April 2015

The Odd Future rapper has shared a video from two songs off his upcoming album Cherry Bomb which will be released this coming Monday (April 13). Tyler directed the video himself under his Wolf Haley moniker and it’s pretty impressive. Fucking Young, as well as being funny and silly, is a colourful and creative affair with some great photography. The six-and-a-half-minute long narrative tells the story of the breakdown of a relationship between Tyler and a girl who is far too young for him.

The new album Cherry Bomb features collaborations with Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Charlie Wilson, Chaz Bundick (aka Toro y Moi) and the Black Lips’ Cole Alexander. In a string of recent tweets Tyler has stated that he wants the album to go to Nº1. “TELL EVERYONE. IT DOESNT MATTER MUCH BUT I DO WANT A NUMBER 1 ALBUM JUST TO GO BACK TO THE N****S WHO SAID I WOULDNT,” he wrote on April 9. His last album Wolf (2013) peaked at Nº3 on the Billboard album charts and Nº 17 on the UK charts.

Tyler is currently on a US tour taking in dozens of cities in North America, as well as 2 performances at the Coachella music festival, the House of Bllues in New Orleans and Irving Plaza in New York. The European leg of his tour kicks off in the UK on May 12 in Scotland. Visit Tyler’s website for more information.

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The hottest song of the moment – the one that’s impossible to listen to without a smile on your face – has just got a brand new music video ahead of its official UK release on Simon Cowell’s Syco label. Jamaica-born OMI has already hit Nº 1 in 10 countries with the feel-good, reggae-infused track, and last week entered the UK Top 40 at Nº 37 on streams alone.

Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) is already among the top 10 most-streamed tracks globally, breaking the all-time streaming record in France with 1.3 million streams in a single week! The song has gained more than 100 million total Spotify streams, has reached Nº1 on Spotify in nine markets, and has seen combined YouTube views of more than 40 million. The track was also named one of ’16 Tracks You Need in Your Life Right Now’ by THE FADER.

OMI comes from the rural Jamaican parish of Clarendon. He met his music mentor and producer – Clifton ‘Specialist’ Dillon – in 2009 and set up his own music studio in Kingston.

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Madonna has released a stunning music video for her latest single Ghosttown. Jonas Akerlund, has once again, directed a Madonna masterpiece. The cinematic visual sees Madonna in a post-apocalyptic world surrounded by scenes of devastation and destruction. She eventually meets up with another survivor, Empire’s Terence Howard, better known as Lucius Lyon. They fall in love and although they don’t quite “wander off into the sunset”, it’s the post-apocalyptic equivalent.

Ghosttown is the second single from Madonna’s Rebel Heart album which was released last month and was stopped from hitting Nº1 on the Billboard album charts by, yep, you guessed it… the soundtrack to the first season of Empire!

We’re glad to see that despite her recent stage mishap Madonna is still wearing her beloved capes. We love her look in this video, very Stevie Nicks.

Last December hackers leaked unfinished songs from Rebel Heart – an act that Madonna called ‘artistic rape’ on Instagram. Due to this theft Madonna has taken a multi-platform approach to releasing this video and promoting her album. She used Snapchat, Instagram and Grindr for promotion and premiered the Ghosttown video on the broadcasting app Meerkat. A behind-the-scenes companion to the Ghosttown music video is available on Tidal.

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Tinashe shows off some serious high energy dance moves in the new video for her stellar track All Hands On Deck. Directed by Ben More the video was shot with a handful of backing dancers in a shipping yard. The photography is excellent, the setting very creative and the dancing sublime. It looks like Tinashe will continue her reign at the top of everyone’s R&B playlists.

The track is a Crunk&B song – a genre of hip hop music that originated in Memphis, Tennessee – with elements of West Coast hip hop, grime and late 1990s / early 2000s R&B. The thick bassline, club-friendly beat and pan-flute breakdown are complimented by Tinashe’s super-smooth vocals. She sings about a guy who broke her heart but now she’s glad to be free: “Kiss the old me goodbye, she’s dead and gone, dead and gone, dead and gone.”

In a recent interview with Billboard Magazine Tinashe talked about the filming of the video: “I feel like when you put yourself in a borderline dangerous situation, exciting things can happen. That shock value is always what you want to go for in a memorable video. We were over 100 feet in the air with no safety harnesses. Literally, we could have died. It was a thrill to make and I’m so excited for my fans to see this video. We really stepped it up, visually.”

All Hands on Deck is taken from Tinashe’s debut studio album Aquarius (2014).

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Rihanna debuted her latest single American Oxygen at the NCAA March Madness Music Festival (a free three-day outdoor music festival in celebration of the NCAA Men’s Final Four in downtown Indianapolis.). During her performance she protested the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. “Who’s feeling these new bullshit laws that they’re trying to pass over here? I say, ‘Fuck that shit,'” Rihanna told the crowd, “We’re just living our motherfucking lives.” After the festival performance she then dropped the official music video on the new streaming service TIDAL – which she co-owns along with a dozen or so music megastars.

The visual could be considered patriotic as Rihanna performs alone in front of the American flag, yet the visuals that flash in between Rihanna singing don’t make you feel good about America at all. The powerful images from America’s turbulent history include clips of Martin Luther King during his famous speech and his funeral procession, the 1969 Moon Landing, the Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics and 9/11. There are plenty of protest clips from Occupy Wall Street and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri to the UC Davis pepper-spraying incident and civil rights marches.

With American Oxygen Rihanna is showing a social and political consciousness that we haven’t really seen before from most of her past discography. The single is taken from her upcoming 8th studio album, following FourFiveSeconds and Bitch Better Have My Money.

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Morrissey’s new music video for Kiss Me A Lot takes a very different tack than the visuals we are used to seeing from him. Directed by fashion photographer Sam Esty Rayner the video was premiered via Morrissey’s True to You zine. It features the cantankerous singer performing with his live band interspersed with shots of scantily clad women with the song title written over their bodies in red lipstick. It’s funny but it seems like the video ends up treating women like meat – which is a bit ironic really, isn’t it Moz? Or maybe that’s the whole point.

Morrissey has had a bit of a bad run recently. Two of his previous North American tours were cancelled due to illness and last October he revealed that he has undergone a series of treatments for cancer. “They have scraped cancerous tissues four times already, but whatever,” he told Spanish-language newspaper El Mundo. “If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that. I’ll rest when I’m dead.”

Kiss Me a Lot is the 5th cut from Morrissey’s 10th solo studio album, World Peace Is None of Your Business (2014). The album did really well on the charts peaking at Nº2 in the UK and Nº14 in the US when it was released last summer.

Below is a poster for the singer’s upcoming Madison Square Garden show with Blondie — part of a larger tour of the US that starts on June 11 in New Orleans.

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Nick Jonas is in chains yet again – this time for The Wynwood Walls Edition of his chart topping hit Chains. The video was released on March 31 – exactly eight months after the first version in July last year. Directed by Black Coffee and artist Peter Tunney the video was filmed at Miami’s famous Wynwood Walls.

There is no official word from Jonas as to why he decided to release two videos – perhaps he’s just giving his solo album’s lead single another shot. The first video was quite dark and gritty, this one is full of colour and is more like a street party than a serious, grown-up video. Nick cruises around in a light-up rickshaw, smokes cigars, parties with scantily clad girls and even crowd surfs. It’s a completely different vibe than the first video.

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