This jazzy retro soul “reinterpretation” warms up cold and snowy winter days so much better than the original synth-pop creation.

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Because good lyrics should read like poetry and Willie sure knows how to write ‘em…

After carefully considering the whole situation,
I stand with my back to the wall.
Walkin’ is better than running away
and crawling ain’t no good at all.

And if guilt is the question, truth is the answer.
I’ve been lying to me all along.
There ain’t nothing worth saving except one another
and before you’ll wake up I’ll be gone.

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So Barry Manilow released an album of duets just in time for Halloween this year. What made the timing of that perfect was the fact that the album was all duets with dead people. When you listen to the album, there is definitely something creepy and spooky about it. Maybe it’s the lifelessness of the duet partners – you know you won’t hear anything new or different from them and there’s no unique studio banter or chemistry. It’s like dancing with corpses.

Then you start thinking about how they’re dead and it makes you sad that they’re not here to grace us with any new music or performances. And as you listen to the album you think about how so many of the greats have died and what do we have to replace them with? They just don’t write songs the way they used to. Basically, it makes you contemplate mortality which is fitting for Halloween.

The highlight of the album in his duet with Judy Garland on her classic Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart. It’s such a great song and the Manilow Garland duet is light, fun, and really swings. Judy still has her swagger, even from the grave.

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For fans of: Palma Violets, Jaguar Ma, Sultan Bathery.

We’re feeling particularly spacey on this dreadful Monday, so what better way to come down from the weekend than with the trippy, intergalactic sounds of Seven’s new EP, “Lost In The Deep Sounds Of Space?!” The French quartet’s album comes a little under a year after their first stellar EP, “Beware!,” which was released back in July 2013. “Lost In The Deep Sounds Of Space” fades in with “Pull The Trigger Son…Or You’ll Be Killed,” a wavy, riff-heavy track reminiscent of indie kings Palma Violets and Jaguar Ma. ” Next up is “Mr. Couch Potato,” a fuzz-soaked surf-rock influenced track sounds like a B-Side of fellow European rockers Sultan Bathery, and has an undeniably infectious beat that will have you jumping in no time. Bringing the EP to a close is “Psycolours,” a prismatic track ripe with rich layers, strong guitars, and pleading lyrics of, “baby, give me one more shot!” The desperate begging reads our minds: three tracks just isn’t enough! Hopefully we see more of Seven soon, we NEED more of this in our lives!

You can download Seven’s “Lost In The Deep Sounds Of Space” for free on BandCamp here.

“Lost In The Deep Sounds Of Space” Track Listing:

1. Pull The Trigger Son…Or You’ll Be Killed
2. Mr. Couch Potato
3. Psycolours

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John Legend has been around for almost 10 years now and he has sure cemented himself into the music industry. With his soulful vocals and his great songwriting he looks to put it all together for his fourth studio album “Love In The Future” set to be released on September 3rd. Legend has won many Grammy’s and has had multiple Platinum selling albums and he looks to continue that success. His last album was so far his least successful album and now he looks to rebound from that with his new album “Love In The Future”.

His first single “Who Do We Think We Are” featuring Rick Ross is a slow jam packed R&B song. Legend’s vocals excel very well here but all together the song is somewhat lackluster. It is a solid effort but not one that should have been a first single. His second single “Made To Love” is a guitar and drum driven track that works well here. It’s is a pretty good song that although sounds different from Legend’s normal work, it works very well for him.

His third single “All Of Me” is a great song stripped down to only a piano and Legend’s great voice. Lyrically and vocally this is top notch and it’s no surprise coming from John Legend himself. This is so far the top track off the album and he sounds great here.

Overall “Love In The Future” looks to be a good album coming from the reliant John Legend. You can always count on Legend to release a straight up R&B record and that’s exactly what he is doing here. It should be a good to great release something that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

His music video for “Made To Love”

His new single “All Of Me”

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When Odd Future crashed into the hip-hop scene in 2010, a then 16-year-old Earl Sweatshirt took the internet by storm with his advanced and potent lyrical skill. And then, out of nowhere, Earl disappears at the height of Odd Future’s popularity.

We all know the story by now. His mother sent him to a Samoan boarding school, unhappy with his delinquent behavior and declining grades. A year later, he returned seeming like a new man, and Doris is what he has to show for it.

Doris is an incredible yet easy album to listen to. It’s completely smooth from start to finish.  Earl may be best known for his precocious way around a rhyme, but Doris features instrumental interludes and expanded mid-song diversions. “Chum”, Earl’s single that’s been out for a while now, isn’t exactly the album centerpiece, but it’s the song you’ll go back and listen to over and over again purely based on the simplicity of Earl’s rhymes his personal reflections over a haunting repeated piano melody.

Doris is sprawling, weird, extremely original, yet also light and beautiful when you catch the right moments. It’s a comforting return to minimalism and musicality in hip-hop.

