Reeve Carney feat. Bono - Rise Above 1

Reeve Carney plays Spiderman in the Broadway show. But more than that, as a singer, he has sung with the likes of Michael Jackson and B B King.

Here, he sings with the U2 frontman Bono. I like the music. I can hear it playing on my play list for quite sometime.

Enrique Iglesias - Ayer

Enrique Igleasias is premiering the video for his song "Ayer".

Enrique Iglesias - Ayer

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed

If you didn't read or hear about Ellie Goulding last year, you: 1. Missed one of the best albums last year and one hell of a amazing voice. 2.You get another chance here and now as Ellie is releasing a new video for her song "Starry Eyed", that was filmed especially for the US market.

"Starry Eyed" is still as wonderful as the first time I heard it, and the new video is cute and quite beautiful with it's litterly magic moments, Ellie in a knitted hat, a space nebula, and special effects flying around. Check it out.

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed

Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera )

Just a couple of days ago, I posted Adam Levine with the Gym Class Heroes. Lately, the Maroon 5 frontman has collaborated with Christina Aguilera. The single is called "Moves Like Jagger."

The song is upbeat and has a good tempo. Wouldn't say legendary but good until it lasts.

Will Young - Jealousy

Will Young debuts lead single Jealousy. It's a dance track produced by the fantastic producer Richard X with balladry-like vocals over it, not too different to Leona Lewis new single, but I would rather describe "Jealousy" as me it's a dreamy dance track that that could've been a modern Eurythmics-song. The song is rather heartfelt with Will Young's vocals pouring out lines as "And my whole world is under attack. What kinda love am I facing?".

The single is being released on August 21st, with the new album "Echoes" being released the following day.

UPDATE: The video is here!

Will Young - Jealousy

Former Mini Viva-member, Britt Love, going solo

The British duo act Mini Viva had was successful with their first single "Left My Heart in Tokyo" and got good reviews and released two more singles and an album, but they failed to follow up the sales of the lead single and split late last year. Now one of the girls, Britt Love, is trying it out on her own with the Youth Kills-produced single "Come With Me".

And What does it all sounds like? Well, it sounds like a member of Mini Viva singing over a track that could be a Xenomania-attempt to repeat Robyn's success with "With Every Heartbeat" -exactly like that actually. But I LOVE it. If you gonna rip-off/make a tribute to someone, learn from the best.

Britt Love - Come With Me


If you join Britt Love's FB-page you can download the track for free at: www.facebook.com/iamBrittLove

Gym Class Heroes - Stereo Hearts (feat. Adam Levine)

This video evokes some nostalgia: Remember the stereo? Well, have to admit that I belong to the stereo generation, well before the CDs and the iPods. I remember buying cassettes and then rewinding it like 100 times to go back to the favorite part of the song, the chorus and to write down the lyrics.

Here's Gym Class Heroes with their latest album and single. This album is a contiunity to their second album The Papercut Chronicles. It's also a comeback for the band after their lead singer Travie McCoy went solo in 2010.

And yes, to add up more spice to the song, it features Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.

Repeat of the Day: McLean - My Name (Ian Carey remix video)

As I was going through my playlist in my notebook, I suddenly got hold of this song. I never knew I had downloaded this song or it existed. But since last night, this song has been on repeat. Here's McLean for ya'll.

Pitbull - Rain Over Me (feat. Marc Anthony)

After joining Jennifer Lopez on her big comeback single "On the floor", Pitbull is now teaming up with the other half of the couple....wait, hang on, that's right, they recently got divorced.....ah, whatever. Pitbull in other words got Puerto Rican-American singer Marc Anthony to sing the chorus on his latest hit. We like this dance sound, it's catchy and the "ay ay ay..." give us that tiny latin-flavor which is nice.As was the case with "On The Floor", "Rain Over Me" is also produced by the American pop industry's new lovechild RedOne. The video is directed by David Rousseau.


Pitbull - Rain Over Me (feat. Marc Anthony)

Luigi Masi - Pick Up Line

Luigi Masi declared that he was gonna retire for a while after releasing his debut album with three top10 singles on the UK Chart. But it seem that he couldn't keep away from the music business for long, because now he's teasing us with new material in form of the track "Pick Up Line". It's not as good as "Strobelight" or "Armed with love", but it's a decent track and we're excited just to hear more from him.

The track is already out on iTunes and Spotify.

Luigi Masi - Pick Up Line

Ed Sheeran - The A Team

This video has been around for a year, but the song "The A Team" just got released in UK last month and immediately nabbed the number 3 spot on the UK Chart. And no question why he did. It's a wonderful ballad and the young 20-year old can easily keep up and deserve to be compared to artists like James Blunt, David Gray, Joshua Radin and James Morrison. This is the type of singer-songwriter tracks that we absolutely love.

