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Cole Stock: Makes the perfect song for ‘Me & You’ to get nostalgic over

Cole Stock is an English musician, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist. The British indie-pop artist has a song so laid back it’s perfect for a relaxing Sunday titled ‘Me & You’. If you’re not already relaxing when you put it on you will be in a moment or two, so instant is the feel-good feeling emanating from this track. Our first reaction was this is a song much like something you would find on a McFly album. So we were not surprised when we were told that he would appeal to fans of Mcfly, Sam

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Dama Juda: Is not too great at saying ‘Goodbye’ In New SIngle

This release, ‘Goodbye’ sees Dama Juda finding her place when it comes to musical style. The electro-pop artist has been experimenting with where her sound should be going. With influences coming from all over the place it’s hardly surprising either. She lists her influences as Ellie Goulding, Post Malone, XXXtencion, Blink 182, Sum 41 and Linkin Park amongst others. When talking about finding her own niche Juda explained: “This is my 4th release and beyond my favourite. I’ve been looking for m

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Nuns Of The Tundra – Tell us ‘The World’s Gone Crazy And So Have I’ with new EP

Nuns of the Tundra are a Bristol-based band lucky enough to have their new EP, ‘The World’s Gone Crazy And So Have I’, recorded at Kore studios London. They won this opportunity in a BBC Introducing Live competition based on their already released tracks. Their lineup completely changed before this recording process with the exception of frontman Troy Tittley. It made it a good time for a renewed sound making a record “that could not escape the world’s chaos from seeping in at the seams.” as th

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Marco Palos: Takes Us To ‘A Place We Don’t Know’ In A Vivid Dream

Marco Palos is best known for fronting the 9 piece ‘little-big band’ Phat Cat Swinger, who often perform for Disney. This time around he’s doing it on his own launching his solo career with the single, ‘A Place We Don’t Know’. The track has been heavily influenced by bands like Coldplay, The Beatles, and Electric Light Orchestra. If you want to spend about five minutes in a dream-like bliss this is the song for you. It starts with a greeting “Hello Stranger…” and a question “How you doing / is

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August Brodie: Making a splash in the scene and leaving his mark

Canadian artist August Brodie has made his unique sound into a perfect song making machine. His musical journey didn’t start until a few years ago but it moved so fast he’s hardly touched the floor despite hitting the ground running. The Spotify community has shown him a lot of attention and he currently has over twenty thousand listeners every month. I suppose it helps that he had a music video for the song ‘Long Distance’ premiered by MTV. Even that feat was achieved through good old fashione

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Welcome to the brand new website for Amplified Magazine, UK

This online magazine will bring all the latest new music from talented artists that you may not have heard of yet. We hand select the musicians that we feature from hundreds of artists so you can be sure we’re bringing you the best of the best. Amplified Magazine has been born out of a love of music. Recently whilst writing for other blogs and publications I started to relive that awesome feeling you get when you discover a new favourite band or musician. A feeling I wanted to share with as man

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Interviews will be coming soon In A Few Different Formats

The first type of interview that you will see on the website are interview features of about 700 – 1000 words. This is the type of interview where we weave the answers to our questions with other information and facts to make a substantial feature. The focus is on the answers to the questions and what the musician has to say and not on the interviewer. This is a question and answer format which is made to be a quick and fun. This is an interview that focuses on the music that musicians listen

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Bits Of Alan: Telling Stories On New Album ‘Slatland’

Bits of Alan is an indie rock band founded by singer-songwriter Greg Golbitz in 2014. It consists of multi-instrumentalists Fred Keller, Ethan Stauffer and drummer/producer Joe Venango. The band released their sophomore album, Slatland, today, an album that was inspired by the Rebecca Lee short story of the same name. The album starts with a guitar and then a comforting voice in the way of the song ‘Blue and Green’ it’s a simple yet beautiful track. Lyrically he is thinking about a girl and wha

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Jacko Hooper: Takes us into a surreal situation in latest singles video

Jacko Hooper is a singer-songwriter who also runs Folklore Sessions the label and promotions company. Today however he has his musicians hat on with the release of earth-shatteringly good single ‘This Was The Earth’ The song was written and recorded from Jacko’s bedroom with help from life long friend and Producer, Josh Trinnaman. He hopes the song will transform itself for each and every person who hears it. Making the song less about himself and more about his listeners. When talking about th

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Between City Lights: is ‘Talking Out Loud’ in new EP release

Between City Lights is actually just one man, Connor Rezin, he plays guitar, bass, keyboard, drums and sings in all of the records. Needless to say, Rezin’s a talented guy and everything is recorded in his bedroom, where he records, mixes, and produces the tracks in his DIY studio. Speaking of the new EP, Talking Out Loud, he said: “This new EP is the best thing I have created yet and I’m so excited to share it with everyone, it’s been a great experience recording and feeling it all come togeth

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NEFER-T: Lets us in on his ‘coping mechanism’ with new single

“Pop is not a dirty word,” says Nefer-T, who plays saxophone, piano and takes care of the vocals and production too. This single ‘Coping Mechanism’ was delayed because he was a little rusty on the saxophone. We’re glad he waited to get it right because the finished product is awesome. This latest single release is rather unsurprisingly about coping mechanisms and the strategies we use to try not to lose our minds. Luckily for us despite it being about the tough topic of mental health its an upb

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Ten Hands High: Hit the ‘sweet’ spot with new single!

