Fresh news has just reached Stagedoor’s HQ that pop icon Justin Timberlake is set to perform a one-off gig on 20th February in London.

The concert, at The Forum in London will follow Timberlake’s performance at next week’s BRIT Awards where he is set to perform his first live showing of new single ‘Mirrors’.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (15th February) and are priced at £50 (plus booking fees). The venue will also play host to the Official BRIT Awards aftershow party too. More info here, and tickets available through Ticketmaster here.

More to follow….

Multi award-winner and critically-acclaimed British singer/songwriter has performed her US No1 smash ‘Anything Could Happen’ on TV’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! show.

The singer took to the stage as part of her US tour to promote current smash album ‘Halcyon’, of which ‘Anything Could Happen’ lead the single releases. Whilst it didn’t chart too well here in Blighty, the US fans in the audience can be seen eagerly clapping away with plenty of head-nodding thrown in too.

We’re big fans here of Ms Goulding [both her debut album ‘Lights’ and new release are on constant rotation], and her reluctance to conform as a pop-celebrity to focus on creating just great music is something many young artists out there should take note of.

Check out the performance below and click here to buy your deluxe copy of ‘Halcyon’ if you haven’t already… (and if you haven’t, you should be ashamed of yourselves!).

US rapper Kanye West has surprised the UK scene by announcing a shock one-off concert this month.

The concert, West’s first major UK appearance since last year’s Watch The Throne tour, will be at Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday 24th February. Tickets go on sale this Friday (15th February) at 9am, direct from Hammersmith Apollo’s website here.

In a unique twist of gaining some PR, legendary artist Prince has frustrated fans (and musos alike) by charging them to watch his new video.

Though it’s fairly common for artists to package up their videos to sell as ‘add-ons’ on CD/downloads, charging for exclusive viewing is something that the industry clearly isn’t ready for yet.

The video, for the artist’s new single ‘Screwdriver’ was released yesterday exclusively on Prince’s official site; whilst many of today’s artists (if not majority) utilise online video sites like YouTube, or atist-connected ad-ons such as VEVO, Prince will only allow those who purchase online to view/download the official video.

Many fans have been sharing their disgust on this, especially via the Twittersphere. Personally, I think it’s not the right way to go about it, however, when delving closer into a fan’s affinity with an artist, I would’ve paid more than that to have an exclusive version of a new Michael Jackson video. For general ‘Joe Public’ though, this is alienating many of the prospective audience.

Music videos now are often shared virally, the lack of ability to do so could be limiting the potential of the track to reach the coveted No 1 (as well as restricting the possibility of growing a new fan-base).

What are your thoughts? Leave your comments below

For those who are content just to hear the song and watch the lyric-video, here it is

Acclaimed dubstep producer Jakwob has released the accompanying video to new single ‘Fade’.

The single, revealed by yours-truly on 24th January, is an absurdly stunning anthem, and the video follows suit with an enchanting, yet mysterious vibe.

Simple yet effective, the video harks back to the brilliant visual that accompanied Layo & Bushwacka’s ‘Love Story (Finally)’ video in the mid ’00’s.

Simply put, this song, and now the video, are just the fresh-sound that the UK charts need. The piano expressions combined with the haunting vocals by new artist Maiday, coupled with the uptempo drum beats, work together to create an anthem that fans will rarely tire.

Add the video in and you have a 5 out of 5.

Check out the video to ‘Fade’ below: