Aaron Carter’s Wonderful World

Aaron Carter has packed more into his 26 years than most people do in a lifetime. The Tampa Florida native first started performing at age 7 when he was the lead singer of local band “Dead End”. He moved on to solo performances at age 10 when the band wanted to play alternative music, and he wanted to do pop. Opening for elder brother Nick’s band, “The Backstreet Boys” in 1997 led to a record contract, and his first single, “Crush On You”. His subsequent self-titled studio album went gold in Norway, Spain, Denmark, Canada and Germany.

Essentially Pop Meets Kitty Brucknell

Anyone who watched the eighth series of UK talent show, The X Factor, would have noticed Kitty Brucknell, the beautiful blonde diva, portrayed as a “novelty act”.

Jedward Get FEROCIOUS

John and Edward, in speaking to RTE1’s Derek Mooney today, announced their next single shall be “Ferocious”, with the release date of October 24 to coincide with their Dublin concert date. They also suggested they might have a CD signing on that day.

Essentially Pop Meets Tish Simmonds

At Essentially Pop we usually just cover music, but as our strap line is “plus a little bit more”, we figure we can stretch the remit a bit every so often.

U2’s $100 million deal with Apple

When it comes to the crunch, have they bitten off more than they can chew?

U2 surprised a lot of people last week when they announced that they had come to an arrangement with Apple to give a free copy of their new album, ‘Songs of Innocence’ free to every iTune user.

Anna Calvi to Support Morrissey

The beautiful Anna Calvi has been announced as the support act for Morrissey’s European tour, due to commence late November. She’s just been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for her second album, ‘One Breath’.

Essentially Pop Talks to Lindsey Stirling

With an individual style that combines traditional violin and dubstep, Lindsey Stirling is one of a kind. Nominated for a Billboard and Teen Choice Award, Lindsey features on the new Jessie J album, Sweet Talker.

One Direction: Is Album Four the Final?

Hot on the heels of Simon Cowell’s proclamation the other week that One Direction were about to split (and his subsequent backpedalling to dispell…

The New Jedward? What’s Wrong with the Old One? (Part 2)

Another week of the X Factor, and another act with whom comparisons were made to John and Edward. This time it was identical twins,…

Tragic Death of Simone Battle

Reports are mixed about the death of Simone Battle, member of G.R.L. Battle was found in her Los Angeles home earlier today. Her cause…

Leona Lewis Reaches Out to Fans

XFactor winner Leona Lewis has written an open letter to her fans explaining her reasons for stepping away from Syco and Sony Music. In…

The New Jedward? What’s Wrong with the Old One?

No doubt you’ll have seen and heard all the XFactor hoo-ha about “Blonde Electric” being the new Jedward – with the girls going on…