http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/britons-rule-in-the-album-charts-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/britons-rule-in-the-album-charts-2/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/britons-rule-in-the-album-charts-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/britons-rule-in-the-album-charts-2/feed/ Adele is at the forefront of a new British revival in the album charts with home-grown artists recording their best sales since the mid-1990s when Oasis and the Spice Girls ruled. http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/superbowl-the-cheerleader-who-certainly-knows-how-to-put-on-a-show-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/superbowl-the-cheerleader-who-certainly-knows-how-to-put-on-a-show-2/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/superbowl-the-cheerleader-who-certainly-knows-how-to-put-on-a-show-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/superbowl-the-cheerleader-who-certainly-knows-how-to-put-on-a-show-2/feed/ Having made her entrance clad head-to-toe in a shimmering gold cloak, riding a gilded chariot drawn by legions of gladiators, the 53-year-old launched into a 12-minute spectacular featuring a string of her greatest hits including “Vogue”, “Music” and “Express Yourself”, as well as her new single, “Gimme All Your Luvin”. http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-james-levy-the-blood-red-rose-pray-to-be-free-heavenly-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-james-levy-the-blood-red-rose-pray-to-be-free-heavenly-2/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-james-levy-the-blood-red-rose-pray-to-be-free-heavenly-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-james-levy-the-blood-red-rose-pray-to-be-free-heavenly-2/feed/ PTBF is an attempt by the Brooklyn singer-songwriter James Levy and one half of the Pierces (Alison) to create an orchestral pop-duet album in the spirit of Lee and Nancy. It is a near-total triumph: Levy’s smooth baritone and Pierce’s breathy vocals wrapping themselves around songs of love and loss (mainly loss). http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-gregory-porter-be-good-motema-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-gregory-porter-be-good-motema-2/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-gregory-porter-be-good-motema-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-gregory-porter-be-good-motema-2/feed/ Vocal jazz is a difficult art, not helped by nostalgia acts and lame razzmatazz. But Porter has made the best vocal album for an age, following his impressive debut Water with a leap forward into greatness. http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/could-it-all-be-a-fiddle-folk-stars-tell-the-bbc-to-reveal-who-judges-awards-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/could-it-all-be-a-fiddle-folk-stars-tell-the-bbc-to-reveal-who-judges-awards-2/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/could-it-all-be-a-fiddle-folk-stars-tell-the-bbc-to-reveal-who-judges-awards-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/could-it-all-be-a-fiddle-folk-stars-tell-the-bbc-to-reveal-who-judges-awards-2/feed/ The cream of the folk scene will next week head to Salford for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the showpiece event of the year. Fans will see some of the most talented folk musicians collecting a range of awards from best singer to musician of the year. What they will not know, however, is [...] http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/what-to-do-see-buy-niki-the-dove-mary-shelley-the-forgetting-of-proper-names-shipping-forecast-fish-recipes-from-the-sea-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/what-to-do-see-buy-niki-the-dove-mary-shelley-the-forgetting-of-proper-names-shipping-forecast-fish-recipes-from-the-sea-2/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/what-to-do-see-buy-niki-the-dove-mary-shelley-the-forgetting-of-proper-names-shipping-forecast-fish-recipes-from-the-sea-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/what-to-do-see-buy-niki-the-dove-mary-shelley-the-forgetting-of-proper-names-shipping-forecast-fish-recipes-from-the-sea-2/feed/ Flying high http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-wire-the-black-session-pink-flag-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-wire-the-black-session-pink-flag-2/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:57 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-wire-the-black-session-pink-flag-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/album-wire-the-black-session-pink-flag-2/feed/ A live album culled from a Parisian show last May, The Black Session finds Wire switching between tracks from their recent Red Barked Tree album and old favourites. http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/the-black-keys-the-two-keys-to-the-big-time-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/the-black-keys-the-two-keys-to-the-big-time-2/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:27 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/the-black-keys-the-two-keys-to-the-big-time-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/the-black-keys-the-two-keys-to-the-big-time-2/feed/ It’s odd how rain irons out the idiosyncrasies of locality, and turns even the most distinctive of American cities into Anytown USA. The rain’s falling steadily in Nashville, and as I step from the taxi outside Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye studio, the drizzle-flecked neighbourhood could as easily be in New Jersey or Chicago. http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/jonathan-wilson-the-scala-london-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/jonathan-wilson-the-scala-london-2/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:10:47 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/jonathan-wilson-the-scala-london-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/jonathan-wilson-the-scala-london-2/feed/ “Love it is an apple core, before the fruit was beautiful, now it is a circle, life and death a circle, the circle is a cadence,” Jonathan Wilson maintains on the languid hippie anthem “Gentle Spirit”. You dig? He digs us. He tells us so. http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/winehouse-coroner-was-not-qualified-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/winehouse-coroner-was-not-qualified-2/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000 The Independent http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/winehouse-coroner-was-not-qualified-2/ http://www.my-best-tunes.co.uk/winehouse-coroner-was-not-qualified-2/feed/ Amy Winehouse’s family is seeking legal advice after it emerged that the coroner who presided over her inquest was improperly appointed by her husband.