Author: Lisa Hafey

Lisa has been writing for over 20 years, starting as the entertainment editor on her university newspaper. Since then she's written for Popwrapped, Maximum Pop, Celebmix, and ListenOnRepeat. Lisa loves all good music, and she's interviewed Kevin Godley, Trevor Horn, Paul Young, Peter Cox (Go West), Brendan B Brown (Wheatus), Bruce Foxton (The Jam), among many many more. Lisa is also available for freelance writing - please email lisa@essentiallypop.com

By Jeff! He’s Gone And Done It! Jeff Goldblum Scores Second Number 1 Album With ‘I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This’

November 8, 2019

When first album, ‘The Capitol Studios Sessions’ debuted at the top spot on the UK Official Jazz and Blues Albums Chart last year, many might have thought it a mere fluke. But when the second album from Jeff Goldblum And The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, ‘I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This’, released on 1 November, repeated the same path as the first, people are sitting up and taking notice.

Teenear Sees ‘Dolla Signs’ feat. Aliya Janell & Tallie Dance

November 5, 2019

Now signed to Slip-N-Slide Records, Miami’s Teenear has been honing her craft since the age of 3, when she started participating in pageants, talent shows, and singing in Church. She started uploading covers to YouTube at the age of 15, and she released her debut single, ‘Friday Night’, featuring rapper Sage The Gemini, in 2015. She’s kept up the rhythm with more singles since then, and with trailblazers like Mariah Carey, Brandy, Aaliyah, and Beyoncé as influences, there’s no doubt this star is shooting for the moon.

‘It Is At It Seems’ With New Single From The Cry

October 28, 2019

Back in the 1990s, The Cry released their first full length album, ‘Beautiful Reasons’. They won over the hearts and minds of a whole generation of skateboarders, who fell in love with them after hearing them in H-Street Skateboards’ video, ‘Hokus Pokus’. From there, they found themselves getting more and more attention, and courted by a major label. But rather than do what most others would do, and sign up their way to fame and fortune, they went completely the opposite way…and vanished.