Category: Pop
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Cool. Catchy. Carly.
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Ezra Furman is a restless warrior. He well-established this on his first two solo albums and with his late band the Harpoons. One has only ever needed to hear a few of his songs to realize that he’s a guy who can’t sit still, not even inside his head. He is always brimming with manic…
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Yes, it’s true — Lana Del Rey has posted her brand new song, “Honeymoon,” on Youtube. It’s presumably from her next album (rumor has it, it’s the title track), and it’s fabulous! Everyone had been saying that her next album would be like Born To Die Volume 2, that it was supposed to be full…
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I love it when artists do covers and give them their own interpretation rather than going the paint-by-numbers route. And Australia’s Green Buzzard have totally re-envisioned Tobias Jesso Jr’s “Hollywood” here. Where the original version was a somber piano ballad, Green Buzzard’s version is uptempo and even upbeat, guitar-centric alternative rock.
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review by Barnaby Thornton Reviewing this album was no easy task. I tried to be smart. I tried to be a “music journalist”. I tried every analogy under the pale green sun; sick with responsibility as I wrote my way through reawakened volcanoes and uncaptured Polaroid with too much sweetener in my veins, yet not…
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BY POPULAR DEMAND, BAND WILL NOW RELEASE ALBUM ONE WEEK EARLIER IN THE U.S. FOR A GLOBAL STREET DATE OF SEPTEMBER 11TH July 9th, 2015 – Burbank, CA – Multi-platinum superstars Duran Duran have announced that, due to popular demand, they will move the U.S. release date of their 14th studio album, Paper Gods, up from…
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IAMX is the solo moniker of Chris Corner, formerly of Sneaker Pimps. (I only mention Sneaker Pimps because they were one of my favorite bands and I still love them.) Thus far, IAMX has released five studio albums along with a live album, a remix album and a few EPs. His first release was the…
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“Bright” is one of my favorite songs on Echosmith’s colorful album, Talking Dreams, and this new version featuring Lindsey Stirling on violin is even better, her instrument adding a whole new layer of emotion to the already gorgeous and inspiring song. Très optimistique!
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This is one of my favorite Moby songs and I adore Skylar Grey but her vocals are too far back in the mix here… Otherwise, I would’ve made it song of the day.
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A brisk, refreshing summer drink with lots of tiny bubbles and pure cane sugar… What more could you want in an adult beverage for passing your summer days? Demi is your body type and she wants to party — get excited!
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Leave it to Miss Jackson to give you a good reason not to sleep…
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Panic! At The Disco have released a wicked awesome (hey, we’re from Boston) new song and it’s called “Hallelujah”! “Show praise with your body / Stand up / Sing hallelujah,” sings/demands frontman/preacher Brandon Urie, telling you to say your freakin’ prayers already. And it’s so very good that you might just bow down and worship…
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Much to our surprise, Neon Jungle, the UK’s “it” girl group of 2013, has called it splitsville already. That’s right, the London quartet consisting of Shereen Cutkelvin, Jess Plummer, Asami Zdrenka and Amira McCarthy have officially broken up, this after their debut album, Welcome to the Jungle, hit No. 8 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart just…
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“Break Me Down” is the light, jangly and delicious new single by Paul Smith and The Imitations, Paul Smith being Maxïmo Park’s frontman. “You can break me down / Catch a plane / And I’ll meet you in the middle,” he sings joyously during the hooky chorus. It’s not the deepest song he’s ever sung,…
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Once in a while a band comes along that’s so good you wonder how you ever lived without them. I remember feeling that way when I discovered Motley Crue and Guns ‘N’ Roses as a kid, or The Killers and Franz Ferdinand a decade ago. During more recent years, I stopped getting that feeling. I…
