One of our favourite swedes on the blog is giving for free a first pack of four edits he did recently, inspired by some of his favourite bands from the [....]

Vanity 6 was a female vocal trio assembled by Prince in the early 1980s. They released one studio album, which blended the sounds of pop, New Wave, dance music, R&B, and funk. Read more »
Download: Leno Lovecraft September 2011 mix Tracklisting : 1. Pink Project 2. ??? 3. Disco Jungle 4. Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (John Morales Mix) 5. The Rapture - How deep is your love (The Emperor Machine remix) 6. Abstraxion - Jus Acid 7. Marzio Dance - The Adventure 8. ??? 9. ??? 10. Greatest [...]

Noted scholar Beyoncé Giselle Knowles once famously posed the question: "Who run the world?" The answer according to many-including Doctor Rosen Rosen -remains loud and clear: GIRLS . The up-and-coming writer, producer and remix extraordinaire (a prominent feature within such official remix packages as Lady Gaga 's "Telephone" and Natalia Kills ' "Mirrors") is now set to prescribe his debut EP to the masses: GIRLS: VOLUME 1 . Containing four songs, the good doctor's first-ever compilation benefits from a vocal assist from four of pop's most promising bubbling-under females, [...]

Here's a few tracks from my 'heading back to mine' playlist. I usually have my driver pump' these out in the limo after picking up some brods...you know, set the tone...let em know..."It's time tae' ge nasty!" BIGGIE SMALLS - NASTY BOY VANITY 6 - NASTY GIRL JANET JACKSON - NASTY JANET JACKSON - NASTY (summer mix) BIGGIE SMALLS - [...]

In honor of Prince's never-ending shows at the Forum , I decided to rekindle this old post from the old blog. Below are my Top Prince songs of all time. This was 1 of the hardest compilations 2 make as I had 2 narrow it down so much. I had over at least 60 songs that I wanted on it, from various mixes & not 2 mention all his b-sides, but I had 2 make it shorter. All songs below were written by the Purple one (with the exception to Waterfalls [...]

802s SLUT POP This sultry trio of gutter harridans "Vanity 63 were the brain child of Prince. Vanity was the stage name of the front woman while the 6 referred to the total number of tits on stage. Marketing genius at work right there. Covered back in 2004 by Inaya Day the tune also featured in the strip club scene of Beverly Hills Cop . The soundtrack to which was the first recording I ever purchased. Actually I think I nicked it from Our Price. "Billy, you know, you don't have to be embarrassed [...]

Many have already begun touting Foo Fighters ' seventh album Wasting Light as some "back-to-basics" effort, but really, let's not pretend the band's most recent releases saw them going through some extremely dense, experimental prog phase; Light is more or less business-as-usual for the Foos: slick and solid American rock with sticky pop melodies and heavy riff punch to keep them a mainstay on modern rock radio playlists and grab them a few more Grammy noms come year's end...which is totally fine, especially for those all-too-important "rock out" in the car [...]

Let's appreciate some extraordinarily bad music. In the 1984 Prince-vehicle and bonafide cult classic Purple Rain , Prince's love interest is played by Patricia "Apollonia" Kotero. Apollonia, a virtual unknown at the time, was brought in to replace Denise "Vanity" Matthews—a nude model, Canadian B-movie star, and former Prince girlfriend who resigned from the role at the last minute. Apollonia and Vanity's duties—both on and off screen—were to lead an all-female pop trio created by Prince. Prince's initial idea was to call the group the Hookers, dress them in lingerie, and have Matthews [...]

My name is Natalia Kills. Tonight, you are all getting killed. On Wednesday night, Cherrytree Records' Natalia Kills headlined the PopJustice /High Rise CMJ showcase at The Bell House in Brooklyn. For faithful Muusers, it's no secret I've always had a soft spot for Miss Kills. She kind of embodies everything I love in film, fashion and music: Dark, macabre style, carnal sexuality, and of course...killer beats. But taking my own personal taste of the equation (which is sort of silly as [...]

