Johnny 5 had it right all those years ago with the antics he got up to in without the pesky restriction of wires! He could: beat up bad guys,  make cocktails, and even drive cars.  So dam it, let’s do the same thing with our music and take it mobile in seamless style. Let’s face it, nobody likes wires or [...]

The last 25 years has seen rap or hip hop grow from back street lyrical ‘battles’ to a multi million dollar industry. Defined by frantic, poetic verse, precision scratching, fresh beats and stylish sampling, rap is not only a music genre but also has its own culture. Being an Adidas shod, Kangol wearing, gold rope festooned double hard homey from [...]

The 90s, a time of bucket hats, adidas trainers, white gloves, dodgy shell suits and dance music. Whether it was trance, house, techno, jungle, drum n base or rave; the 90s were synonymous with laser and pill powered dance parties. Love it or hate it, the sounds of the 90s dance culture got people moving and even uncoordinated white boys [...]

More Than Just Music They say that music can soothe the soul and take away your worries but for many, music is even more than that.  It can remind them of their first love, their favourite night out, or even trigger memories from their childhood (my dad use to sing Dean Martin to me when I was a youngster and bring’s back many a happy memory, [...]

Lady Gaga is more influential than Opera, has a massed millions upon millions of followers on Twitter and ‘likes’ on Facebook and keeps producing more hits than Madonna at her peak. But what makes this global sensation so appealling? Her music is obviously ground breaking in the pop culture industry but Lady Gaga’s fashion ‘ambushing’ of music videos and award ceremonies [...]

Music is a funny thing, it can invoke so many emotions and bring back memories in an instant.  Music research at Harvard has even been linked to helping patients recover from cardiac procedures.  But there are certain singers out there who have made such an impression on their global audience that they will forever be immortalized in musical history.

It’s not often you find a podcast that is truly brilliant and has you coming back for more every single time.  But Tony Colman and the crew at Hospital Records continue to deliver the goods week in week out within the realms of drum n bass. We enjoy the Hospital Records podcast so much here at The Quick Ten we thought we would honor it by breaking down the [...]

They were legends of their time and some of the most talented musicians to ever set foot on this earth. Most of them lived hard and died young but who was the biggest Rockstar death of all time?