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Kelis Debuts New Material @ BBC 6 Music Festival

Mar 3, 2014

Kelis gave her U.K. fans a taste of her first album in four years at the BBC 6 Music Festival at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on Saturday.

Beaming in a gold metallic gown, the Harlem diva opened with a cover of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” and served up her hits including “Milkshake,” “Trick Me,” and “Acapella.”

For the first time, she also performed material off her upcoming album Food including “Jerk Ribs,” “Rumble,” “Friday Fish Fry,” and “Cobbler,” during which she hit a whistle note that would make Mariah proud.

Her sixth album Food, produced entirely by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek, arrives April 22 via U.K. indie label Ninja Tune.


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Lykke Li Announces I Never Learn Album - May 5th
March 2014


With a global fan-base Atlantic Records's very own Lykke Li surprises fans with the announcement of her new album scheduled for May 5th.


Since her last project in 2011, the Swedish singer-songwriter has been featured in a film, and quietly developing and recording her new sounds.





The new vid for "I Never Learn."



Official site

Kelis performing "Trick Me" from her Tasty @ the 6 Music Festival in Manchester, England.






New interview.

Kelis!...sure tricked Nas 'once or twice', when she claimed $40,000+ dollars child support for her then unborn child back in '09.

A real independent woman.

Thievery Corporation's moving new single "Depth Of My Soul" is from the album Saudade, which will be released on April 1st via their own ESL Music label.



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Check out the new mixtape from Raheem DeVaughn called King of Loveland.

Free download

Alain Clark - Walk With Me

Album Sampler

Free EP :https://noisetrade.com/youngsummer/fever-dream-ep

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(05 March 2014 – Toronto, ON) – Canadian vocal jazz & pop sensation Nikki Yanofsky is back with her sophomore release Little Secret, available May 6 via A440 Entertainment and Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading Music Company.

Executive Produced by legend Quincy Jones, Little Secret combines pop-song structures with sophisticated harmonies, club-ready beats with punchy big-band horns, and earworm hooks with scat-singing solos. It’s all held together by her powerful delivery, as well as a newfound sass.

In the studio with Rob Kleiner and Dan Cinelli, Yanofsky brought together the immediacy of her pop work with the depth of her jazz. Her approach is epitomized by the track “Something New”, which cheekily adapts the hooks from Jones’s “Soul Bossa Nova” and Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” to a strutting groove, and features the full breadth of Nikki’s vocals, from a soulful roar to a kittenish growl.

“I’m excited to be back and to unveil Little Secret to the world,” said Yanofsky. The process of making this album has really forced me to reflect on what I wanted to say and the quality of work I wanted to put out. I think I have separated from the kid to the adult and the artist that I am now, and I couldn’t be more excited to share this new music with the world.”

“Little Secret is the evolution of an immense talent,” commented Randy Lennox, President and CEO, Universal Music Canada. “The master Quincy Jones has taken Nikki Yanofsky from ingénue to a young woman at the vanguard of her talents.”

With Little Secret, Nikki has drawn on the impeccable taste and crossover wisdom of the album’s Executive Producer and her co-manager Quincy Jones, who has been bridging gaps between jazz and pop since the ‘60s. She had brought jazz into a pop context before, performing with Hancock in 2011 for the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute to Barbra Streisand, and singing at a Los Angeles tribute to Carole King with a big band conducted by Jones himself.

“For many years now, it has been both my dream and my goal to inspire young people to recognize and appreciate jazz and blues,” said Jones. “Nikki Yanofsky is a leading voice in a generation of young artists who are bringing the quality of music back up. Little Secret is the result of years of hard work, and her stab at bringing her influences to her own generation. I’m proud to be her Executive Producer and excited for the world to hear this album.”

Yanofsky was bitten by the jazz bug at an early age, and there was no denying her prodigious gifts: in 2005 at age eleven, she was singing guest spots in clubs, and the next year, wowed 100,000 people onstage at the jazz festival in her hometown, Montreal, Quebec. She could reproduce the trickiest scatting performances of her heroine, Ella Fitzgerald, with dead-on pitch and articulation, adding her own youthful verve. In 2008, she released her first album, Ella … of Thee I Swing as a CD/DVD package. The album went Gold, was nominated for two Juno Awards (making her the youngest multiple-Juno nominee in history), and served as a remarkable calling-card. By 14, she had performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, Washington, D.C.’s National Symphony Orchestra, and Herbie Hancock – not to mention pop stars Will.i.am and Wyclef Jean.

On her first studio album, Nikki (2010), she spread her wings, penning some of her own tunes with help from Canadian indie hero Ron Sexsmith and Grammy winning singer/songwriter Jesse Harris. Produced by 14-time Grammy-winner Phil Ramone, Nikki ranged in style from the sashaying swing of “I Got Rhythm” to the stately sweep of the quadruple-platinum single, “I Believe”. In Canada, the album went gold, hit #1 on the jazz chart and #6 in pop and was nominated for the Vocal Jazz Album of the year. Audiences far and wide caught on too: the album went gold in France and in the U.S., it debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart for new artists. iTunes® worldwide declared it the Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.

