[HipHop] Three 6 Mafia : Last 2 Walk

Last 2 Walk is the 7th album from Southern rap group, Three 6 Mafia. It will be released on July 24th, 2007.[1]The moves have come to better coordinate the album with the rap duo's new MTV reality show, Adventures in Hollyhood.

The first single is "Doe Boy Fresh" featuring Chamillionaire. Gil Green was the director on set for the music video, having worked with Three 6 Mafia before on the videos for "Baby Mama" and "2 Way Freak"Last 2 Walk sports guest appearances by Lord Infamous, Chamillionaire, T.I., Lyfe Jennings, Paul Wall, Lil' Keke, Eightball & MJG, Akon, Young Jeezy, Good Charlotte, Paris Hilton, Young Buck, Project Pat, Lil Wyte, Lil' Jon, Lil' Wayne, Swizz Beatz, Al Kapone, DJ Spanish Fly, Diamond and Princess of Crime Mob, and The Game.

During The Simple Life 4, Three 6 Mafia where shown in a recording studio with Paris Hilton. As no songs from the recording sessions made her debut album 'Paris', it is possible that this album will feature an appearance from Paris.XXL Magazine ranked "Da Last 2 Walk" the 5th most anticipated album of 2007.[2]"What Cha Starin' At", "Suga Daddy" & "Like Money" were released on June 1st.A snippet of "That's Right" featuring Akon, was leaked onto the internet June 13th, it has also been confirmed by MTV. As well, a snippet of the track "You Dont Wanna See Me" can be heard in extra scenes from Adventures In Hollyhood.

Album : Last 2 Walk
Release Date : June 24, 2008
Label : Columbia
review :

Hypnotize Minds/Columbia Records announce the upcoming release of Last 2 Walk, the first new full-length album from Three 6 Mafia since 2006, when the record-breaking history-making Memphis hip-hop ensemble became the first African-American rap group ever to win the Best Original Song Oscar. One of the year’s most heavily anticipated album releases in any genre, Three 6 Mafia’s Last 2 Walk will be available in stores and online Tuesday, June 24.

The brainchild of Three 6 Mafia founding members DJ Paul and Juicy J, Last 2 Walk premieres the future club anthem, "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)" featuring hardcore rapper Project Pat (Juicy J’s brother and longtime member of the Hypnotize Minds’ hip-hop collective), the rising Three 6 Mafia protege Young D, and Superpower.

The album includes the salacious new single "I’d Rather" featuring Unk, "That’s Right" featuring Akon, and the long-awaited "My Own Way" collaboration with Good Charlotte.

Track listing

1. Doe Boy Fresh (w/ Chamillionaire)


2. Like Money


3. Suga Daddy (w/ Diamond & Princess of Crime Mob)


4. What Cha Starin’ At (w/ Lil’ Jon & Project Pat)


5. That’s Right (w/ Akon)


6. We Got Da Club


7. Ready 4 Whatever (w/ Young Jeezy, Lil’ Jon & Project Pat)


8. Bang, Bang


9. Clane, Clane


10. See Me (w/ Lord Infamous)


11. You Know How We Ball (w/ Paul Wall & Lil’ Keke)


12. See You Fall


13. Time and Time (w/ Project Pat)


14. Hoodstar (w/ Lyfe Jennings)


15. Tear Da Club Up ’07 (w/ Hound Dogg, BIBS, Young Cut & The Original)


16. You Don’t Wanna See Me (w/ Project Pat)


17. Up All Night (w/ Jim Jones & KZ)


18. Body Parts 4 (w/ H.C.P.)


19. Late Night Tip Remix (w/ Djet)

Three 6 Mafia - Last 2 Walk - We Got Da Club

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Laura Marling, Alas, I Cannot Swim

Reviewed by Andy Gill

Even by the advanced standards of precocity displayed by many of today's tyro performers, Laura Marling is an extraordinary young talent. Listening to the mature reflections and acute observations in these 13 songs, it's hard to accept that their author turned 18 this week, and is already getting her second wind, dismissing her earlier output as "shit pop" and "absolutely awful".

The change in her work apparently came through encountering Bonnie Prince Billy's haunting I See a Darkness, an aesthetic epiphany that forced her to think more deeply about what she was doing. The result is Alas, I Cannot Swim, on which her young voice reveals an old, old heart. It's most evident in songs like "Old Stone", in which a standing stone – "10,000 years and you're still on your own" – prompts reflections on the comforts of solitude and self-sufficiency, while rolling tom-toms swell and ebb against the drone of harmonium; and in "Cross Your Fingers", in which apprehension about the fragility of seemingly secure structures leads to contemplation of the broad flood-plain of old age leading to the estuary of death.

