Test your Musical Culture with our Quizz!
by Hélène Deconinck Summer is at the corner. You may have already prepared your swimsuit, your sunglasses, your sunscreen cream and your magazines with their traditional summer quizzes. But are you really musically up dated? Have you ever try to evaluate your musical knowledge? Well, if you have some doubts on those matters, Madly Juicy...
Xtatic Line – Dubbed ‘The new Linkin Park’
by Matthew Trevett Just when Linkin Park announces the release of their new album Living Thing for June 2012, another band is causing a stir on the Rock/Rap scene. Xtatic Line, from the west coast of Florida, gave us details of their new EP RE:Dawn and their views on being dubbed ‘the new Linkin Park’....
Pete Jordan – A London’s DJ of many talents
by Matthew Trevett Pete Jordan is a highly respected DJ, who has toured with the likes of Dizzee Rascal and the Prodigy. The co-creator of the record label, Weird Science, took the time out to speak to MadlyJuicy about his view on the music industry and his ideas for 2012. MadlyJuicy: As a DJ and...
Hip-Hop – A Bullhorn for Change
by Saskia Chanoine Hip-hop is more than a form of music that highlights fast expensive cars, sexually active and submissive females, expensive jewelry, mansions and cuss words. Ever since its inception in the early 1960s it has been used as a tool for social change. It had a great influence in the post civil rights...
The French Hip-Hop Bomb: Sexion d’Assaut
by Hélène Deconinck Eminem, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, Pitbull, those names are synonyms of Hip-Hop/Rap. What do they have in common? They all are American artists. Indeed, Rap is by design an American invention, but does it mean that only Americans can rap? Since 2000, a Parisian hip-hop collective cracks down the French capital. Sexion...
Groaning for Grunge: Remembering Kurt Cobain & Layne Staley
by Brook Ragan On the day of Kurt Cobain’s death two caskets were laid out, one for Kurt and one for Grunge rock, a genre of music everyone fondly listened to for three tall years. Consider the first week of April to be a gentle reminder of the falling of two pop-icons the world never...
Koro Ilustrado: The raising choir from the Philippines
by Rodolfo de Guzman Choral music is often seen as an old-school type of music only for church people, but, it can be perfectly attuned to the modern times when the ensemble feels right. A Philippines-based all male choral ensemble, Koro Illustrado was formed in 2007 to bring choral music closer to the people and...
Interview with Toronto’s rapper Sean Leon
by Adrian Moyo Toronto didn’t stop by giving the music world Drake. If anything, they have upped the ante ushering a new generation of talented artists, especially in the hip-hop scene. One of them is Sean Leon, formerly known as J.R. Richy. This aspiring rapper is definitely someone to look out. Leon’s sense of style...
B.o.B’s new album Strange Clouds to be released in May – Retrospective on his career
by Hélène Deconinck Two years ago, an ovni landed in the Hip-hop/Rap universe. With his little bomb B.o.B presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray, Bobby Ray Simmons a.k.a B.o.B, opened a new area of hip-hop. This May, the young artist will release his very expected second album, Strange Clouds; Retrospective on the career of a rapper...
MEI Lanfang: The Opera Master
by Lindsay Friedman Although Beijing is a capital with many living people of importance it has an extensive history of those important to the Asian world as well. This includes the Opera master, MEI Lanfang of China’s Jiangsu province. The master was born Oct. 22, 1894 into a long line of famous opera actors. As...
10 Most Popular Song Lyrics in the past six months
by Priscilla Boateng Every year, thousands of chart-topping songs come out but there are always some with really catchy hooks that we can never seem to get out of our minds. With the caliber of songs released in the past six months, here are the ones with the most memorable scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs-worthy lyrics. “I’m sexy and...
Ayo: music history of a soulful artist
by Helene Deconinck We all are on earth for a purpose. I think that everything is written. Some people don’t understand that I always knew I was meant to become an artist – Ayo Some voices are highly recognizable. Sometimes, it becomes a true musical signature; sometimes it defines an artist career. Joy Olasumibo Ogunmakin...
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