Tracklist

1. “Pre” f. SK La’ Flare
2. “Burgandy” f. Vince Staples
3. “20 Wave Caps” f. Domo Genesis
4. “Sunday” f. Frank Ocean
5. “Hive” f. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies
6. “Chum”
7. “Sasquatch” f. Tyler, The Creator
8. “Centurion” f. Vince Staples
9. “523”
10. “Uncle Al”
11. “Guild” f. Mac Miller
12. “Molasses” f. RZA
13. “Whoa” f. Tyler, The Creator
14. “Hoarse”
15. “Knight” f. Domo Genesis

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Big Sean is prepping to release his new album “Hall Of Fame” on August 27th. “Hall Of Fame” is a follow up to his highly successful album “Finally Famous” which featured hits such as “Dance (A$$)” with Nicki Minaj and “My Last” with Chris Brown. Big Sean looks to continue his success with his new album with huge features all over the place such as Lil Wayne, Nas, Kid Cudi, Nicki Minaj and Miguel.

So far the first few singles haven’t garnered the same success as his last album and have only been moderate hits. The first three singles “Guap”, “Switch Up”, and “Beware” to me doesn’t seem like logical choices for the first singles mainly because there was nothing really special about these tracks. The fourth single “Fire” is so far the best track released off the album. Big Sean takes a more serious approach on this single rapping about his life and making it through the “Fire”. It’s not your typical club track and that’s what makes it that much better. Miley Cyrus is also in the music video which doesn’t hurt it at all.

Overall Big Sean had big success on his last album so he has a lot to live up to on this album. He doesn’t seem too worried though because he is looking to put out his own music and not following what anyone else wants which is always a good thing for an artist. In an interview he said

“Not going by the label standards. I’m not going by the club standards. This is just what the fuck I want to do. Some people are going to like it. Some people are going to hate it; regardless, I’m just doing me.”

This album looks to be a solid release with many anticipated songs featuring Nicki Minaj, Miguel, Kid Cudi and many more. Here is hoping the rest of the album is better than the first three singles and if it sounds anything like his past hits or “Fire” then this album could do very well for Big Sean.

Check out the music video for “Fire”

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Trap Music  is everything you would expect from A$AP Ferg, setting the path for promising 2013.

Track Listing:

1. Let It Go
2. Shabba (ft. A$AP Rocky)
3. Lord (ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
4. Hood Pope
5. Fergivicious
6. 4:02
7. Dump Dump
8. Work (Remix) (ft. A$AP Rocky, French Montana, Trinidad Jame$ & ScHoolboy Q)
9. Didn’t Wanna Do That
10. Murda Something (ft. Waka Flocka Flame)
11. Make A Scene
12. Fuck Out My Face (ft. D-Real, Onyx & Aston Matthews)
13. Cocaine Castle

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Glen Campbell was releasing hit singles in the past, 60’s and 70’s. They were distinctive, sure, but they also had a way of masking the power of the songs that Campbell so artfully performed stand out beyond all the rest.

“See You There,” Glen Campbell upcoming album being released on August 13 brings down the arrangements and casts eight of Campbell’s hits in a more intimate light. The album, comes out on Speakeasy this upcoming weekend, the album includes four songs Campbell cut during sessions for his 2011 album, called “Ghost on the Canvas,” which is when he recorded new vocal takes on his classic songs. Surfdog Records founder Dave Kaplan and longtime collaborator Dave Darling enlisted musicians to complement them with subtle, rootsy arrangements that lay bare an elegiac quality on songs like “Gentle on My Mind” or “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Check out the album because this maybe Glen Campbell last release due to Alzheimer’s. He’s a legend and an artist who has done some many great things with his music, it would be sad not to be heard by this gifted musician.

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Tech N9ne’s thirteenth album “Something Else” has finally been released, and those who consider 13 to be an unlucky number might want to rethink their superstitions after listening to this record. The standard edition boasts 21 tracks, busting through with the first track “Straight Out the Gate”, featuring the vocals by Serj Tankian of System of a Down. Other appearences on the album include Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, B.o.B, Cee Lo Green and more. Tech N9ne incorporates musical elements from all genres (I’m LOVING every orchestral bit.)

The album is spilt into three sections; Fire, Water, and Earth. The Fire tracks flawlessly marries the genres of rock and hip-hop and pairs them with vivid, dark, and sometimes terrorizing lyrical imagery. “Fragile” is sure to be a popular track, with Kendall Morgan offering soulful vocals and Kendrick Lamar spitting out some real pensive poetry. The Water section is primarily in place to break up the heaviness of the album, club bangers with lyrics that won’t bring up every emotion inside you, unlike the rest of the album. The last section, Earth, is definitely a handful of more personal tracks with the heartfelt “That’s My Kid” and the autobiographical “Meant to Happen”.

Over a complicated sounding production, Tech N9ne comes off as sharp and clean, giving the listener a number of layers to peel back as they experience Something Else. It really is something else.

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