Elsewhere, one gets an impression of someone building their worldview as they grow, struggling to deal with new situations, and simultaneously drawn to both the outgoing urges of youth and more introspective moods. In "My Manic & I", she's caught up in a torrent of doubt which, one suspects, is self-directed: "I can't control you, I don't know you well, these are the reasons I think that you're ill"; while over the sombre acoustic guitar picking of "Shine", she warns a potential emotional intruder: "I need shine – stay away from my light." But there are shafts of light; in the opener, "Ghosts", a young man scarred by "a ghost that broke my heart before I met you" ultimately finds redemptive love with the singer. "It turned out I'd been following him, and he'd been following me," she explains.

Marling goes against the grain of most modern pop, eschewing mockney bitchiness, diva showboating, indie guilt and trite hip-hop attitudes in favour of a folksy simplicity relying on well-turned melodies and sensitive arrangements of guitar, piano and violin embellished by French horn, trumpet or accordion, and even a male voice choir. Producer Charlie Fink has created a warm, welcoming instrumental backdrop that frames Marling's voice perfectly, revealing (but not accentuating) the echoes of singers like Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShea and Jolie Holland. It all adds up to a hugely impressive debut from an outstanding talent.

Watch the video for 'Ghosts'

Download:
Laura Marling – You're No God

Download: Laura Marling – New Romantic

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Missy Higgins : The Sound of White

Missy Higgins was discovered in 2001, when the Melbourne high-school student's song "All for Believing" won an unsigned artist competition sponsored by Australian national radio station Triple J. The plaintive piano ballad was an instant hit, but Higgins took her time with the fame. She eventually signed with Australia's Eleven imprint, which issued a self-titled EP in November 2003. It contained both "Believing" and Higgins' second hit, "Greed for Your Love." The Scar EP appeared in August 2004 and set the scene for the full-length Sound of White, which dropped the following September. Higgins then toured Australia, released a live EP, and prepared for her American debut, which came in January 2005 with the domestic-only All for Believing EP. Released through Warner Bros., it included the title track and four other songs from the Sound of White LP (which was reissued in the U.S. shortly after). Two years later Higgins released her second full-length, On a Clear Night, which saw a U.S. release in early 2008.

Missy Higgins (born Melissa Morrison Higgins on August 19, 1983, in Melbourne) is one of Australia’s most popular female singer-songwriters. Missy (Melissa) was thrust into the limelight in her homeland when she won a demo competition conducted by the national alternative broadcaster, Triple J. Although she was still at high school, her song All For Believing quickly became one of the station’s most requested tracks of 2001. In 2005, Missy took out 5 major ARIA Awards: Album of the Year (for The Sound of White), Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release, Breakthrough Artist - Album (for The Sound of White) and Highest Selling Album.

Missy Higgins - Scar (Music Video)

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The Feeling : ‘Without You’ Music Video ! From The Brilliant Band

The Feeling some airplay here on Killed By The Video Star, but as none of you seemed to notice, or care, I thought I’d try again. I warn you, if I get no comments this time, I’ll keep plugging their videos until someone takes notice!

This is the second song from their second album, called Without You, and it’s a slice of Indie Pop heaven that deserves to get listened to by more ears than it currently is.
The song is a simple love song, about how badly you miss people when you are away from them. It’s like everything you do may be brilliant, except in the back of your head, your partner isn’t there with you to share the moment.

I suspect its a personal song from the experience of lead singer Dan Gillespie Sells, who has to leave his partner every time he goes touring with the group.

The video sums up these feelings by putting Dan in the role of an astronaut, in what looks like the old Soviet Union. We get to see him being prepared for space, before having his picture taken with his parents and captain.

I love the way the video is shot, starting and ending with a close up of Gillespie Sells’ eyes as he ponders life without the people he loves as he ventures in to space.

It looks like the video was done in just two shots, with a pan out, and a pan back in. You’ll notice also that the other band members all have a cameo part to play.

The song may be cheesy, and pure Pop, but who cares, it’s also beautifully sung, and tugs at the heartstrings. The video is innovative, and well done too.

THE brilliant thing about The Feeling is that they know how to make poppy tunes which seem, on first listen, insubstantial.

