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

‘Live For What I’d Die For’ is the first single from our newest star in the making, Jess Mills. Having signed to Island records earlier this year, Jess introduced us to her enticing solo material in April with her ‘Vultures EP’. This impressive package came complete with her cover of The Cure’s ‘A Forest’ and a heavyweight line up of remixes from MJ Cole, Nu:Tone and Photek. Also produced by Breakage, ‘Live for What I’d Die For’ goes further to illustrate Jess’s desire to combine classic song writing with her experiences and influences from her love of dance music, long summers spent in Ibiza and her many trips to the likes of Glastonbury from a very early age.Working together on her solo material, Jess and Breakage drew up a widescreen list of reference points that included The Cure, Portishead, Massive Attack and Radiohead – but knew from the start that Mills's songs would inevitably, absolutely, contain two feelings any seasoned club kid would understand on a cellular level: a s

Music megastars, the Black Eyed Peas are set to play at the Alton Towers Resort on 6th July, and tickets are buy one get one free ! The event is a fantastic opportunity to see the Grammy Award winning group in 2011 play a full length 90 minute set performing alongside a selection of recently announced support artists including multi-talented musician Labrinth, electro hop duo LMFAO and brand new five piece girl band Parade! Music fans will be able to enjoy an action-packed day full of adrenalin-pumping rides at the Alton Towers theme park before seeing will.i.am, Fergie and co. take the stage on the Resort's front lawns, set in front of the iconic Towers. Make sure you make the most of this incredible deal! FIND TICKETS Offer: Buy 1 get 1 free(normally up to £62 each). Tickets must be bought in pairs.

Grammy-winning, multiplatinum hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne has his brand new single “How To Love” released this week via Cash Money/Young Money. The single is taken from the Weezy’s forthcoming hugely anticipated album, THA CARTER IV. THA CARTER IV follows Wayne’s ninth album, 2010’s I Am Not A Human Being which soared to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, but is really the official follow-up to his game-changing 2008 set “Tha Carter III”.The last decade has seen Lil Wayne establish himself as arguably the most influential artist hip hop has seen in years, with more than 10 million records sold, a staggering eight Grammy nominations for the seminal Tha Carter III, and shattering records by selling over one million copies in its first week of release. The New Orleans native who hails from the rough streets of Hollygrove is a veteran artist who released his first tracks at age of 12 after he was introduced to Cash Money CEOs Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams. He released