Dan Gennoe
Dan Gennoe is a London-based freelance journalist & author. He's written features, interviews and reviews for the likes of Esquire, GQ, Arena, FHM, Q Magazine, Mojo, Red, Time Out, The Independent and The Mail On Sunday. Dan also writes books, both fiction and non-fiction, and has ghost written the odd celebrity biography.
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Stereophonics: The Stereophonics Interview
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Making Music, 1998
THE MINDS OF the Stereophonics are obviously somewhere else. As they're ushered through the rain from the tent where they've been signing autographs since finishing ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Making Music, June 1998
7PM AND THE West London pub where Making Music is currently propping up the bar is starting to fill up in anticipation of the Italy ...
Fun Lovin' Criminals: Lock, Stock & One Smokin' Criminal
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Flipside, 1999
From the mean streets of New York to the palm trees of Hawaii, Flipside talks herbs, pasta, cocktails, garlic and garbage with Fun Lovin' Criminal ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 1999
Popstar/actress' debut album where she tried to topple Gloria Estefan. She didn't. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 1999
1999: the year rap's most potent force joined the rank and file ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Flipside, 1999
The girl who was discovered singing on a tube station at the age of 15, picked up 2 MOBOs and 1 Brit award, and scored ...
Jay Z: The Life And Times Of Jay-Z: An Interview
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Flipside, 1999
REMIND SHAWN CARTER, aka Jay-Z, that his last long player, Vol.2...Hard Knock Life, which spawned the Annie-sampling single of the same name, sold 5 million ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Making Music, 2000
CRAIG DAVID couldn't be more successful if he tried. At 19 he already has two No. 1 singles to his name – the first of ...
Artful Dodger (2000s), Craig David: Craig David
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Front, 2000
With The Artful Dodger and a cry of "Re-e-wind, the crowd say bo selecta!" Craig David boinked his way up the Christmas charts. Only God, ...
Coldcut: Ninja Tune: Way Of The Ninja
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, 7, 2000
TEN YEARS AGO COLDCUT DECIDED THEY'D HAD ENOUGH OF TOP OF THE POPS AND SET-UP UP NINJA TUNE. XENCUTS, THE ORGY OF FREE-THINKING DECKS, BEATS ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, October 2000
OWING NO SMALL debt to an era when chilling strings and abstract electronica followed Michael Caine’s every move, and French pop was effortlessly romantic, the ...
All Saints: Saints & Sinners (London 8573 85295 2)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, November 2000
Fallen Angels: Only divine intervention can save them now... ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, 7, Summer 2000
HIS SUN-BLESSED DEBUT, MAVERICK A STRIKE, ESTABLISHED HIM AS A UNIQUELY GIFTED DUB-POP GENIUS. THE SUCCESS THAT FOLLOWED REPORTEDLY DROVE HIM TO THERAPY. WITH ANOTHER ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
Classically trained pianist harks back to R&B's pre-Timbaland roots with sublime debut album. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
FAME DIDN'T COME quickly for Angie Stone. When her debut album, 2000's gospel-rich Black Diamond, did finally arrive, it was distinguished by years of graft ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
The all-American girl shows what she's really made of ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
The biggest of next big things return, older, wiser and slightly miffed. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
JAMIROQUAI/JAY KAY has shrugged off many a jibe about his disco-funk devotion – not to mention hats, dancing... But if 16 million album sales haven't ...
Jamiroquai: Jay Kay: The Esquire Interview
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Esquire, 2001
THERE ARE DOGS and there are dogs. The two German Shepherds growling and baring teeth on the drive of Jay Kay's Buckinghamshire estate, are the ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 2001
R&B’s ALL THE rage, yet memorable tunes like Sisqo's 'Thong Song' are few and far between. First single, 'Love Don't Cost A Thing', with its ...
Money Mark: Change Is Coming (Emperor Norton)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
Beastie Boys' favourite session player proves his worth with third album. ...
