Heading back to earth. Houston, we have a problem: sometimes it’s hard to say what exactly doesn’t work when two parties want the same thing but, for some reason, are just not able to make it happen. Like with the music industry – the business model seems to be pretty uncomplicated: artists sell, people buy, yeah? Read more

“No Witness” is a bit like a sip of vodka, offered up by a splendid, rapacious stranger on a slow night train from Lviv to Odessa. Or perhaps a street cut drug. You are not sure what’s safer – to go for it or refuse the invitation. And you somehow feel that the choice is only some rhetorical issue, for your fate has already been decided: you’ll be rendered blind or end up in some kind of paradise. Read more

Two hours – LP had that little time to write her part for “Day By Day.” She got the track from Swanky Tunes, who had just written it on the other side of the globe, in Russia. As an experienced topliner, LP has obviously heard hundreds and hundreds of tracks from different DJs and producers, and when she gets a new track, she never knows what she’s going to be working with. Read more

Circa 2007. LP and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong are writing songs for LP’s new album, scheduled for release in 2008. Among other songs, they write “Hi-Roller Baby.” | Joe Walsh is about to release his first, all-new album with the Eagles in the past thirty years, Long Road Out of Eden. Read more

It’s so refreshing to listen to some challenging pop song from time to time. Something that stings your synapses a bit, leads you out of your musical comfort zone and straight into the wild. “The Beautiful People,” as sung by Christina Aguilera, kind of does that. Read more

Oh, we love ourselves a few good pop tunes. They can pump up your energy sky high, regardless of their topic. (Just take a look at what we have here: in “Every Day” there’s this intense heartbreak, while in the second one, “Nothing To Lose,” there’s a story of how one can screw up a relationship that was actually really something. Pretty miserable, isn’t it, so why are we dancing?) Read more

When you play yourself LP’s 2014 album for the very first time, and when you hear its bursting opening track, “Heavenly Light,” it prepares you for everything but for how the album ends: with a quiet, gentle ukulele, tender whistling, and vocals with something inconsolable to them. Read more

Soon after releasing “Lolita” in 2012, The Veronicas parted ways with Warner Bros., for they couldn’t agree on a common vision for their musical direction. As a result, their ready-to-release album was shelved and the duo decided that it was time to change their label. Soon, they signed with Sony, and not long after they released their new and long-awaited album, The Veronicas. Read more

The title of The Veronicas’ third album, then to-be-released, was Life on Mars. It was mid-2012 when it became obvious to everybody that it was going to take another minute to put it out, and so they decided to release a teaser single, a song called “Lolita.” Read more

Said songwriter, she who called LP that day, was Stacy Barthe. It was an unexpected and exciting invitation, and in fact, a moment which would become a milestone in LP’s career. The session was part of a writing camp set up by Rihanna’s label to write songs for Rihanna’s new album. Read more