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Spin Cycle: Maroon 5, Overexposed
Maroon 5’s “Overexposed” finds the pop/rock band heading more towards the mainstream. Is it worth your money?
2012 Rock The Bells Lineup Announced
Hip-hop fans look forward to the Rock The Bells festival each year. This all-star hip-hop road show often offers cool reunions as well as the opportunity to see classic albums performed in their entirety. This year’s lineup brings together the past, the present and the future with a lineup of artists that includes (on select dates) superstars Wiz Khalifa, Kid Cudi, J. Cole. Festival mainstay Nas will be on the tour, and there will also be appearances from legends like […]
The Viewfinder: Maroon 5’s “Payphone” (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
Maroon 5’s new video for “Payphone” is out, but…where’s the rest of Maroon 5?
The Singles Bar: Maroon 5’s “Payphone” feat. Wiz Khalifa
So, um…I kinda don’t want to like the new Maroon 5 song, but I kinda do. The guys are certainly taking advantage of Adam Levine’s success as a mentor on the reality show “The Voice” and have embraced a poppier-than-usual sound for their upcoming fourth album Overexposed, due on June 26th. First single “Payphone” has a pretty immediate hook. I can picture this one all over the radio this spring and summer (and I’m sure the folks at “The Voice” […]
Tupac’s Hologram Performs At Coachella
Really late Sunday night, or Monday morning for any East Coasters who stayed up to watch on YouTube, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were into their set at Coachella when the bells to Tupac Shakur’s Hail Mary started to ring. It was rumored that a hologram of Pac would be part of Dre and Snoop’s set and those rumors were right. The virtual version of Tupac wore baggy jeans and boots, much like the 1996 version of Pac would, was shirtless, […]
Maroon 5 Embrace Pop Trends, Irony on New LP “Overexposed”
If you liked Maroon 5’s odd duck of a single, last year’s chart-topping club banger “ Moves Like Jagger ,” you’re going to love their fourth album Overexposed , described by the band as their “poppiest” yet. The soul-pop quintet did a total 180 from 2010’s Mutt Lange-produced Hands All Over on the inescapable “Jagger,” downplaying their usual skittering funk guitars for swirly synths and high-energy beats (not to mention the howling vocal acrobatics of Christina Aguilera). That track, produced by pop wizards Shellback and […]
Popblerd’s Grammy Preview & Predictions 2012: Rap Categories
Nicki MInaj is one of this year’s leading Grammy nominees in the rap category. How will she fare against mainstays Kanye West and Eminem?
Tighten Up!: The Black Keys’ BlakRoc Project Gets A Sequel
True confession: I only became a Black Keys fan with the release and eventual success of last year’s Brothers. I was so much a fan of the Akron, Ohio’s breakthrough release that I went back and bought everything they’d released previously, collectively and individually. Of course, Brothers was not the album with which I became aware of The Black Keys. It wasn’t even the first album I’d purchased that featured their involvement. That would be the Blakroc project–an album that […]
Spin Cycle: Big Sean’s “Finally Famous”
Seven years after The College Dropout, the specter of Kanye West’s opus looms large over the rap landscape. He’s put out better albums in the intervening years – arguably, his stunning sophomore set Late Registration – but Dropout was the game-changer. Never has Kanye’s notorious inward focus been quite as breezy and flippant, nor his boasts as tempered with something like genuine humility; and if Late Registration is a big-budget, melodramatic epic, Dropout was the winning indie comedy from a […]
Award Show Sundays Special: The 2011 BET Awards Live Blog
It’s been a minute since we live-blogged an awards show around these parts. I gave some consideration to doing some commentary on the Billboard Music Awards, but got pulled into another direction-a move that turned out to be a wise one (since all of the clips I saw from the show and all of the commentary I saw on social media was lukewarm.) I have a love-hate relationship with the BET Awards (to say nothing of my largely HATE relationship […]
