A Day To Remember are one of the biggest metal core bands in the world and my favourite album has to be this one. It is almost four years old but in my opinion it is the best album they’ve ever done. It’s the album that A Day to Remember are associated with, for most people. It sold over 22,000 copies in its first week and is still selling copies up until now.
I picked a random album from my iTunes playlist to review and couldn’t have been happier with the result. Modern day covers usually consist of the trending music, but this album goes back to the start, to a time when musicians were musicians. Performed with passion and love, this album will leave you dragging your jaw across the ground for days.
If you could get in to a time machine and go back to 2006, then once you get there go to Luton Airport and head over to the HMV there, you would find a fifteen year old me standing on the precipice of making one of the most important decisions I would make in terms of my friends, lifestyle, tattoos and music taste. On one side System Of A Down’s Steal this Album, an album my friends were encouraging me to buy and would have represented me following their music taste, something I’d been doing for the past year or so.
After the release of their second album ‘The Pick of Destiny’ back in 2006, Jack Black wanted to focus more on his acting career and we all began thinking that Tenacious D would never release any new material again. But 2012 sees a third studio album called “Rize of the Fenix” being released. Will this new album from one of the bands that defined comedy rock blow you away or send you walking in the other direction?
This is by far Enter Shikari’s best album since Take To The Skies got released, which in my eyes was the album that really put them on the map. In this new eleven track album, the experimental aspect that the songs contain can simply not be bettered now with even more adventurous, catchy lyrics. But A Flash Flood Of Colour keeps exactly the right mixture of both metal and electronics to produce their best album of all time.
This has got to be one of the best collaborations I have ever heard. My favourite male vocalist Robin Thicke and one of my favourite rappers Lil Wayne get together on one track. This was released from Robin Thicke’s fifth album Love after War. This is a big track. It is definitely something different to listen to rather than the everyday R ‘n’ B or hip hop we hear. The music is soft and the beat is slow. The style is smooth and quite jazzy but it still has that small dose of R ‘n’ B to keep it alive.
Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, has rapidly burst through the music scene in the last year and has been adored by many critics. Can you remember the last time a young Canadian blew up the music scene? Although he is nowhere near as popular as his nation’s current shining star Justin Bieber, what The Weeknd does possess is an incredibly loyal fan base and outstanding reviews.
Is there honestly a person out there that hasn’t, in some way, been affected by the music of the Goo Goo Dolls? The Goo Goo Dolls have never been embraced but the UK as readily as the US. The New York trio’s biggest hit, 1998’s Iris, topped the Billboard chart but only limped to number 50 here. It took Ronan Keating, of all people, to make it a hit – the Boyzone singer’s version peaked at 12 in 2006, but was also his first single to not break the top 10. Suffice to say the multi-million-selling pop-rockers aren’t regulars on too many Brits’ personal playlists.
The last day of Drake’s UK tour was here, and I think the whole of Nottingham was looking forward to Drake making his final appearance on stage at the Capital FM Arena on the 24th April. Drake aka Drizzy had girls queuing up from 9.30am and the doors wouldn’t open until 6.30pm; bear in mind the weather was awful and chucking it down with rain all day. I don’t know whether to say if these ladies were true Drake fans or the rain had got to their heads and they were totally bonkers.
I hate reality TV; let’s get that out of the way now. This will be my most biased article on Rockhaq because this was always going to be an attack. The thing I hate the most about these shows isn’t how it gives people a free ride or how its killing the brain cells of about six million people weekly or that it all lines Simon Cowell’s pockets. It’s how they take a musician, an artist and turn them into some cult of personality freak show that the red banner papers can’t get enough of.
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