Tag: 2015
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Wale’s new album, The Album About Nothing, is released today, “The White Shoes” its first single. And it’s quite the song. Not only does Wale deliver his primo rap, which never fails to flow beautifully, he actually sings on this one. And it turns out he can sing. Better than Kanye West, in fact. Not…
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PRESS RELEASE: The Maine Announces 24 Hours of American Candy Event In Phoenix To Coincide with Album Release On March 31st, 2015, The Maine is set to release their fifth full-length studio American Candy via 8123. That same day, the band will be celebrating with a 24 hour hometown event all around Tempe, AZ (release day activities/details…
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PRESS RELEASE: LOS ANGELES, CA – March 30, 2015 – Neon Trees today announced their next tour “An Intimate Night Out With Neon Trees” will kick off June 6th in Seattle, WA at the Showbox and cross the country before winding down on July 25th in Boston, MA at Paradise Rock Club. A full list…
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I’m not a huge fan of instrumental music. I can listen to it now and again but after a while it gets on my nerves. For me, the voice is the greatest of all instruments. That’s why I can listen to music in foreign languages that I don’t know — I can still appreciate a…
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Yet another song where Ed Sheeran sings about drinking… In fact, this whole song is about feeling “the chemicals in my bloodstream.” So, I’m officially worried about ol’ Ed now. I think he needs an intervention. Stat.
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FKA twigs is brilliant and you’re not convinced of that yet then you haven’t really given her album a chance.
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I’ve been writing pop culture reviews for a long, long time. In high school, I published a horror zine called The End and did some horror movie reviews there. (I also worked on my high school newspaper, but I was an artist there, not a writer.) Then in 1995, four years after I graduated…
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One of the things that made the blogosphere fall in love with Tinashe was undoubtedly that she released her music for free in the form of the album-length mixtapes Black Water, In Case We Die and Reverie. Of course, her talent is what made these mixtapes stick. So many people wouldn’t have been downloading them…
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This one is a relatively chill number that you can either dance or come down to. Either way, it’s a wonderful song. Kaleem Taylor’s voice has such a wonderful texture, a bit grainy, rough around the edges, and yet still quite smooth; it’s just perfect for this sort of song. And Snakehips beats and the…
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“There was money in my pocket / Shoes on my feet / But I always felt like the one black sheep,” goes part of the chorus of Mat Kearney’s latest single, “One Black Sheep,” which is a punchy, highly addictive pop song.
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Natalie Prass is a singer/songwriter based out of Nashville who used to sing backing vocals for Jenny Lewis. Her album has already received heaps of praise from TIME, Pitchfork, Q and The Guardian, and that’s actually how I came to discover it. I read a few positive reviews and then I had to check it…
