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The-Dream, Beyonce & 2 Chainz Get “Turnt” Up In New Track: Listen

Sam Lansky
May 14th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
The-Dream IV Play Wide

Decades from now, historians will remember the front half of 2013 as “The Great Beyonce Drought,” or maybe “That Time Beyonce Trolled Us All.” Looking for Beyonce to get her grown woman on and give you a full song to bump? Want to buy something on iTunes? Feel like hearing a Beyonce tune on the radio? Sorry! Not gonna happen.

See her in her H&M ad, high above Times Square, mocking you with her flawlessness. See her doing press for a voiceover role in some animated film you only want to see because Beyonce’s in it. See her promise you a new single, a new album, and then go on tour for the next thousand years. It’s all just soda-pop jingles, inexplicable trap-rap promo tracks casually discarded on Tumblr and cartoon balladeering now. Beyonce’s calling the shots, and Beyonce wants it like this.  More »

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MS MR’s ‘Secondhand Rapture’: Album Review

Carl Williott
May 14th, 2013 // 4 Comments
"Hurricane"
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Watch MS MR's bizarre "Hurricane" video. Read More »
Chvrches x MS MR
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Chvrches rework MS MR's "Hurricane." Read More »
"Fantasy"
How about another weird video from MS MR? Read More »
MS MR In NYC
MS MR at Bowery Ballroom for CMJ on October 18
Check out photos from the duo's New York City set. Read More »
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MS MR singer Lizzy Plapinger is exactly what you want in a frontman/woman. She has pink hair, or sometimes blue. She has an unconventional voice, husky and noir-ish. Most importantly, she has a keen ear for pop: as co-founder of Neon Gold Records, she released early singles from acts like Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding and Icona Pop. But that cool factor looms large over her project with Max Hershenow, giving skeptics a ready-made argument: that MS MR’s success is built on blind faith from a Neon Gold-loving Web.

The most effective way to dispense with any potential buzz-economy bullshit, though, is to put together a debut album as strong as Secondhand Rapture (out today, ). With this full-length, MS MR have crafted a collection of glossy dirges and high-drama doom-dances that operate in the pop world, but aren’t entirely of that world. Rather than neon synths and guitar crunch buttressing the melodies, it’s strings and pianos — but not in the Lana Del Way. Instead, MS MR opt for beauty through weirdness, constructing a record full of spectral echoes, wobbling organs and orchestral maneuvers in the dark. More »

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Demi Lovato’s ‘Demi’: Album Review

Sam Lansky
May 14th, 2013 // 4 Comments
Demi On Season 3
Celebrities Attend Sony Music's BRIT Awards Aftershow Party
The "Heart Attack" singer will return to 'The X Factor.' Read More »
"Heart Attack"
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Watch Demi's paint-splattered clip. Read More »
Demi's Sexy Album Shoot
Demi dresses up (and down) in her 'Demi' shoot. Read More »
Miley Vs. Demi Vs. Selena
The Disney princesses face off in this Ibrawlator. Read More »
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Demi Lovato called her last album Unbroken. Even if the title track was a love song, that name still felt like a reference to the comeback Lovato forged following a widely publicized breakdown that transformed her — from a Disney princess to a troubled teenager to a young woman whose public platform was all about recovery, both personally and professionally.

Two years later, she’s releasing a new LP, but this one is simply titled Demi, and that makes perfect sense in a funny sort of way. There’s no need for a canny titular shoutout to some thematic cohesion: After notching the biggest single of her career with last year’s “Give Your Heart a Break” and a banner season showing her mettle as a judge on The X Factor, where she routinely upstaged Britney Spears as the most empathetic and engaged member of the panel, Lovato doesn’t have anything to prove anymore. She’s just herself. More »

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Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’: Listen Now!

Robbie Daw
May 13th, 2013 // 2 Comments
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I got lucky enough to hear Daft Punk‘s fourth studio album Random Access Memories (out May 21) recently in its entirety, on speakers that offered as impeccable a listening experience as you could ever hope for. And, really, that’s the way you want to absorb this record, especially as sprawling epics like “Giorgio By Moroder,” “Doin’ It Right” and “Contact” come spilling out.

A stream of Random Access Memories is now available via the iTunes store. (Click here to listen.) Hardly the most ideal way to hear it — especially for the first time — but so be it. (You might, of course, find out that Daft Punk’s album has popped up online by more nefarious methods, but let’s not go there.) More »

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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
daft punk random access memories teaser
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
Katy B Olympics
The Brit singer carries the torch for the London Olympics. Read More »
Dance With Katy B!
Find out her favorite club bangers. Read More »
Katy B's Cover
Katy B Jessie Ware Aaliyah
She teams up with Jessie Ware for "Aaliyah." Read More »
The "Movement"
Katy B shakes it up in her "Movement" vid. Read More »
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"
jay-z suit tie photo
Hear Jay-Z's Great Gatsby track. Read More »
The-Dream x Beyonce
The Dream Talks Beyonce's New Music
Watch The-Dream talk about Bey's forthcoming album. Read More »
Jay-Z's "Open Letter"
Listen to Jay's post-Cuba song. Read More »
The-Dream x Mimi
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Mariah enlists The-Dream & Hit-Boy for her next LP. Read More »
the dream jay z high art

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
Daft Punk Giorgio Moroder

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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