Essentially Pop Talks to Sada Vidoo

Sada Vidoo, a platinum selling artist in her native Denmark, turned to music after enduring years of bullying and isolation. Her new single “The…

Essentially Pop Meets Ricky Rebel

Ricky Godinez, then touring as Ricky G, hit the music scene 1997 with his band No Authority. The band was signed to Michael Jackson’s…

Judges Houses Final 12 Revealed

Yes folks, another week has passed – the X Factor hopefuls have been to Judges Houses and we now have the line up for…

This Week’s X Factor Roundup

Is it just us…or has the X Factor lost its way this year? In previous years it’s been fairly obvious when the judges’ eyes…

Preorder Jedward ‘Ferocious’ NOW

John and Edward’s “Ferocious” is now available to pre-order on iTunes right now, and if the samples we’ve heard are any indication of what the rest of the song is like, then the Dublin Duo have a hit on their hands.

Essentially Pop Talks to Neil Davidge

You may not recognise his name, but you’ll know the work of Neil Davidge. He’s best known for the production of Massive Attack’s ‘Mezzanine’…

X Factor Boot Camp 2014

It was Friday night and I settled in front of the TV again for 3 whole evenings of the X Factor with a bottle…

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.