May 6th, 2010

The US synth project Owl City – fronted by bashful Adam Young – topped the UK single charts for three weeks with Fireflies. Now due to phenomenal pre-order demand the release of Owl City’s album Ocean Eyes has been brought forward.

With song titles like ‘Phonographic Love‘, ‘Juicy Lucy‘ and ‘Seventies Casualty’, it can only mean fun, fun, fun for Cha-Cha’s debut album ‘We Are Cha-Cha‘. London based and signed to brand new label ‘Pop Noodle Records’, I listen to this album in anticipation, as I could not get their single, ‘The Fellowship‘, out of my head for weeks! So full album proper, what have the boys got to offer?

It was to be a fateful day for Pete Macleod when he bumped into fellow Glaswegian Alan McGee back in ’06. The setting was California where he had just moved to further his career, Alan offered Pete some well educated advice and lent his support. Taking stock of this Pete went on to structure his career, surrounding himself with like minded musicians who all learnt from each other which in turn benefited his Music. He then served his time on the gigging circuit, this hard graft created a buzz and his name was held in high regard – which led to him supporting Ocean Colour Scene in ’07, along with seasoned muso Bonehead joining him as an acoustic session guitarist for the recording of his EP “Lost and Found” and on Pete’s solo tour in ’08.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have both been detailing stories of the legendary rock n roll excess which was such a huge part in the making of their landmark 1972 release ‘Exile On Main St.‘ over the last few days.

Brooklyn-based rock band The National have been taking BBC 6Music through the make-up of their upcoming fifth studio album ‘High Violet‘, and have said the lack of deadlines and money constraints helped them to produce what they believe is their strongest record to date.