The latest hip thing to do is cover Britney Spears’ “Womanizer”, and Cologne,
Germany’s Timid Tiger does a great job of making the cover their own. Timid Tiger gives it a electric-hip hop-soul spin and for those of you who don’t like Britney, you may like their version instead.
Welcome to the latest edition of the VIII, where, as before, I’ll be featuring eight different performers, currently on the move, whom I have enjoyed in the past, with a few recent discoveries as well.
Danny Ross, is a excellent pop vocalist and pianist, very similar in style to Norah Jones and Bens Fold Five with [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the VIII, where I’ll be featuring eight different performers, currently on the move, whom I have enjoyed in the past, with a few recent discoveries as well.
Welcome to the latest edition of VIII! This is a special Halloween edition, in honor of birthday girl and amazing singer/songwriter Heather Lloyd of ilyAIMY. Heather also has a solo album called Upholstered Fortress, available through her MySpace page.
To complement Tina Turner’s long-awaited return to arenas across North America this Fall, Capitol/EMI has just released Tina!, a new 18-track CD and digital collection of the eight-time Grammy Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s top hits, rare live recordings and two exclusive new tracks. Long time Tina fans will love it and new fans should embrace it.
While I’ve been writing reviews and the occasional A Moment’s All I Ask here at MGF for a while now, I’ve been wanting to shake things up a bit by starting a new column. So, welcome to the first edition of VIII, where I will regularly feature eight performers or albums that are on the move, all of whom you should know about. …
The top story of the VMAs this year was Britney Spears, and only for the right reasons this time. She is back in her healthy form, looking balanced and happy, and I’m honestly thrilled that she’s back. She swept the awards after not winning in the past and I hope this is a sign of good things to come. …
Normally, I try to pay as little attention as possible to former American Idol star Clay Aiken and “Shake Your Bon Bon” Ricky Martin. The rumor mill/gossip has suggested, that perhaps, Aiken and Martin are gay. Recently, both Aiken and Martin have recently become fathers, both via artificial insemination to surrogate mothers. I believe that every celebrity deserves the right to have privacy in their personal lives, however, if you’re going to make moves such as this, why not go ahead and come out if you are indeed gay? It’s 2008, you can be out, I’m openly bisexual and out, does that make you feel any better guys? Just checking.
Mercury /Island Def Jam recording artist, One Block Radius, are a combo of old and new school, with a sound that combines pop, R&B, funk and hip-hop. The trio, made up of Chico, CA native Mary James, Indiana-born DJ MDA and San Francisco’s MC Z-Man, counts among their influences hard-core prog-rap pioneers like De La Soul and Cypress Hill, ska-rockers Sublime and classic ’80s soul crooners like Stevie Winwood, Hall and Oates and David Bowie, synthesized into a melting pop that effortlessly crosses genres. This group samples the White Stripes for “Mama’s Heart,” they have no problem making it all work itself out with ease.
Former American Idol contestant Jon Peter Lewis’ sophomore LP is both emotionally charged and pop-hooked filled, as the songwriting is pretty solid and Lewis’ talent doesn’t fail him when applied appropriately. …