But this new single is actually about the Virginia Tech shootings. With a great hook and a message to boot.

Sure, it sounds a bit preachy. But, it's testament that there is so much more to this brilliant band than a great chorus and twee lyrics.

The Feeling - ‘I Thought It Was Over’ Music Video

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John Hiatt : New Album 'Same Old Man' Review by Track

Release Date: April 27, 2008
Label: New West Records
Producer: John Hiatt
Recorded: Highway 61 Recordings

Main Personnel
John Hiatt: Vocal and guitarKenneth Blevins: DrumsPatrick O’Hearn: BassLuther Dickinson: Guitar, mandolin and national resonatorLilly Hiatt: Backing vocals on “Love You Again” and “What Love Can Do”

John Hiatt has achieved moderate success as a singer/songwriter over the years. He’s been more successful with critics than with the radio. He is mostly known for having his songs be big hits for others, such as “Angel Eyes” for Jeff Healy, “Thing Called Love” for Bonnie Raitt, “The Way We Make a Broken Heart” by Roseanne Cash and “Sure as I’m Sitting Here” by Three Dog Night among others.

TRACK LISTING

1. Old Days: This blues shuffle with a kick makes a nice opening track. It has a whimsical old style blues sound that fits the material. Hiatt sounds like a cross between Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. Oddly, that doesn’t sound as bad as one would think. The verses are more talking than singing and Hiatt’s rhythm with that is a bit off. Still, it’s a really fun song. “They were smoking something in the audience that smelled like cat pee.” That’s a hall of fame songwriter right there.

2. Love You Again: This is a really great song up there with some of Hiatt’s best. I would love to hear Raitt do a cover of this. Lilly sounds pretty good on backing vocals as her sweet, higher tones mixes well with her father’s gruff growl. The arrangement fits the tune with acoustic guitar on the verses and a fuller sound with the rest of the instruments on the chorus. It’s not quite country or pop, but somewhere really good in the middle.

3. On With You: Hiatt seems to have trouble finding his rhythm with the up tempo stuff. He’s also channeling Dylan again. He needs just a hair bit more wail to push this into blues. The repetition of “I just want to go on with you,” as well as some of Hiatt’s vocal flourishes is a bit annoying. The drums give a nice back beat and contrast with the more country guitar picking.

4. Hurt My Baby: This is another ballad and a bit languid. The musical concept of the album is really clear here as you have simple three cord guitar playing set off by pronounced drumming on the down beats. It works for rock, but it’s a tad formulaic. Hiatt gives a good vocal performance as he puts real pain in his voice as he agonizes over “someone in this mean old world” hurting his baby.

5. What Love Can Do: Hiatt has distinct pronunciation to get over the story of a couple who can do anything and find anything because they have love with some really interesting imagery. Lilly returns for backing vocals and she doesn’t mesh as well as she did on the earlier track. It’s kind of a sing-song tune in a quaint early sixties style. It’s like a late era Doris Day hit.

6. Ride My Pony: The mandolin comes into play here with the guitar and drums getting a sort of locomotive sound in the background. I think they were going for a horse clip-clop though. It’s sort of a silly filler song about a man who just wants to ride his pony. Sometimes there’s no reading between the lines.

7. Cherry Red: The title refers to the Corvette and lipstick of the speaker’s lost love and his heart burns cherry red when he thinks of her. Sometimes just a color can stir up old memories and Hiatt captures that with the imagery and his vocal performance that has a certain longing. This might be too quaint for modern audiences, but it’s cute and there are some nice turns of phrases. The chorus is really catchy.

8. Our Time: How can you go wrong with lines like “it looked like the crime scene of an angel ghost.” This song is filled with unique metaphors and little nuggets of imagery. It’s another whimsical look at days gone by and realizing that the good old days were pretty good after all. It’s the little things that matter like eating Chinese food in bed. In fact the song makes an odd correlation between eating out and a romance. I’m not putting quotes on eating out. A very well written song.

9. Two Hearts: This is a pretty generic love song. I’m far away from you. I love you. I need you. Hiatt’s better than this.

10. Same Old Man: The title track is another really well written song with a blues tinge. Hiatt waxes on time and aging again. Despite the ravages of time and age he’s still the same old man his wife married back then. There isn’t any changing him now, but not changing is how they stayed together. It’s a mature love song that’s really nice to hear when we have teenagers trying to relate what they think love is. It’s a good anniversary song.