I have a bit of a struggle to figure out 2 things: 1) He's voice/tone reminds us A LOT of another singer, but who? 2) What is the song about, really? Any clues? Feel free to leave answers in the comments section. Id appreciate it. :)

Ed Sheeran - The A Team

Giorgia - Il Mio Giorno Migliore

A really good Italian pop song from singer Giorgia. Giorgia is one of the most famous artists in Italy and has released over 10 studio albums. Now she's premiering the video for her brand new track "Il Mio Giorno Migliore(~"My Best Day")".

The now 40 year old singer still showcases that she's got a wonderful soulful tone and still got her register and vocal abilities intact. The song got a somewhat modern pop sound disguising a classic Italy-pop formula. But we don't mind, not at all. It's catchy, emotional, engaging and makes us wanna move and sing along.   


The video shows shots of Giorgia shaking her body in the same spot and singing in different colorful outfits with various backgrounds changing behind her. What sets this video apart from many other videos is the fantastic photography and the dynamic special effects that's added to it. Our favorite parts though must be the hilarious choreography and massive syncronised dancing her dancers are occupying themselves with.

Georgia - Il Mio Giorno Migliore

Gummy - Love Recipe

They say that the way to a man's heart goes through the stomach. If that's true maybe Korean artist Gummy have the answer with her new song "Love Recipe".Gummy's music is something as unusual as sophisticated K-Pop, and the video for "Love Recipe" is as cute as the title with lots of doggy-love! 

Gummy - Love Recipe

Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You

Gavin DeGraw is back with another wonderful piano-based singer-songwriter ballad.

Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You

Washed Out - Amor Fati

In the league of new singers and releases, Ernest Greene is the latest addition. Greene who calles himself Washed Out has released his first full-length album Within and Without.

Upon why he named himself Washed Out, in an interview to NPR he says, "It basically means that a shot is overlit — just a little blown-out looking," Greene says. "People say that my music is like that."

About his music he further says, "I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers."

Giorgio Tuma - New fabled stories

So who is Giorgio Tuma? They're the eight-member band from Lecce, Italy with Giorgio Tuma in the vocals. His voice is so mellow that it blends into the music in perfect synchronicity.

As we speak of summer, this tune has a very summery feel to it. Imagine a riverside picnic and then a relaxed afternoon with music as such. Bliss.

Lady Antebellum - Just a Kiss

"Just a Kiss" was one of the last songs recorded for Lady Antebellums third studio album "Own the night". The song was inspired by the band member Hillary Scott's love life. The song is about the love between two newly formed couples. The arrangement of the slow tempo power country ballad is typical for Lady Antebellum and resembles their huge hit "Need You Now" -which isn't a bad thing. Both songs are great.

Lady Antebellum - Just a Kiss

Emre Altuğ - Zil

Turkish actor and popular pop artist Emre Altuğ is premiering his latest video "Zil". Emre was working with American writers and producers a while back and was said to be working on an English language album, those plans must've been scratched or post-poned because on his new album(also named "Zil") is no English tracks to be found. But I don't mind as long as we continuously are getting great turk-pop songs like this.

Emre Altuğ - Zil

Luis Fonsi - Gritar

Luis Fonsi is a wellknown name in Latin America since he's Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and composer. His latest single is called "Gritar" and is a nice acoustic piece of traditional pop culture. And Luis encourage you to scream and shout(Gritar). So go ahead and sing(scream) along if you feel like it.

Luis Fonsi - Gritar

Pixie Lott - All About Tonight

Pixie Lott is back with new material. Here she premieres the video for her new single "All about tonight". And we get some new looks from Pixie along with a hairdo that ages her and legs, legs and legs. The song is happy, upbeat and fun. The single is scheduled to be released on September 4th.

Pixie Lott - All About Tonight

Demi Lovato - Skyscraper

After dropping out of her headlining tour and getting into a treatment facility for emotional och physical issues back in October the 18 year old Disney starlet Demi Levato is premiering the first single from her upcoming third album which is said to be inspired by Rihanna and Keri Hilson and being a "little more pop, more R&B and more soulful" than her previous work according to Demi herself.

The new lead single is called "Skyscraper" and is written by Toby Gad, Kerli Kõiv and Lindy Robbins and was released digitally on the 12th of July. The song was originally written for Kerli's sophomore album. In the Mark Pellington-directed video Demi stands in a white dress in the Bonneville Salt Flats while singing "catching teardrops in my hands" with quivering voice. The song is quite simple, but yet effective, and Demi showcases her amazing vocals.

