Expect Prince to let out a high-pitched scream that would make James Brown proud. Just one week after its one-year anniversary, Adele's Grammy-winning 21 has sold another 297,000 copies and holds onto the #1 position on Billboard 's Top 200 for a 22nd non-consecutive frame, thus passing the 21-week stretch of MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em back in 1990. This now marks the longest run at the top since Prince's Purple Rain soundtrack, which produced such hits as "When Doves Cry" and "I Would Die 4 U", [...]
Some energetic punk pop courtesy of Terry Malts, who just released released its new album , Killing Time , last week. Now to go along with that release they have a video for the track "I Do." The song has a lot of energy and is undeniably catchy to the point that it becomes infectious. It is immediately uplifting and is just begging to be danced to do. The video features the band goofing around in what appears to be a basement. They casually play along with the song in way that totally supports its overall mood. It [...]
Angel Deradoorian at a Loft Party (12/13/08) Photo : Tim Griffin Tickets for Dirty Projectors at Prospect Park (the first announced Celebrate Brooklyn! show of the season) go on Amex presale on Wednesday, Feb 29 at noon ( Buy Tickets ). General on sale begins Friday, Mar 2 at noon. Mar 30 Fri [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 fun. fun. - an entirely lowercased and abruptly ending assertion evoking understatement. How deceptively devious. Come the end of March, when the SXSW hashtags are all tallied, I'm sure the chatter of their name will be much more uppercased and exclamatory. And how will it not be? FUN! is much more deserving of the band behind the truly awesome sophomore effort that is Some Nights. Melding a stunning array of various inspirations to craft a powerfully theatric album [...]
Having enchanted with the astoundingly hi-fi barbershop pop of The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, May's evidently ditched the four-string in favour of lethargic funk fuelled by propulsive drum machine patterns and shimmering synths that smack of 'chillwave'. Fun is one of two tracks, along with Wedding Day , to have been outed off sophomore LP Do Things (expected June on Paw Tracks ), and sounds like Gruff Rhys and an infinity of funk/ soul records eloping to the sort of paradisiacal realm incarnated on May's Do Things cover with Connan [...]
Ein Film über Filme mit einfach allen aus Hollywood, über alles und von in und auf allem. Jimmy Kimmel karrt wiedermal die halbe Amerikanische Filmlandschaft zusammen und präsentiert dieses Film Film Highlight mit wirklich unglaublich vielen unfassbar bekannten Menschen und einer quer durch die Genres reitende Story. Mit dabei sind unter anderem Edward Norton, Charlize Theron, ein Boot auf einem Flugzeug, Christoph Walz, ne schwarze Hitler Frau, George Clooney der unabdingbare Matt "die Traube" Damon und noch geschätzt weitere 43 Oscarpreisträger. via JKL Ähnliche Artikel [...]
By Emilia D'Albero With all the mindless drivel that has become popular in the music industry nowadays, it's nice to see that some bands are finally getting the praise and the fame that they deserve. Made up of three members from bands such as Steel Train and The Format, fun. have forged a path all their own and gone from being a simple support band to having the number one song on iTunes in a matter of just a few ...
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You'll see what I mean when you listen to the episode. I feel like I'm in one of those situations where I'm playing catch-up. I mean, it's not as bad as it used to be, but this is the latest I've been putting a countdown together in MONTHS. I suppose it'll get better, right? Countdown #92 ***Featuring*** AWOLNATION The Black Keys Blink-182 Chevelle Coldplay Foo Fighters Foster the People Fun. featuring Janelle Monae Gotye featuring Kimbra Homer Simpson Rise Against Sleigh Bells Young the Giant
Everybody knows at least one chemically imbalanced person who puts ketchup on everything, ruining the more subtle qualities of their food and just generally grossing people out. In the world of indie pop music, that person is fun. and pure liquid melodrama is the ketchup they liberally spread over the highly derivative melodies of Some Nights. Blergh. To be fair, when "We Are Young" was featured in a Season 3 episode of Glee— a show not known for its restrained musical choices (I'm looking at you and your incessant balladeering, Cry-Face Michele)— [...]
