Focus Music Notes. "Out of the Blues". Popular music through the decades

Jackson Tennessee born, London based singer-songwriter Lauren Pritchard, a new artist with a remarkable voice and a rare song-writing talent to match, follows the release of her acclaimed debut “ The Jackson Sessions ” ep with the r elease on July 19th of her new Island ep “Painkillers” . Written by the 22 year old Pritchard and produced by Eg White , best known for co-writing and producing Adele’s Grammy-winning classic hit “Chasing Pavements” and Duffy’s worldwide smash “Warwick Avenue”, the track features legendary sticksman and Roots founder Questlove on drums. The full track listing is as follows: 1. Painkillers 2. Try A Little Harder 3. Painkillers (Body Language Remix) 4. Painkillers (Flotilla Remix) Since the beginning of the year Lauren has performed live across the UK building an ever growing fanbase. The young American was personally invited by Paul Weller to join him on stage during his recent In Concert Radio 2 session after he had heard her debut ep The Jackson

Half Rwandan and half Belgium Stromae produced European Billboard no.1 hit ‘Alors On Danse’ on his computer at home with a desktop mic. Even more remarkable, he created his buzz when filming homemade ‘lessons in how to make a hit’ for his Youtube channel, starting in January 2009 (‘Les Leçon De Stromae’ or ‘Stromae’s Lessons’). Lesson no. 8 ‘Alors On Dance’ became a viral sensation and then a real hit on Europe’s radio airwaves, getting to no.1 across the continent and running up 7 million Youtube plays. It started when the internet excitement from his music production Youtube shows caught the attention of DJ Julie on the dance specialist NRJ Mash Up Show of France’s biggest radio station in June 2009. Getting rave reactions on the specialist show it was moved to playlist rotation proper and from there it shot to no.1 in both France and Germany. French language blog Fluo Kids described ‘Alors on Danse’ as like ‘Calabria X tranxene’. ‘Calabria’ referring to Alex Gaudino’s 2007 dance hi

For the first time since 2008, Robyn brought the party back to London with a one off show at Heaven last week. Now she is pleased to announce a series of UK dates later in the year. The first of three albums – Body Talk Pt 1 – was released on June 14 with the lead single ‘ Dancing On My Own ’ becoming her fourth UK Top 10 hit. The second album – Body Talk pt 2 along with its single ‘ Hang With Me ’ will be released on September 6.  Pre-sale tickets for October will be available from www.robyn.com Dates: 18/10 Glasgow ABC 19/10 Manchester Academy 2 21/10 Brighton Concorde 22/10 Shepherds Bush Empire WHAT THE PAPERS SAY "Is there a more inspiring pop star on the planet than Robyn?" NME “Dancing On My Own, a digital torch song worth of Confessions-era Madonna’ The Times ‘Watching Robyn is comparable to seeing a one woman rave…she’s infectious” Daily Star