Bruno Mars returns in a head-turning, hypnotic fashion, and brings us along for the ride through a Vegas night at its finest, the city of glitz and gambling.
Oddball rapper Danny Brown has returned after three years with his new album Atrocity Exhibition.
Kehlani brings back the assurance of self-love and pride with release of her new music video “CRZY.” The video is directed by Benny Boom and features a catchy beat and eye-popping visuals to match.
Just one year ago, 25-year-old Julia Jacklin was a factory line worker making essential oils in a Sydney suburb
Pittsburgh based rapper Mac Miller released his The Divine Feminine LP last weekend. The initial EP, turned full 10-track album, is a mixture of funk and electro R&B samples accompanied by a slew of features. The once keg-standing “frat rapper” has grown since the days of Blue Slide Park and his craft has benefited as a result.
It’s been three years since the queen of pop filled our speakers with another club banger and the wait is finally over with her latest release of “Perfect Illusion.” Gaga’s new single is co-written and co-produced by Mark Ronson, Kevin Parker, Tame Impala and BloodPop. Coined as one of the biggest pop stars of our generation, Gaga is back with a lyrical vengeance and few customized metal shorts to match.
Kanye West’s long-gestating, and perhaps still unfinished The Life of Pablo is a beautiful, heartfelt mess.
1. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar It’s rare to see an album as tightly woven together into a perfect story as Kendrick Lamar’s second full-length album, To Pimp a Butterfly.
Since her breakout hit, “Lights,” in 2010, Ellie Goulding’s indie-dance tracks have consistently topped international music charts. The British singer’s third album, Delirium, demonstrates yet another shift toward EDM. With the help of a wide array of producers and collaborators, Goulding’s simple ballads are transformed into dance-floor anthems.
There’s few emotions rawer than rage. It’s an easy emotion to relate to—how often have some of us broken down against some misfortune or against someone who crossed all the wrong wires at the perfectly wrong times? Of course, most of us bury it and move on with our lives, since respect rarely follows bloodshot eyes and swollen veins.
Electrifying pop hooks. A dreamy voice of smooth gold. The vibrations of pulsating synthesizers. All are recurring themes on Garrett Borns’ first studio album, Dopamine.
Ben Folds’ new album, So There, is essentially two albums in one.
As I sat down on autopilot to listen to my weekly assigned album, I pressed play on the first track of the album and something happened: I began to smile. In the midst of an extremely frustrating, stressful day, the voice of Marina Lambrini Diamandis, accompanied with a simple piano track, filled me with joy. I realized that in the middle of College Library I was sitting alone with a huge smile across my face, as if I had just won a thousand dollars. The simplest track on the album made me remember all over again why I fell in love with music in the first place.
While scouring the internet for background on Pearson Sound’s self-titled debut, something stuck out to me. Reviewers had an interesting habit of dividing the record into two categories: club music and experimental music. It was as though one couldn’t be the other; “Glass Eye” was clearly the minimalist grind for the club, while “Headless’s” warbled echo swirls with the kind of antipathy that wouldn’t be caught dead on a dancefloor.
The three-time Grammy winner and American Idol icon Kelly Clarkson returned to the music scene last Tuesday after the birth of her daughter with the release of her eighth album Piece by Piece. The album is Clarkson’s first original album since her 2011 Platinum record Stronger.
The hip-hop scene has been on the rise as of late, with new tracks dropping left and right from some of the genre’s top artists. That being the case, it’d only make sense that Drake got in on the action as well, releasing his pseudo-mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late last Thursday. Complete with a price tag and over an hour of content, IYRTITL feels like a traditional release, but with Drake having already picked out the name for his next full feature album, Views From The 6, it’s safe to say this is just a prequel to something bigger.
Anthony Sanders and Hailing from Iceland, Björk is the original “melancholy hipster singing chick,” a group of artists also inhabited by such stars as Lana Del Rey, FKA Twigs, and SZA. Her most recent release, Vulnicura, takes a page out of the book of modern pop music by arriving on the doorstep of many fans without much warning.
With little experience in the punk music genre I wasn't sure what to expect from Caféïne's upcoming album, New Love. After listening through the 11-track album I was pleasantly surprised. A playful, energetic and hopeful tone is established during the first track, “New Love,” and the album rarely deviates from this likable formula. Although the melodies are fun and grab your attention, I wish there were more tracks like “Black Swans” to provide something with a different tone from the rest of the album. If the fast-paced “Love is a Riot” ever has a music video it could only be visualized as items being smashed in slow motion. It’s a good time.
Dream Police recently released their first album Hypnotized, and it is a physcadelic trip full of electronic riffs and strong bass, which propels this album into a place all its own. With that being said, it unfortunately lacks an identity due to the album’s overambitious attempts to cover too many different sounds within an eight track album.
Minus the Bear burst onto the scene in 2001, with the release of This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic, an electrifying EP featuring seven quirkily titled songs with lyrics about beer, women and little else. Since then, the band has evolved and matured, releasing five full-length LPs across their 13-year career, along with an assortment of EPs, bonus tracks and B-sides. It is from those bonus tracks and B-sides that Lost Loves came to be, an “odds and ends” compilation containing unreleased material from the band’s past three full-length albums.
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