11. Let’s Give This Love a Try: “I’d rather be in a barrel of salt and pickle brine with a 1000 paper cuts.” Again, how can you beat that? This is Dylan-esque too, but in a good way. The song is about the man being one way and the woman the other and they’ve both been through a lot, so why don’t they try to love each other. This could work as a cover for someone too. It’s a sweet song with a bit of a dark side and tongue in cheek humor.

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The Ting Tings: Shut Up And Let Me Go Download & Music Video

This is the band's next single and on a scale of 'not very good at all' to 'literally very amazing' it's somewhere towards the right hand side (if you have 'literally very amazing' on the right hand side). (If you have 'literally very amazing' on the left hand side it's more towards the left.)

U.K. duo are heating shit up. Their full-length We Started Nothing are hitting up the charts like there’s no tomorrow. So they are invading the states again but with more push behind their army. Their first attack and first ever appearance on American TV was on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

Katie White and Jules de Martino’s brand of pop punk is highly energetic and bombastic. Make sure you don’t miss them on their U.S. invasion!

MP3: “Shut Up And Let Me Go“

Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go

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Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death Mp3 Album Free

NOTE: album found on FileFactory.com
Download Mp3s From Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and all his FriendsMp3 Song

01 - Coldplay - Life In Technicolor mp3

02 - Coldplay - Cemeteries Of London mp3

03 - Coldplay - Lost! mp3

04 - Coldplay - 42 mp3

05 - Coldplay - Lovers In Japan - Reign Of Love mp3

06 - Coldplay - Yes mp3

07 - Coldplay - Viva La Vida mp3

08 - Coldplay - Violet Hill mp3

09 - Coldplay - Strawberry Swing mp3

10 - Coldplay - Death And All His Friends mp3

11 - Coldplay - Lost! (acoustic Version) - Bonus Track mp3

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Beck Release New Album : Modern Guilt

Beck's been a busy guy over the last few years and it doesn't look like he's going to slow down any time soon. He'll release his 10th studio album, Modern Guilt, on July 8 through DGC.

The disc was produced by Danger Mouse and features a guest appearance by Cat Power on "Walls." At just over 30 minutes, Modern Guilt is much shorter than 2006's The Information and has been described as having a "1960s British vibe." Beck originally wanted the album to be 10 tracks, none of which would run over two minutes, but he later scrapped that plan.

Recording Modern Guilt was apparently intense.
"It was like trying to fit two years of songwriting into two-and-a-half months," he recently told Rolling Stone. "I know I did at least 10 weeks with no days off, until four or five in the morning every night."
You can check out first single "Chemtrails" on Beck's MySpace page.
Beck will play Victoria's Royal Theatre on Aug. 27 and Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre the next night. He'll have Seattle's Band Of Horses with him.

Here's what's on Modern Guilt:
1 Orphans

2 Gamma Ray

3 Chemtrails

4 Modern Guilt

5 Youthless

6 Walls (ft. Cat Power)

7 Replica

8 Soul of a Man

9 Profanity Prayers

10 Volcano

Beck tour dates:
6/25 Arendal, Norway - Hove Festival

6/27 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle

6/28 St. Gallen, Switzerland - St. Gallen Festival

6/30 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg

7/01 Southampton, England - Guildhall

7/02 Manchester, England - Apollo

7/04 London, England - Hyde Park (O2 Wireless Festival)

7/06 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival

7/07 Paris, France - Olympia

7/09 Madrid, Spain - La Riviera

7/10 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock Festival

8/22 San Francisco CA - Golden Gate Park (Outside Lands Festival)

8/24 Bend OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater *

8/27 Victoria BC - Royal Theatre !

8/28 Vancouver BC - Orpheum Theatre !

8/30 Seattle WA - Bumbershoot Festival

9/20 Los Angeles CA - Hollywood Bowl ^

9/27 Austin TX - Zilker Park (Austin City Limits Festival)

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Sex And The City Soundtrack

SEX AND THE CITY SOUNDTRACK. New pop that's stylish, but uneven, from Fergie, India.Arie, Jennifer Hudson and others. In stores now.

The musical accompaniment to the Sex and the City film combines lots of different genres into a soundtrack that is both fun party music and equally as fun to listen to all by your lonesome. The soundtrack runs the spectrum of artists from classy acts like Jennifer Hudson and Nina Simone to cutting edge tracks supplied by House music star Kaskade and the quirky duo The Bird and The Bee.