S Club 7: Sunshine (Polydor) ****
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
Children In Need's favourite popstars finally move into Spice World. ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Making Music, 2001
"I WAS SHOCKED," is the only response Shea Seger can muster as she pushes her spoon round a bowl of decidedly unappetising green soup and ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, 7, 2001
Last year Sia, with a little help from Prokofiev, caused a unanimous dropping of jaws with her hip hop infused single taken for granted. A ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Making Music, 2001
"PEOPLE USED TO SAY I looked like her and I used to be mortified." Sia, the diminutive Australian singer who injected a much need dose ...
The Beautiful South: Solid Bronze – Great Hits
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
New and improved greatest hits. Every pub should have one. ...
Victoria Beckham: Victoria Beckham
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
It's vocoder-a-go-go as Posh Spice gets personal ...
Faithless, John Martyn, Sister Bliss: Sister Bliss & John Martyn
Interview by Dan Gennoe, 7, 21 February 2001
She's the first lady of house, he's a living folk legend. She likes gospel, he likes jungle. They are the odd couple and they're taking ...
Feeder: Echo Park (Echo ECHCD34)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, May 2001
Monster Munch: Will still leave you feeling hungry half an hour later. ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, 7, 2 May 2001
HENRY BINNS & SAM HARDAKER'S FIRST TWO EPS PEGGED THEM AS THE BRITISH AIR. THEY WERE JUST THE TIP OF A VERY ETHEREAL ICEBERG. THEIR ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
MOBO winner and friend of the Wu Tang raises Brit-hop's game. ...
CeeLo Green: Cee Lo Green: Cee Lo Green And His Perfect Imperfections
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
Goodie Mob star scores another homerun for the Atlanta hip hop massive ...
Dashboard Confessional: The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
IF THE "EMO" fraternity need a hero, Florida's Christopher Carrabba, aka Dashboard Confessional, is their man. Hurling a barrage of poetic abuse and violently chugging ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
AS THIS COLLECTION of reworked tracks from last year's Outrospective album makes all too clear, Faithless don't wear remixes well. So reliant are their songs ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
FIVE YEARS after singer Michael Hutchence's death, INXS are making their much threatened comeback, fronted by Jon Stevens from fellow Aussie rockers Noiseworks. ...
Jennifer Lopez: This Is Me…Then (Epic)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
Actress/diva switches on the autopilot ...
Mr. Scruff: Mr Scruff: Trouser Jazz
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
A DEVOTEE OF jumble sale chic, Andy "Mr.Scruff" Carthy's curious cut'n'paste creations – made famous-ish by the vintage jazz scatting of single 'Get A Move ...
The Beautiful South: A Drink With… Paul Heaton
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Esquire, January 2002
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH singer Paul Heaton, is an unlikely popstar. He never wanted fame, riches or to sing, and formed his first band, the Housemartins with ...
Ashanti: Saviour Of The Ballad
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Q, August 2002
"LEAVE!" Ashanti Douglas is not amused. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, September 2002
A 17-YEAR-OLD skate chick with the face of a rebellious angel and attitude to match, singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne should be the answer to every record ...
Swing Out Sister: Somewhere Deep In The Night
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, Spring 2002
'80s chart stars baulk the nostalgia circuit for Zero 7's atmospheric dimension. ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Making Music, Summer 2002
"I'M BRITISH and I'm proud," barks 27-year-old soul singer Beverley Knight with an earnest expression and a shake of her chop sticks. ...
Bootsy Collins: Play With Bootsy
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, Summer 2002
AS A WIGGED-OUT space cadet, Bootsy Collins is unrivalled. Unfortunately, the former Parliament and Funkadelic bass player's solo output has rarely warranted as much attention ...
Fun Lovin' Criminals: Bag Of Hits
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, Summer 2002
CONTRARY TO the half-arsed fumblings suggested by their permanently stoned expressions and carefully cultivated image of hapless bums who lucked into a record deal, the ...