Filed under: Music Appreciation As one of the few female race-car drivers around today, Danica Patrick has had to prove herself in a male-dominated industry. However, Patrick has never lost her sense of sensuality, working on the side as a model and spokeswoman. The racing beauty's musical tastes also reflect her balance between feminism and sex appeal. On Oct. 8, Patrick was hosting the Auto Club Speedway event at Hollywood's Voyeur nightclub when she joined DJ Cobra in the booth [...]

Of all the fashion indignities that one had to endure as a Prince protege; raspberry berets, paisley marching band outfits, Kamikaze bandannas, surgeon's scrubs, swashbuckler boots, purple velvet trench coats, purple velvet Renn-Fair shirts, purple velvet...well.. everything ; I always felt that poor Vanity 6 really got stuck with the short end of the Purple Overlord's schtick. While everyone else got 'outfits' poor V6 looked like they were trolling for scraps in the 'sale' bin at Frederick's of Hollywood. Plus they had to rock that shit during the daytime, in of all places Milwaukee, no doubt leaving a [...]

Time to get nästi . Prince related, win. Here's some dope Vanity 6 facts: "Prince suggested that his three female friends form a girl group that would be called "The Hookers", "Prince had originally suggested that the lead singer use the stage name "Vagina"" & "Prince renamed the group Vanity 6 (the number representing the group's breast count)". Double win. Also loving the Warner Bros' promo cover designs. Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl (320K) (mediafire)

The Sugababes have never looked better. This is my pop pondering of the day, though I've already said it many times before: What if the 'Babes decided to breathe new life into the Vanity 6 project and return to us as a gaggle of classy sassy, sex-starved nymphs? Dirty hands, I demand.

Photo courtesy of Suck.com . Year-end wrap up lists are nice and all, but it's the "Most Anticipated" lists that are way more fun for me to read. The rumors! The possibilities! The inability to foresee a terrible album in the making! Who can resist the sweet, succulent taste of possibility? Of course, there are dozens of albums being released, and I haven't even begun to scratch the surface as far as what to expect. Nonetheless, I wanted to run down a few of my own personally anticipated releases for the new year. [...]

Until this summer, Philadelphia-bred mistress of ceremonies Amanda Blank could be found both everywhere and nowhere; a fixture found in the liner notes and "featuring" sections on collaboration tracks from just about every hip-hop tested, indie cred-approved artist since the mid-'00's, including Santigold , M.I.A. , Spank Rock , Pase Rock , Ghostface Killah , and N.A.S.A. As a result, Amanda Blank is an artist inexorably linked to her mix-tape origins: Put together the in-your-face, Cristal and cocaine drunk-pop of Ke$ha , the funk and grind [...]
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Perhaps inspired by the Bria Valente disc from Prince's new triple-disc set for Target, the blog Adventures Of An Audio Diva counted down its list of The Purple One's top 10 protégés of all time recently. Besides being surprised that Taja Sevelle (above) made it all the way to No. 4. I wondered who more Prince-savvy Idolator readers might put on their own list. (I think we can all agree that Tony M should stay on the outside looking in.) The Audio Diva list: [...]
I stumbled across Sonic Truth yesterday, and have been listening to their 20 track promo pretty much constantly. They are a gruop of djs from North Carolina, and their promo tape is a collection of remixes, mashups, and original tracks spanning all kinds of genres, from electro to dubstep to downtempo to hiphop. They are all worth checking out, and you can do so for FREE, right here! Sonic Truth - 20 Track Promo ( zShare ) Tracklist: Bobby Light - Dirty Girl ( Sonic Truth Remix) Busta Rhymes [...]

For today's entree we are featuring a couple more tunes from DJ Herbman's vinyl .zip files he put up on his site. Check out one of my earlier posts for the links for his blog and the files, they are dynamite. Sentries Change- Hugo Montenegro Nasty Girl- Vanity 6 Love in the Fast Lane- Tzarr Riviera- Creep Crawl Flash

Prince's slinking, pulsating 80's jam that he wrote from the viewpoint of a fine assed nasty freak in the sheets (aka Apollonia ) gets the house treatment on this one and the results are solid gold . VANITY 6 - NASTY GIRL (JOSH ROLLINGS REMIX)