Following last month’s excellent edgy industrial-pop cover of Tears For Fears’ “Shout,” London trio [STRANGERS] have returned with a new tune of their own. “Shine On You” is the band’s first single of 2012, and the first glimpse of the album they’ve got in the works for later this year. Many of [STRANGERS]‘ most captivating [...]
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[STRANGERS]‘ Time To ‘Shine’
‘King’ Of The Charts?
In 2006, Cassie scored a #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with debut single, “Me & U,” and released her self-titled album. But then the fashion-model-turned-singer found she couldn’t catch a break. Subsequent singles failed to catch fire, and her sophomore set, the tantalizingly titled Electro Love, was left to languish in limbo, unreleased. [...]
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Free Love: Download These MP3s For Valentine’s Day
A bunch of free MP3s have been delivered to the doorstep this Valentine’s Day — fantastic originals, surprising mashups, and excellent cover picks — many from artists whom Popservations absolutely adores, with a few new suitors in the mix. Better than a box of mystery-filled chocolates, here’s a rundown of the who and what that’s [...]
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Bonnie Raitt covers Gerry Rafferty
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Bonnie Raitt is back. Performing last night at the Grammys with Alicia Keys, she honored the late Etta James with a rendition of “Sunday Kind Of Love,” and on April 10, the nine-time Grammy winner will release Slipstream, her first new studio album since 2005′s Souls Alike. It also marks the debut of Raitt’s own [...]
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‘Part’ Is Such Sweet Sorrow
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Adele cleaned up at last night’s Grammys, winning all six categories in which she was nominated. Her voice now recovered from last November’s throat surgery, her performance of “Rolling In The Deep” began with an acapella intro to prove just that. And thankfully, we got to hear Adele speak too, saying this at the podium [...]
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Whitney Houston covers Annie Lennox
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Unless you’re a deeply committed fan of either, you might not be aware that Whitney Houston’s “Step By Step,” as featured on The Preacher’s Wife soundtrack, is actually a cover of a song that Annie Lennox wrote and released four years earlier. “Step By Step” first appeared as the B-side to Lennox’s single, “Precious,” from [...]
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Vincent Did It Has Nothing But Love For Whitney
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A few weeks back, electropop musician/producer Vincent Frank switched up the moniker he attaches to his solo projects, replacing Frankmusik with Vincent Did It. Whatever name Frank chooses for himself, one thing that hasn’t changed is his love for Whitney Houston. On tour with Erasure last year to promote his Frankmusik album, Do It In [...]
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Page-ing Tegan and Sara To The Dancefloor
Indie-pop darlings Tegan and Sara have turned their attention toward the dancefloor once again. Following up their fantastic 2009 collaboration with Tiësto, “Feel It In My Bones,” the current Curve cover girls have teamed up with Los Angeles DJ/remixer Morgan Page for new single, “Body Work.” The first of two tracks on which the Quin [...]
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Luscious Jackson Rises Up
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After a 13-year break, Luscious Jackson is back and in top form as evidenced by new single, “Are You Ready?” The song, which premiered on Wednesday via Rolling Stone, perfectly encapsulates the Beastie Boys-affiliates’ hip-hop-meets-rock sound — the dual spoken-sung vocals of Jill Cunniff and Gabby Glaser, Kate Schellenbach’s hard-hitting drum loops, and some groovy [...]
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Roxette Still Has ‘The Look’
One of my great shames of 2011 is that I never did post about Roxette‘s new album, Charm School. The duo’s eighth studio set (their first in a decade) was released a year ago tomorrow, though it wasn’t until July that the album was available here digitally. An expanded edition, Charm School Revisited, tacking on [...]
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Oh Land & Lily Pads
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Oh Land‘s new song, “Speak Out Now,” doesn’t appear on the Danish singer-songwriter’s self-titled album, released nearly a year ago. Rather, the utterly winsome tune serves as the theme song to Rita, a television drama premiering on Denmark’s TV2 this week. According to the show’s production company, Rita is about a teacher “forced to face [...]
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Steed Lord covers De’Lacy
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Six years ago, Steed Lord formed in Reykjavik, Iceland, with Kali, Demo, and Mega coming together to create their musical performance art project. Now based in Los Angeles, the trio is celebrating their anniversary by releasing their first single of 2012 as a free download. Though they’d teased fans for couple of weeks that something [...]
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The Knocks feat. Mandy Lee cover M83
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New York City duo The Knocks, who released their major-label debut EP, Magic, in December, have re-done M83′s “Midnight City,” from last year’s dazzling double-album opus, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. For The Knocks’ cover, which features Mandy Lee on lead vocals, B-Roc and JPatt transform Anthony Gonzalez’s transcendent, synthastic “Midnight City” into a irresistible, beat-heavy [...]
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The Limousines’ Morbid Fascination
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“So down we go like dominoes, our lives go by too fast, nobody lives to see the future.” The Limousines have premiered a music video for “The Future,” a track taken from the San Francisco electropop duo’s 2011 album, Get Sharp, that takes a realistic view of death. However you might meet your end — [...]
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Still ‘Lights’ On For Ellie Goulding
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Nearly a year after the single release (and even longer since the song first surfaced), it’s still “Lights” on for Ellie Goulding. The English singer-songwriter recently visited The Late Show with David Letterman to perform the song whilst banging her drum, snaring a new fan in the host himself. Now Goulding has released a remix [...]
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Give Me All Your LMFAO
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On second thought, please don’t. But against my better judgment, I must say that I’m very much enjoying LMFAO‘s remix of Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin’.” The release follows on the heels of Redfoo and SkyBlu (really with those names) popping up during her Super Bowl halftime performance for a bit of [...]
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Pet Shop Boys B-Side Themselves (Again)
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It’s my birthday week, and while you’re welcome to debate whether such a construct should exist for someone well out of elementary school, I can think of no better present to myself than Format, the new Pet Shop Boys B-sides collection out now in the UK and coming soon to other territories. Picking up where [...]
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‘Wolf’ In Bride’s Clothing
Sinead O’Connor has premiered the music video for “The Wolf Is Getting Married,” the first single from her forthcoming ninth studo album, How About I Be Me (And You Be You). When the teaser clip appeared a couple of weeks ago, I and others commented upon how arresting the visual reveal was. With “married” in [...]
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Melanie Amaro covers Aretha Franklin
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Melanie Amaro has redone Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” for The X Factor winner’s Pepsi commercial, premiering during today’s Super Bowl broadcast. (Read more about the big-budget spot, which co-stars Elton John, over at Entertainment Weekly.) Amaro’s first single since being crowned champion of the inaugural U.S. edition of Simon Cowell’s singing competition recasts the Queen Of [...]
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Wood Beez In The House
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Wanna know a surefire way to snag my attention? Title your track after the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. It worked like a gem for singer-songwriter Rumer a while ago, and now DJ/producer Moon Boots has grabbed my eardrums with his “Aretha,” albeit via a vastly different kind of sound. Out now on Nurvous Records, [...]
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