THIS WEEKS MUSIC NEWS (16TH MARCH)

This week the line-up for Reading & Leeds festival was announced with The Cure, Foo Fighters and Kasabian set to headline.The festival will take place during the August bank holiday weekend (24-26th.) You can see the full line-up below.

I'm sure everybody would think the highest earning British musician in America last year is Adele, however in actual face singer Sade beat her to the crown. Sade is said to have earned £10.5 million through touring and her CD 'The Ultimate Collection.'

New music releases this week include albums from Marcus Collins, Estelle and Michael Kiwanuka and singles include releases from Jay-Z & Kanye, The Maccabees, Miike Snow & M.I.A. This weeks midweek charts see Gotye hanging onto their top spot in the singles chart for the third week running and Bruce Springsteen topping the album chart.



And finally for this weeks weird and wacky video. This week we have a Skateboarder/Parkourer (is that a word?) Just watch and be amazed!

THIS WEEKS MUSIC NEWS (2ND MARCH)

The NME Awards took place earlier this week with Florence + The Machine and The Foo Fighters the big winners. Florence picked up the Best solo artist and Best song awards, where as the Foo Fighters took home Best International Artist and Best Film.

THIS WEEKS MUSIC NEWS (24TH FEB)

The Brit Awards took place this week and there was massive controversy when producers cut short Adele's speech half way through due to an over running schedule. Adele was fuming and showed producers the middle finger whilst leaving the stage.

THIS WEEKS BIGGEST MUSIC NEWS

Rapper Drake has broken the record for the most number one singles ever on the Billboard Rap chart with 11 overal number ones (beating P.Diddy's 10.) His tracks; 
Best I Ever Had, Forever, Say Something, Over, Fancy, Aston Martin Music, Moment 4 Life, I'm On One, Headlines and Make Me Proud all reached the top of the chart.

Earlier This week the Grammy Nominations were announced with Kanye West receiving a grand total of seven nominations. Adele, Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars all received six, with Lil Wayne, Skrillex and Radiohead receiving five. The 54th annual awards ceremony will take place on February 12th.

10 FOR TUESDAYS - FOND OF RUDY

Welcome to the second edition of ’10 For Tuesdays!’ This week we have put ten questions to the front man of Brighton based indie band Fond Of Rudy. So lets get straight into the action.

When did you start playing guitar/singing and what was the main reason behind it?

I first started playing guitar about four or five years ago. Me and fellow band member Paul came to an agreement one day that we would start picking up the basics for guitar and eventually start making music. We both purchased cheap guitars from local guitar stores and got cracking. As we were both at different universities (St Mary's and Portsmouth respectively) we would set each other goals to reach by the end of each month and that was a big driving force behind my learning. 

Tell me a bit more about your music?

If I had to put a genre behind our music, I would probably say that we mix pop, rock, indie and a bit of reggae, quite a big fusion I know but we are still figuring out our sound and enjoy experimenting with different styles of music. We think it is important to be original and catchy. When we write we always strive to put our stamp on our music. We like to make music that audiences can dance to and be entertained by when listening to it, with the possibility of inspiring them to get involved in music/take up an instrument and create their own music.