Gnarls Barkley: groundbreaking artists, Grammy-award winners, emo kids. After the vibrant, technicolored, genre-bending victory of their first album (2006′s “St. Elsewhere”) and the amazing success that followed, Gnarls Barkley has released an album mournful enough that it could make a grown man cry (just not too much, because that would make you a wimp).
I love KWUR. I really do. I like hearing intriguing and uncommon music from people with eccentric taste and inventive names. I appreciate its endearing conviviality. I especially like guessing whether or not the DJs are drunk, high or both. I like a challenge.
Hot Chip’s music is really good in my book. Their third effort, “Made in the Dark,” is intriguing, seductive and intelligent. They have created a fantastic album and a bangin’ single, “Ready for the Floor,” (streamable on YouTube). They have a strong following in the UK and are poised for a takeover over hither with their particular brand of shiny dance rock.
As you may recall from your hairless years, many have referred to Avril Lavigne as the “anti-Britney.” After Britney hit herself one more time into superstardom at the turn of the century, she was followed by the great wave of The Whores of 1999, each marginally less talented and much less covered then the last.
For the sake of space I will choose not to analyze this choice of CD title.
There are three things I want to stress when I speak of this album, all of which are fairly self-evident and one of which ultimately leads to the downfall of Duff’s fifth studio release, “Dignity.”
What do Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake and the Pussycat Dolls have in common? Besides vague caucasian ancestry, these three pop stars are among the many that benefited from the brilliant mind of visionary hip hop producer Timbaland over the course of the past twelve months.
A run-down of the best Electronic music of all time.
Two of the most successful electronic acts have dropped high profile efforts, as Canadian producer James Murphy, more famously known as LCD Soundsystem, and French upstart duo Air have respectively released “Sound of Silver” and “Pocket Symphony.” While these two albums are under the general rooftop of the electronic category, they have two very different goals in mind.
Electronic artist Peaches’ now famous ode to her own fun bags is well known on this campus for its subtleness: “Suckin’ on my titties like you wanted me, callin’ me, all the time,” she coos. Her genre of choice is electronica; compared to her over-the-top statement, her stage show seems rather minimal.
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