Well, this was a surprise. Who would've thought a hip-hop/electronic duo from Ottawa could deftly combine old skool rhymes, b-boy beats and Friday-night hipster danceability? Inexplicably, Dream Jefferson 's latest album, Punch Perm , manages to do just that. The seven track affair barely clocks in at 30 minutes (and can be downloaded in full over at their Bandcamp page), but that's still 30 minutes of a drunken, sing-a-long basement party. While the music's not as galvanizing as, say, Odd Future, Dream Jefferson are a hell of a lot of fun--which [...]
Dell "080" Harris and the entire team at White Light Records are super proud to present the premiere of "Stay Tight", from dirty pop Atlantan Megan Thomas (sometimes called Love Megan T) featuring Dreamer. The song "Stay Tight", equal parts Uffie, synthpop, Lismore and your favorite ex-girlfriend, is a club/party anthem in the making, with [...]
As annoyingly obvious as some of will.i.am's sample flips are (the Black Eyes Peas hitmaker is this generation's version of late '902s-era Sean "Diddy" Combs), you got to give the man credit for knowing how to get some ear-wormy hip-pop off a familiar beat loop. Latest case-in-point: BEP The Beginning album cut, and likely future single, "Fashion Beats", which appreciatively steers the Peas away from trying to soundtrack some "Tron" nightclub for a moment to get their disco groove on, complete with a soul-satisfying sample of Chic's 1979 single [...]
Because you just know that, whether they choose to publicly admit or not, there's somebody somewhere having a private nervous breakdown because there isn't a new Black Eyed Peas record out there dominating the radio, television and Internet waves, the unstoppable hip-pop quartet have re-emerged from their hiatus of, what, three minutes to calm the starved down, launching a brand new era of worldwide domination/ ubiquity with the around-the-corner release of new album The Beginning led by first single "The Time (the dirty bit)". To put it simply, "The Time" is [...]
Still obsessed with kick-starting a solo career that no one really cares to hear, head Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger 's latest singular career move sees her popping up on the "official" remix to Pitbull 's party rap, infidelity-anthem "Hotel Room Service" ...because what we all really needed was a verse-long female perspective on a song in which Pitbull gleefully explains where on his multiple sex partners' bodies he would like to plant his "egg whites". Pitbull is nice enough to keep this new uni-sex version clean though, penning up a brand new, far less titillating [...]
Wale excitingly recreates the jubilant mood of the African parties he attended in his youth (he's of Nigerian blood) on the recently released "My Sweetie (Spray It)", a feel-good party jam built on a sampling of Bunny Mack's 1979 African disco classic "My Sweety, My Sugar (Let Me Love You)" that's definitely got us re-inspired to cop his official debut Attention: Deficit after being left slightly underwhelmed by it's uncomfortably radio-targeting jump-off single, "Chillin'" . "If your last name's got thirteen letters in it-this one's for you", Wale rhymes over the sample's contagiously [...]
(photo by Phill M) Although the three girls in LA's riotous party rap group Millionaires have over 200,000 followers on MySpace and have been in our hearts since we called them "emerging" last year and so forth, people still really feel only two kinds of emotions about Melissa Marie, Dani and Allison: love or extreme hatred. There's nothing in the middle of the spectrum, just two peaks at either end and a deep valley in between. We mean, we get it. They're not terribly original or fantastically revolutionary, but they have capital-F fun [...]
We initially were caught off guard and nearly in a heartspell with the first tracks we ever got from this kid a while back, but he keeps stepping to the plate and aiming for the fences. Here we have yet another bang-your-head-til-you-puke remix from Arizona's most notoriously secretive byproduct, Death To The Throne . This time, it's of party rap crew LMFAO and their track "La La La", but according to DTTT, he "took out all the corny rapping". Which makes for some interesting effects on the verses and the instrumentation, all ripped up like Jon [...]
The Black Eyed Peas ' latest single "Boom Boom Pow" hasn't even been on radio for two whole months yet and it's already devoured the airwaves, become one of the biggest downloads of the season and is currently spending it's third week atop the Hot 100 . Didn't take long for the quartet to reclaim their position as one of pop music's most ubiquitous entities, did it? But as much as we all enjoy taking another trip back to the party-centric electro terrain of "Planet Rock" (even if it is attached to vapid rhymes about HD [...]
Brilliant dance punk funk duo from Oakland, Wallpaper. , had already taken up our heart with their remix of Massachusetts kids Passion Pit and their romper "Sleepyhead", not to mention one of our favorite discs from the end of last year ( T.Rex ). And now, with today's drop of yet another reworked masterpiece, Das Rascist 's "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell", consider our interests piqued beyond comprehension. It's more funked out than necessary and DR's party rap anthem gets all shocked and stirred up the only way that the Wallpaper. boys know how. Consider your [...]
For this upgrade to his late '08-leaked Weezy-assist "Up In The Club" , Swizz Beatz trades in the obscure, mid-90's Brit-pop sample reference of the original for the far more familiar old-school knock of "It Takes Two" , effectively transforming "Club" from a mild head-nodder to a surefire banger. No alcohol in your system? No problem, as this track's delirious combination of a Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock swipe, "Don't stop! Get it, get it!" hype-man chants, Wayne's Auto-Tuned trills and a sturdy Busta verse that starts with the classic line "I wanna [...]
The never-ending reports concerning our current nightmare of an economy got you down this holiday season? Well, here's something that might lift those spirits a bit. After spending most of the year watering the mouths of music fans with a handful of individual cuts and accompanying live dates, Idle Warship , the alt-urban side-project featuring Talib Kweli, Res and, now, Canadian singer/ rapper Graph Nobel , have plans to drop a mixtape set sometime soon. The first taste off that project is "Steady", a "fame isn't all it's cracked up to be" cautionary built on a [...]
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