Busta Rhymes: A Drink With Busta Rhymes
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Esquire, 2003
ESQUIRE: What's your poison? ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 2003
THE GRIEF and shock that gripped the R&B fraternity after Aaliyah Houghton's death in a plane crash in 2001 was more than just sorrow for ...
Roachford: Andrew Roachford: Heart Of The Matter, Vol. 1
Review by Dan Gennoe, Pop Star Weekly, 2003
Brit-funk rocker finally realises his true calling. ...
Dashboard Confessional: MTV Unplugged 2.0
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2003
Softly spoken EMO hero gets crushed by overzealous fans. ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Time Out Dubai, 2003
THE HEAT IS unbearable. It's not yet midday, and the sky covering the 72 acres that Jamiroquai's double-jointed singer, Jay Kay, calls home is blue ...
S Club 7: Best… The Greatest Hits of S Club 7 (Polydor) ***
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2003
One final reminder that there really ain't no party like an… ...
Way Of The Ninja: Ninja Tune Records
Retrospective and Interview by Dan Gennoe, New Routes, 2003
Dan Gennoe visits the HQ of boundary pushing independent record label Ninja Tune and views their break beat blueprint for world domination. ...
Christina Aguilera: Stripped (RCA) **
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, January 2003
Mini pop diva reinvents herself as Pink. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2003
LINKIN PARK'S debut album, Hybrid Theory, sold an enviable 14 million copies, rating it as America's biggest selling album of 2001, picking up a Grammy ...
Toni Braxton: More Than A Woman
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2003
IN A DECADE that's elevated R&B from loved-up swing beat to bling bling attitude and furious innovation, Toni Braxton's consistently played the grumpy older sister. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, April 2003
THOUGH ECLIPSED by his Missy Elliott/Aaliyah/Justin Timberlake collaborations, producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley's partnership with R&B loverman Ginuwine has been a remarkable one. ...
Macy Gray: The Trouble With Being Myself
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, April 2003
BILLIE HOLIDAY on helium croak and scary hair aside, Macy Gray's greatest attribute is her lyrical persona as a kooky psycho screwball with a heart ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, April 2003
AS A single, Madonna's 'American Life' is both a clever cultural statement and a crushing disappointment. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 2 June 2003
EELS MAINSTAY E is a misunderstood man. Even his name is misunderstood – E apparently being Mark Oliver Everett's childhood nickname (all his friends were ...
Wheatus: Hand Over Your Loved Ones
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 11 August 2003
WHEATUS' BRENDAN B. Brown may have a whiny voice and sing comical, throwaway songs about mean people, but he's not stupid. Far from it. He ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 13 August 2003
IT'S TRUE WHAT THEY SAY — first impressions really do count. As the vast majority of the 3 million owners of Alien Ant Farm's major ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2003
EVERYBODY LOVES a happy ending. And in 2000 the Dido story provided one guaranteed to appeal to the British sense of fair play and love ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2003
BARRING SOME marketing miracle or a sudden upsurge in the popularity of sweetly sentimental country rock, the Charlatans' Tim Burgess is about to receive the ...
Elvis Presley: Elvis: 2nd To None
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, October 2003
WHEN IS IT time to say no more, enough's enough? When does the careful reordering, repackaging and re-releasing of an icon's back catalogue become merciless ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, October 2003
NOT TO PUT too fine a point on it, in the space of two years and two albums the Sugababes changed the face of pop. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, November 2003
THE TIMING COULDN'T be worse. Just as Holly Valance, the ex-Neighbours starlet who became an instant sex kitten in 2002 with her debut single 'Kiss ...
Amy Winehouse: Frank (Island) ****
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, December 2003
19-year-old Londoner gives polite jazz a slap. ...
Pink: Killer Queen: Pink: Try This (Arista/BMG) ****
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, December 2003
Come in, Madonna, your time is finally up ...
The Beautiful South: Paul Heaton
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Red, 2004
"I'M A BIG FAN of black comedy," says Paul Heaton of the Beautiful South's latest album Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs, a collection of cover ...
