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Daft Punk’s “Give Life Back To Music”: Hear A Snippet Of ‘Random Access Memories’ Opener In New Teaser

Carl Williott
May 13th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Begin Transmission

We’re now in the home stretch before Daft Punk‘s Random Access Memories drops on May 21, and the Robots are engineering one last data dump to work everyone into a frenzy. Earlier we saw their dual Dazed & Confused covers, and for their latest space transmission, the French duo has unveiled a teaser video featuring part of album opener “Give Life Back to Music.”

Watch up top as Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo unwrap a copy of the vinyl edition inside their retro-futuristic lair and drop the needle on the sparkling opening track.

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Beyonce’s Sia Collaboration “Rise Up” From The ‘Epic’ Soundtrack: Hear A Snippet

Robbie Daw
May 13th, 2013 // 1 Comment
Another Tease For The BeyHive
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If you saw The Great Gatsby this weekend, then you likely caught a trailer for upcoming animated flick Epic. And among the colorful all-star cast of both actors (Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Christoph Waltz) and musicians (Pitbull, Steven Tyler) is a woman who fits both bills on occasion: Beyonce Knowles.

In addition to lending her voice to the character of Queen (duh) Tara in the feature, Bey also co-wrote the song “Rise Up” with go-to Aussie hit-maker Sia for the soundtrack. Naturally some King B fan recorded a short snippet of the number while in a movie theater and uploaded it to YouTube for the whole Hive to enjoy.

So if your idea of fun is getting worked up over yet another incomplete Beyonce song, then have at it below, stans! More »

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This Century’s “Fool’s Game”: Idolator Premiere

Jillian Pellegrini
May 11th, 2013 // 1 Comment
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For fans of artists like Hey Monday, The Ready Set or the more recent work of Good Charlotte, pop-rock band This Century is the next big thing to look out for. The Arizona quartet has already made a name for themselves with an impressive grassroots fanbase and a tour with the aforementioned artists. And leading up to the May 14 release of their sophomore album, Biography of Heartbreak, the band has been unveiling songs from the LP during a 13 Days of Heartbreak campaign. For Day 11, we’re premiering a brand new track: “Fool’s Game.”

The semi-dark song declares “love is a fool’s game” over a dance-ready beat, as the verses build to a full-sounding, super-synthy chorus that features lead singer Joel Kanitz’s falsetto and some catchy whoa-oh refrains. If sharp electro-pop is your thing, this track will hit the sweet spot. Check it out below. More »

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Katy B’s “What Love Is Made Of”: Hear The Pounding Dance Track

Sam Lansky
May 10th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Katy B, Torch-Bearer
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Katy B What Love Is Made Of

Katy B was my obsession for awhile — few could rival the English chanteuse’s lo-fi garage-inflected pop, shot through with dubstep and drum-and-bass, which was on full display in 2011′s On a Mission LP and last year’s exceptional Danger EP — and she’s shaping up to be again with the sound of her new single, “What Love Is Made Of.” The song, just premiered on Annie Mac‘s BBC Radio 1 show, is probably the biggest thing she’s recorded to date: The ’90s groove is timely enough, but her vocals sound more powerful than before, and the melody is absolutely instantaneous.  More »

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The-Dream & Jay-Z Make “High Art”: Hear The New Track

Carl Williott
May 9th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Jay's "100$ Bill"
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Hear Jay-Z's Great Gatsby track. Read More »
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The-Dream has teamed up with Jay-Z on ”High Art,” off Dream’s forthcoming IV Play. The R&B multi-hyphenate slathers on the Auto-Tune, as expected, and sings about getting turnt up over a woozy beat with crackling percussion. Once Hov jumps in, he drops a line about being back home with his “BeyBey.”

