Tag: pop
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Róisín Murphy has been one of the most peculiar figures in modern pop music for several years now. She started off as the frontwoman of Moloko, but soldiered on as a solo artist after the band called it a day. During the next few years, she released two excellent solo albums, Ruby Blue and Overpowered,…
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TO: All Departments FROM: C.E.O. On Repeat Records DATE: 6th May 2015 RE: Next release Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that our next On Repeat Records release will be my third studio album, entitled ‘Working Girl’, which will be available on 10th July in partnership with Dim Mak records. You can pre-order…
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In 2013 Eliza Hull released a critically acclaimed EP called The Ghosts You Never Catch. The lead track “Christopher” appeared on MTV’s Awkward — the funniest show on television — and she proceeded to tour with the likes of Owl Eyes, Hayden Calnin and SAFIA. She spent 2014 writing the songs that appear on The…
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First, I have to admit something here: until a few months ago, the only Spandau Ballet song I knew was the ballad “True.” It was released in 1983, which happened to be the year that I discovered heavy metal, so I probably thought it was garbage. At some point, though, it began to make me…
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Voila, another Monday, another new song and video from the luscious Janine and the Mixtape… Call her the new Jessie Ware because her blend of pop and R&B is the smoothest, most electrifying genre-bender anyone’s heard since Ware’s last album. Sweet, musical bliss!
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Wow, talk about a fun song! MIKA’s “Talk About You” is an instant shot of euphoria straight to your heart, lighting up your brain with bursts of brilliant colors. You won’t hear a more upbeat or uplifting song this week. “You’re the only one I wanna talk about / All I do is wanna talk…
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Another thick slice of pop perfection via Brandon Flowers. With a cherry on top.
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“I’m not your springtime fantasy,” goes “Return,” a gem of a new song from Strange Names, a band consisting of recent New York transplants Fletcher Aleckson, Francis Ximenez and Liam Benzvi. The irony here is that “Return” actually feels like a red hot spring fling, coming at you from out of nowhere, laying it on…
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Everybody loves a cheesy bubblegum pop ballad once in a while, right? Well, if so, then you’ll be tickled pink by Jessie J’s joyous song “Flash Light,” which is from the Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack. Although you might find it a little too similar to Beyonce’s “Halo” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone.”
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Oh, this is a good one… As he always does, Monsieur Adi has created a remix that feels so natural you’d swear it was the original album version of the song and those tend to be my favorite remixes. I also appreciate the fact that it’s not so much a dance remix as just a…
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Los Angeles, CA (April 21, 2015) – Multi-platinum-selling, singer/songwriter Adam Lambert will release his highly anticipated third studio album THE ORIGINAL HIGH on June 16th, 2015 through Warner Bros. Records. Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden and Los Angeles, California with Max Martin and Shellback as executive producers (Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Pink, etc.), THE ORIGINAL HIGH…
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Janine and The Mixtape, otherwise known as Janine Foster, has been releasing a track per week for nearly two months now, “Lose My Mind” being this week’s fine edition, which comes not merely as a Soundcloud file but as a video as well.