Retrospective by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2004
NOTE: Article from a special edition of Q: 50 Years of Rock 'n' Roll 1954-2004 From Elvis to the Beatles ...
Alicia Keys: The Diary Of Alicia Keys
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, January 2004
FOR ALL THE international superstars and great songs latter-day R&B's spawned, its tally of indispensable albums is shamefully low. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, January 2004
THERE CAN BE few people with ears who wouldn't recognise the jazzy slurs of Sia Furler's voice. ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, The Independent, February 2004
In 2000, Sia was hailed as the best thing to come out of Australia since Kylie. It proved a lot to live up to, she ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, March 2004
FOR ANASTACIA, the three years since her second album Freak Of Nature confirmed her as the owner of the biggest set of lungs in pop, ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, March 2004
MAKE NO MISTAKE, when it comes to R&B, Usher Raymond is a pro. His dedication to his art could never be questioned. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, April 2004
BEING A PRINCE fan is a thankless task. Second only to waiting for the return of Jesus himself, waiting for the greatest pop innovator of ...
Dilated Peoples: Neighborhood Watch
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 12 April 2004
DILATED PEOPLES' progress from hip hop underground to world stage is slow, but unmistakable. Three albums in, their belief that success and integrity don't have ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, June 2004
WHEN FRENCH POP did the unthinkable and became cool, Phoenix found themselves on the ones to watch list. Disappointingly they never got off it. The ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, GQ, July 2004
MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD'S debut album, Quixotic, has been a long time coming. So long in fact, that it's become the stuff of myth, with rumours of ...
Dogs Die In Hot Cars: Please Describe Yourself
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 12 July 2004
IT MAY HAVE taken us Brits a little longer than our US cousins to catch on, but make no mistake, the UK leg of the ...
Joss Stone: Mind, Body & Soul (Relentless/Virgin)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2004
ONLY six months ago Betty Wright was famous. A Grammy winning, soul singing, star of the '70s and '80s. Now she's just referred to as ...
Natasha Bedingfield: Unwritten
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2004
SO IT'S OFFICIAL. Natasha Bedingfield is no longer just Daniel's little sister. That 'These Words' going to No.1 made chart history – making her and ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2004
ANYONE WHO bought Guns 'N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II knows that an artist releasing two albums at the same time is rarely ...
Jay Z, R Kelly: R. Kelly & Jay-Z: Unfinished Business
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, October 2004
R. KELLY AND JAY-Z. Whichever way you cut it, it's an odd pairing. ...
KT Tunstall: Eye To The Telescope
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, December 2004
ANYONE WHO SAW the Scottish singer's TV debut, performing 'Black Horse And The Cherry Tree' on Later... With Jools Holland can't fail to have been ...
Report and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Voyager, Winter 2004
"IT WAS MY absolute first experience of the healing power of music," says pocket-sized Icelandic-Italian singer Emiliana Torrini of her achingly beautiful second album, Fisherman's ...
Retrospective by Dan Gennoe, Q Icons, Fall 2004
THE EXECUTIVES at MTV must have thought God himself was shining a light on them. In 1984, for the first Video Music Awards, they needed ...
Faith Evans: The First Lady (Capitol/EMI)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 2005
UNFORTUNATELY FOR Faith Evans, no matter what she does nor how well she does it, her career will never be able to hold a candle ...
Missy Elliott: The Cookbook (Atlantic/Goldmind)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 2005
IN HER nine year career, Missy Elliott's barely put a foot wrong. And she's not about to start with album number six. ...
Gwen Stefani: Girl Powered: Gwen Stefani: Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (Interscope/Polydor) ****
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, January 2005
The new first lady of pop has arrived ...
John Legend: Get Lifted (Sony BMG)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, January 2005
WHILE R&B and hip hop albums are notoriously hit and miss in the quality stakes, for the last six years at least, there has been ...
