Jersey Shore Soundtrack: Sing-along With The Guidos
Posted on Jul 20, 2010 @ 07:40PM - Add a comment
They may be on strike with MTV, but that won’t stop Pauly D., Snooki, The Situation and JWoww from dropping some mighty big beats this week with the release of Jersey Shore Soundtrack.
Sometimes You CAN Get What You Want: Rolling Stones Re-Release
Posted on May 18, 2010 @ 05:45PM - 1 comment
Any excuse to party like it’s 1972! The Rolling Stones re-release what many consider to be their most seminal album, Exile on Main Street, as a two-disc deluxe edition that includes the original 18 recordings remastered, along with 10 extra tracks originally recorded during the Exile era, including alternate versions of Soul Survivor and Loving Cup. “I don't have favorite records, but Exile was always picked out as the best Stones record,” Mick Jagger said recently. “And it is a great record. What's interesting about it is that it has so many sides to it, so many different musical styles, very bluesy, and it has soul, gospel and the other quirky little bits that perhaps you wouldn't have put on a record with only 12 songs.”
The deluxe edition of Glee: The Music, Volume 3—Showstoppers includes songs from the second half of the Fox show this season plus six extra tracks
Drunk Girls is the first single off LCD Soundsystem’s new album This Is Happening
The Akron, Ohio, duo The Black Keys’ new album, Brothers, was produced Danger Mouse
Band of Horses’ new album is entitled Infinite Arms
Bo Bice’s 3 features Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman. "It’s a plethora of sounds that show who I really am,” Bice said recently. “There's something for everyone; country, soul, rock’n’ roll... it's like your favorite pair of jeans, it just feels right."
Nas and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley offer up Distant Relatives, which was produced by Damian and Stephen Marley
Surely we don’t need to tell you who is in Solex vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer, but the new album is called Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown!
Jamie Lidell’s latest offering, Compass, features a slew of impressive cameo appearances, including Beck, Feist, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Wilco’s Pat Sansone
The Sadies’ Darker Circles was produced by The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris
Swedish Baroque indie-pop duo Marching Band release Pop Cycle
Petree is a Shiny Toy Guns spin-off band led by Stephen Petree. The new album, Weakness Makes You Beautiful, features STG’s Chris Petree and the single is It’s Always Been You
Friday Night Lights Vol. 2 features 12 new tracks from the T.V. show, including tracks by Jakob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens and Band of Skulls
Duran Duran’s 1981 self-titled debut is being re-released with a bonus disc packed with unreleased material and a DVD of the original videos. The package also comes with a collector’s poster that was used in the original Japanese LP
Willie Nelson’s Rarities 1 includes just that—18 rarities from 1959 to 1965, recorded as either solo acoustic or with a full band.
New Music Releases: Usher!
Posted on Mar 30, 2010 @ 07:15AM - Add a comment
This week, Usher returns with his seventh album, Raymond v. Raymond, which promises to take the listener on “a journey through the dichotomy of man.” A bunch of producers worked on the album, including Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and there are guest appearances by the likes of Ludacris, will.i.am and TI... Barenaked Ladies are back with their first album without co-vocalist Steven Page. The Canadian pop-rockers’ eleventh studio album to date is entitled All In Good Time... Erykah Badu releases New Amerykah Part Two: Return of Ankh. Part One had a political theme and now Part Two has a more emotional theme, focusing on romance, with all the appropriate instrumentation, like harps, strings and piano. “There’s a rumbling to these songs that feels good to me,” says Badu. “It feels like a hug."... Lady Gaga’s new EP, Telephone: The Remixes, features nine different versions of Gaga’s mega-hit with Beyonce, by different artists, including Alphabeat and Passion Pit... The new 5-CD box set British Invasion comes out today. Four discs are devoted to one act each: Dusty Springfield, Small Faces, Herman’s Hermits and Gerry and the Pacemakers, and can be bought individually. Buying all of them together also gets you the Bonus Disc, which features an hour of unseen performances from Dusty and Herman’s Hermits, as well as 90 minutes of interview footage... Country crooner Alan Jackson offers up his eighteenth album, Freight Train, featuring the new single It's Just That Way... The Best of Edwin McCain includes all the artist’s hits plus one new song, the single Walk With You... Pixies frontman Black Francis is back with the solo offering Nonstoperotik... British folk-pop duo Turin Brakes releases a self-produced new album, Outbursts.
