Month: March 2014
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I read a lot of artist bios and they tend to all sound the same after a while. It seems like they’re all about growing up in a small, rural town and then moving to New York City or Los Angeles to make it big in the music business. While it’s nice to read about…
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Viceroy gives Grouplove’s “Shark Attack” a throbbing make-over that perfectly splits the difference between dubstep and garage, resulting in a sticky, sweet EDM masterpiece.
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“Misery Company” is from Kaiser Chiefs’ new album Education, Education, Education & War, which is due out on March 31st in Europe and April 1st in North America. We love its infectious guitar riffs and uppity marching beat. The manic laughing is pretty cool, too. Seriously though, who puts laughing in a song? Especially this…
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Wow… Now that’s what we call RED HOT. We’re pretty sure school girls haven’t looked so seductive since Britney Spear’s “…Baby One More Time” video.
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Stefanie Sun’s “Kepler” is a beautiful, mid-tempo C-Pop — that’s Cantonese pop — ballad, which begins with mellow guitars. Guitars that initially sound acoustic, but then there’s a bit of a twang there and it starts to sound like an American country ballad with electric slide guitar. It never quite becomes a country song, but…
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PRESS RELEASE March 3, 2014 – (Burbank, CA.) – Warner Bros. Records, an official sponsor of Record Store Day, has announced its annual participation featuring a series of vinyl albums and singles exclusively available on Saturday, April 19th in honor of everyone’s favorite holiday: a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 1,000 independently owned…
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I must admit that I don’t know a whole lot about Florent Marchet. The only other album of his that I have is Noël’s Songs, which, as you could probably guess, is a Christmas album. I simply grabbed that one for the heck of it because, as my loyal readers must have figured out by…
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OBESØN (pronounced Obey-Son) is a project of Canadian producer Meshach Gordon. “I Need You To Need Me” actually samples Lykke Li’s “I Need You To Need Me,” but he tweaks it, raising the pitch considerably, though it still sounds quite beautiful, something that could be said for the track overall. It starts off kind of…
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Erik Hassle continues his big leap into R&B territory with “Innocence Lost” featuring the always brilliant Tinashe… It starts off very minimalist, evoking James Blake, but soon trap-style beats kick in, giving the song a hip-hop meets R&B groove that’s utterly contagious. Next thing ya know, Tinashe is delivering some gorgeous voccals. Better still, the…