Jessie J has unveiled the official music video to her new track Laserlight which features world renowned house DJ David Guetta ‘LaserLig
Laserlight is taken from the platinum edition of her debut solo album ‘Who You Are’ and it is the second time the British star has teamed up with the French DJ after guesting on his 2011 song ‘Repeat’. Jessie J is currently staring on hit tv show The Voice, where she will coach up and coming musical stars with her musical knowledge.
Named America’s best DJ by DJ Times and Pioneer last year, Kaskade releases the 3rd single from his 7th studio album ‘Room For Happiness’. The single features the beautiful and etheral vocals of US singer songwriter Skylar Grey who also co-wrote the record.
In 2012, Kaskade will appear at this year’s Coachella and will hit the road in June for his biggest headlining tour ever — 70-plus North American shows in just over three months. His own live show is a jaw-dropping spectacle. His belief in the transformative power of dance music to uplift thousands of people at once has had a significant effect on the U.S. scene. His ground-breaking double residency in Las Vegas at the Encore Beach Club (which had not even been built when he signed on) and Marquee has elevated the city’s status as a premiere club-going destination on par with London, Berlin, and Ibiza, is another testament to his influence.
Ahh, Chris Brown. Don’t you just love him? Christopher Maurice “Chris” Brown was born May 5, 1989. He is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor. Wow, he certainly does the rounds. Making his recording debut in 2005 with his self titled album Chris Brown at the ever so tender age of 16. The album featured the hit single “Run It!”, which proceed to top the Billboard Hot 100, and in the process making Chris Brown the first male artist to have his debut single top the chart since Puff Daddy in the year of 1997. The album went on to sell over two million copies in the US and was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Chris Brown’s second studio album, Exclusive was released in the year of 2007. Spawning two successful singles including his second U.S. number one hit, “Kiss Kiss” which featuring T-Pain, and also “With You”, which peaked at number two on Billboard Hot 100. A deluxe version of his album called The Forever Edition was release in 2008. The first single released from it, “Forever” reached the number two spot. Exclusive has also been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Chris Brown’s third studio album, Graffiti was released in 2009. The first single “I Can Transform Ya”, featuring artists Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz, peaked at number 20, becoming Brown’s eighth Top 20 hit. Chris Brown has also been compared to Michael Jackson with elaborate dance routines and moves.
Not without controversy however, In 2009, Chris Brown pleaded guilty to felony assault of popular singer and girlfriend Rihanna. Chris Brown was sentenced to five years probation and also six months of community service. Recieving extensive coverage in the media, some have said the incident was detrimental to Chris’s career. However Brown has continued to release music, with a fervent and fiercly protective fanbase who welcome all of his musical additions.
Dappy, aka Costadinos Contostavlos was born on 11 June 1987. He’s a British singer-songwriter, rapper, and also sometimes actor. Dappy is best known for being the lead singer of the Camden/London Grime, hip hop,R&B trio N-Dubz, which also features his cousin Tulisa and their friend Fazer, who used to be Tulisa’s boyfriend. Dappy is well know for his urban dress sense and his love of headwear.
Dappy is known to be a good friend of Radio One DJ Chris Moyles and is also associated with Tinchy Stryder after releasing a single together, titled “Number 1″.Dappy has also made cameo appearances on K.I.G’s “Head, Shoulders, Kneez and Toez” music video, Gracious K’s “Migraine Skank” music video, and Chipmunk’s “Chip Diddy Chip” music video, as one of Chipmunk’s school friends. Her certainly does the rounds. It was previously announced on Friday, June 17, 2011, that N-Dubz had left their American record deal, which also fuelled rumours that the band had split. Dappy signed a contract with Takeover Entertainment Ltd, confirming his career as a solo artist. His first taste of solo stardom came on Tinchy Stryder’s single, “Spaceship”, released in June 2011. Dappy then released “No Regrets” as his debut solo single. It featured a cameo appearance from band-mate Fazer, “No Regrets” and proceeded to take the charts by storm! it his the number one spot in the UK and Scotland, and at #8 in Ireland.
Following the success of “No Regrets”, Dappy followed suit with “Rockstar“. “Rockstar” was released on February 26, 2012 and featured Queen guitarist Brian May. Dappy’s solo album was Dare To Dream and he claimed that the album “is motivational music for people who believe they can’t do nothing, a battle we have with our own mind.”
We’ve now seen the demise of N-Dubz and Tulisa embarking on her solo career. Do you prefer the solo N-Dubz or them together as a grime supergroup? Do music groups just serve a purpose of launching a solo career now?
It’s that fateful day again, that comes round but once a year. No, not Christmas, but the anniversary of one of our greatest and most iconic rock star’s death, Kurt Cobain. Commiting suicide on this day, 18 years ago in 1994, Kurt left the legacy of Nirvana behind him, arguably one of the most influential grunge bands of all time.
In the late 1980s Nirvana established itself as an integral part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing Bleach on Sub Pop in 1989. Nirvana found unexpected but incredible success with “Smells Like Teen Spirit“, which was taken from Nirvana’s second album Nevermind (1991). Nirvana’s set the bench mark and alt-rock came to the forefront of musical culture with Kurt Cobain becoming the “spokesman of a generation”. Various posthumous releases have been issued since the death of Kurt, overseen by other members Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobain’s widow Courtney Love. The band have sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide. Kurt’s legacy lives on and Nirvana’s influence is still seen in bands today. Here’s some of our favourites from the vaults.
Rihanna has revealed to her critics that no one will stop her seeing her ex-beau Chris Brown. According to the New York Post, Rihanna is also defying her management team over her relationship with Brown.
