Video: Beyonce f. Lady Gaga, “Videophone”
TOO MUCH GOING ON IN THIS VIDEO. First Beyonce is Rihanna complete with bleached-blonde Misfits lock, then she is a robot from a Bjork video, then she’s a Bond girl, Bettie Page, Neneh Cherry/Monie Love (in a Gerlan tee!) and like, the hottest/cattiest tranny since Amanda Lepore. Never mind that she looks HOT AS SHIT through the video, we just kinda think she needed to choose a couple themes and go with them.
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posted on Nov 17, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Bettie Page, Beyonce, bjork, Lady Gaga, Neneh Cherry, r&b, Rihanna
Dirty Money f. Drake, “Hurt (Loving You No More)” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Listen, we didn’t title our Drake cover story “Drake’s Rise to Fame and Fortune” because he’s our cousin. We’re sure in the time leading up to his debut album, Drizzy will bless many a major song with stellar guest verses, but this one is particularly good, even if it’s on a song where Diddy uses Auto-Tune to sound like T-Pain if he was really depressed and on a ton of Xanax. Like dude, cheer up, let someone else sing and Drake go bananas—it’s still money in your pocket.
Download: Dirty Money f. Drake, “Hurt (Loving You No More)” *Removed by request of Bad Boy Entertainment
Premiere: Lee Fields and Sugarman & Co., “Stand Up” MP3
- story Peter Macia
On November 24th Daptone Records will release Daptone Gold, a collection of some of the label’s rarest and most favorite singles and deep cuts on CD and a lovingly packaged double LP, which includes a poster, a sticker and some amount of gold foil. The recession is over! YAYYYY!! The always fiery Lee Fields appears three times: once on a duet with Sharon Jones, again on his own “Could Have Been” (Daptone founder Gabe Roth’s all-time fave), and on “Stand Up,” previously only available as a 45 RPM single. But since Thanksgiving is still a few weeks away and today is off-year election day in many cities around America, Daptone gave us the latter mpfree to get you in the proper state of mind for both voting and purchasing. Keep your eye on the Daptone store for pre-orders or wait until the 24th to buy in a dusty old vinyl shop.
Download: Lee Fields and Sugarman & Co., “Stand Up”
Premiere: Ryan Leslie, Transition Album Stream
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Annie Tritt (F55 outtake)
It seems like just yesterday that Ryan Leslie was sitting on a massive pile of breezy hits, trying to get them out to the world. Honestly, it was not actually that long ago, but even so, we’re totally okay with Leslie dropping a whole other record, and even more okay with imeem providing an album stream for us. First listen through has Leslie taking an even more grown and sexy route this time around. There is a song called—get ready—”SUNDAY NIGHT” about hanging out with your significant other at home and listening to records. And how he could probably do that forever. And how that’s all he wants to do. Sounds relaxing. Mainly though, this is an album of light jams that are pretty much telling us that, even when times are bad, at least we have this kinda dorky dude writing music to make us feel pretty good.
Hudson Mohawke Exclusive FADER Mix + Q+A
- story Matthew Schnipper
Hudson Mohawke didn’t want to give a tracklist for this exclusive FADER mix, perhaps because he didn’t want us to know the contents of the inside of his mind. Beatboxing, grime, new jack swing, glitchy stuff with big bass, futuristic R&B all make up parts of the mix, just like they do his music. Mohawke’s debut album Butter was just released and it’s a doozy, steady beat-based but completely manic with extra flairs zesting every track. The man has an eye for detail. If you haven’t yet checked out his music, download this killer primer he made of Butter and then check out his mix below. You should also check out his video game, Butterstar Galactica,” where you get to be a piece of butter. After the jump, we checked in with young Hudson about dream states, R&B hopes and weed.
Download: Hudson Mohawke FADER Mix
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posted on Oct 29, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC, MUSIC INTERVIEWS tags electronic/dance, Hudson Mohawke, mixes, r&b
Trey Songz f. Juelz Santana & Fabolous, “Say Ahh” MP3
- story Felipe Delerme
“Say Ahh” needs to marry this song and become the 2009 pop R&B hit version of Ashford and Simpson. We might’ve said Mary J. and K-Ci, but we want this to last. And by “this” we mean Trey Songz discarding his Tiger Beat cover panhandling and talking about what he knows best: getting girls drunk and having sex with them.
Download: Trey Songz f. Juelz Santana & Fabolous, “Say Ahh”
Ricco Barrino f. Young Dro, “Stupid Problems”
- story Felipe Delerme
Swag music kind of went the way of the two-toned durag this summer, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t, and better yet, won’t still yield some serious jams. The man who provided the choruses for a large share of those very same summer jams happens to be Ricco Barrino, Grand Hustle’s best kept secret and brother to American Idol winner and beacon of adult literacy, Fantasia Barrino. Now we’d long known Ricco’s singing ability, but apparently he can also rap, and is now ready to share this with the world, along with his problems, the foremost of which is the fact that he’s too good at cooking up drugs.
Download: Rico Barrino f. Young Dro, “Stupid Problems”
Little Dragon, “Blinking Pigs” MP3
Yukimi Nagano’s airy baduizms are a beautiful thing, and after her Sweden-based group Little Dragon gained a cult American following off its first online album and a series of twinkly videos, the band is releasing the slightly more electronic-based Machine Dreams and touring its face off. “Blinking Pigs” starts out like some chemistry fanatic’s basement noise project, then whorls into what Little Dragon does best: make easy-breezy, souljazz-flecked pop songs as a proscenium for Nagano’s dreamy warbles. The new record drops October 20, tour dates after the jump.
Download: Little Dragon, “Blinking Pigs”
Video: Amerie, “Heard Em All”
The obvious touchstone here is Rihanna, what with the badgirl saunter and Grace Jones-ish hoodie. But as much as we love the Rih, sometimes she doesn’t come with the oomph we’d expect from someone trying to give us juvenile delinquent-face: instead of Billy Idol snarls and erase-you dismissals, we get a blank slate. Enter Amerie, who has this tough lady thing down without overdoing it. Maybe it’s the inherent intelligence she conveys, expressive eyes, or who knows, it could just be the chainlink fence, like she’s hanging out by the dumpster behind the school on the “smoking hill,” or whatever was your school’s equivalent to the place the cool arty kids liked to talk smack.
T-Pain Got an iPhone App, Lil Kim Got Crazy Looking
- story Matthew Schnipper
Okay so not surprisingly big news that T-Pain is cashing in on the two things that make tons of money in our recession—Apple products and Auto-Tune—combining them into I Am T-Pain, an iPhone app that runs your voice through some Willy Wonka gerbilizer and makes you sound like laffy taffy. Gizmodo has a good technical rundown of the program, which seems like it may be worth your three dollars. The above video is just T-Pain showing it to a bunch of rappers, singers and Asher Roth, and is mostly unremarkable with the exception of how completely insane Lil Kim looks. This is probably old news, but it just seemed particularly egregious, like some obsessive Jocelyn Wildenstein fan. Kim, you are too cool to become a cat lady, from now on please let Auto-Tune be your most unnatural indulgence.
