New Prince
A typically epic new Prince tune has been unveiled. Thanks for the tip Michelle!
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/music_blog/archive/2010/02/prince-cause-and-effect.shtmlVisual Music
Pretty cool.
http://www.thepressplayshow.com/?p=11106Dancer
Oh my gosh, this is incredible! It’s a long one, so if you’re feeling impatient start around the 3:00 mark.
Gino Soccio – “Dancer”Dancer
Oh my gosh, this is incredible! It’s a long one, so if you’re feeling impatient start around the 3:00 mark.
Gino Soccio – “Dancer”White Knuckles
I have been listening to this song all day. And it COMPLETELY reminds me of a rocking little update of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U”. The preamble before the chorus sounds just like “no need to worry, no need to cry” and the falsetto dancing around the chorus is a dead giveaway for another OK GO Prince homage (the album opener “WTF?” is thoroughly indebted to the purple one).
This song is f’ing amazing.
OK GO – “White Knuckles”
X Factor – Get Psyched
Are these UK twins from The X-Factor harbingers of what we have to look forward here in the US? I really can not get behind this. Watch at your own risk.
Jedward – “Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)”Tightrope
Futuristic R&B weirdstress takes a page from Outkast (with help from Big Boi) to release a track that clearly wants to be the 2010 version of “Hey Ya!”
Janelle Monae – “Tightrope”Great Spin magazine Quote
I hate to keep flogging this song but I think this quote from SPIN about Dan Black’s “Symphonies” is right on point. (Though I have no idea to whom to attribute it since it’s stickered atop the CD shrink-wrap, )
“‘Symphonies’ brilliantly captures our everyday-schlub ache for something vast and Spectacular.” Right on, whoever you are! Here it is again:Alice
So I adore virtually all things Tim Burton – so it’s no surprise i’m thrilled for the upcoming Alice in Wonderland. Though I would say it’s a BIG surprise that I rather like this Evanescence-lite track by Avril Lavigne from the soundtrack. The chorus reminds me an awful lot of the closing vocal vamp that Alanis Morisette does at the end of “Thank U” actually. Check it out.
Avril Lavigne – “Alice”
Britney Gaga
So I’ve only read about a thousand times how Gaga wrote songs for Britney but never really investigated to hear the actual track. Turns out it’s “Quicksand”, a bonus track from Britney’s Circus album. You can TOTALLY hear Gaga doing backing vocals all over the song. Suffers a bit from a less than stellar chorus, but it builds up some steam in the end…
Britney Spears – “Quicksand”
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