Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
♫ WYNTER GORDON - SURVEILLANCE (LISTEN)
Meet Wynter Gordon. With R&B moving more and more in a pop direction since ‘07, it seems as though a lot of music has gotten lost in translation. Wynter, a new Atlantic Records signee brings you “Surveillance,” a danceable, up-tempo track, where a girl finds herself being followed and surveyed by her jealous man.
“Surveillance” has been eating up the dance world and along with preparing her debut album, she’s also had placements on Danity Kane’s new project, Welcome to the Dollhouse (she has credits on “2 of You,” along with Adonis & Bryan-Michael Cox). The song has grown on me so much - I think maybe because it sounds like a mash-up between Keri Hilson’s “Miscommunication” and any thing from The Dream’s catalog. So what do you think? Is “Surveillance” hot or not?
If you think the song is hot, make sure you check out Wynter Gordon on MySpace and tell her Brian from CL sent you!
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
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A new Mariah Carey photo has leaked for the promo of her 11th studio album, E=MC². Mariah, who gave a less than stellar performance on MTV’s premiere of The Hills on Monday night, is dropping the new album April 15th. I am excited to hear what the new material is going to sound like, even though I was not at all impressed with “Touch My Body.” Hopefully, a version of the T-Pain featured “Migrate,” which is slated to be the second single, will leak soon to rekindle the flame of interest I had in this project.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
Solange Knowles - God Given Name (full) - listen
I think that Solange’s new music is a lot more insightful than people think it’s going to be. It’s no wonder why Geffen is so excited to release her new project, Soul Angel & the Hadley Street Dreams this August. Musically, I think Solange is taking a lot of risks that I just didn’t expect from her. I’m hoping that she gets the attention that she needs this go ’round. I like the fact that she’s doing something so completely different than what her sister is doing.
Brandy - Maximum Risk (full) - listen
Another new Brandy track that’s leaked, that pretty much has the same feel as the track “Honey” that we posted yesterday. Like I said yesterday, I really don’t see this tracks going on Brandy’s new release. Even though I like them, these songs just seem a little album-filler-ish to me. I know that Brandy is going into the studio with a lot of great writers and producers, so I can’t wait to hear the finish project.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
British singer-songwriter-producer Estelle topped the U.K. charts over the weekend with her single, “American Boy” featuring Kanye West. It’s the 28-year-old’s first top 10 hit ever.
Estelle, who is best known in the United States as John Legend’s first signee (Homeschool Records), had scored three U.K. top 40 hits from a previous record deal with V2, but had never risen higher than No. 14.
Her new album Shine, is out April 29th in the U.S. and March 31st in the U.K.
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Monday, March 24, 2008 |
Brandy - Honey (full) - listen
Here’s a new track from Brandy entitled “Honey.” I think it’s really a cute song, but it seems like something that was just recorded in order to let fans know that Brandy is working on new material. It seems like just a taste of the sound that she’ll be touching on this time around. I am always impressed by Brandy’s vocal arrangements and her adlibs, so I think that’s what I’m most looking forward to on this new project. I’m excited.
Big Boi feat. Andre 3000 & Raekwon - Royal Lush (full) - listen
You would have though that over the past year, the guys from OutKast would have had a new album out, or at least would have had solo material out, because of all the remixes and cameos they had. But it seems as though they’ve chosen to release now. Well, at least, Big Boi anyways. When I first heard the song, I was under the impression that it was an OutKast song, but informants let me know that the new song, “Royal Lush,” is from Big Boi’s project. I actually am loving it. I’m eager to see what both Andre and Big are going to do this time around. Another double release?
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Monday, March 24, 2008 |
According to our good friends at Rap-Up.com, Nelly is putting the finishing touches on his first album in four years, Brass Knuckles, due June 24th via Universal Records.
We just recently posted his new single, “Party People,” with Fergie last week in our new music review, and a video was just shot for the single last week in Los Angeles, directed by Marc Webb. The new album will contain productions from Polow Da Don, Jermaine Dupri and more.
Rap-Up.com has exclusively reveal that the album will also feature collaborations with T.I., LL Cool J, Chuck D, Akon, and Ciara, who is featured on the Jermaine Dupri-produced “Stepped On My J’s.” The track is a tribute to Nike Air Jordans, which Nelly describes as “‘Grillz’ and ‘Air Force Ones’ on steroids.”
“I love Jordans. I’ve been wearing Jordans since I can remember. Ciara loves Jordans and I thought it was a crazy fit. Ciara, J.D., and I are all from the Jordan era. The song is bananas! I can’t wait for people to hear it ’cause CiCi got busy,” Nelly tells Rap-Up.com.
I think that Nelly is one of those artists that has done a really good job as far as crossing over into the mainstream. He’s one of those artists that most people have really grown to like.
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Friday, March 21, 2008 |
On MTV and Bad Boy’s fourth installment of Making the Band, Diddy chose Q., Brian, Robert, Mike and Will for his new all-male R&B group, titled Day 26. I was never really into that season of Making the Band 4, but on this new season, the boys competed head to head with labelmates Danity Kane and solo artist, Donnie, recording their albums at the same time, and even fighting for tracks. The boys went through it on a couple of episodes: from fighting, to be banned from the studio and going through what they described as “intensive” vocal training with Ank Rah. But here they are with their self-titled debut album, Day 26, which hits shelves, Tuesday, March 25th.
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