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Rafael Nadal kept his title hopes alive this afternoon with an emphatic 6-2 6-2 6-2 win over Lukas Lacko.It was the first time that two players had met and Lacko was simply out played and out classed by the world number two and defending Australian open champion.Nadal need just thirty one minutes to wrap up the first set never letting his opponent …

Elena Baltacha pulled off a surprise victory over thirty second seed Kateryna Bondarenko to progress into the third round.Baltacha came out all guns blazing as she broke Bondarenko three times in an opening set that she dominated.Growing in confidence with every stoke Baltacha wrapped up the opening set in impressive style 6-2.But it looked like th…

Justine Henin’s dream return to tennis continued as she saw off fifth seed and Olympic champion Elena Dementieva in the second round.Henin is unseeded in this year’s tournament, having returned to the game at the beginning of the season, and her coming face to face with one of the big seeds was always a possibility. But Dementieva looked in good fo…

John Barrowman, Britain’s most successful - and comfortably Britain’s best - all-round entertainer releases his third solo album, the self-titled John Barrowman on March 1st on Arista.

John Barrowman is easily one of the most familiar faces on British television and the West End stage. Best known for playing Captain Jack Harkness in the BBC series…

Amy Macdonald, whose debut album ‘This Is The Life’ made her one of the world’s most successful British female singer-songwriters, has announced that her highly anticipated second album will be released on 8th March 2010.

‘This Is The Life’ went to Number 1 in five countries, including the UK, has achieved platinum or multi-platinum status in 12 c…

Scouting For Girls release new single This Ain’t A Love Song on March 29. It precedes the release of sophomore album Everybody Wants To Be On tv on April 12.
In 2008 Scouting For Girls became the biggest selling new British band of the year. Having toiled for ten years unsigned, the boys sold over 900,000 records of their eponymous number 1 d…

Another in a seemingly endless string of new and unique musical gems spawned amongst the hubbub of Portland, Oregon is Musée Mécanique. This, their debut album ‘Hold This Ghost’ is released on February 15th 2010 through new European label Souterrain Transmissions. It will lull you gently into the beginning of 2010 with it&…

Calvin Harris makes “gay” music.The ‘I’m Not Alone’ hitmaker - who has recorded songs with Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Dizzee Rascal - claims his tunes sounds good in gay clubs.He said: “The other day I made some of the gayest-sounding songs I’ve ever made with Kylie and Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters. I’d listen to it and think, ‘Wow, t…

Carl Barat’s solo album has a “naked” sound.The former Libertines frontman wants the collection of songs to be a departure from what people know him for.He said: “It will sound very different because I don’t want to have loud electric guitars.”I want to do something more wordy. Or at least where the words are more exposed. It’s quite naked-sounding…

Paul Weller is reuniting with former The Jam bandmate Bruce Foxton.The ‘Changingman’ singer, who made his name in The Jam in the 1970s and 1980s, got back together with Bruce after both men had bereavements.Paul told NME.com: “It came about because we had both lost loved ones last year.”He lost his wife at the early part of the year and I lost my d…