Jennifer Lopez: Rebirth (Epic/Sony)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, February 2005
THE UNIVERSAL MAULING of 2003's dire rom-com Gigli must have come as something of a shock to Jennifer Lopez. It was the first clear sign ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2005
ONCE TAGGED the "Iggy Pop Of Techno", New York electronica geek Moby's come a long way. ...
Mariah Carey: The Emancipation Of Mimi
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, April 2005
IN TRUTH, there's nothing more entertaining than watching a celebrity having a breakdown. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 16 May 2005
FAITHLESS'S SHOWINGS in the singles charts might not bag them as one of the biggest players of the '90s dance boom, but with 10 million ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Notion, June 2005
THERE ARE rock-star houses and then there's Jay Kay's rock-star house. A two hundred year-old, 10 bedroom manor – it was 11 until he knocked ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, July 2005
BEING A SUPERSTAR DJ in the year 2005 isn't all it was once cracked up to be. The limos, the girls, the record sales and ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, July 2005
IF THE '90s indie-revolution taught us anything, it's to never get carried away. Just because it's part of a movement doesn't mean it's good. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, July 2005
IT'S SAID THAT American's do everything bigger and better than everyone else. While, in most instances the second part of the claim is a matter ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, August 2005
WHILE RECORDING their fifth album in a converted barn in Rouen, Normandy, may have given Supergrass an opportunity too good to miss for the title's ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 22 August 2005
COMEDIAN LEIGH FRANCIS, creator of Avid Merrion and Bo' Selector!, is a mercilessly savage and insightful impressionist. And of all the pop stars he's mocked, ...
David Gray: Life In Slow Motion
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2005
FIRST THE GOOD news: two albums on from White Ladder, David Gray has lost none of his fragile humanity or bleary-eyed longing. ...
Goldie Lookin' Chain: Safe As Fuck (Atlantic)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 19 September 2005
THE PROBLEM WITH jokes is that they're only really funny the first time round. Nowhere is this truer than in music. ...
Katie Melua: Piece By Piece (Dramatico)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 26 September 2005
CHANCES ARE THAT most of the 1.8 million UK residents who bought Katie Melua's debut album, Call Off The Search, did so as a result ...
Lil' Kim: The Naked Truth (Atlantic)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 29 September 2005
IF TIMING IS everything, Lil' Kim's couldn't be much worse. ...
Take That: Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection (RCA)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 28 November 2005
SADLY, POP BANDS NEVER come to a happy end. And the bigger the band, the more painful the split. ...
Alanis Morissette: The Collection (Maverick/Warners)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, December 2005
FEW ARTISTS manage to make a perfect album, let alone one which defines an era, changes the face of music and makes them the voice ...
Mary J. Blige: Mary J Blige: The Breakthrough
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 19 December 2005
THE EIGHTH ALBUM of Mary J Blige's 13 year career, is, like so many before it, a slick and elegant record. Another quality product from ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2006
ANYONE FEARING that the Day-Glo brilliance of 2003's triple Grammy winner, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, might have marked the height of the Atlanta duo's R&B powers ...
Rough Trade: The Second Coming
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, British Council New Routes, 2006
IN THE WORLD of independent record labels, Rough Trade is a bona fide living legend. Born in the late '70s from the West London record ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, February 2006
THE UK CHARTS' obsession with all things American may suggest otherwise, but there are some US musical offerings which we Brits just can't seem to ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 6 February 2006
IN BROAD TERMS, the great and good of R&B can be split into two camps: those rewriting the rules of modern music, and those doin' ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2006
HANG OUT THE bunting, have ticker-tape at the ready and breathe a collective sigh of relief. There's news from the front, and it's all good. ...
Jamie Foxx: Unpredictable (J Records/Sony BMG)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, April 2006
GIVEN THAT everyone from Eminem and 50 Cent to Christina Milian and Beyoncé think they can act, it's probably only fair the actors get to ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: Simpatico
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 17 April 2006
IF ROCK POINTS were awarded purely on the basis of longevity, the Charlatans would certainly be counting in double figures. ...
