What happens when a girl from Sweden channels early 90's hip-hop via Jamaican dancehall? You get Elliphant's "Music Is Life", that's what. As I've mentioned here before having a Jamaican sound on your record is really hot right now, mainly because of Diplo's influence, but Elliphant brings her own unique spin to the sound like everything else she ( Read more... )

Now I'm not someone who normally pays Robin Thicke any mind, but somehow this song burrowed its way into my head and won't get out. It all started with a simple RadioShack commercial for the Beats Pill speaker. Since I've gotten a DVR I rarely watch any commercials on TV anymore since I usually just fast-forward through them to get back to my ( Read more... )

Oh boy, HAERTS' "All the Days" is a real stunner of a song. Its sound embodies everything that made pop music great in the late Eighties. Its soaring vocals and ethereal synth and guitar work relentlessly build and build with the epic drumbeat like waves crashing against a rocky shore. It has that perfect romantic end-of-the-world vibe that ( Read more... )

Didn't I just bitch about music videos that feature the lead singer(s) performing in the back of a car? These guys are lucky that this song is so dang good. I guess they get a few bonus points for actually fitting the whole band in the back of the van. And I guess it's also saved by the fact that it's suppose to be a tour video. OK, they do ( Read more... )

Sometimes in life you need to experience art that challenges your preconceived notions of reality, that pushes you to delve deeper into a topic than you ever have before to get at its essential truths, to use art to look inside yourself and see things there that you didn't even know you had inside of you ( Read more... )

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So far MØ has basically been killing it in the race for best new artist of 2013. "Waste of Time" is anything but, with go for broke soaring vocals and lots of hair flips. She's definitely got her own signature sound, with those hand claps and "Oh!" drum machine samples featured prominently in every song she's released so far, but without any of ( Read more... )

Just as it should go without saying at this point that any new Die Antwoord video is going to be NSFW, it should also just be assumed at this point that every new video they put out is going to be worth watching, as f-ed up as they're also wont to be. Yo-Landi has definitely become the breakout star of Die Antwoord and her verses in this song are ( Read more... )

You want to see another candidate for video of the year? Check out Laura Welsh's "Cold Front". This video features stunningly black and white photography and some extremely clever play with shadows. Every second of this video is interesting to watch. Not only is the cinematography gorgeous but the editing and choreography perfectly encapsulate ( Read more... )

Oh my god you guys, this is definitely an early candidate for one of my favorite videos of the year. Ya'll know I love just about anything 80's and this video is bursting at the seams with 80's goodness. The beat, the rhythm, the synths...all totally 80's. The look, the colors, the hair, the mustache! All totally 80's. By the time the video ( Read more... )