Tag Archives: Tinie Tempah

Tinie Tempah: Passion Killer

By | Posted on April 8th, 2011

Time for a delicate question: do you enjoy listening to music when you are making out? And if so, do you sometimes worry that the person you are making out with may be judging you based on your musical choice?

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Music Roundup: Katy Perry, Calvin Harris Duke It Out on Twitter

By | Posted on March 29th, 2011

Uh oh, Katy Perry is pretty furious with Calvin Harris. Earlier this week, the American pop starlet took to Twitter to announce that the Scottish dance-pop DJ won’t be the opening act on her current UK and Ireland tour.

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2011 Brit Awards Recap: Tinie Tempah Takes Two Trophies

By | Posted on February 15th, 2011

Once upon a time, the Brit Awards was a showcase of appalling presentation, terrible behavior, bum-wiggling at megastars and acting the giddy goat in front of the entire country. And for this, we loved it.

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Tinie Tempah’s ‘Written In the Stars’ Selected as Wrestlemania Anthem

By | Posted on February 1st, 2011

We hailed Tinie Tempah as one of our Top 10 British Breakout Acts of 2010, but it seems like the London-born rapper’s name is finally start to seep into the American consciousness. He’s just one of the many UK acts (Duran ...

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The Tellyvangelist: Jan. 31 – Feb. 6

By | Posted on January 31st, 2011

In this week’s Tellyvangelist — your weekly guide to all that’s British on U.S.

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BRIT Award Nominations: Rapper Tinie Tempah Leads With Four Nods

By | Posted on January 14th, 2011

The nominations for the BRIT Awards – the UK equivalent to the Grammys – have been announced, and South London rapper Tinie Tempah scored four nominations to lead this year’s pack. Tinie, Rihanna, Take That, and Plan B ...

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Music Roundup: Mike Skinner Says No More to the Streets

By | Posted on January 4th, 2011

It looks like The Streets‘ Mike Skinner is giving up music for good. The British garage/rap mastermind recently told The Guardian that it’s time to focus on other things, like being a Dad.

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Top 10 British Breakout Acts of 2010

By | Posted on November 29th, 2010

Starting today and rolling on until Christmas, Anglophenia will be taking a look back at 2010 and all of its marvelous mishegoss. A lot has happened in the past year in UK pop culture: Gordon Brown exited stage left, and David Cameron ...

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Roundup: British Crime TV ‘More Violent’ Says ‘Luther’ Star Idris Elba

By | Posted on October 21st, 2010

Idris Elba had his hand in television crime dramas for years now, having portrayed Russell "Stringer" Bell in HBO's The Wire, and now the current star and executive producer of the BBC America suspense thriller, Luther. In an ...

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Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Turns the Air Blue, Tops the UK Singles Chart

By | Posted on October 11th, 2010

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much of an event release your song may seem to be, it’ll still get steamrollered by something bigger that has managed to catch everyone’s attention.

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