Top Of The Box

Last year The XX arrived with a bang!
Their self-titled album was released in August 2009 on Young Turks Records and received critical acclaim from such luminaries as the NME in the UK and Rolling Stone magazine in the United States.
Another admirer is Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, who has personally chosen The [...]

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Nickelback was formed in 1995 by members Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and ex-drummer Brandon Kroeger and have since grown to become one of the most successful Canadian bands of all time.
In the past 15 years they have only released six albums but sold an amazing 30 million records worldwide; and only The Beatles [...]

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Depeche Mode was formed in Basildon Essex in 1980 by Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke. Vince Clarke left the band after the release of their 1981 debut album and enjoyed further UK success with electronic pop ensembles Yazoo, the Assembly & then Erasure.
A good career move then, you might think. [...]

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New Jersey rock band Bon Jovi have been rocking audiences world wide since forming in 1983 and are still going strong having recently released their eleventh studio album The Circle, preceded by the lead single We Weren’t Born To Follow in November.
Uniquely in rock music Bon Jovi have managed to keep going with the same [...]

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Kris Kristofferson teams up with the Foo Fighters in a tribute to Johnny Cash. Kristofferson tells how this was the first song he wrote that Cash recorded.
Kristofferson was never much of a singer but I always loved his gritty vocals and still sounds good to me. A great sad song that includes the excellent lines [...]

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