"You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper, Oh
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the groundLike a skyscraper!"

Many songs has been about self-esteem recently, but rarely it's been as intimately personal as Demi gets here.
When she sings that "you can tear me down" but that she'll be ""rising from the ground, like a skyscraper", you feel the emotion and believe that it's self experienced, and that she really sees herself as a towering survivor. Demi Lovato describes the 12-hour video shoot as "both physically and mentally tough", and that she would break down and cry between cuts, "because this song is so personal".

Demi Lovato - Skyscraper

Leona Lewis - Collide

Leona Lewis premiered her new single "Collide" on Scott Mills show on Radio One last Friday. It's a bit of a new direction for her. She's got help from progressive house DJ Avicii(aka Tim Berg) who's provided the backtrack for her. The song is also produced by Sandy Vee, and co-written by Autumn Rowe. In Leona's version she's singing a lovely ballad-ish melody that fits perfectly over the music which results in a beautiful forward-moving song with piano melodies. The song is a grower, would fit perfect as soundtrack to your car/train(whichever you prefer) ride, and kinda sounds like a dance remix of a ballad, so I imagine it would sound wonderful in an acoustic version as well.

"Collide" is the lead single from Leona Lewis third studio album scheduled to be released sometime late this year. Lewis describes her upcoming album as "energetic, deep, and unique". She also commented that it would have a darker tone and that she would be putting her "heart into the lyrics". She cited Tracy Chapman, Kate Bush and Tears for Fears as the album's primary influences.

Leona Lewis - Collide

Zero Assoluto - Questa Estate Strana

Our beloved Italian indie popping duo Zero Assoluto is treating us to a wonderful weird world with their new video, "Questa Estate Strana", which means this strange summer. And it is strange alright we're talking about skiing downhill stairs, journalists using ice creams as microphones, a girl eating hay in her living room,  an american football player throwing a huge fish during a match and things we can't even describe. But needless to say, this video has to be watched! And the song then? It's a great kinda mellow, chillout track with cutesy melancholic melodies.

Zero Assoluto - Questa Estate Strana

Party Friday: Roger Sanchez - Worldwide (feat. Mobin Master & MC Flipside)

Roger Sanchez is an American house DJ well known around the world with previous hits as "Another Chance", "Lost", and for this years collaboration with Far East Movement on the track "2gether". Now Roger is back with a super hot club track with fierce lyrics and hard beats called "Worldwide".

The track is the culmination of Roger's travels around the world, literally travelling “from Ibiza to Roma, London to Barcelona” on a weekly basis. The track was a collaboration between Sanchez, Australia's Mobin Master, and Canada's MC Flipside. 

Roger Sanchez - Worldwide (feat. Mobin Master & MC Flipside)
Roger Sanchez - Worldwide feat. Mobin Master & MC Flipside (Original Mix) by Roger Sanchez

Simple Plan - Jet Lag (feat. Natasha Bedingfield)

It's been quite a while I haven't posted. I was jet lagged from hours of flight, I should say! Well, not really. Been traveling but not jet lagged. But here's a song about jet lag, and here's Simple Plan after a long time.

I like the airport for it's filmed in the airport. Airports have that special feeling--the joy of receiving someone and the pain of bidding farewell. And also, it's a place from where you start a new journey, head toward a new destination with so many dreams and aspirations.

So here it is: Simple Plan featuring Natasha Bedingfield.

Chipmunk - Take Off (feat. Trey Songz)

British pop rapper Chipmunk is doing a more traditional hip-hop with his latest single "Take Off". The track combines rap-versers and a sung chorus, sung by American R&B singer Trey Songz. I must say I really like this old school take. More of this plz. What do you reckon?

Chipmunk - Take Off (feat. Trey Songz)

Teddybears STHLM - No More Michael Jackson

We're a bit behind on this. The Electrorockers Teddybears STHLM premiered their new single "No More Michael Jackson" a year after The King of Pop's death. It's a nice tribute and goes balls out. Such bombastic beat.

Teddybears consist of Patrik Arve, Joakim Åhlund and Klas Åhlund. Maybe you ain't familiar with these names, but Klas has produced some pretty impressive hits for artists like Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Sugababes, Jordin Sparks, I Blame Coco, Ke$ha and most recently Robyn.

"No More Michael Jackson" is a part of and also the name of Teddybears new EP. They will release two more EP's the coming future. Teddybears recently signed a contract with street fashion brand WeSC that will be their new distributor -the EP's will for example be available for purchase directly in WeSC boutiques.

