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Sara Bareilles Premieres New Song “Brave,” Announces ‘The Blessed Unrest’ Album

Robbie Daw
April 17th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Sara Bareilles fans, prepare for your kaleidoscope hearts to skip a beat or two, as the queen of radio-friendly piano pop has returned with brand new single “Brave.” The song was co-penned by fun.‘s Jack Antanoff, and as such, doesn’t sound dissimilar from the Grammy-winning band’s anthem-like hits (or, for that matter, frontman Nate Ruess‘ duet with Pink, “Just Give Me A Reason”).

“Brave” hits iTunes on April 23, and serves as the first offering from Bareilles’ third LP The Blessed Unrest, which has a July 16 release date. Catch the lyric video for the uplifting self-empowerment song above, and check out the dates for Sara’s upcoming acoustic Brave Enough Tour below. More »

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Rita Ora & Snoop Lion Team Up For “Torn Apart”: Listen

Sam Lansky
April 17th, 2013 // 2 Comments

Look: We weren’t really fans of having Rita Ora aggressively shoved down our throats for the last year, either, and the indignity of having to update all of our tags after Snoop Dogg changed his name to Snoop Lion is still stinging, and why is he doing this whole Caribbean thing anyway? It’s all a mess. But! A good song is a good song, and there’s something really likable about the collaboration between Snoop and Rita on the rapper’s upcoming LP Reincarnated, which sees the two duetting over a Major Lazer-produced track about, y’know, heartbreak and stuff. More »

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‘The Great Gatsby’ Soundtrack: Hear Florence + The Machine’s “Over The Love” In Full

Carl Williott
April 17th, 2013 // 2 Comments
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One of the most anticipated albums of 2013 is the Jay-Z-curated soundtrack to The Great Gatsby (out May 7), and for good reason: it has some of today’s most relevant and essential acts turning out melodramatic numbers covering the entire pop landscape. With names like Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, Andre 3000, Jack White, Florence + The Machine, Emeli Sande and The xx, nobody will even notice that their are also contributions from will.i.am and Fergie confusingly shoehorned into the roster.

The album sampler was unveiled on Tuesday, and today (April 17) Interscope has posted Florence Welch‘s smoldering contribution, “Over The Love,” in full. The music finds Welch’s theatrical bombast somewhat toned down, though her voice sounds as evocative as ever. The slow trickle leads to a powerful closing crescendo with Florence wailing as strings rise and she chants “I can see the green light / I can see it in your eyes.” As GQ points out, it seems to be sung from Daisy’s perspective, and is full of literary markers faithful to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book. Hear it after the jump. More »

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ZZ Ward’s “Everybody Wants To Be Famous”: Record Store Day Song Premiere

Robbie Daw
April 16th, 2013 // 3 Comments
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Get Bluesy On Record Store Day

Record Store Day comes but once a year, and this time around, soulful songstress ZZ Ward is offering up a vinyl 7″ featuring a cover of Son House‘s “Grinnin’ In Your Face” and an original song, “Everybody Wants To Be Famous,” on the flip side. The latter was originally recorded during the sessions for Ward’s debut LP ‘Til The Casket Drops, but was held back from release until now.

Idolator is premiering the song, four days before its April 20th release (only in participating Record Store Day establishments). Watch the video clip above, which features ZZ’s hand nimbly plunking a needle on her tambourine-shaking, blues-infused track. Give it a spin, and try not to slap your knee in time to the rhythm Ward delivers. More »

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Charli XCX’s “What I Like” Remix Gets A Boost From Danny Brown: Listen

Carl Williott
April 16th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Charli XCX dropped her totally-worth-the-wait debut True Romance today (April 16), and over the weekend she unveiled the remix to one the album’s standouts, “What I Like.” For the reworked version, high-energy Detroit rapper Danny Brown hops onto the druggy love ballad for one of his typically rambunctious (but atypically clean) verses, dialing up the energy with his squealing flow before Charli comes back with her relaxed psuedo-rap bridge.

It’s a match made in blog buzz heaven, and you can hear it below. More »

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‘The Great Gatsby’ Soundtrack: Hear The Sampler Featuring Lana Del Rey, Florence, Sia & More

Sam Lansky
April 16th, 2013 // 2 Comments
Great Gatsby Soundtrack Sampler Video
Pretty Great

There are many great things about the upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, but one of the great-est is the soundtrack, which features new tunes from Florence & The Machine, Lana Del Rey, Sia, Emeli Sande and a lot of other great artists, too. Great!