Rihanna released her last album ‘Talk That Talk’ in November 0f 2011, which spawed the giant track We Found Love with Calvin Harris, has also revealed that she has started work on her next album. She’s headlining the BBC Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend event which is taking place in June in London to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games. Rihanna will headline the event’s second night (June 24), with Jay-Z closing the show on the event’s opening evening (June 23).
Rihanna, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, is a Barbadian singer songwriter. She was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, and moved to the United States at 16 to pursue a recording career under the watchful eye of record producer Evan Rogers, then signing to Def Jam Recordings.
In 2005 Rihanna released her debut studio album, Music of the Sun, which managed to peak in the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart and features the Billboard Hot 100 top five single “Pon de Replay“. Less than a year later Rihanna released her second studio album, A Girl Like Me in 2006 which peaked within the top five in the US and spawned her first number one single, “SOS“. Rihanna’s third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad was released in May 2007 and spawned the hit single she become most synonomous with – “Umbrella“, and other hits “Don’t Stop the Music“, “Take a Bow” and “Disturbia“. Good Girl Gone Bad was nominated for nine Grammy Awards and won Best Rap/Sung Collab for “Umbrella”. Her fourth studio album Rated R was released in 2009 and produced the top-ten singles “Russian Roulette“, “Hard” and “Rude Boy”, with the latter achieving the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Loud (2010), Rihanna’s fifth studio album, spawned the number-one hits “Only Girl (In the World)“, “What’s My Name?” and “S&M“. “We Found Love” served as the lead single from Rihanna’s sixth studio album, Talk That Talk (2011). The song was an international success, topping the charts in eighteen countries and becoming a global dancefloor hit.
Rihanna’s has become and international hit making machine, earning numerous awards and acolades. Rihanna has made eleven number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which makes her the youngest solo artist to achieve this. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade. She is also the highest selling digital artist in US history, selling 47,571,000 million singles as of 2012. Furthermore, she has also shipped 7.3 million album units in the United States as of September 2011. The songstress has sold more than 25 million albums and 60 million singles worldwide since her career began in 2005, making her one of the best selling artists of all time. Wow. The girl is unstoppable. Rihanna has become well know for her risque and sexy videos, and outfits, which you can check out in her videos below. What’s your favourite?
Pete Doherty has spoken to the NME about his forthcoming plans to release a new album, revealing he already has 12 songs ready.
The former Libertines frontman told NME in an exclusive interview that he has 12 songs written and is currently working on them with producer Adem Hilmi.
Currently living in Paris, Pete Doherty has stated that he is under contractual obligations with his label EMI to fulfil another record. Are you excited to hear a new record from this English Stalwhart? Check out Can’t Stand Me Now, which is a slice of The Libertines scuzzy indie at it’s best, for what we can only hope is to come.
There was never really any doubt that Guns N’ Roses were to make it into the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame, it was just a question of when. The date has been set, and now it announce that Green Day will deliver Guns N’ Roses’ induction speech at the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on April 14 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Others set to make it in this year include, Red Hot Chili Peppers, who will be inducted by Chris Rock, Public Enemy’s Chuck D will induct the Beastie Boys, and Bette Midler will induct the late Laura Nyro, ZZ Top will induct Freddie King, Carole King for Don Kirshner, John Mellencamp for Donovan and the E Street Band’s Steve Van Zandt for Small Faces/Faces. Rolling Stone also stated that Smokey Robinson will induct The Blue Caps, The Comets, The Crickets, The Famous Flames, The Midnighters and The Miracles and The Band’s Robbie Robertson will induct Cosimo Matassa, Tom Dowd and Glyn Johns.
Ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum revealed he may possibly team with Slash to perform with Donovan at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. It seems genuine Guns N’ Roses reunion is not going to happen then. He told VH1 Radio Network: “I might play drums with Donovan because I played with him one time before, and ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’ was a song he recorded that John Bonham played drums on and Jimmy Page was the guitar player. I offered Donovan that me and Slash could play that maybe, but I haven’t heard back if he wants us to do it or not.”
Check out Slash’s solo offering here for a slice of what is to come at the ceremony.
Justin Bieber has commented on One Direction’s rapid rise to fame in the US, and has suggested they will be the biggest band in the world before the end of the year. The group, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson, recently made music history by becoming the first British band to top the US charts with their debut album, Up All Night, featuring hits such as What Makes You Beautiful and One Thing which has already topped the charts in the UK.
Justin Bieber is certainly one that knows fame very well, after become the apple of many a teenage girl’s eye as a result of a huge fanbase he organically grew on Youtube. Justin Spoke to newspaper The Mirror, and stated, ‘The single guys from One Direction are going to have a lot of fun. They look great, they sound great and, when you add their British accents into the mix, the American girls are going crazy for them,. Sure you need the talent, but you need to win over the American public, that’s what it is all about. One Direction are genuine good guys. The industry needs a fresh boy band, and by the end of this year they will be the biggest boy band in the world.’
Are One Direction set to steal Justin Bieber’s teenage throne?
Who would win in a fight to the death? Since there’s five of them, our money is on 1D.
For some of you it’s nearly the Easter Weekend. For others, it’s been the Easter Break for a while, you lucky things. To get you through the weekend, why not check out the best new videos from this week’s selection. There’s a lot to keep you going, and dancing all Easter long.
American Idol judge J-Lo takes on another great in another great music video, with Dance Again featuring Pitbull.
The weird and wonderful Steve Aoki takes on Cudi the Kid and Travis Barker of Blink 182 (and Box Car Racer, and various other pop punk incarnations) in his new video creatively entitles Cudi The Kid. Fabulous.
The infinately creative Post War Years give us an incredible instrumental track with Galapagos. If I had an ounce of talent that these guys have, I’d be more than happy.
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