Have a listen to the four tracks off the EP "No More Michael Jackson" below.

  Latest tracks by Teddybears Rock

Volga Tamöz - Şık Şık (feat. Murat Dalkılıç & Hepsi)

This is HOT! Hard trance beats meats ethnic rhythms in this Turkish dance fest -and you're all invited. Volga Tamöz is a Turkish producer that for example has helped written some songs for Hadise. Now he's releasing the first single and is joined by singer (one of our Turkish favorites) Murat Dalkılıç and R&B/pop girl group Hepsi on vocals. The result is nothing short of amazing. Now I want more throw-your-hands-in-the-air music with ethnic influences.

Volga Tamöz - Şık Şık (feat. Murat Dalkılıç & Hepsi)

Nause - Made of

"Made of" a fantastic house record from new Swedish duo Nause. They've made quite the name for themselves with some remixes for Britney Spears, Tiësto, Rebecca | Fiona and Lazee. Here's their debut video:

Nause - Made of

Jay Sean - Like This Like That (feat. Birdman)

Jay Sean returns to his slicker slow jam R&B sounds with the third single from his yet to be released album "Freeze Time", called "Like This Like That". The the video is pretty straight forward, as is the lyrics -it's the typical "Imma sex U up gurl"-lyrics we've heard before, but we still quite like it. It's cute and catchy.

Jay Sean - Like This Like That (feat. Birdman)

Frank Ocean - Novacane

Frank Ocean that we mentioned a while ago has gone and released a video for his song "Novacane" from his epic EP "Nostalgia, Ultra". Ocean's record label Def Jam announced its plans to release an EP containing tracks from Nostalgia, Ultra The EP will be released to iTunes on July 26, 2011. "Novacane" is the first single. Ocean announced that the re-release will be titled "Nostalgia, LITE", and is expected to feature seven tracks.

Frank Ocean - Novacane

Above & Beyond - Thing Called Love (feat. Richard Bedford)

"Thing Called Love" has been raving on the dance floors throughout Europe this spring, but it's a still an amazing dance stomping track that deserves to be mentioned in our blog.The song is the latest single to be taken from the trance trio’s critically acclaimed album "Group Therapy".

"There’s a thing called love, that we all forget
And it’s a wasted love, that we all regret
You live your life just once
So don’t forget about a thing called love”

Above & Beyond - Thing Called Love (feat. Richard Bedford)

Shy'm - Tourne

French singer Shy'm is giving us the forth single from her album "Prendre L'Air", called "Tourne". Which is a R&B/Pop song about turning the page and move on.

Video Update: Beyoncé - Best Thing I Never Had

Beyoncé premiers the video for her latest single "The Best Thing I Never Had".

The video is very pretty and quite romantic. It was filmed in Westchester county, Sleepy Hollow and Fort Greene by director Diane Martel. In the video Beyoncé is playing around in lingerie and getting dressed for her big day meanwhile she states in the song that she was the best thing he never had. In between we get cuts of old video footage of her prom night where her boyfriend at the time gets interested in another girl on the other dance floor and leaves Beyoncé.
 The video then cuts back to the present and we get to follow her on the rest of her wedding day.
The song is taken from Beyoncés album "4".

Beyoncé - Best Thing I Never Had

Whigfield - C'est cool

Whigfield had a huge hit in the mid 90's with her single "Saturday Night". In the video she's getting herself ready for the evening while being in a towel. In Whigfields latest video she's getting made up again, but this time by a ton of professionals for a bit raunchy photo shoot.The song is called "C'est cool" and is a catchy piece of pop with a "Ba ra ba ba ra ba" that gets stuck in your head.

Whigfield - C'est cool

Introducing: Alex Saidac - We Shine

Alex  Saidac is a 22 year old tomboy from Sweden, been break dancing to earn a living, DJ-ing throughout Europe and before that she was in the wild countryside of Argentina training to become one of the leading female Polo players in Spain and Scandinavia...in the men's team -you get the picture. After all that she got an internship in LA to pursue her dream of a career as a recording artist.

Now Alex Saidac is signed to a Swedish label in Stockholm(for some reason the music video is posted on YouTube by AATW, so one can assume she's gonna have an international release too -at least in the UK). Her new hit-team consists of none other than Holter/Erixon that for example wrote some hit singles for Greek artist Kostas Martakis. Alex Saidac's debut single is called "We Shine" -and what a smash it is! This is one of our favorite songs this summer. If this chorus won't get you up dancing with your hands in the hair -I don't know what's wrong with you.

