Check Our Catalog “Singer, songwriter, and producer Miguel spent a handful of years behind the scenes, helping to create hits for others before he released his own hit single, “All I Want Is You,” in 2010.” –All Music Guide
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Kylie Minogue: Aphrodite
Posted in Dance Pop, Electronica, Rock/Pop on Jan 5th, 2011
Check Our Catalog “There are treats galore to be heard here…Aphrodite is pure Kylie magic. Everything that made you fall in love with her all over again before is present and correct here.” –BBC Music
Check Our Catalog “The remarkably sharp Barbadian-born pop star is now a woman with full, healthy claim to her sexuality, someone who’ll trill the sauciest lines while making damn sure her company is worth her while. None of the salacious hooks are a promise to any man, because they’re delivered for her own empowerment, and [...]
!!!: Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Posted in Alt Rock, Dance Pop, Indie, Rock/Pop on Nov 18th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “The sound popularized by the California band and like-minded label DFA (stuttering snares and high-hats, honking saxophone, cowbell and wood block percussion, disco guitar licks) would soon become synonymous with the decade’s urban club zeitgeist. Ten-plus years and four records later, their raw, post-punk-colored-funk attack still sounds as compelling as it did [...]
Lady Gaga: The Remix
Posted in Dance & DJ, Dance Pop, Electronica, Rock/Pop on Nov 18th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Gaga has employed a collection of more-than-capable producers to make her dance-ready smashes from “The Fame” and “The Fame Monster” even more propulsive on “The Remix.” Stuart Price flips around the chorus of “Paparazzi” to emphasize Gaga’s sense of longing, while Passion Pit turns “Telephone” into a delicious mix of techno, dubstep [...]
Check Our Catalog “…Upbeat tracks, produced by the likes of Rodney Jerkins (Mary J. Blige, Brandy), Harry Sommerdahl (Lindsey Lohan, Celine Dion), and Bruno Mars’ Smeezingtons (Justin Bieber, Travie McCoy), get the job done for the dancefloor.”–All Music Guide
Robyn: Body Talk Pt 1
Posted in Dance Pop on Oct 28th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Capturing the freedom and loneliness of independence, Body Talk, Pt. 1 is a concise set of songs on its own, and an impressive first third of the whole ambitious project.” –All Music Guide
Check Our Catalog “The likes of Kate Nash and company have flitted through this piano siren/exuberant dance-diva territory, but never mind, because this gorgeous genre starts now.”–The Boston Phoenix
Scissor Sisters: Night Work
Posted in Dance Pop, Electronica, Rock/Pop on Oct 28th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “These disco-funk fashion icons put in some serious work to make you move. Updating the neon-glow falsetto and disco-push of the Bee Gees (as on “Any Which Way’’) still proves the band’s go-to move, but they expand their approach on “Night Work’’ into an overarching orgy of ’80s pop-quoting. It’s hard work [...]
Check Our Catalog “Culled from her most recent tour, this album does include plenty of new tracks from Hard Candy (including “Beat Goes On,” featuring a guest shot from Kanye West). But she also includes plenty of classics and fan favorites, reminding us that, among all the many identities she tries on, Madonna is also [...]
Goldfrapp: Head First
Posted in Dance Pop, Electronica, Rock/Pop on May 10th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “It’s one of the most unabashed love letters to anthemic ’80s synth-pop ever laid to hard disc….If that sounds like an unappealing clarion call from a dark musical period that you’re still trying to forget, this isn’t the album for you. But for those of us who weren’t beaten up by Harold [...]
Check Our Catalog “Bieber makes all the right, charming moves for a teen, and he covers all the bases. The dance-pop songs are light on the ears yet memorable; the unrequited material sounds deeply felt; the ballads have all the necessary us-against-the-world teen-love dramatics.”–All Music Guide
Check Our Catalog “For an album with crowded electro-pop instrumentation, the music isn’t overbearing, and Little Boots’ cheeky lyrics never lose any of their dry attitude.”–Billboard.com
Hot Chip:One Life Stand
Posted in Dance Pop, Electronica, Indie, Rock/Pop on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Hot Chip look more likely than any of their peers to ascend one day to the intellectual electro-pop heights of Pet Shop Boys or Scritti Politti. Fuller than usual of slow songs and piano ballads, One Life Stand is their mellowest, most thoughtful effort so far — which means it carries the [...]
Check Our Catalog “Elly Jackson is the perfect London pop star of the moment: a 21-year-old loudmouth bossypants with appallingly awesome hair and a vacant stare of a voice. Along with co-writer and fellow synth dude Ben Langmaid, she’s ruling U.K. radio with splashy dance hits about sex and betrayal.”–Rolling Stone
BoA: BoA
Posted in Dance Pop, Rock/Pop, World Music on Nov 12th, 2009
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Check Our Catalog “Her total commitment to the game can result in some truly fun disposable pop. Not everything works — Tisdale isn’t convincing when she tries to deal in either pain or carnality, but when she sticks to the surface, she makes sure that Guilty Pleasure lives up to its title. “–All Music Guide
Ultra Dance, Volume 10
Posted in Dance & DJ, Dance Pop, Rock/Pop on Aug 19th, 2009
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Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)
Posted in Dance Pop, Electronica, Rap/Hip Hop, Rock/Pop on Aug 19th, 2009
Check Our Catalog “The acronym that forms the title of their latest stands for “The Energy Never Dies,” and they more than make good on that promise, blasting through 15 high-powered rave-rap jams that rarely lack for melodic hooks or rhythmic thrust.”–Billboard
Check Our Catalog “Fueled by heavy dance tracks and popping electronic beats, The Fame, the first album by the glamorous Lady Gaga, is a well-crafted sampling of feisty anti-pop in high quality.”–All Music Guide