Other than their album, Rizzle Kicks have also worked on covers for many other songs, such as a version of Ed Sheeran’s ‘You Need Me’ and Jessie J’s ‘Price Tag’. Allowing them to gain kudos and popularity on the build up to their album release. Although some of the songs many not stand out as much as others, for example ‘Even on a rainy day’ could be seen as drole and not as up beat in comparison. ‘NME’ have given them a rather underrated 6/10, taking note of the similarity between songs and a clear difference in quality and popularity between the songs. Ultimately a rather average mix of reviews has ended in a broad outlook of the album ‘being a laugh’. ‘The Guardian’ stated that their appeal would only branch as far as the end of puberty: ‘it’s not as if the all-singing, all-rapping Harley Alexander-Sule and Jordan Stephens were ever going to appeal to anyone past puberty anyway.’ Which its evident in some respects, but they go on to say: ‘clever, memorable and utterly infectious.’

With a few stormers in the line up, like ‘When I Was A Youngster’ and ‘Prophet’, if Rizzle Kicks continue to find that winning combination and continue to have fun doing so, they should continue how they have started. Let’s get down with the Trumpets.

Here’s a little taster of ‘When I Was A Youngster’.

Bruno Mars has obvious inspiration from R&B artists such as R. Kelly, but less obvious is the influences he takes from UK giants The Police and The Beatles. We can find a mix of soul rock and hip-hop in his musical style. It gives him his own musical personality.

His music style referenced as “soft” carry us along sweet ballads and stay in your head all day from hearing it first thing in the morning. The happy feeling it gives in turn makes you feel happy, light as if nothing could happen to you. Even if you don’t know all the lyrics you remember the sound of marry you “ don’t say no no no no, just say yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, and we’ll go go go go go, if you’re ready like i’m ready”.

You can easily fall in love with his lyrics; he also knew how to catch feelings of his listeners: ‎” When I see your face, there’s not a thing that i would change, ‘cause girl you’re amazing just the way you are”.

That’s why even if you know him, you must see him perform live and enjoy his songs in person.
His tour dates start in October in Europe, you can catch it in the UK in Brixton the 23rd, Glasgow on the 31st and the 1st of November in Nottingham. For furthermore information check the official Bruno Mars website.

Now you know you can’t miss it. Till then, you can enjoy one of his songs just here.

Author: Nass from France, who enjoy Brighton for a year =D

Here is the options:

FabricLive.01 – James Lavelle (December 2001)

FabricLive.02 – Ali B (February 2002)

FabricLive.03 – DJ Hype (April 2002)

FabricLive.04 – Deadly Avenger (June 2002)

FabricLive.05 – Howie B (August 2002)

FabricLive.06 – Grooverider (October 2002)

FabricLive.07 – John Peel (December 2002)

FabricLive.08 – Plump DJs (February 2003)

FabricLive.09 – Jacques Lu Cont (April 2003)

FabricLive.10 – Fabio (June 2003)

FabricLive.11 – Bent (August 2003)

FabricLive.12 – Bugz in the Attic (October 2003)

FabricLive.13 – J Majik (December 2003)

FabricLive.14 – DJ Spinbad (February 2004)

FabricLive.15 – Nitin Sawhney (April 2004)

FabricLive.16 – Adam Freeland (June 2004)

FabricLive.17 – Aim (August 2004)

FabricLive.18 – Andy C & DJ Hype (October 2004)

FabricLive.19 – The Freestylers (December 2004)

FabricLive.20 – Joe Ransom (February 2005)

FabricLive.21 – Meat Katie (April 2005)

FabricLive.22 – Scratch Perverts (June 2005)

FabricLive.23 – Death in Vegas (August 2005)

FabricLive.24 – Diplo (October 2005)

FabricLive.25 – High Contrast (December 2005)

FabricLive.26 – The Herbaliser (February 2006)

FabricLive.27 – DJ Format (April 2006)

FabricLive.28 – Evil Nine (June 2006)

FabricLive.29 – Cut Copy (September 2006)

FabricLive.30 – Stanton Warriors (October 2006)

FabricLive.31 – The Glimmers (December 2006)

FabricLive.32 – Tayo (February 2007)

FabricLive.33 – Spank Rock (April 2007)

FabricLive.34 – Krafty Kuts (June 2007)

FabricLive.35 – Marcus Intalex (August 2007)

FabricLive.36 – James Murphy & Pat Mahoney (October 2007)

FabricLive.37 – Caspa & Rusko (December 2007)

FabricLive.38 – DJ Craze (February 2008)

FabricLive.39 – DJ Yoda (April 2008)

FabricLive.40 – Noisia (June 2008)

FabricLive.41 – Simian Mobile Disco (August 2008)

FabricLive.42 – Freq Nasty (October 2008)

FabricLive.43 – Switch & Sinden (December 2008)

FabricLive.44 – Commix (February 2009)

FabricLive.45 – A-Trak (April 2009)

FabricLive.46 – LTJ Bukem (June 2009)