Rihanna: A Girl Like Me (Def Jam/Mercury)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 25 April 2006
THINGS have moved fast for Rihanna since the Caribbean club strut of her debut single, 'Pon De Replay' became the car window shaking sound of ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, May 2006
GIVEN THAT Orson's singer, Jason Pebworth, used to be in the US production of Phantom Of The Opera and that he professes to both a ...
Fatboy Slim: Why Try Harder – The Greatest Hits
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, June 2006
AS NATIONAL institutions go, few are as loved as Norman Cook. Taken to the nation's heart as much for the not-afraid-to-make-a-fool-of-himself attitude of his Hawaiian ...
Paolo Nutini: These Streets (Atlantic)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, June 2006
LOVE OR LOATHE the likes of James Blunt and David Gray — and by all accounts there are plenty on both sides of that particular ...
Sandi Thom: Smile… It Confuses People
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 12 June 2006
EVEN WITH everyone now claiming to have been "discovered" on the internet, the story of latest overnight-online-success, twenty-four year-old Sandi Thom, is still pretty fantastic. ...
India.Arie: Testimony: Vol.1, Life & Relationship
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, August 2006
WITH HER THIRD album, nu-soul voice of reason India.Arie answers the question, how much wisdom is too much. ...
Christina Aguilera: Back To Basics (RCA)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 14 August 2006
OF COURSE, the downside to success is that all those people who really do know better suddenly become reluctant to say "No". Even when they ...
Paris Hilton: Heir Raising: Paris Hilton: Paris Hilton (Warners) ***
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, September 2006
Not just an over-exposed millionairess, then. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 18 September 2006
IN 2004, NYC glitter ball funsters Scissor Sisters were, without question, Britain's most reliable source of pop hits. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, October 2006
SAYING THAT P Diddy is a unique individual is putting it politely. At once influential and laughable, a new album from the man who took ...
Fergie: The Dutchess (Polydor)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 25 October 2006
IN THE case of the miraculous rebirth of the Black Eyed Peas, the question of just who reinvented who is one of chicken and egg ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 20 November 2006
WHILE THE AWARDS, accolades and warm sense of achievement are all nice, the best thing about having a pop career that's survived a quarter of ...
Take That: Beautiful World (Polydor)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 27 November 2006
AND SO it is, Take That are resurrected. A pop band reborn. Not just with an anniversary exploiting greatest hits and a reunion tour, but ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 18 December 2006
SO HERE IT IS. The one and only Flavor Flav, releasing what he's promising will be his one and only solo album. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, Spring 2006
AFTER INSTIGATING the '80s rock revival currently sweeping the hit factories of US pop, it's only fair that Pink should now get to be its ...
The Second Coming of Rough Trade
Report and Interview by Dan Gennoe, New Routes, Spring 2006
IN THE WORLD of independent record labels, Rough Trade is a bona fide living legend. Born in the late '70s from the West London record ...
Joan As Policewoman: Joan As Police Woman: Real Life
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2007
FOR JOAN WASSER, having to defer her debut due to viola playing commitments with Antony And The Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright and Scissor Sisters was probably ...
The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 29 January 2007
THE DECEMBERISTS are the brainchild of Portland-based songwriter Colin Meloy. Meloy's interests include eighth century poetry, singing in a North American-oldie-worldie-British-accent and prog rock. If ...
Jessica Simpson: A Public Affair
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, February 2007
IF WISHING MADE it so, Jessica Simpson would be the biggest pop star on the planet. ...
Joss Stone: Introducing Joss Stone
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 16 March 2007
LOOKING FOR A DETAILED EXPLANATION of the term backlash? Just ask Joss Stone. One minute Devon's favourite soul sister can do no wrong and is ...