Dream tweeted that it’s a “fuckin real fun energetic summer song,” and while we’re not sure “energetic” is the word we’d use to describe it, it should go well with sweaty, blurry summer nights. Hear it after the jump. More »

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Daft Punk’s “Giorgio By Moroder” Leak: Listen To Part Of The ‘Random Access Memories’ Song

Robbie Daw
May 9th, 2013 // 1 Comment
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We’ve been waiting patiently for the aptly-titled Daft Punk/Giorgio Moroder collaboration “Giorgio By Moroder” since it was announced that the revered Italian producer entered a studio with the robots last spring. Now he wait is… over? Or partially over. A somewhat lengthy portion of the Random Access Memories track — though by no means the full song — has leaked, and can be listened to over at Electro Italia. It’s precisely as Moroder himself described in 2012: him talking, apparently into various styles of microphone, about his life’s work, while Thomas and Guy-Manuel do their thing, musically, beneath his spoken story. We’ll of course reserve our own thoughts on the collaboration until “Giorgio By Moroder” can be heard in its full glory. But until then, feast your ears on the newly-surfaced piece of the song ahead of DP’s May 21 album release. [Via SPIN]

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The Saturdays’ “Gentleman”: Hear Their Weird (But Cool) New Single

Sam Lansky
May 8th, 2013 // 2 Comments
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Well, it’s been quite a wild ride chasing The Saturdays on their E! reality show Chasing The Saturdays, and now, it seems, they’ve been chased into a very curious corner with their new single “Gentleman.” It’s weird, right? Weird in some ways that are mostly good and also potentially terrible. I’m not entirely sure yet.

First up: It’s a funky little tune, with a spoken-word bit that evokes Girls Aloud (not the first time and probably won’t be the last), built around the following largely inexplicable hook: “A gentleman is so 1995 / So hard for a girl to find / A real husband so 1999 / So hard for a girl to find.” Sonically, it has some jazzy flavor, but in a diffuse, madcap kind of way; it sounds like it belongs to a school of Mark Ronson retro-soul revivalism that already came and went a few years ago. More »

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Big Time Rush: Hear New Song “Picture This” & See Cher Lloyd In This Week’s Episode

Idolator Staff
May 8th, 2013 // 19 Comments
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While Season 4 of Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush kicked off last week, this Thursday’s (May 9) episode has a bit of extra star power. Everyone’s favorite hockey-players-turned-boy-band spend some air time with none other than “Want U Back” songstress Cher Lloyd. Idolator is premiering stills from tomorrow’s show, which airs at 8 p.m., as well as a snippet of BTR’s song “Picture This,” from their forthcoming album 24/seven.

Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan worked with such songwriters and producers as The Suspex, Claude Kelly, Matt Squire and Matt Thiessen on 24/seven, which the quartet will promote via their nationwide, 38-city Summer Break Tour. The jaunt kicks off, appropriately, on June 21, with fellow Nickelodeon music act Victoria Justice on the bill as opener.

Head below to hear a snippet of “Picture This” and see another photo of Cher Lloyd in this week’s episode of Big Time Rush. More »

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Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull’s “Live It Up”: Listen To The Obvious Summer Smash

Sam Lansky
May 8th, 2013 // 5 Comments
Jennifer Lopez Pitbull "Live It Up" Lyric Video
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Here’s the good news about the new single from walking bronzer advertisement Jennifer Lopez and her bestie, predatory pair of aviator sunglasses with the world’s shiniest head Pitbull: Despite what J.Lo been tweeting (and the first visual in the lyric video), this song is called “Live It Up,” not “#LiveItUp,” as we’d suspected, which spares us some “#Beautiful”-level indignity.

And as it turns out, the song itself is as thrilling as highly derivative dance-pop gets: A monstrous summery club smash produced by RedOne that follows in the footsteps of “On the Floor” and “Dance Again.”

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Kelly Rowland Stuns On ‘Talk A Good Game’ Album Cover

Kyle Robertson
May 7th, 2013 // 1 Comment
Kisses Down Kelly
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Kelly Rowland drops her candy-colored "Kisses Down Low" clip. Read More »
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Yes, the moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here: “Kisses Down Low” songstress Kelly Rowland has finally unveiled the very stripped-down cover art for her highly anticipated fourth album Talk A Good Game.

The R&B diva is no stranger to showing some skin (then again, with a body like that, why should she be?) Riding off the success of her steamy hit “Ice,” Ms. Kelly looks hot and ready for the new era. More »

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