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Listen To Prince’s Bizarre Musical Rollercoaster “Cause And Effect”
11:23 AM on Fri Feb 26 2010 by Becky Bain
Twin Cities radio station 89.3 The Current debuted a new song from their favorite son today—Prince's "Cause and Effect." We had to play this song three times before we could believe it actually exists. There's no way to prepare you for the traffic jam of surf-rock-funk-metal magic that's awaiting you behind the jump, so just head below to hear experience His Majesty's latest concoction for yourself. More »
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Nick Jonas Names Prince As An Inspiration For His Solo Album
1:46 PM on Thu Dec 10 2009 by Becky Bain
We’re sure there’s no disrespect meant toward Kevin and Joe’s musical abilities, but Nick Jonas is taking inspiration from someone slightly older (and shorter) than his brothers. Nick has named Prince as the main influence on his upcoming album, Who I Am. That could have something to do with the fact that Jonas’ current side project The Administration is made up of members of Prince’s New Power Generation. More »
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Prince Invites Some People Over For A Party
9:30 AM on Mon Oct 26 2009 by Maura
Saturday night, Prince threw open the gates at Minneapolis’ Paisley Park for what he called “The Last Jam Of 2009.” Tickets were cheap–only $40, and $31.21 for members of his online fan club LotusFlow3r—and there was also a coat and canned-food drive for the Minneapolis area’s less fortunate. Idolator’s Lucas Jensen just happened to be in Minneapolis for the weekend, and so he headed out to the show—and got to see a bunch of Jackson 5 covers, a Sly and the Family Stone tribute set featuring Family Stone bassist Larry Graham, and a ton of the Purple One’s hits. Lucas’ iPhoned-in reactions, and the set list, after the jump.) More »
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Aly & AJ’s Breakup With Their Name Inspires A List Of Other Artists Who Have Changed Their Monikers Mid-Stream
3:00 PM on Fri Jul 10 2009 by Maura
Earlier this week, the blonde pop duo Aly & AJ announced that they had changed their name to 78violet. (”Fyi…..u pronounce #78violet as seventy eight violet:),” they helpfully added.) The sisters are calling their renaming “an exciting new beginning,” although given that they’ve already achieved some chart success under their old name, one wonders if this change might hurt their fledgling pop career more than it helps. As a way to assist these young ladies through this crucial stage in their career, Idolator presents a few stories of artists who changed their names–and how their careers fared once all the paperwork with the local DMV had been signed. More »
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1:00 PM on Thu Jun 11 2009 by Maura
From the Dept. Of Holy Whoa What?!: Hats off to Spin for bringing Greg Dulli’s Twilight Singers together with Apollonia–yes, that Apollonia–for a mournfully menacing, piano-heavy cover of “When Doves Cry.” It’s part of their upcoming Purple Rain tribute comp, which was put together in honor of the mag’s July cover story: An oral history of the movie and its soundtrack that was put together by former Idolator head honcho Brian Raftery. The comp will also include Of Montreal’s take on “Computer Blue” and Sharon Jones probably murdering “Take Me With U.” [Spin] More »
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The PMRC’s “Filthy Fifteen” Sure Looks Cute In 2009
12:00 PM on Wed May 27 2009 by Maura
Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry is being reissued, the latest example of getting every piece of pop music every made back out there before the recorded-music industry goes tits-up, and the press release about the new version touts the fact that “We’re Not Gonna Take It” was a member of the Filthy Fifteen. That was a list of songs put together in 1985 by the Parents’ Music Resource Council, the group of moms who were pretty much the driving force behind the now-ubiquitous “Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics” stickers on albums deemed too hot for young ears; they put together a playlist of songs that in their mind glorified sex, drugs, and violence in such a way that one had to conclude that The Pop Music Was Killing Our Kids. Given that “We’re Not Gonna Take It” seems positively benign right now, I decided to remind myself of the list’s other contents. The artists whose songs were cited fall into two categories for the most part: Heavy metal bands and people who worked with Prince, including the man himself. All 15–complete with some filthy-in-85, safe-for-work now clips–after the jump! More »
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9:15 AM on Mon May 18 2009 by Maura
Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump covers Prince’s “I Wanna Be Your Lover.” Holy falsetto! [RS via icecreamhdaches] More »
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Macy Gray Wants To Know What The Hell She’s Doing Here
11:30 AM on Tue Apr 28 2009 by Maura
Macy Gray is still around, as evidenced by a Los Angeles performance over the weekend where she took the stage and growled her way through Radiohead’s “Creep.” Perhaps I was setting the bar for this cover at unrealistic levels, but the arrangement by Gray’s backing band–which included Camp Freddy bandmates Matt Sorum and Billy Morrison–made the whole thing sound like Gray was trying to stoke some ’90s nostalgia with a new song called “I Cry (Some More).” (Prepping this post resulted in me playing both videos simultaneously, and the similarities were uncanny; you can experience the cacophony after the jump.) More »
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Prince Makes Bad Photoshop Into A Video
3:00 PM on Thu Apr 23 2009 by Lucas Jensen
When was the last time that Prince had a good album cover, the reissue of The Black Album? Beats the heck out of me. His purple paisley hippie-dippie outer space Photoshop filter aesthetic was tired ten years ago, and it has only seemed to get worse. Now he’s decided to visualize it in an admittedly well-made video for “Crimson and Clover,” wherein bellydancing women with scarves toss butterfly-light orbs at the screen over Bespin. Meanwhile, Prince jams underneath their silhouettes. More »
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Faith Hill Gets Re-Retouched By “Redbook”
12:00 PM on Wed Apr 22 2009 by Maura
In this edition of our noontime headlines roundup: Faith Hill’s “Comic Strip” poses, Billy Joel gets out of hand with a Sharpie, and Justin Timberlake returns to the Saturday Night Live stage for the 454th time. More »