If all the artists on this album got together for a Sex and the City-style cocktail party, it would be quite the hip and stylish affair. With uptown chic songs from Jennifer Hudson ("All Dressed In Love") and Bliss ("Kissing") juxtaposed with a subtle version of "Auld Lang Syne" from Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis and the timeless rap "Walk this Way" from Aerosmith and Run D.M.C., the album covers many moods, all blending together to make for an audio celebration. India.Arie's cover of the Don Henley favorite "Heart of the Matter" proves even better than the original, with a controlled emotion and exquisite vocals that make it one of the highlights of the album. It would have been nice to hear a few more "girlfriend" themed songs about friendship, but as a collection, the album's variety keeps the party from ever becoming boring.

Sex And The City Soundtrack - How Deep Is Your Love

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[Artist] N.E.R.D.:Seeing Sound Album

Check your iPod. If you don’t have any N.E.R.D. tracks (and if that’s true, then you need to get on it, so read on to avoid further pitying), then dollars to donuts, you’ve got something they’ve applied their Midas touch to as the Neptunes — their production operation. Madonna and Britney, Ludacris, Snoop, and Kanye — they’re currently backing him on his much-lauded Glow In the Dark tour. Hell, they’ve even remixed Sade.

Or, put another way: open up the Billboard charts, close your eyes and randomly point to an artist. Now open them. There’s an excellent chance the brain trust behind N.E.R.D. produced, remixed or will remix and/or produce that artist, taking already solid material to a new dimension you didn’t know existed but suddenly need a whole lot more of — the flavor of dream you’re not sure is the good or bad type, but you know it tastes better than being awake.

N.E.R.D. is Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shae Haley. Like a giant squid fused with a set of conjoined octopus twins, the end result of N.E.R.D.’s time spent behind the controls sounds like they’ve got a lot more than just six hands and 30 fingers on deck. And the tracks snap, crackle and pop with the hyperstimulated sizzle of sticking all 30 into 30 different electrical sockets.
“With the Neptunes,” N.E.R.D.’s Chad Hugo told Hamptonroads.com, “we have that ability to collaborate with artists, and they have their vision and we’re there to paint different scenarios. As N.E.R.D., what we put out is directly from our brains to the stage. We’re in our own shoes. We have the ability to be ourselves.” Right. Which is why they’re about to drop their third N.E.R.D. album, Seeing Sounds, (out tomorrow), named for the neurological phenomenon synesthesia, where your senses basically swap shoes for the day. The album’s a celebration of their genre-resistant, chopped-and-screwed, tilted-and-twisted sound, complete with that hypnotic sawtooth bass swagger, dirty-ass drumming, superfunked, sexed-up, spaced-out blips, beeps and bumps.
We always suspected these guys saw things we don’t. Turns out they see everything we don’t. And with N.E.R.D. — forever the sickest and coolest kids you know — piloting their musical spacecraft into complete sensory overload, we get to explore a whole new galaxy of songs, sounds and sights we’d never otherwise hear… or taste.

Watch N.E.R.D.’s new video, “Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing In Line for the Bathroom),” plus a few all-time N.E.R.D. classics, check out their MTV.com live peformances, watch an exclusive Buzzworthy interview with the Va Bee three, watch their exclusive Artist of the Week videos — including performance clips shot at Special Sauce in Bayshore, New York — and road trip clips, featuring Donnell Rawlings (Ashy Larry of Chappelle’s Show.)

After Pharrell Williams's pedestrian solo debut and some lacklustre production work (Gwen Stefani's The Sweet Escape), it seemed as though Williams and his Neptunes/N.E.R.D partner Chad Hugo had lost their vice-like grip on inventive pop. Happily, their new album suggests a thrilling second act. Flanked by fellow bandmember Shay Haley, they are again pushing the boundaries of the popular song. From Everybody Nose, a horn-looped look at Hollywood's re-infatuation with cocaine, to the drum'n'bass-meets-baile-funk of Spaz, this album is a superb reminder of why we fell in love with them in the first place.

NERD - Everybody Nose

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[HotHitz MV] Masspike Miles feat Rick Ross - Get It Together

New video from Masspike Miles, Rick Ross' first artist off his Maybach Music Group imprint. Directed by DanTheMan.