"We Shine" gets released July 13th in Sweden.

Alex Saidac - We Shine

Video Update: Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

Coldplay has now released the video for their single "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall". The video follows the band playing across various colorful graffiti backdrops. It was filmed at Millennium Mills, near London City Airport.The mills also appear as the setting for a number of other music videos, including "Ask" by The Smiths, "Fluorescent Adolescent" by the Arctic Monkeys and "Take Back the City" by Snow Patrol.

This is what the Rolling Stones had to say about the video:
"Chris Martin has said that the graffiti of the early hip-hop movement in New York City in the Eighties was one of the chief inspirations for the songs on his band's forthcoming fifth album. In the video for "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," the first video from the still-untitled record, the band fully embraces that influence with animated tags and drawings that mark the walls and ground around them as they rock out in a bombed-out industrial zone. The vibrant, colorful clip is well-suited to the song, which has a shaky, excited energy and the sort of optimistic, romantic lyrics that have made Coldplay one of the world's most crowd-pleasing rock bands."

Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

M&D - Close Ur Mouth

M&D, is a South Korean project -a duo consisting of Heechul from South Korean boy band Super Junior and his SM Entertainment labelmate Jungmo from the rock band TRAX. The band name is an abbreviation for either "Midnight and Dawn" or "Miari and Dangyedong" in reference of Jungmo and Heechul's respective towns where they live.

Their debut song that they've written themselves is called "Close Ur Mouth" and make use of the duos respective backgrounds. It's a traditional K-Pop song with a catchy hook and some electric guitars thrown in for good measure.

The video is anything but standard high budget overproduced music videos that we're used to see from K-Pop acts. No, here we have a low budget video shoot in a Karaoke bar in Seoul directed by Heechul himself. Heechul is walking around in the bar's corridors while meeting and greeting different people, and it's quite the star studded video with cameos by famous K-Pop acts like Simon D, Miss A's Jia, FT Island members Hongki and Jonghun, BEAST Junhyung, and comedian Kim Gyeongjin.

M&D - Close Ur Mouth

Selena Gomez & The Scene - Love You Like A Love Song

Selena Gomez is back with yet another great pop/dance number. This time it's at a slower tempo than her usual hooky dance numbers, but by no means a ballad or a mid-tempo song. It's got grime sounds that are forming a pop beat. It's all very catchy. The track was written by Antonina Armato, Tim James, and Adam Schmalholz, and was produced by Rock Mafia.

In the video directed by Geremy Jasper and Georgie Greville, Selena is singing karaoke in an Asian karaoke barto different music videos, in which Selena also plays the different artists in them - all while singing the songs chorus "I-I love you like a love song, baby. And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat". The song is featured on Selena Gomez & The Scene's new album, released 28th of July.

Selena Gomez & The Scene - Love You Like A Love Song


 

Joe Jonas - See No More

Joe Jonas of The Jonas Brothers goes solo. The song is called "See No More" and is written by by Chris Brown and produced by Brian Kennedy. Joe describes said the following about the song to E! News: "The song is about a relationship ending and you’re trying to get over it, but at the same time you’ve got these mixed feelings [and] you’re fighting everything of seeing that person. It sounds like a sad song, but it carries a cool beat to it.”

It's a decent first try as a solo act, but this doesn't quite do it for us. But I don't doubt he'll have success. I'm just gonna hope for better material to come. What do you reccon? Joe's debut solo album is scheduled for a release on Sep 6th.

Joe Jonas - See No More

Havana Brown - We Run The Night

Havana Brown is an Australian DJ and singer who's been touring with artists like Britney Spears, Rihanna, Chris Brown and the Pussycat Dolls. Havana has now gone and released her debut single "We Runt The Night", written by More Mega. The single has already peaked at #5 at the ARIA Singles Chart, and got a platinum certification. The video was directed by Benn Jae, Tony Prescott.

Havana Brown - We Run The Night

Party Friday: Supermarkets feat. Danny - Crash and Survive

Supermarkets feat. Danny - Crash and Survive


Supermarkets is a "super dance producing group" consisting of several well-known Swedish producers and songwriters as Anders Bagge. They are gonna make commercial dance music and feature a new famous artists(both Swedish and international) on each track. First out is Danny on the track "Crash and Survive".

Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger

Cher Lloyd became famous while competing in X-factor UK. She stood out due to her tendency to do songs that she could both rap and sing in. Now she's releasing her first single showing off her personal style, it's a catchy and cool record, but one in a million right now that tells you to "get on the floor" -we're already there since the last song people! One could also argue that the song is about becoming as cool as Cher and get some Swagger.

Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger