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One Direction Perform Celine Dion’s ‘Titanic’ Theme “My Heart Will Go On”: Watch

Robbie Daw
May 13th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Neeeeear, Faaaaaaar — Wherever You Are

Iconic vocal powerhouse Celine Dion has been offering up teases of her forthcoming album, and over the weekend the Canadian singer got an unexpected boost in the comeback department by everyone’s favorite Brit boy band, One Direction. While on stage in Berlin on Saturday, the lads took a few requests — one of them being Celine’s classic 1997 weeper “My Heart Will Go On,” from Titanic.

Now, let’s just overlook the fact that, when it came to being up on the exact lyrics to the song, 1D hit an iceberg. At least they harmonized and mumbled through the parts they didn’t know, right?

Watch them tackle a portion of “My Heart Will Go On” at the O2 World Berlin on Saturday (May 11) above. More »

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Skylar Grey Performs “Love The Way You Lie” & ‘Don’t Look Down’ Songs At Styld.by Event: Watch

Lisa Timmons
May 10th, 2013 // 2 Comments
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Skylar Brings Fire To The Grove

Skylar Grey makes the pop life look good, which is one reason why we were so thrilled we could invite her to perform at our Styld.by summer celebration, thrown in partnership with Gap and staged at the brand’s store at The Grove in Los Angeles Thursday evening (May 9). The superstar singer-songwriter performed tracks from her upcoming album Don’t Look Down (out July 9) and helped us kick off summer in style.

First impressions are the most lasting, and Skylar started the event right on time, earning her serious anti-diva points for punctuality. The Wisconsin native kicked off the set at the piano with “Wear Me Out,” one of her new songs from Don’t Look Down. She managed to mix in some of her new tracks from LP, while still delivering fan favorites to the intimate, devoted crowd.

Watch Skylar perform her award-winning composition “Love The Way You Lie” above. More »

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Beyonce Performs “Grown Woman” Live In Paris: Watch In Wonderment

Robbie Daw
April 24th, 2013 // 3 Comments
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Bey Actually Performs New Music On Her New Tour

We hope you’ve fully braced yourselves for the rapturous hysteria that’s about to sweep through the BeyHive and spill over to the masses…because Beyonce actually performed a brand new song live on her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. Well, okay, we’ve heard a bit of “Grown Woman” already, so the choice itself isn’t that mind-blowing. But up above you’ll see a clip shot by some quaking stan on their mobile in the audience at Paris’ Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy that proves all may not be lost as far as hearing something new on this trek across the globe by B goes.

Here Mrs. Carter whips through the full number and employs choreography that, we feel compelled to note, seems a bit reheated at this point. Still, it’s Beyonce. It’s a live performance. And, despite the woeful quality of the actual video, it’s still a new song. More »

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Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”: Watch Pharrell Perform The Song For The First Time

Christina Lee
April 20th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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“This song just came out last night, and Brooklyn knows all the words,” Pharrell sang Friday, at his first-ever performance of Daft Punk‘s “Get Lucky.” He was right. At Brooklyn’s HTC One launch, Pharrell sang the hook to the Random Access Memories single not once, not twice, but three times. Each time, the crowd sang along.

Pharrell’s performance was tame, and he should have done what Jay-Z did at Jermaine Dupri‘s So So Def anniversary party in February — that is, perform to a track without vocals. However, his idea to keep starting over was a good one. It’s as if he knew that after hearing only snippets of Daft Punk’s fourth album, the crowd would be at a fever pitch.

Watch Pharrell’s first-ever performance of “Get Lucky” up top, then after the jump, revisit Kanye West‘s live rendition of “Stronger” featuring Daft Punk themselves. More »

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Coachella 2013: Vive La Roux!

Carl Williott
April 15th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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The people are hungry for the return of La Roux! The British synth-poppers had been dormant for a while but emerged with four new songs at a show earlier this month, three of which they brought to an overflow crowd at the Mojave tent at Coachella Sunday night (April 14). Swirling winds transformed the grounds at the Empire Polo Club into a giant cloud of dirt, so festival-goers sought shelter in the tented stages — and apparently all the lovers made a beeline for the pulsing sheen of La Roux, because their show had the highest makeout quotient that I witnessed all weekend. Yes, even more than The xx‘s crowd. After all, in order to kiss, you have to be awake. (No but really, we love The xx!)