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Tour dates:

March 17 Atlanta, GA
March 20 Orlando, FL
March 21 Fort Lauderdale. FL
March 24 Raleigh, NC
March 25 Charlotte, NC
March 28 Washington,DC
March 29 Philadelphia, PA
March 30 Boston, MA


April 1 NYC, NY
April 2 Brooklyn, NY
April 4 Toronto, CA
April 5 Millvale, PA
April 9 Pontiac, MI
April 11 Chicago, IL
April 12 Minneapolis, MN
April 16 Seattle, WA
April 18 Portland, OR
April 21 San Francisco, CA
April 23 Los Angeles, CA
April 25 San Diego, CA
April 26 Tucson, AZ

Phantogram performing ''The Day You Died'' - Letterman 03.04.2014

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Elle Varner vents about a failed relationship and an unfaithful boyfriend on her newest single "Cold Case," from her sophomore album, Four Letter Word.



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^^I got Elle's first CD, but I never got a chance to listen. I do love her voice and not bad to look at either. Daley is damn good. I gotta pickup that CD. The last time I was excited about a male artist was Allen Stone.

New video of single:

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This girl is amazing

Here name is Jess Glynne

JoeBala said:

Her new album is out now?

Identity said:

JoeBala said:

Her new album is out now?

Yep http://www.amazon.com/Sev...stansfield

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Banks released today the official video for ''Brain''.

Lyrics:

But it’s all the same
Like I had foreseen
That you would act like you are
Oh so cool you seem
Blending with that scene
Wearing what you think is hard

I can see you struggling
Boy don’t hurt your brain
Thinking what you’re gonna say
‘Cause everything’s a game
Always try to calculate
Trying to look smart

But not too smart to threaten anything they say

Ooooooooooo Yeah
Ooooooooooo Yeah
Ooooooooooo Yeah

But it’s all the same
Like I had foreseen
That you would act like you are
Oh so cool you seem
Blending with that scene
Wearing what you think is hard

I can see you struggling
Boy don’t hurt your brain
Thinking what you’re gonna say
‘Cause everything’s a game
Always try to calculate
Trying to look smart
But not too smart to threaten anything they say

hernameisbanks.com

Mya tallks new EP and releasing music in Japan.




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Ukraine duo Bloom Twins (Anna and Sonia Kuprienko) have chosen to cover Bob Marley’s ''Get Up Stand Up' in a show of solidarity toward those who took part in the Ukrainian revolution.

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Genes and The Machines

Madam Robots and the Lust Bridgae

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This girl is amazing

Here name is Jess Glynne

Hey, the song is awesome. Thanks for sharing that.

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To celebrate her 26th birthday, Jhene Aiko has decided to release a gift for her fans. Here's a new vid for "My Afternoon Dream."

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Now out!

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Nice vocals! Not exactly new(2012), but new to me:

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[Interview] Catching Up W... Armstrong

About two weeks ago, I went with some friends to see Muse perform at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, MI. While they put on a pretty entertaining performance, the show was, in my opinion, stolen by the opening act, Los Angeles rockers Dead Sara. With fierce, driving riffs from guitarist Siouxsie Medley, thumping bass lines courtesy of Chris Null, Sean Friday’s thunderous drums, the band had the audience throwing their hands in the air and cheering wildly. Singer Emily Armstrong’s voice blasted the crowd, soaring high at points while other times taking on a raspy, ferocious, vicious snarl, ultimately ending up as a highlight to the performance.

Tonight is the band’s last show with Muse at Las Vegas’s Mandalay Bay Resort.

Below you can find our exclusive one-on-one interview with Emily where we talk the tour with Muse, life on the road, and the future plans of the band.

Bloody-Disgusting: How are you doing?
Emily Armstrong: Good. How are you?

BD: Not too bad. Just dealing with some Michigan snow. I saw the picture of you online in the Ohio snowstorm and you looked quite thrilled to be in it.
EA: Yeah, we were. Only a couple of people from California would look like that, right? [laughs]

BD: [laughs] Definitely! I saw you perform with Muse this past Saturday in Detroit and, I’ll be honest, you blew me away. It’s very rare that I see such energy and controlled chaos in a performance, especially during a full tour. At what point do you get exhausted and need a break?
EA: You know, you can just keep going so long as you take it one day at a time really. The only way I can stay focused is by taking it day by day. You know, going on vocal rests when your voice is good instead of getting it to a point where you have to do vocal rests. Things like that. You have to keep maintaining yourself. I also think that sleep is the most important thing you can do and have to get. Sometimes it’s the hardest thing to be done on tour.

BD: Is that because of the travels of the road or the energy of performing?
EA: It’s both, actually.

BD: Since I’m a Michigan boy, I have to ask if the term “Detroit Rock City” is accurate.
EA: Absolutely. Every time. It has really good energy for rock n’ roll and I didn’t know that. All I knew was the movie before I came out there and being told from friends who had played there who said, “No, they really do love rock n’ roll!” and I’d be like, “Okay!” You hear that about certain places but after playing the US…this is like our fifth time playing the US within a year. So it’s very interested to see certain markets and Detroit is one of those ones that just has this static energy. It’s always a good time when we come through and play. Well, we’ve only played twice but they’ve literally been just amazing.