Ten Hands High may be based in London but they want us to know they were made in Leeds. Wherever they’re from they make great music and the new single release ‘Sweet’ is a great example of that. This is the first song and title track of our upcoming debut EP which is due to be released in May. The song comes from a great place and mixes in a few different genres to form what is the bands new sound. The band tell us, New beginnings are a theme that runs right through this song. It’s a song abou

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Live Music: What I’ve learnt about Live music during the pandemic

I’ve always loved going to live shows and enjoyed watching music in venues all over the world. I do it a lot and regularly. What I didn’t realise is that I’m actually addicted to going to shows. I’ve actually been having withdrawal symptoms and tried desperately to replace the role it plays in my life. However in the last year without live shows I’ve learnt a thing or two about live music and my relationship with it. Theres so many revelations that I would love to share with you but instead I’m

Sadiq Khan in push with Veteran's Aid

Last week, Sadiq Khan opened the charity Veteran's Aid newly refurbished and extended New Belvedere House, a residential facility for homeless UK veterans. The charities aim is to support veterans in getting off the streets and into housing as well as helping them find employment. Its work also aims to prevent rough sleeping from occurring in the first place. New Belvedere House has a programme called ‘Welfare to Wellbeing’ which helps turn around the lives of homeless UK veterans by giving the

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Madlug: Backpacks That Give Back

It's that time of year when it’s time to start at university and everybody is busy getting their kit together if you’re in the market for a new backpack or daypack why not get one that helps children in care in the process. Every 15 - 20 minutes a child enters care in the UK imagine having to pack up your whole world and move to a new place, not knowing where you’re going or who is going to be looking after you. To make matters worse many of these children are having what little belongings they

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The Maine at KOKO London | Cats Writing Stuff

Last night The Maine blew us all away with an energy filled set, as they stopped by Camden promoting their most recent album ‘Lovely Little Lonely’, fresh off of a huge world tour. Speaking of huge this was the bands biggest ever headlining show playing to nearly 1500 fans of all ages, new and old. This show was an early one, doors were at 6pm so the crowd trickled in and filled out the venue throughout the support acts sets, it’s no surprise that those of us with jobs were not amongst the hoar

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Blade Runner 2049 | Cats Writing Stuff

Following the rebellion of Replicants a new type has been invented that will serve and not rebel, K (Ryan Gosling) is one of this new breed and works for the LAPD as a ‘Blade Runner’. A Blade Runner is a detective thats operates as more of an Assassin tracking down replicants like the old Nexus 8 models and expiring them. After a routine job where he completes his mission to expire the Nexus 8 model hiding on a protein farm, K finds a box of bones that carry an earth shattering secret. He is the

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Newham Shop Keepers Take a Stand on Acid Sales | Cats Writing Stuff

Newham shop keepers have come out in strong support of a new scheme to prevent the sale of acid to young people, 80 have agreed to challenge the age of its customers. The scheme is a partnership between Newham and the Metropolitan Police, asking shopkeepers to sign an agreement to challenge anyone that looks under 25 and refuse to sell to anyone under 21 acid or noxious liquids, refusing to sell them at all to anyone suspected of wanting it for unlawful purposes. Sir Robin Wales, Mayor of Newh

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Stratford Town Center Transformation Begins | Cats Writing Stuff

A project between Newham Council and Transport for London has begun with the aim of transforming Stratford Town Centre making it a safer place. The ground-breaking ceremony in Theatre Square marked the start of the work. The ceremony was attended by Sir Robin Wales, Mayor of Newham, Dr Will Norman, the Mayor of London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner and Graham Nash, TfL’s Head of Borough Projects and Programmes. Graham Nash, said: “We’re pleased to have worked with Newham Council on this tr

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The Dark Tower | Cats Writing Stuff

A young boy, Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), has disturbing dreams about a man dressed in black trying to destroy the world using children and a gunslinger trying to track down the man in black and kill him. He is treated as if he is mentally ill by his mother and less then loving step father, who want him to stop drawing all of the things he sees in his dreams. Never the less his drawings plaster the walls of his bedroom, adorn his sketchbooks and are constantly on his mind. His mothers solution i

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