Fun. is a band that has been blowing up in the last few months because of their hit song We Are Young . This song was featured in a Super Bowl commercial and is all over the TV and radio. The band's latest album, Some Nights , came out this past week on February 21. We Are Young is a really catchy song because of its middle section. It get stuck in your head easily. Listen to the song below and you'll see what I mean:
This week's Best New Releases is an interesting mix of anticipated new releases from artists such as Fun, Princeton, Grimes, Perfume Genius, Wild Nothing, and Dirty Ghosts. We wanted to focus on the top releases in this post, so there will be a Part Two shortly that contains all of the other top singles from [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Well, Chris Brown certainly gave the Internet plenty to talk about this week! When he wasn't getting it on in the studio with formerly-embattled-but-now-tot ally-over-it ex-girlfriend Rihanna, the pot-stirring "Birthday Cake" remixer was picking fights and blasting critics on Twitter. It was a lot to take in, and that's why Breezy ranks so high on our Pop & Fizz chart this time around. (Remember, we measure each artist or major news story according to their size, or "Rank", and then we weigh how they're faring overall in the pop zeitgeist, or "Hype".) Head below to see who stole [...]
The official music video to "We Are Young" is a black out ball, but I'm loving this acoustic version. It really shows off Fun. lead singer Nate Ruess' pipes, and actually features Janelle Monae throughout the song, unlike her brief cameo in the video. The two have great chemistry, smiling at each other and clearly having fun with the carousing track.
Sounds like the FUN. are shaping up to be a new fave of mine. Watch as the indie-tri-poppers don their tuxedos, once again, for their new experimental single, SOME NIGHTS INTRO .
The indie pop trio known as fun. don their tuxedos once again, this time for their "Some Nights - Intro" music video. The experimental song is the first track on the band's second studio album Some Nights , and the accompanying clip sees the Woodie Awards nominees entertaining a hoity-toity crowd at a house party. But unlike in their video for "We Are Young" , an all-out slow motion brawl doesn't break out. In fact, very little happens aside from many blank stares. Below, watch the latest from the recent Conan performers and see [...]
Cursive - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek) A idéia é bem batida: irmãos gêmeos, um bom e um mal, a dualidade da vida, anjos e demonios, etc, mas vindo de Tim Kasher até algo contado inúmeras vezes pode soar extremamente complexo. Assim, I Am Gemini é um disco conceitual com uma imensa história e diversos personagens por trás. Warmer Warmer e The Sun and The Moon trazem um Kasher bem acessivel e contagiante, enquanto This House is Alive mostra a densidade [...]
It seems like I had heard so much praise for Fun's last album, yet for some reason I never got around to checking it out. So when they came back with this new release, I was interested to delve in. After all, I love a good indie-pop record (especially the "pop" portion). Turns out that, for me, this is really an album of peaks and valleys. The peaks are amazingly high. If only it wasn't for the valleys (but honestly, even they aren't so bad). 1. Some Nights Intro - I don't rate intros [...]
Katy Perry Katy Perry is re-releasing her sophomore album, Teenage Dream , this March with the forthcoming Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection , and the set is already producing chart-toppers. Confection's first single, the heartbreak kiss-off "Part Of Me," blasts onto the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1 after selling an astonishing 411,000 copies, Billboard reports . "Part Of Me," which Katy debuted in a performance at the 54th annual Grammy Awards last week, becomes the pop star's seventh Hot 100 No. [...]
We're guessing that fun. have been having much, um, fun watching the success of their Janelle Monae-featuring breakout single "We Are Young" . The power-pop jam first got major attention after it was covered by the cast of Glee in a December episode. It then soared into the upper reaches of the iTunes chart after being featured in a Chevy Sonic commercial that aired during the Super Bowl. The MTV Woodie-nominated trio finally gave their debut TV performance of the song last night on Conan , complete with sassy pre-teen [...]
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