Category: Reviews
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Selena Gomez fans can rejoice. Not only has she just released Revival, a magnificent new pop opus, it has officially claimed the Number One spot on the Billboard 200, selling an impressive 117,000 copies in its first week of release. This makes it her second Number One record on Billboard, her remarkable previous album, Stars Dance, having sold 97,000 copies…
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Chairlift, the duo known as Patrick Wimberly and Caroline Polachek, worked on Beyoncé’s last album, Polachek writing and co-producing with Wimberly the R&B number, “No Angel.” So, it should come as no surprise that their new single, “Ch-Ching” falls in the R&B vein. It’s like a mix between Beyoncé and their usual electropop sound.
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“Downtown” is Chris River’s first single from the album Medicated Consumption, which will be out on October 21st. First of all, the Lana Del Rey sample is what first made me fall in love with this song. That’s how it begins, so of course that’s going to hook you first? But then Chris starts rapping…
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https://soundcloud.com/vision-music-promotions/01-alxa-let-go-mstr-24bit44/s-TfdsK?in=vision-music-promotions/sets/alxa-lost-e-p/s-4Z5x1 Powerhouse singer/songwriter ALXA might only be 20 years old, but her voice and lyrics have the maturity of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. And not just the maturity, that passion and pain both emoted perfectly. But ALXA is not a jazz singer. Not exactly. Likewise, she isn’t a soul or R&B singer, but there are shades…
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Che-Val’s awesome, funkified “Love Still Waiting” finally has a video! You may remember that I dubbed it #songoftheweek last month
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Of all the rock bands I’ve come across since starting Love is Pop, Dead Letter Circus is one of the most intellectual. Just pick any song from any of their albums and listen to it and you’ll see what I mean. Frontman Kim Benzie’s lyrics require deep thought to fully comprehend; they’re like riveting poetry…
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BACKGROUND: French singer Sindy is a member of a collective called Team BS, which was started by a highly successful French rapper/producer who goes by the name La Fouine. The group is called Team BS because the name of La Fouine’s record label is Banlieue Sale (translation: Dirty Suburb). Most of the team consists of…
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OK, there’s no denying that this song is just plain silly. I nearly laughed the first time I listened to it. But, it’s pretty original, aside from being reminiscent of M.I.A., so I decided to make it song of the day for that reason alone. Thing is, I played it a couple more times before…
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Dirty Bangs opened the festival on Sunday, but I missed them because the trains from Lowell to Boston only run every two hours on the weekend. (You’d think they would at least run as often as weekdays with people going into Boston for sporting events, concerts, and other leisure activities on the weekends, but, nope.) I…