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I don't think I've ever met anyone who's cared about the Brit Awards. I believe the one time I've watched it was to see Prince last year, and he was off the stage in 3 seconds, after that I quickly changed the channel. The Brits are perhaps the palest of all music award ceremonies, the Grammys may be insulted a lot by everyone, but the Brits are like their spoilt little brother who thinks he can compete with the big kids. All the Brits ever does is bring Britain, and its music scene, down. The past year has not been a good year for British music, there is no doubt about that in my head. The best artists to emerge have all almost exclusively been American, a lot of the British artists who have emerged have been somewhat popular on certain levels since 2013, so you can barely credit them as 'emerging artists'. In my opinion the best 'newish' British artists of 2014/15 were Ruen Brothers, Catfish & The Bottlemen (Although they're a little too...

When i mention the term singer songwrtier people will mention the great Bob Dylan for sure. But this term has meant something for generations and it is beginign to mean alot more with the new influx of singer-songwriters born in the early 1990s, In this post i am going to try to introduce you to the big game players of this boom. A Brief History Of The Singer-Songwriter Before the 1930s the singer-songwriters were a assorted bunch of unknown people who passed on tunes made by their ancestors. The first Great Singer-Songwriter was Robert Johnson the legendary blues figure who died at the age of 27, and left a legacy that was and is revered by all people who appreciate the blues. Following Johnson's untimely death the music world became seperated into two sectors the Songwriters and the performers neither willing to bridge the gap.  But in the 50s during the great blues boom and the start of Rock 'n' Roll songwriting and singing became the norm although most songwr...