Natasha Bedingfield: NB (Sony)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, April 2007
THE GREATEST GIFT AN older sibling can give is the chance to learn from their mistakes. Natasha Bedingfield, formerly known as the younger sister of ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, May 2007
IT'S A TESTAMENT to the immense songwriting genius of Elliott Smith that even his decade old cast-offs are worth hearing. It's also a massive relief. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 4 June 2007
LADIES AND gentlemen, please be upstanding and make way for R Kelly and his monumental ego. Breathe-in or we might not fit it all in. ...
Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam/Mercury)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 4 June 2007
SOMEONE, somewhere is suddenly taking Rihanna a lot more seriously. Maybe it's the consistency with which her short career has delivered hits — step forward ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 25 June 2007
KELLY CLARKSON deserves the admiration and respect of everyone. Fan, detractor, or indifferent bystander with as much interest in the career of the first winner ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 2 July 2007
IT'S 20 YEARS since Guns N' Roses released Appetite For Destruction and put the sex and drugs back into rock n' roll. But don't expect ...
Robin Thicke : Robin Thicke: The Evolution Of Robin Thicke (Star Trak/Interscope)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 9 July 2007
WHATEVER ELSE Robin Thicke is, he's not the "next Justin Timberlake". Nor is he "going to change music", as claimed by his current mentor and ...
Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2007
EVERYONE LOVES the Foo Fighters, and with good reason. ...
Hard-Fi: Once Upon A Time In The West
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 3 September 2007
IT'S A CLICHÉ but it's true. Second albums are difficult. And not just to make. The follow-up to an instant classic which has spent the ...
Foo Fighters, Nirvana: Monster of Rock: Dave Grohl
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, 16 September 2007
DAVE GROHL IS TIRED. Pulling a back-crunching, jaw-cranking comedy stretch, he twists, grits his immaculate white teeth and let's out a little squeak. Finished, he ...
Jennifer Lopez: Brave (Epic/Sony)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, October 2007
HOW TIMES have changed for Jennifer Lopez. Once the love interest of R&B-hip hop's most megalomaniacal Badboy, mogul Sean "Puffy-Diddy" Combs, and famously caught up ...
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em: Soulja Boy Tell'em: SouljaBoyTellem.com
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, November 2007
THE MOST-VIEWED artist website on the internet. A record-breaking Myspace page. Seven weeks at the top of the US charts (singles, airplay and ringtone), a ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 5 November 2007
IN THE ABSENCE of an identity of his own, 16-year-old Chris Brown borrowed Usher's for his self-titled 2005 debut. ...
Leona Lewis: Spirit (Sony BMG)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 12 November 2007
EASILY THE MOST significant thing about Leona Lewis's debut album is how long it's taken to appear. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 19 November 2007
THERE HAS to be a point where the wheels come off Alicia Keys' wagon. No one can be that good at everything. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, Summer 2007
SOME ACTS whip up a frenzy of anticipation and excitement without even trying. Groove Armada aren't one of them. ...
Joss Stone: Joss Stick: Joss Stone
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, 2008
JOSS STONE is smoking a fag. Crouched on the pavement outside the BBC's Maida Vale studio, a grey cardigan pulled around her, a skinny roll-up ...
Sia: Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, January 2008
FROM THE knowingness of her third album's title, to its resurgent positivity and rediscovered humour, it's clear that things are looking up for dysfunctionally seductive ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 25 February 2008
THERE IS SOMETHING unbelievably painful about listening to Janet Jackson being sexy – the fine line between saucy and embarrassing being something she's clearly never ...
Velvet Revolver: And Now Let's Go Over to the Leather Report: Velvet Revolver
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, March 2008
IF THERE'S A definition of a rock star, Scott Weiland is it. The ever-present Aviator sunglasses; the hip-jutting swagger; the slow croak of an LA ...