Elly Jackson‘s synth-pop project opened with “In For The Kill,” “Colourless Colour” and “Quicksand,” immediately transporting the crowd to 1988, via 2009. Soon after, she gave us the funkier new tracks “Kiss and Not Tell,” “Sexotheque” and “Tropical Chancer,” their lean grooves the perfect vehicle for Jackson’s stoically cool dance moves. If this is the type of stuff we can look forward to on La Roux’s sophomore album, then it’s time to start getting very excited, folks. More »

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Coachella 2013: Jessie Ware Brings A Touch Of Class To The Fest

Carl Williott
April 15th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Who’s more likeable than Jessie Ware? Maybe it’s a competition between her and 2 Chainz, but that’s it. Wearing an adorable red-and-white summer dress (is it a dress if the top part isn’t connected to the bottom part? Help me out here ladies), the British singer on Sunday once again had an American crowd under her spell. The bubbly Brit was like an old pro on the Mojave stage at Coachella, dishing out just the right amount of cheer and sarcasm (during “Sweet Talk” she crowed, “You should all be kissing right now!”) in between punchier versions of Devotion highlights like ”Swan Song,” “Night Light” and “No To Love.”

Her backing band was crisp and dialed-in, and while the mix went a little heavy on the bass, Ware’s sneaky-powerful voice cut through the thumps. I’ve seen her live a few times now, and her whole presentation is getting livelier and fuller with each performance. But the main difference this time was the stark increase in the size of the crowd compared to her shows earlier in the year. More »

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Coachella 2013: The Postal Service Make Their Triumphant Return (PHOTOS)

Carl Williott
April 14th, 2013 // 1 Comment
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“We’re an imaginary band called The Postal Service,” Ben Gibbard announced midway through his group’s stirring set on the Coachella main stage Saturday night. He and Jimmy Tamborello may have started as an e-band, but the emotions their songs elicit are so real that they’ve sustained a substantial and loyal following for a decade with just one album to their name.

The Postal Service is an intensely nostalgic act. Not that they sound old or retro, it just seems that everyone who’s a fan is an extremely passionate fan and associates their 2003 album Give Up with a very specific and emotional time and place: a first high school romance, the end of college, New York City rebuilding after 9/11. I am a Postal Service outsider — for me, the album merely got lost in the shuffle during my freshman year in college — but those connections were apparent among the thousands who turned out for the Coachella set the night of April 13. More »

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Coachella 2013: Janelle Monae Took Us On A Neo-Soul Desert Odyssey (PHOTOS)

Carl Williott
April 14th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Janelle Monae will soon be our Q.U.E.E.N., but after seeing her set at Coachella Saturday night, I have a feeling she might be our Prince. Her show felt like somebody took “Hey Ya!” then laced its drink with amphetamines and made it act out a movie for 50 minutes. There were no lulls; at no point did it feel safe to look down at your phone, lest you miss something wonderful from Janelle and her white-clad ArchOrchestra. There was a James Bond-referencing intro video, there were cloaked druids, there was dancing, there was dance-fighting and at one point she even got the whole crowd to crouch down in silence, “Shout” style. More »

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Coachella 2013: Major Lazer Do The “Harlem Shake,” Are Really Good At This “Live” Thing (PHOTOS)

Carl Williott
April 14th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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At this point, you know what you’re getting with a Major Lazer performance. But “I’ll have the usual” with the dancehall party boys means an omnipresent pair of twerkers, human hamster balls and commands for everyone to disrobe. So that’s why we keep coming back for more, and that’s why Major Lazer drew just as big of an overflow crowd at the Mojave tent as 2 Chainz did earlier Saturday afternoon (April 13).

Days ahead of the release of Free the Universe, Diplo, Jillionaire and Walshy Fire made me wonder if they really even need an album, because there’s no way they can recreate this spectacle on record. Look, it’s one thing to make the ground bounce at a club when everyone is jumping in unison. But when the thousands of sweaty fauxhemians jumped to “Pon de Floor,” I honestly think the ground outside (i.e. Earth) was actually throbbing. The prospect of us all collapsing into some raucous party sinkhole seemed plausible. I’ve never experienced anything quite like that. More »

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Coachella 2013: 2 Chainz Attracts The Festival’s First Overflowing Crowd & Makes Everyone Wait (PHOTOS)

Carl Williott
April 14th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Either the Coachella cabal vastly underestimated the draw of 2 Chainz by putting him in the Mojave tent and not on one of the main stages Saturday afternoon, or it was a savvy attempt to make a “legendary” festival moment, the sheer number of people clamoring to get a view becoming the story itself. The most crammed-in crowd happened to coincide with the hottest point of the weekend thus far, so when 2 Chainz showed up about 15 minutes late, the whole thing was on the precipice of disaster. But the partiers in Indio were quick to forgive forget, and once he emerged and broke out his stellar guest verses from “Mercy,” “Beez in the Trap” and “Bandz a Make Her Dance,” all was right. More »

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