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Martha Wainwright : I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too

We live in a time of strange and unprecedented musical sub-genres: who, for example, could have predicted that Enter Shikari would attract so much attention with a blend of screamo punk and epic Faithless-influenced trance? But perhaps no current music phenomenon is as odd as the sub-section of the singer-songwriter genre entirely devoted to songs about what a crap bloke Loudon Wainwright III is. His former wife and sister-in-law Kate and Anna McGarrigle kicked things off a decade ago with the title track of their album Matapédia, but it's in recent years that the concept has really blossomed. Son Rufus offered to give him a thump on Dinner at Eight, while his daughter Martha coyly alluded to her anger towards him on her debut single Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole. Their half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche is pursuing a musical career and presumably has her own dad-related grievances to air: given the amount of media attention the whole business has received, it's only a matter of time before some canny bandwagon-jumper not actually related to the former star of Carrot Confidential writes a song bitterly bewailing his paternal shortcomings. If things carry on at this rate, they'll end up with their own section in HMV: Hip Hop/R&B/Metal/Punk/Emo/Music Complaining About the Hopeless Parenting Skills of Loudon Wainwright III.

Part of Martha Wainwright's charm lies in her Tourette's-like impulse to overshare: Check out her 2005 ode to her singer-songwriter dad, Loudon, lovingly titled "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole." Her folky second album mostly spares family members, but old boyfriends aren't so lucky. On the dusty-road rocker "Comin' Tonight," she seeks revenge on a musician/ex-lover: "I could steal a melody. . . . 'Cause you would never sue me, baby/It wouldn't look good." Wainwright's relentless self-analysis and beguiling voice — she sounds like a Muppet Baby — make for an oddly sweet psychodrama. She shifts from a breathy warble on "Hearts Club Band" to a voice-breaking howl on the Kate Bush-style gothic "In the Middle of the Night," then gambols off through a cover of Syd Barrett's schoolyard romp "See Emily Play." Supported by an A-list cast including brother Rufus, Pete Townshend and Steely Dan keyboardist Donald Fagen, she's collected some impressive endorsements. But they're just a backdrop to a riveting one-woman show.

Martha Wainwright's magic voice
Obviously Canadian-American family Wainwright has already managed to make an enormous contribution to the world's musical culture and it looks like it is not rest upon laurels. The music of country performers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and their children Rufus and Martha has been pleasing the fans all over the USA and Canada and abroad for several decades now. Although before her eponymous debut album was released in 2005 Martha Wainwright sang quite many times with various performers, and exactly due to it the singer has gained a real fame. This spring she releases her sophomore effort whose title I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too practically leaves no doubt concerning her non-standard approach to song-writing. It is not surprising taking into account the fact that the things have not always been fine in the Wainwright family and all the scandals and troubles would become known to public. Yet Martha Wainwright's magic voice in combination with wonderful melodies does not let the listeners fall into despondence not even for a second listening to I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too, the album which easily pretends to be one of the year's best pop works.

The widest spectrum of feelings on I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too
Each track on I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too is a definite story filled with the widest spectrum of feelings from happiness and admiration to sadness and nostalgia. The album opens with composition Bleeding All Over You, devoted to the former beloved, filled with rather dolorous emotions. The catchiest tune on the record is on the chorus of You Cheated Me, refined with great guitars while track Jesus And Mary pleases with Martha's emotional performance. A slow lyrical ballad Tower Song surprises with complicated fiddles in the accompaniment and an unusual melody while on Hearts Club Band the singer either reduces her singing to a whisper or amazes with sharp vocal bends that harmonize greatly with a sax. A light sadness on So Many Friends is connected with the past for the reminiscences of childhood here are joined with the present in which many are already gone, whereas song about the singer's mother's illness In The Middle Of The Night depicts not too pleasant images and a complicated instrumental background featuring a flute only adds to emotions. A classic composition of a platonic love The George Song pleases with rock elements and humorous lyrics while a somewhat sad song Niger River surprises with a simple guitar accompaniment and a most beautiful tune. One of the album's highlights is certainly track Jimi due to both deeply thought lyrics and faultless heavy rock guitars and drums, but a real surprise is the cover on Pink Floyd's See Emily Play that has gained a great pop sounding. The record closes with a slow composition I Wish I Were once again amazing with its sincerity.
The music one wants to listen again and again

Pop folk performed by Martha Wainwright is the music one wants to listen again and again for it unites the most varied moods and everybody can find something for oneself in it. Although one of producers of I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too Brad Albetta has recently become the singer's husband one can hardly say that this important event has somehow reflected on her lyrics. The relations with her father and other family problems have served the source of her rather painful texts for the second time already. As on the debut record Martha's sense of humor and wit once again let her remain optimistic even when the memories are most unpleasant. On the whole addressing former lovers and attempts to understand oneself and people around have become the leading themes on I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too. Yet often the meaning of songs and their external framing do not correspond to such an extent that no matter how sullen Martha's message may be she is definitely only enjoying her music and these contradictions make her second work a very worthy addition to the collection of the Wainwright family's creations.

