Tag archive for ‘Pop’
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B.o.B. “EPIC: Every Play Is Crucial” [Album Review]
B.o.B ( aka Bobby Ray) released yesterday his mixtape, EPIC: Every Play Is Crucial, in anticipation for his upcoming album in March. I’ve only had the chance to listen to a few tracks, but it sounds stronger than his previous mixtape (read our review of B.o.B. No Genre). Whereas No Genre showed the polarizing styles (pop vs. aggressive [...]
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Ellie Goulding [Interview] – The Bright Lights
The flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York’s JFK is 3,452 miles or approximately eight hours long. For many European musicians, it’s a journey on which their tour will never take them. And while it’s true that UK music sales in the US have increased in recent years, thanks largely in part to Coldplay, Radiohead Adele, Leona [...]
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Yelle at Mezzanine [Live Review and Photos]
Julie Budet is riveting. After her first few English words, spoken with a delightfully distorted accent, one can quickly hear she’s French. Likely few members of the audience understood her lyrics, yet she draws everyone in with a few on-stage antics and a massive dose of enthusiasm. Always moving, if she wasn’t singing, she was dancing, and [...]
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Wale’s “Ambition” [Win a CD] and Tour Dates
Wale’s Ambition was released earlier this month, and features one of our favorite dance tracks this year. The man has his Nike boots on as he begins his tour across the US. Along his tour he’ll be joined by rappers Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco, Meek Mill, Big Sean, Savoy, Miami Horror, Kendrick Lamar, Dom Kennendy and others. [...]
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Star Slinger, Mux Mool, and Shigeto at Rickshaw Stop [Popscene]
As anyone in the blogging world may already know, Star Slinger has broached our orbit earlier this year, quickly picking up speed and heat. Having remixed the likes of Deerhunter, Toro Y Moi, Body Language, Childish Gambino, and Air France–to name just a few–he’s had made his name as electro-hip-pop artist. Yet, of course, as per usual Popscene [...]
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Corduroi “Crustacean” [SOTD]
Corduroi’s breed of childhood-nostalgic electro-pop has the potential to ride the over-played coattails of MGMT but steers clear of the “in the sandbox diggin’ up worms” cheese and instead opts to blend the tape-cassete era synthetic beats with new wave sampling for a “just listen and understand” 21st-century clarity. Texas native Corduroi, aka Cody Wilson, “took the name [...]
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[Video] Little Red “All Mine” and “Rock It”
Little Red is an Australian five piece band that recently signed to True Panther (same label as Glasser and Delorean). The success of their lauded debut Midnight Remember has gotten the group a Northern American release and tour, which you can find below. The pop rock outfit weighs heavily on vocal and guitar harmonies and catchy hooks. Their [...]
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Outside Lands 2011: Recap
In its fourth year, San Francisco’s Outside Lands seems to have made everyone happy, and for the festival’s sake—it’s perfect timing. This year marked the end of festival’s contract with the city. With some 180,000 fans reportedly (by the SF Chronicle) attending the festival over the three days, a new contract is likely in the works. Another Planet [...]
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Frank Ocean Download “Think About You”
Since Frank Ocean’s album Nostalgia, Ultra (particularly the track “Novacaine”), we’ve kept a close watch on his latest music. So, we’re excited (thanks to Mostly Junk Food) to bring to you “Thinking About You.” Somewhere between 90s R&B, mixed with the sex-infused style of Isaac Hayes/R. Kelly, Frank Ocean continues to make creative pop music that is so [...]
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Soundtrack To Summer: The Journey Begins
After years of slinging drinks (and probably drinking more than I ‘slang’), then working in publishing and journalism (almost always about marijuana… I am the expert on getting drunk and high), I decided I could never work for anyone else, EVER AGAIN. I fell into some time and money (which are usually both in very short supply), quit [...]
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