New Music Releases
Posted on Mar 23, 2010 @ 04:14PM - Add a comment
This week, platinum-certified tween heartthrob Justin Beiber offers up My World 2.0, which is basically an expanded version of his 2009 EP, My World. His new single “Baby” features a cameo by Ludacris….R&B princess Monica releases her fifth album, Still Standing, with songs produced by Babyface and Jermaine Dupri and a guest appearance by Ludacris…. Actress Zooey Deschanel moonlights as a singer and was featured on the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack. Now, Zooey teams up with M. Ward again for the second album from She & Him, aptly titled Volume Two and produced by Ward…Snoop Dogg releases More Malice which has lots of guest performers including Jay-Z and Soulja Boy….The Runaways Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features the band’s hit songs like “Cherrybomb” and “Queens of Noise” performed by Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart, along with a whole lotta cool songs from the ‘70s by artists like David Bowie, MC5, The Stooges, Sex Pistols and more….NOW That’s What I Call Music 33 is packed with hits by the likes of Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Owl City, Daughtry, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift and more….The Bird and the Bee releases Guiltless Pleasures Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates, which features eight covers by the ‘80s duo and one original song…. Pet Shop Boys are back with a live album entitled Pandemonium Live, which was filmed in December of last year at London’s O2 Arena…. Holland four-piece Bettie Serveert offers up its ninth studio album to date, Pharmacy of Love….British electro-pop duo Goldfrapp releases Head First….After a stint on Celebrity Rehab, Mindy McCready’s returns with her first album in eight years, I’m Still Here….
New Music Releases
Posted on Nov 19, 2009 @ 02:02PM - Add a comment
This week is packed with releases from badass female singers, including Rihanna, who says her new album, Rated R, was inspired by “personal experiences mixed with rock and hip-hop"…Colombian gem Shakira releases She-Wolf, which already has a bona fide hit with the title track, which was co-written by Bravery frontman Sam Endicott…
PHOTOS: Who Wore It Best?: Pink vs. Shakira
Lady Gaga found inspiration in Eastern Europe for her latest release, The Fame Monster, which features eight new tracks, including the hit single “Bad Romance”…
PHOTOS: Lady Gaga’s Outrageous Sense Of Fashion!
Overnight sensation Susan Boyle covers songs by the Rolling Stones, Madonna and The Monkees on I Dreamed A Dream…
PHOTOS: Susan Boyle Goes To Studio To Pre-Tape Her X Factor Performance
Adam Lambert offers up his first batch of post-Idol songs, on which he worked with a slew of stars, including Lady Gaga, P!nk and Linda Perry…
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Beyonce’s deluxe version of I Am…Sasha Fierce features two new tracks, “Poison” and “Video Phone,” which features Lady Gaga…Tom Waits releases a two-disc live album entitled Glitter and Doom that was recorded during his sold-out 2008 tour…A Very Special Christmas Volume 7 is packed with favorite holiday tunes sung by various artists, including Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus and Vanessa Hudgens…
DVD Releases for The Week Of June 14, 2009
Posted on Jun 16, 2009 @ 05:33PM - Add a comment
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail (PG-13)
Madea lands herself in jail and imparts her wisdom there. (Tyler Perry [Madea/Joe/Brian], Derek Luke [Joshua], Keshia Knight Pulliam [Candy])
Friday The 13th (R)
Teens meet their fates at the hands of Jason Voorhees. (Amanda Righetti [Whitney Miller], Jared Padalecki [Clay Miller], Derek Mears [Jason Voorhees])
Paolo Nutini
Posted on Jun 04, 2009 @ 02:22PM - Add a comment
Though his name might seem a bit misleading, Paolo Nutini is actually from Scotland. The 22-year-old British singer-songwriter, who is often lumped with the likes of James Blunt and Damien Rice, offers up his second album of blue-eyed soul this week, rather optimistically titled Sunny Side Up.
“It’s a flat out positive message, what I’m singing about, it’s a good vibe,” explains Nutini. “I really wanted to project from the album a positivity about what’s happening about life. It’s pretty idealistic, but it kind of gets thrown in your face. There’s no room to be an idealist sometimes. But it’s a happy record.”
