Category: Artists

Mellowdrone’s singer, guitarist and chief songwriter, Jonathan Bates admits that he has a compulsive streak when it comes to making music. “I don’t like playing a song the same way twice, which will either win people over or do me in,” he says with a laugh. “For me a song is never really done because […]

Katie Melua was born in Georgia (former USSR) in 1984 growing up in the capital Tbilisi and later the seaside town of Batumi. The family left Georgia when Katie was 8 and moved to Belfast due to her father’s profession as a heart surgeon. When Katie told this to one of her teachers later on […]

In the last year, Lila McCann has evolved from a Tacoma, Washington high school student singing songs like “I Wanna Fall in Love” and “Crush” to a confident, independent woman living alone in Los Angeles and piloting her own career. “I’ve never had the opportunity to fully concentrate on my music before,” Lila admits. “For […]

James Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 18 June, to parents Jim and Mary. Paul joins first musical group, the Quarry Men, and starts writing songs with its founder member John Lennon. The Beatles, having slowly metamorphosed from the Quarry Men since 1957, play the first of five long residencies in Hamburg, Germany over the […]

Hot on the heels of his top-5 single, “The Shake,” the top-5 success of his GREATEST HITS CD and TNN/Music City News’ Video Of The Year award, Neal McCoy is giving listeners even more to love. With his latest Atlantic Records release, BE GOOD AT IT, Neal explores a deeper, broader musical range than ever […]

He’s a minstrel. A troubadour. A bard (which Webster’s New World Dictionary defines as “an ancient Celtic poet and singer of epic poems”). His Irish ancestors may have called him a seanchai, the Irish word for storyteller. Whatever you call him, though, singer-songwriter Michael McDermott spins a great yarn. The fact that the music he […]

Everyone thinks they can sing Motown, and let’s be honest, nearly everyone has. Few are as qualified, in every sense, as the man who does it to inspiring effect on the new album Michael McDonald Motown. Thousands of hopeful young singers have paid their dues in smoky bars playing songs from Motown’s heady heyday. Back […]

Strange but true fact no 6,326: less than 12 months ago the only McFly anyone had heard of was Marty in the film “Back To The Future”. Fast forward to 2005 and McFly the band have become the only contenders for the title in pop’s premier league. 2005 has seen McFly off to a flying […]

“The last year has just been so good for me. It let me calm down and figure out what I wanted and why I wanted it,” says pop singer Joey McIntyre. With Stay The Same, Joey McIntyre has arrived on his own musical turf on his own musical terms. Stay The Same is Joey McIntyre’s […]

By calling his latest CD superhero Brian McKnight knows he might raise some eyebrows. But the chart topping, multi-platinum singer/songwriter/producer is quick to defuse any notion that he’s yet another musician with an unchecked ego. Rather than hyping the fabulous or the spectacular, with superhero, Brian shines a light on the quiet, unsung moments that […]