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Lloyd - Girls Around The World Music Video

The highly anticipated new video from R'n'B singer Lloyd has finally streamed on BET, just before its premiere on Yahoo! Music on June 9. The clip was shot to accompany the singer's latest single titled "Girls Around the World".
The new video which was shot in Miami, Florida and being directed by Hype Williams, also features Lil Wayne. Just like the title, the clip also sees lots of female models on it and also a futuristic background.
The song is the second track that has been spawned from Lloyd's upcoming album "Lesson In Love".

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RATATAT - Mirando [Einstein MUST SEE!!!]

There are 64 individual deaths in the movie Predator. In New York Nintendo corps Ratatat’s “Mirando” video, composed of reanimated Predator clips, there are 41, give or take some repeats. On its own, the song is an appealing amalgamation of Black Dice rhythms, Matmos quirkiness, Iron Maiden guitar harmonies and Kōji Kondō Zelda theme fun. But it’s the video where it seems to make the most sense. “Mirando” is the Portuguese word for ‘target’ (Predator was filmed in Mexico), and the many explosions and remixed deaths of the video are synched so perfectly with Ratatat’s music that, having seen it, their song doesn’t feel as complete on its own anymore. This is a great effect if your band is Goblin, Vangelis or Green Jellÿ, but for a touring pseudo-rock band with smart DJ sensibilities (check last year’s pretty-decent hip-hop remixtape), it’s self-defeating. If the song is engaging as it is, why put it visually in the line of fire? - KORY GROW



DOWNLOAD This Track : HERE

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Coldplay's Got A New Album, Death And All His Friends (Viva La Vida)

Yes Coldplay leaked yesterday, elbowing Microcastle and Tha Carter III in the race for torrent search supremacy. But since you are all upstanding citizens of the Internet who refuse to consume music before it is available for legitimate listening, head to IHeartMusic.com for a full album stream of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. And then join us later today for a little group Premature Evaluation session, yay. (Thanks for letting us know, Larynn.)

Review

We all got to listen to Viva La Vida today, so we're sort of in the same boat here. Press play, and the album starts with "Life In Technicolor," a shimmery piece of keys and electronics that eventually moves into a "Where The Streets Have No Name"-y, lyricless rev-up, all of which is an announcement: Hey, did you hear we got Brian Eno to do this record? Hey, we did -- and now we're sorta hoping this to be Coldplay's Joshua Tree. Unfortunately, that it is not. But it is great at not being X&Y, which is a major accomplishment. Over three albums, Chris Martin found a simple and relatively understated formula for successful songwriting: melodically, he hit it on Parachutes -- verse, verse up an octave, falsetto hook -- expanded it on Rush Of Bood, and made an overblown parody of it on that last one. If nothing else, this album shows the band is thinking, and is self aware: say hello to less falsetto, different song structures, and a legendary producer. Already we're off to a good start.

Coldplay's been talking of wanting a Reinvention, a reinvention of everything but the fact that they are a massive seller. Balancing an artistic shift with maintaining commercial appeal is not easy (see: rock history). But let's at least start with giving props to the band for recognizing there was a problem with their last album, no matter how many millions (10 of 'em, actually) it sold: you can't just keep rewriting your hits (see: "Speed Of Sound" is "Clocks," "Fix You" is "The Scientist," etc.) and expect people not to catch on. To that point: We called "Viva La Vida" a rut buster, and the same can be said for the record. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends is exactly the record this band needed to make: a slightly shifted Coldplay album, with some memorable moments, some new tricks, and an overall emotionality that will appeal to anyone who's ever liked a Coldplay song.

So, those new tricks? Well for one there's the Eno touch, adding Edge-y guitars here, peripheral haze there, making the U2 comparisons more firm and run deeper than big arm poses, world saving politics, and arena-filling intent. Actually Coldplay's never been shy about confessing the bands they pilfer from -- Travis, Radiohead, Echo & the Bunnymen -- and the new artists that turn up in the sonic stew are ones they've similarly copped to liking publicly, and vocally. Last year Chris talked about being in the studio, saying for one song the wanted to "steal ... from My Bloody Valentine." Sure enough the last two minutes of "Yes" -- the "hidden track" (un)titled "Chinese Sleep Chant" -- hits with some unexpected, nice Loveless-lite shoegazing. Next, try taking it 2:45 into "42" and past the Radiohead-indebted middle section. Hear a sudden gearshift into Arcade Fire? It's not just your ears, and it's not just the newfound theatrical band attire -- Chris thinks they're the "the best band in history."