Now, the official sampler for the soundtrack has been unveiled, featuring 30-second snippets from each of the songs. Unsurprisingly, Lana Del Rey’s “Young & Beautiful” is an instant standout, but Emeli Sande’s 1920s redux of Beyonce‘s “Crazy In Love” is stiff competition. As for Fergie‘s “A Little Party,” which was unveiled in full yesterday — well, it’s not the best thing here, mercifully. Listen to the full sampler up top, then check after the jump to skip around. More »

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Will.i.am’s ‘#willpower’: Stream The Star-Studded LP Featuring Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber & More

Sam Lansky
April 16th, 2013 // 1 Comment

Will.i.am‘s fourth studio album #willpower drops on April 23 (hashtag willpower!), and the rapper-producer has posted the album in its entirety as song streams on his YouTube channel, which is great news for people curious to see how Will has managed to take excellent hooks from huge artists and vitiate them with insipid, meaningless lyrics and paint-by-numbers production.

(Okay. Maybe that’s not entirely fair. But man, isn’t it frustrating to get all excited about new songs from Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus and then have them disappoint so thoroughly?)  More »

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Skylar Grey’s “Final Warning”: Hear The Sinister Single

Sam Lansky
April 16th, 2013 // 4 Comments
Skylar & Em BTS
The two share some moments from their new video. Read More »
Skylar Gets Sexy
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She's riding a bike in her new cover art. Read More »
Skylar's New Video
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There are breasts. Three of them. Read More »
Skylar's Best Of '12
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Miss Grey gives her faves from 2012. Read More »
Skylar Grey Final Warning Single

After the darkly playful irony of her lead single “C’mon Let Me Ride,” Skylar Grey is going for the jugular with her newest effort “Final Warning,” a skittering midtempo ballad that’s not playful or ironic — it’s just dark. Produced by her frequent collaborator Alex da Kid, the track evokes Grey’s biggest hit as a songwriter — Eminem and Rihanna‘s “Love the Way You Lie” — toying with themes of violence and vengeance. (“Someone’s gonna get hurt / And it’s not gonna be me,” she intones ominously on the chorus.) It’s effectively eerie and weird, but “Final Warning” is no radio hit, even as it features one of her catchier melodies to date.  More »

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Major Lazer’s ‘Free The Universe’: Album Review

Patrick Bowman
April 16th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Lazer At Coachella
Major Lazer do the "Harlem Shake" at the fest. Read More »
Free The Universe
Major Lazer Free The Universe Teaser Video
Watch the trailer for Major Lazer's next album. Read More »
PSY, 2 Chainz & Diplo
MTV EMA's 2012 - Exclusive Arrivals
Diplo says he hit the studio with PSY and 2 Chainz. Read More »
Major Lazer x No Doubt
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Diplo remixes No Doubt's "Settle Down". Read More »
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Outside of the Caribbean’s occasional blip on mainstream music culture’s radar (Shaggy, Kevin Lyttle, Sean Paul, early Rihanna), and the unimpeachable Dynamite! series from Soul Jazz Records, chances are the first time most people stateside were really exposed to the vibrant, infectious sounds of contemporary reggaeton and dancehall was on Major Lazer’s 2009 debut Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do... A project founded by Philadelphia-based producer/DJ, and Mad Decent impresario Diplo (Wesley Pentz) along with UK native DJ Switch (Dave Taylor), Major Lazer’s first album proved to be a flawlessly curated tour through the sweaty clubs of dancehall/reggaeton epicenters like Kingston and Port-au-Prince, providing wider exposure for seminal scene figures like Mr. Lex, Ricky Blaze, Nina Sky and Future Trouble in the process.

But Guns Don’t Kill People… wasn’t just a document of a sound or mixtape; Diplo and Switch injected their survey of island dance culture with outside influences, like when they took Holland’s syncopated house music known as “bubbling,”and grafted it onto the twerking reggae-bump of “Pon De Floor” (which later became the basis for Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)”). The result was an impressively volatile melting pot of dynamic, globalized dance music. More »

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Drake’s “Girls Love Beyonce”: Hear The Moody Buzz Track

Sam Lansky
April 16th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
New Drake
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Hear Drake's latest single, "Started From the Bottom." Read More »
Drake & Justin
Drake joins Justin Bieber on stage in Toronto. Read More »
Breezy Disses Drizzy
Drake Chris Brown Fight Promo Pics
Chris Brown rehashes their beef to Young Jeezy's "R.I.P." Read More »
Drake x Aaliyah
Drake talks about the posthumous Aaliyah album. Read More »

Drake must be the only artist out there sure-footed enough to title a song after Beyonce and then make it not about Beyonce at all, right? But that aside, the latest track from his upcoming LP Nothing Was the Same, called “Girls Love Beyonce,” is a quintessentially Drake record in the best of ways — produced by Noah “40″ Shehib and featuring vocals from James Fauntleroy (who co-wrote much of Justin Timberlake‘s The 20/20 Experience), it’s moody and ambient, set over a warm, weary beat and featuring an ingenious interpolation of Destiny’s Child‘s “Say My Name” on the chorus. More »

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