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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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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Deacon Blue recorded some excellent pop music in the late eighties and early nineties, they were seldom out of the charts and broke records for ticket sales for their brilliant live shows.
This track is Cover From The Sky from the 1991 album Fellow Hoodlums and is a solo effort from the gorgeus Lorraine McIntosh and [...]

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Madonna – Holiday – Official unreleased promo music video
Here is the official unreleased video for Madonna’s first UK hit, Holiday.
The promo video was recorded in 1983, possibly around the same time as when she recorded a pre-show video from Manchester’s Hacienda nightclub for Channel 4’s The Tube in 1983, as it features the same dancers, [...]

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In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s the new wave, post-punk sound of young Scotland heralded bands like Orange Juice & Joesf K, and the now legendary Postcard Records.
The Fire Engines were a part of the young, vibrant Scottish scene, and in 1980 released their debut single, Get Up and Use Me. A treble lo-fi [...]

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