Wind your way through the bittersweet, chanting album closer "Death And All his Friends," and the record concludes with two minutes of that very same music that introduced it during "Life In Technicolor," only now with lyrics: a rephrased nod to Abbey Road's love-ly "The End." Only Coldplay come to a different conclusion: Instead of "in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make," here we learn "in the end we lie awake and dream of making our escape." We don't know how Chris Martin knows that, but it's heavy. In fact there's lots of heavy stuff going on on this record's lyrics, but the title sorta tells you that: Life, Death, and etc. There's God in Chris Martin's house and in his head on the glorified rum-swigging shanty "Cemeteries Of London," he's losing but not lost on, uh, "Lost," and we learn that "those who are dead are not dead but are living in [his] head" on "42," which you should totally tell your friend next time he's shrooming.

His lyrics are still, at best, vague, and at worst, trying to sound important. But that vibe fits the moments that work best, the song portions calculated to be Everyman's soundtrack: the sorta African guitar line in the first half of "Strawberry Swing" and its "such a perfect day," the existential pangs of the organ-laced and worthy "Lost," the uplifting "one day we'll work it out" romance of standout "Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love," etc. Stack those portions with "Chinese Sleep Chant," and the previously loved up rut buster "Viva La Vida," and you'll find a band that's managed to outweigh the dull moments ("Cemeteries," the last half of "Strawberry," "Yes," for starters).

Chris Martin told the NYTimes, "We would love to be the biggest band in the world, but we understand if you don't want us to be." What's the metric for that these days? Whatever it is, Guy Hands and EMI should be offering a bonus: this album will sell more than any other rock album this year. We'd like to think it's 'cause they made a better record than last time, but the fact that it's already the best selling album presale in iTunes history, and on track to be the highest first week sales of any album in iTunes history, probably refutes that theory. People still want a Biggest Band In The World. And Chris Martin has done everything in his power to play that part.

Oh yeah, there are three other guys in the band, right? Those guys, too.

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends is out 6/17 via Capitol/EMI.

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Britney Spears In Pussycat Dolls' 'When I Grow Up' Video

Britney Spears Looks 'Hot And Blonde' In Pussycat Dolls' 'When I Grow Up' Video: Report 'When [Britney] saw them on the MTV [Movie Awards], she was totally down to do the video,
MTV Report First, "How I Met Your Mother" — now, the Pussycat Dolls.

Her albums might not sell the way they used to, but Britney Spears is turning into the queen of the red-hot cameo. According to People magazine, Brit filmed a bit part in the video for the Pussycat Dolls' "When I Grow Up" clip.

An unnamed source told the magazine that Spears had a "small part" in the video, which was shot Wednesday in Los Angeles. A "set source" told UsMagazine.com that Spears does not interact with the group in the video, and shot her scenes at the Warner Bros. lot Wednesday while the Dolls filmed in Hollywood. "In the scene shot [Wednesday], Britney is driving in a car," the source said. "They all wave at each other as they are passing in traffic — that is it. Of course, Britney looks hot and blonde. It is a very short sequence, but [Britney] had a lot of fun with it. Britney really likes the Dolls' music and when she saw them on the MTV [Movie Awards], she was totally down to do the video."

Spokespeople for Spears and the Dolls could not be reached for comment at press time. Coming on the heels of her two-episode arc on "How I Met Your Mother," the Dolls shoot represents Spears' latest attempt to ease back into the spotlight, after spending much of the past year dealing with a series of personal crises. In fact, her second appearance on the sitcom went so well that onetime Brit doubter Neil Patrick Harris recently told People that "the door is open for her" to come back for a third go-round.

After a sizzling performance of "When I Grow Up" at the MTV Movie Awards last weekend, we'll be seeing plenty of PCD in the upcoming weeks. They'll appear on the June 12 episode of "So You Think You Can Dance," and the video for "When I Grow Up" will premiere on the new MTV video show "F'N MTV," which is hosted by Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, on the 13th. According to a source at their label, PCD's yet-untitled second album, featuring production from Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins and Sean Garrett, will be out in September.

When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls Music Video

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