BD: Glad to hear! So, touring with Muse is obviously exposing you to tens of thousands of new listeners. What other impacts do you think it is having on the band?
EA: Hmm… I mean, just the look. The fact that we’re on tour with them, you know what I mean? It puts us on a whole different level, not even just playing to these people. It’s kinda like, wow, my mom would say, “You’ve made it!” [laughs] It’s this kind of prestige thing. Friends of mine that ask me this, and they’re in their own bands, “How the fuck did it come to this? They’re one of the biggest bands in the world and you’re opening up for them.”

BD: It’s like how some people put a special skill on their resume as something to stand out
EA: Totally! Exactly! It’s something that we’re obviously very proud of for our first record to have escalated to this point. From the first tours that we did when the album first came out it literally just got better and better and better and better. You know, bigger and bigger and bigger. And we had no idea that it would come to this with out first record. I think it’s the right timing of everything. It’s just perfect. It’s a great tour ending for this record in the US.
We’ve been in talks about doing our own headlining tour but it’s obviously not as big as Muse. However, we’ll be able to do longer than 30 to 40 minutes then [laughs].

BD: Is there any crazy story that has happened during this tour?
EA: Well, we had a couple of fans propose backstage in our dressing room. I think that’s about it [laughs].
And then bowling with Muse. That’s something that you do when you’re 17 and say, “I wish we were on tour,” except here it’s true. It’s funny how the world works. I’m baffled by it every now and again. Just moments like that.

BD: You’ve toured with Offspring and now Muse, who are pretty different sounding bands, to put it mildly. What do you think it is about the Dead Sara sound that enables you to fit in with both of those sounds and appeal to their crowds?
EA: I think the energy of both of those bands, really. It’s a rock n’ roll type of vibe and we fit into that very well. We could be a chameleon in certain ways with rock bands. We could tour with pretty much any rock band. If you listen to the record, we’ve got ballads, we’ve got “Weatherman”, you know what I mean? Depending on the band, we could form a setlist that makes sense or just say fuck it and do whatever we want to do.

BD: You’re signed with Epic Records. In today’s day and age, there is a lot of talk on the pros and cons of signing with a label. What drew you to Epic and how do you feel they are helping you?
EA: Well, when we started out, we were approached by record labels. A lot of them. But we weren’t necessarily the band that we are now, so it didn’t make sense. As much pressure as it was on us to think that this was our only chance to have it we passed. A year later, we’ve got the guys you see now, Sean and Chris, and we just said, “Okay, we’re a real band now, so we’re gonna do this on our own. We’re gonna actually work to get to a place that we want with our creativity and our own work.” So, we formed our own record label, Pocket Kid Records, and that’s what we’ve been doing for the past three years. We put a record out on our own label, et cetera, et cetera. We’ve hired out people to help us out. Then the demand got so high at this point where we knew that needed that bigger label to come in and help us with their machine.
So we still have our label but it’s connected to Epic. So it’s kind of a subsidiary. They just kind of say, “You guys are doing great and we just want to help. That’s it. We love what you guys are doing and we don’t want to get in the way.” That’s their vibe and that’s exactly what they have been doing. They’ve been helping with tour support on this Muse tour. And we can’t wait to see the second record and how far it can go with the bigger machine.

BD: How involved are you in the social media aspect of the band, such as the Dead Sara Twitter or Facebook? What do you think of the impact of social media on band’s and vice versa, what does the band’s social media offer to your audience?
EA: Well, it’s just more personal. I’m on that every day. I’m writing people back all the time. I want it to feel genuine rather than have a company reply for me or not replying at all. It’s obviously going to get to a point where it’ll be really tough to do that and there will only be a certain amount of people you can reply to but, at this point, it’s just “reply as you go”. It’s a way to keep fans involved and reaching out to other possible fans. It’s the growth of it, it helps. Aside from playing live, this is a whole other world of getting new fans and getting the word out there and getting the music out there.

BD: Do you find it fun or trying?
EA: It’s both, especially when you don’t feel like replying but you kinda have to. [laughs] We all have our many moods but we still keep doing it.

BD: I read in a previous interview that you are a fan of photography. How’s that going and are there any plans on doing anything with your photos?
EA: At this point, I’d have to capture something good and then we’ll go from there. [laughs]

BD: Since I write for a horror website, I have to ask are you into horror at all?
EA: You know what? If I watched a horror movie, I’d have nightmares for a week. I’m that person, I’m that one. I love romantic comedies! [laughs]

BD: What’s next for Dead Sara?
EA: We’re just going to go in and write a whole bunch after this tour. We’ll see what happens. We’re going to meet up with some producers and basically get the ball rolling on the next record.

BD: Is there any producer that you’d love to work with?
EA: There’s obviously people like Butch Vig, Rich Costey, and this guy Flood. There’s a bunch of them. We’ve got to get it down to a small list.

BD: Thank you so much Emily. Enjoy the rest of the tour and all the best for the rest of 2013!
EA: Thank you so much Jonathan! Bye!