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, March 2008
IN 1997, from out of nowhere, Erykah Badu delivered one of the most significant albums of modern R&B. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 24 March 2008
BY THEIR OWN admission, the second album from Eel Pie Island's favourite young sons, Mystery Jets, is a very different record to 2006's Making Dens. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, April 2008
MARIAH CAREY is famous for many things, but until now, being depressing wasn't one of them. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 26 April 2008
USHER RAYMOND'S last album, 2004's Confessions sold a staggering 19 million albums. It took him from R&B superstar to global pop phenomenon, earned him three ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 21 May 2008
FOR A MINUTE there, it looked like it had all gone horribly wrong for Moby. The underground techno geek who shot from basement club obscurity ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 23 June 2008
THERE WAS A POINT where Ashanti Douglas could do no wrong. Following a string of guest spots providing the melodic charm to Ja Rule and ...
UNKLE: End Titles… Stories For Film (Surrender All)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 11 August 2008
EXACTLY A DECADE ago, Psyence Fiction, the debut album from Mo' Wax label boss James Lavelle and his then musical partner DJ Shadow, stood as ...
The Jonas Brothers: Jonas Brothers: A Little Bit Longer
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2008
FOR THE UNINITIATED, the Jonas Brothers are the American Busted. Three nice middle class boys who've come to kick identikit, squeaky clean bubblegum pop into ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2008
IT'S A UNIQUELY English popstar affliction, humbleness. And it's not attractive. Far from endearing, coyness, self-depreciation or lord forbid, cheeky humour in pop can be ...
Bryn Christopher: My World (Polydor)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 8 September 2008
WITH AMY Winehouse's '60s soul styling having succeeded where two generations of modern music failed, producing a genuine British R&B star, the rash of similarly ...
New Kids On The Block: The Block
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 8 September 2008
WHILE FEW probably expected the return of the fivesome who practically invented the modern boyband to be great, few could have predicted that it could ...
Sugababes: Catfights And Spotlights
Discography by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, October 2008
ACCORDING TO reports, the Sugababes plan a hiatus following the release of this their sixth album while founding 'Babe Keisha Buchanan fulfils her ambition to ...
Robin Thicke : Robin Thicke: Something Else (Star Trak/Interscope)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 20 October 2008
THAT ROBIN THICKE is a gifted singer and songwriter was never in question; last album, 2007's The Evolution Of Robin Thicke made his talents abundantly ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 17 November 2008
HAVING DRAGGED himself out of his mid-'90s drugs haze and back into the nation's affections via the medium of musical theatre, the soft-focus tone of ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 24 November 2008
AROUND THE RELEASE of last album, 2007's Graduation, something changed with Kanye West. The most infectious and commercially astute voice in hip hop added to ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 24 November 2008
OBVIOUSLY LEMAR doesn't have Estelle's phone number. Shame. He could have called her for advice before setting off for America to record his fourth album. ...
Kelly Clarkson: All I Ever Wanted
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2009
IN MATTERS OF ART there's no right, no wrong, just opinion. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2009
WHILE THE unexpectedly sharp return-to-form of last album, 2006's Fundamental, confirmed that the Pet Shop Boys should never be discounted, it's been more than a ...
The Noisettes: Wild Young Hearts
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, April 2009
EVEN AS THE first angular, punky releases from the Noisettes' 2007 debut, What Time Is It Mr. Wolf?,were earning the London trio underground approval and ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 6 April 2009
CONCEPT ALBUMS are always a bad idea. Fact. Concepts take over; lyrics, melodies, songs merely a way of fulfilling them. The concept of Natasha "Bat ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, May 2009
AS MOVES GO, Ciara enlisting Justin Timberlake to help take her from niche R&B starlet all the way to the top of the charts was ...
Recession Rock: How the credit crunch will make Britannia cool again
Comment by Dan Gennoe, Rock's Backpages, 26 May 2009
MONEY. IT'S NOT everything. It's a lot. But not everything. In music, it's actually more curse than blessing. Commerce is an essential element in any ...
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas II You
Review by Dan Gennoe, bbc.co.uk, November 2010
IT'S NOT particularly clever but it is expectedly big, and sure to make a fan's Christmas. ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Virgin Records, March 2017
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL spring day in a quiet corner of the English countryside. Water gently runs in a stream, birds cheerfully sing in the trees ...
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