time Rihanna did a headline show in London she was a global pop star in love with another pop star, Chris Brown. How times change. She’s recently admitted that she found it hard coping with the transformation of “going to bed as Rihanna and waking up as Britney Spears” in relation to her much-publicised domestic violence, but with the release of her fourth album Rated R due next week, she’s getting all the support she deserves with her return to the stage, with both her mentor Jay-Z and rapper Jeezy showing up on stage last night at Brixton’s 02 Academy for her Nokia-sponsored gig…
Leona Lewis, the born and bred Hackney diva is back with the notorious second album, which is always a tough one to get just right; but our Leona was never going to have a problem, was she? As when you have the two biggest mentors in the business (Clive Davis & Simon Cowell) selecting every move you make, surely the album is going to be faultless…
The West Country singer tells us she’s never had an American accent: “If people think otherwise, they can just fuck off!” she says sweetly. Watch her talk about her music, growing up in public and her thoughts on Jedward…
Joss Stone’s new album Colour Me Free! is out now.
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(Clare Lydon)
