Features tagged with jessie j

It's only two weeks to Christmas, and yet the singles charts are still looking decidedly un-festive. Can your hosts at The Singles Bar find their holiday spirit and rediscover the meaning of Christmas? Probably not, so we'll just have to make do with the new tradition of picking apart the latest X Factor winner's single instead.

Another week, another line-up of singles... and so the cycle will continue until long after we're all dead (or more accurately, when people stop buying them completely). Still, at least it's quite a good bunch this week.

In the latest installment of No Ripcord's weekly singles review we feature a line-up of tracks that almost reduced this week's guest host to tears.

The Singles Bar is back! This week, Joe Rivers spends a warm summer day indoors so that he can cast his eye over new releases from eleven artists, including Cults, Katy B and Kaiser Chiefs. At no point did he write frightening verse to a buxom girl in Luxembourg.