Provided by Pitchfork Earlier this week, British pop star Lily Allen launched something of a crusade against the Featured Artists Coalition, the British musicians’ advocacy group that includes members of bands like Radiohead and Blur. The FAC’s crime, in Allen’s eyes, was opposing a British governmental proposal that would cut the internet connections of people […]
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March 10th, 2009 
James Shotwell Artist: Lily Allen Album: It’s Not Me, It’s You Genre: Electropop/Alternative Label: Capitol/Parlophone London, England’s own Myspace success, Lily Allen, is back with her second released studio album entitled It’s Not Me, It’s You. Just two years after releasing her reggae influenced lead single, “Smile,” Allen brings even more experimental taste […]
WEEKLY WAX: Vinyl Releases For The Week Of 5/4-5/10
May 10th, 2014 Troy Sennett Welcome back to Weekly Wax! This week, we have some highly anticipated reissues, like A Day To Remember‘s latest, Common Courtesy, and The Early November‘s three-disc magnum opus, The Mother, The Mechanic and The Path, and new releases from the likes of Real Friends, Vanna, and many more. However, Jack White takes the cake this […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Lael Summer
March 24th, 2014 Brian Leak Lael Summer‘s recent full-length, Burden To Bear, shows undeniable talent from a young artist with a massive voice. After reviewing the effort late last month, Summer took some time to speak with us openly about her musical roots, her newest album, and a lot of the deeply personal themes that make up the lyrical content […]
REVIEW: T-Pain – rEVOLVEr
December 8th, 2011 James Shotwell Artist: T-Pain Album: rEVOLVEr Genre: R’n’b, hip-hop Label: Nappy Boy, Konvict Muzik, RCA This was a fun album to review. Not because it’s particularly good, but just for how often it makes such a spectacular tool of itself. You can’t but laugh and applaud its blatant and wilful badness. I don’t know if this was […]
Later With Jools Holland Double Disc
September 29th, 2009 Matt Jools Holland has become one of the premiere showcases for live music in both the U.K. and the U.S. Jools and the crew have compiled a double-disc containing live performances by the Raconteurs, Muse, MGMT, New York Dolls, and Madness, amongst many others. The entire track-listing is: CURRENTLY ON ITS 35TH SERIES, BBC2’s LATER LIVE,WITH […]
Other Artists Lash Out About Piracy
September 28th, 2009 Val Provided by Paste Nearly 100 musicians attended yesterday’s meeting to support Lily Allen’s fight against digital piracy, then greeted the U.K. pop star with cheers when she decided to pay a surprise visit. Billy Bragg , Patrick Wolf and Radiohead’s Ed Brien had also joined George Michael and Annie Lennox in signing a statement further […]
New On Netflix: November 2014
October 29th, 2014 James Shotwell Halloween is just days away, which means we are less than a week away from every department store transforming into Christmas music nightmares. There’s also Thanksgiving, tons of football, this writer’s birthday, and the long-awaited release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. There will also be a lot of new content to watch, […]
UTG’s 5 Artists To Watch In 2014
January 7th, 2014 James Shotwell It’s that time of year again! Since 2009, the UTG staff has set aside the first few days of the new year to discuss which bands we thought were destined to take their careers to another level in the months ahead. This discussion eventually became our now beloved ‘5 Artists to Watch’ feature, and in […]