Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
Check out “Bed” singer J. Holiday’s first single from his forthcoming sophomore album, due out in the spring of 2009. The track was produced by Big Reese and Jasper Cameron, who also had a hand in one of my favorites, “Promise” by Ciara.
I actually really like this song, but like I’ve always said about J. Holiday. I’m hoping that this single is representative of the rest of the material on his album. On Back of My ‘Lac, I wasn’t really impressed with the majority of his songs, aside from the singles, and one of my other favorites, “Fatal.”
Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
You can preview snippets of Brandy’s upcoming release, Human which is due to hit stores in just a couple of weeks on December 9th. So far, Brandy has released two singles, the Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins-produced, “Right Here (Departed),” and is starting promo for the new single, “Long Distance.”
While promoting her album, Brandy also appears on John Legend’s third single, “Quickly,” from his latest release, Evolver. As usually, Brandy sounds amazing. Her voice is the clearest and most open that I’ve ever heard her. I’m really glad that she flexed her vocal muscles here. I’m a little disappointed, however, that most of the album seems to be mid-tempo. I was hoping to get some more up-tempo tracks from Brandy this time around.
Check out Brandy on MySpace for more updates, and be sure to pick up a copy of Human, in stores and online December 9th!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
Lil’ Kim joins forces with T-Pain, who recently released his new album, Thr33 Ringz. The production finds T-Pain sampling one of my favorite oldies, “Computer Love.” So it automatically gets my vote… It seems as though she’s jumping on this technology bandwagon that people have been following as of late.
I’m actually kinda glad to be hearing this, considering that I was a little disappointed by that last song we got from Kim, “Respirator,” in which she was singing through the whole song in auto-tune. No word on Kim’s new project, except for hearing that she will be releasing independently, which I think will be a really good look for her. It’s been working well for Fat Joe, and Kim has been around long enough to pull in sales from her fans.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
Seven years into a gold-and-platinum-honored career, top R&B singer/ songwriter/ producer, AVANT is back with another single from his upcoming album entitled, Break Ya Back (In A Good Way). Take a listen above and quit sleeping on my boy Avant!
Avant’s first Capitol Records album, AVANT, will be released on December 9th.
Monday, November 17, 2008 |
While being on the promo trail for her new album, Human, due out December 9th, Brandy has released a second single, “Long Distance,” the follow-up to the Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins-produced “Right Here (Departed).” In addition to her second single, she will appear on the third single from John Legend’s new album, “Quickly.”
Here are two new tracks from Brandy: “Torn Down,” produced by Midi Mafia (they are also responsible for “Quickly”), which is one of the more uptempo songs which will appear on Human, as well as as the bonus track, “Gonna Find My Love.” Both of these songs are pretty good. I’m a little disappointed that Brandy isn’t including “Gonna Find My Love” on the album, because so far, it seems as though the tempo of Human will be pretty mid-to-slow.
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Saturday, November 15, 2008 |
We reported just a little while ago that songstress Toni Braxton inked a new deal with Atlantic Records and will be working with Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins for her new album. The as yet untitled album is due out sometime around April 2009. Here is a track entitled “Melt.”
I don’t think this has been confirmed as a new single, just something to show that Toni is still around and working. I’m glad it sounds mature, because I was hoping that Toni wasn’t going to come back and jump on a trend that’s in music.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
We’re only a couple of weeks away from the release of the new Kanye West album, 808’s & Heartbreaks (due out November 24th now) and we have another new song for you. Unmixed and unmastered material has leaked and Kanye has already released two videos from the set. The latest of the leaks is the new Young Jeezy-assisted “Amazin’.” I really love the simplicity of the song.
Also, since Kanye has tried his hand at singing on this new album, I really am interested to know if he’s the one behind the background vocals on the album. Is it Kanye? In any event, it wouldn’t be a party of Young Jeezy wasn’t invited. So you know we have to ask you guys that age-old question…