FabricLive.47 – Toddla T (August 2009)

FabricLive.48 – Filthy Dukes (October 2009)

FabricLive.49 – Buraka Som Sistema (December 2009)

FabricLive.50 – dBridge & Instra:mental Present Autonomic (February 2010)

FabricLive.51 – The Duke Dumont (April 2010)

FabricLive.52 – Zero T (August 2010)

FabricLive.53 – Drop the Lime (September 2010)

FabricLive.54 – David Rodigan (November 2010)

FabricLive.55 – DJ Marky (January 2011)

FabricLive.56 – Pearson Sound / Ramadanman (March 2011)

FabricLive.57 – Jackmaster (May 2011)

FabricLive.58 – Goldie (July 2011)

FabricLive.59 – Four Tet (September 2011)

You can let us know on our Facebook page or below.

After a 31-year stint as one of the most recognized rock acts, R.E.M have announced the that they will split with a simple message: ‘Thanks for listening.’

After 15 albums and millions of record sales,the news that they were parting company has come out of the blue and left rock fans in shock as they broke the announcement on their official website on Wednesday.

It read: “To our fans and friends: As REM, and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band.

“We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished,” the statement continued. “To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.”

I leave you with one of my favourite R.E.M tunes.

The full details of the launch are expected to be announced later today , which features a number of executive panelists from Spotify, Clear Channel, and Turntable.fm.

Ji Lee, the creative director for Facebook, sent out a tweet yesterday providing a hint to one of the main components of Facebook Music – the “Listen with your friend” feature.

“’Listen with your friend’ in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening to LIVE,” tweeted Lee.

Facebook is expected to announce an integration between themselves and a variety of music services such as Spotify, MOG, Rdio, Deezer that will result in a feedlike-display of music a user is playing on these services.

Looks like Facebook are getting closer and closer to world domination….

“He (Pip) is reminiscent of punk poet John Cooper Clarke, defining beauty in terms of Tommy Cooper’s bungling magic and exploring the selfishness of the self-harmer’s defiant autonomy.”

What you get with Distraction Pieces is production that is very gritty and, my word, can Scroobius Pip spit a lyric? But it’s not just the lyrics, it’s the way he delivers them. He is as an old uni friend used to say an “Urban Poet”.

He isn’t afraid to take risks, lyrically and musically. This is evident in the topics tackled on the album. Tunes like ‘Domestic Silence’ and ‘Soldier Boy Kill ‘em’, you can see straight away that there’s nothing he would leave untouched.

One of my favourite tracks on the album has to be the very interesting cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Feel It’, featuring Scroobius rapping the male’s point of view over Natasha Fox’s soaring vocals. It really is a fitting conclusion to the album.

This is defiantly some of the best stuff I have heard from Pip, it is raw emotion with the stunningly beautiful and honest rhymes throughout. With Distraction Pieces, I firmly believe that Scroobius Pip has put himself as one of the most important and relevant men in UK hip-hop.

Im going to leave you with the opening track on the video which up until the end is one take. The whole video cost no more than £100 and has Pip shaving his hair and beard off….. What more would you expect?

We love a festival at Rockamusic. I have only just got back from Bestival myself and loved every second of it. Now the time has come for the awards.

The UK Festival Awards has just opened its voting and has 5 categories the public can vote on:

Best Overseas Festival

The Fans’ Favourite Festival

Anthem of the Summer

Best Breakthrough Artist

Best Headline Performance

Tell them your favourite festivals, artists and tracks from this summer and be in with the chance of winning a dream summer – two tickets to every winning festival at this year’s UK Festival Awards! Thats a pretty impressive prize.

They also have other categories that a jury will decide on the winners, everything from Best Small, Medium and Large to Best Festival Toilets (Bestivals where pretty impressive). So have a look at the site and maybe even have a vote.

To register and vote just go here: http://www.festivalawards.com/vote/

Matt Wilkinson, asked about working with the rapper and Sande revealed “We are gonna doing dinner next week We’ve got a few plans to do a bit of a collaboration soon.”

Wretch also hinted that they are beginning work on the track right there in the Big Top 40 studio explaining, “We were just talking about something outside so you never know.”

This is something to really look forward too and after the recent release of Wretch’s debut album ‘Black and White’.

The announcement was made before the actual awards show and it will see Bjork’s career being celebrated. The CEO of AIM, Alison Wenham said:
“Its very exciting to honour such an original talent as Bjrk. She has consistently demonstrated that operating within the independent music sector can reap commercial as well as critical rewards. Her relationship with One Little Indian is a great example of how independent labels nurture, support and collaborate with their artists to deliver exceptional music.”

Bjork has been with the independent record label One Little Indian for the majority of her career, despite achieving huge mainstream success.

Florence told the NME of the new single, “At lot of the time when I’m writing, things will just appear. I was writing the song and this book on symbolism was lying around, and it had the painting in it. It’s nice to mix the ordinary with extraordinary.”

Their new album has already been completed , although no release date as been confirmed as yet.

Let us know what you think…..