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Adele and Duffy are products of the age of X Factor
Comment by John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 4 January 2008
You can thank Simon Cowell for the results of the BBC's The Sound of 2008 poll. ...
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Profile and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 23 November 2007
... and Lily, and Kate: there's a new star in town. Adele Adkins is only 19, but her voice has bewitched everyone from Jools Holland ...
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 28 December 2007
Universally tipped for stardom in the coming year, Adele has a mouth on her and she's not afraid to use it. ...
Adele, Duffy et al: This Year's Vintage
Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 January 2008
Caroline Sullivan on 2008's big female voices ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 25 January 2008
THE ITUNES/MYSPACE revolution has speeded up the pop process to such an extent that a new act barely has time to draw breath before being ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 31 January 2008
STRAIGHT UP, that last single, the one about the pavements: belter. Bullshit, but belter. ...
Who's better – Duffy or Adele?
Comment by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 4 February 2008
The national topic of conversation has shifted from speculating on the weather to a more pressing subject: the search for this year's Amy Winehouse. ...
Adele: "Her Success is Depressingly Inevitable"
Comment by Andy Gill, The Independent, 5 February 2008
AS ADELE'S album sweeps to the top of the charts, it becomes increasingly clear that in the future, all our pop-cultural decisions will be made ...
Review by Lucy O'Brien, MOJO, March 2008
Soulful, streetwise debut from the much-hyped Tottenham chanteuse. ...
The Great White Hype: Adele's 19
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2008
SOME DAYS it feels like we've time-traveled back to the early Eighties, when every other month coughed up a new BEST WHITE SOUL VOICE YOU'VE ...
Adele: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 8 May 2008
IS AN ADELE backlash in the air? Outside the first of two sold-out shows at Shepherds Bush Empire, touts were trying to offload tickets for ...
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2008
LIKE FELLOW CROONERS Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash, Adele Adkins polished her skills at the Brit School in south London – as good a finishing ...
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, February 2011
ADELE ADKINS' retro-soul debut, 19, was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 April 2011
EVEN IF Adele Adkins's record-breaking 11 weeks at the top of the album chart ends on Sunday – and it looks like the Foo Fighters ...
Review by Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 16 August 2011
I HAVE HELD off writing about this hugely successful slice of AOR for months and months because it didn't seem worth the effort. ...
Will Bon Iver Be The Arcade Fire Of 2012? And Other Pre-Grammy Nomination Show Questions
Report by Maura Johnston, The Village Voice, 30 November 2011
TONIGHT'S GRAMMY nomination concert, airing at 10 p.m. on CBS, will not only jam-pack a bunch of performances by the likes of Lady Gaga and ...
Profile and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Gentlewoman, Spring 2011
2011 saw a perfect start for Adele Adkins, a British singer with incredible international appeal. When her second album was released in January, it went ...
Adele: Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, February 2012
Adele Adkins, USA-slaying superstar from Tottenham, plays the Albert Hall. It's being ordinary what makes her so popular. ...
Comment by Mitchell Cohen, Rock's Backpages, February 2012
SHE WAS ANOINTED, for sure. Behind the curtain, all the machinery was being cranked up for her debut, all the fanfare that was possible back ...
Why Adele Is The Pop Star We Need
Comment by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 23 February 2012
Adele is a one woman cash vache! Get off her back losers, says Jude Rogers ...
Report and Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 25 October 2015
Amid a blaze of publicity, the star delighted her fans with her latest single last week. And, says Lisa Verrico, she may prove to be ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 November 2015
New album arrives to save the music industry ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 20 November 2015
ANTICIPATION'S A BITCH. For Adele, whose bajillion-selling 21 (okay, not a bajillion, but 30 million worldwide) proved emotional exorcism is its own commercial reward, how ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 29 February 2016
Grateful music industry's remaining Force is with British singer ...
Live Review by Maura Johnston, The Boston Globe, 15 September 2016
THE CURRENT TREND of downcast pop – minor keys, lyrics drenched with bitterness, an overwhelming sense of despair – can be at least partially traced ...
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