Beat Culture‘s new album “Tokyo Dreamer” can be downloaded for free here! Seriously, check it outttt.
Amazing: Bon Joviver
Oh my GOD. A-MA-ZINGLY funny, and surprisingly zen. If you’re into Bon Iver and/or Bon Jovi, you’ll love this video.
Music: Fiona Apple to release new MUSIC!!!!!
OMG. OH emm effff G.
2012 is shaping up to be a phenomenal year of music. LA Reid tweeted today that new music from FIONA APPLE can be expected this year. Oh please oh please oh please let it be true!!
The instant I saw his tweet, “Criminal” started playing in my head. It almost makes me want to get wine drunk and sing “Tidal” at the top of my lungs. But that would wake my parents up. I’m cool you guys.
Also, she’s just so fucking talented. For real. I know I love me some pop stars, but Fiona is the real shit. She takes time in between albums, for what I don’t know. Maybe she gardens! It makes sense though, that artistic fury takes a while to build up inside of a person. Right, JT?
Pop music has it’s place in our lives, when we wanna get drunk and dance like straight up hussies. But there’s a time and a place for that. Just like there’s almost another time and another place for us to fall in love with the next Fiona Apple album. FIONA!!!!
“What would an angel say, the devil wants to kno-ooooooooow.” DAMN that’s a good line. “Criminal” is so fucking epic.
Music: 2Gether
Remember when boy bands were the absolute biggest stars in the world? Millions upon million of records sold, girls and women crying their souls out to touch them, see them, and possibly even trample them to death.
Well, one of our favorite mock boy bands, 2Gether, is poising for a comeback.
The parody band and television show had five members: Jerry O’Keefe , “The Heartthrob,” played by Evan Farmer, Chad Linus, “The Shy One,” played by Noah Bastian, Jason ‘Q.T.’ McKnight, “The Cute One,” played by Michael Cuccione, Doug Linus, “The Older Brother,” played by Kevin Farley (Chris Farley‘s brother), and Mickey Parke, “The Bad Boy,” played by Alex Solowitz.
They had a couple of hits that I remember singing in middle school with my friends nonstop: “U + Me = Us (Calculus)” and my personal fave “The Hardest Part of Breaking Up“. The songs were actually written by the same song writers and producers that who worked with N*SYNC and the Backstreet Boys. They even opened a couple shows for Britney Spears, which is really, really awesome.
If you think about the absolute sad people MTV has on the air these days- Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, Friendzone – the 2Gether reboot doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. Plus we are sorely lacking in the self-aware boy band department these days. This could be the genre to save us from recession! Ha.
Four of the five original members are taking over the show and band after getting permission from MTV to restart 2Gether. Michael Cuccione, who played Jason ‘Q.T.’ McKnight, sadly passed away after a long-term lung complications from battling Hodgkins lymphoma as a child.
The remaining members plan to donate large portions of profits to the Michael Cuccione Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research if the new projects are put on the air.
Let’s hope for the sake of nostalgia and programming on MTV that this reboot works out. Take a walk down memory lane and check out the video for “U + Me = Us (Calculus).”
Music: Florence + the Machine GOING ON TOUR!!!
I’M FLIPPING OUT. First St. Vincent announces tour dates, and now our favorite lady Florence + the Machine! This will be one ethereal concert. Her new album, Ceremonials, is one of the best albums I’ve heard in a very, very long time. I really really really hope she is coming to a city near you. If not, hop on a plane. It will be worth it! YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE TOUR DATES
Apr 14 – Santa Babara Bowl, Santa Babara, CA
Apr 15 – Coachella Festival, Indio, CA
Apr 17 – Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV
Apr 18 – Mondavi Center – UC Davis, Davis, CA
Apr 20 – Comerica Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
Apr 21 – The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Apr 22 – Coachella Festival, Indio, CA
Apr 27 – Hennepin Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Apr 28 – Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
Apr 29 – Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, MO
May 1 – Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX
May 2 – Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
May 3 – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA
May 8 – Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
May 11 – Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
May 12 – Borgata Spa & Resort Event Center, Atlantic City, NJ
P.S. Ticketmaster fees are so ridiculous and I hate them with a fury. I’m buying them in-person to avoid $16+ being wasted on those fools. Check your local theater’s in-person box office times to purchase in-person and avoid crazy fees.
Here’s Florence + the Machine’s “Shake it Out” video. Enjoy.
This is cool: 8-year-old Juliet’s hardcore ode to pets and stuffed animals
So awesome! Coolest girl in the world, 8-year-old Juliet from Brisbane, Australia, really loves her dog Robert, her fishes and her stuffed animals. She makes loving your pets and stuffed animals cooler than it ever has been before. Thanks, Juliet. You rock.
Check out Juliet’s “My First Hardcore Song”
Rumour has it: Madonna to kiss Nicki Minaj at Superbowl
Oh sweet Madge.
Rumour has it Madonna and Nicki Minaj are going to smooch it up during the Superbowl XLVI halftime show. Almost a decade after Madonna’s kiss with Britney and Christina Aguilera, (which got cut while they panned to Justin Timberlake’s face. Xtina has the worst luck) what’s the point of keeping this schtick up?
Madonna is known for reinventing herself time and time again, and doing that successfully. She began performing in 1979 and her career is entering into its fourth decade with the release of her upcoming 12th studio album MDNA (genius name). Her long career and habit of restarting her character with every album is why the rumored kiss is less shocking and more “really, again Madonna? This doesn’t sound like you!”
Let’s hope this is just a rumor. Madonna is THE living pop legend, and they are both talented and beautiful women. But this move should stay where it belongs: In the 2003 VMA archives. (This video brings a tear to my eye, I miss the pre-meltdown Britney and Christina! And where the F is Missy Eliot?!)
Music: Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey is bursting onto the music scene this year with a hot new song, “Video Games,” and not-so-hot performances on SNL. Although she hasn’t interviewed post-SNL snafu, she did talk with MTV before the performance saying that she doesn’t like live television:
“You can’t expect too much from my show,” Del Rey said, explaining that her real fans are probably aware that she’s more of a songwriter and studio musician than performer and that she thinks people who come to see her show are really just there to hear the songs they already like.
“Sometimes I feel less nervous than other times,” she added. “I don’t love live television. The only tip I have is just pray and just hope that things work out,” writes Gil Kaufman on mtv.com.
Bad performances happen, especially when you’re first starting out. Her fans are really enthusiastic about her upcoming album, Born to Die, which is set to be released January 31, 2012 in the States. Her 60s-vibe album is a breath of fresh air in a world that unfortunately hasn’t had enough of LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem.”
Her style is great, and her hair is f-ing gorgeous to the point where it looks like a wig. She needs to share her shine tips like NOW.
Listen to this video. It is another live performance, filmed in a swanky hotel, that is miles above Earth better than her SNL debut.
Mixtape Monday: Shindu
“Out of the dark and into the blue, two boys and a girl from Belgium collide to create Shindu. A refreshing synthpopsensation that embodies the challenge to take music into the dawn of a new era. Shindu dreams up stories to create jaunty yet clever tracks drenched in late 80s electronica and atmospherics.” -Shindu
Get your dance on! SO HOT.
Listen: Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver
Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver’s amazing dance track, “Diamonda,” and accompanying mixes will be released January 27, 2012.
Check out “Diamonda” below.
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