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The Killers – Somebody Told Me
The Killers is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada who have combined music styles from the 1980s and 1990s with modern synthetic music. Formed in 2002 and made up of Brandon Flowers (vocals, keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar, vocals), Mark Stoermer (bass guitar, vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr., (percussion, drums). They released their debut [...]
M.I.A. – Bucky Done Gun
M.I.A.’s work in music often encompasses several kinds of genres she has expressed interest in, with lyrics that voice politics, social realism and humour. Her artwork and clothes similarly feature varying topics and colour schemes. An accomplished visual artist by 2002, M.I.A. came to prominence in early 2004 through file-sharing of her singles “Galang” and [...]
Regina Spektor – Rejazz
Regina Spektor is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City’s East Village. Spektor has said that she has created 700 songs, but that she rarely writes any of them down. She has also stated that she never aspired to write songs herself, but [...]
Jay-z vs Beatles by Dj Danger Mouse – Change Clothes
The Grey Album is an album by Danger Mouse, released in 2004. It uses an a cappella version of rapper Jay-Z’s The Black Album and couples it with instrumentals created from a multitude of unauthorized samples from The Beatles (more commonly known as The White Album). The Grey Album gained notoriety due to the response [...]
Santogold & Casablancas & NERD – My Drive Thru
“My Drive Thru” is a collaborative single by The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, American singer-songwriter Santogold, and The Neptunes producer and N.E.R.D. member Pharrell Williams. The song was created for Converse’s centennial and was released in June 2008. The Times made “My Drive Thru” their track of the day, calling it “a three-headed Frankenstein monster [...]
Fela Kuti – Billy Jean Remix
The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is essentially a fusion of jazz, funk and Traditional African Chant. It is characterized by having African style percussion, vocals, and musical structure, along with jazzy, funky horn sections. The “endless groove” is also used, in which a base rhythm of drums, muted guitar, [...]
Santogold – L.E.S. Artistes
Santogold was lead singer of the Philadelphia-based punk rock/ska band Stiffed, whose 2003 album, Sex Sells, and 2005 album, Burned Again, were produced by Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer. While in this group, she was offered a solo contract by Martin Heath of Lizard King Records. Her initial singles “Creator” and “L.E.S. Artistes” received attention [...]
Orson – No Tomorrow
Orson is a BRIT Award-winning American rock band from Hollywood, California who formed in 1999. Originally the band called themselves Halogen. Recently they were also known as Dr. Lady. Their self-financed debut Bright Idea, released by Mercury Records in 2006, was produced in Los Angeles by Noah Shain and went on to find chart success [...]
Sublime – Santeria
Sublime was an American ska-punk and reggae band that originated in Long Beach, California. Sublime consisted of three members: Bradley Nowell (vocals and guitar), Bud Gaugh (drums), and Eric Wilson (bass guitar). Former members include Kelly Vargas (who played drums while Gaugh was in rehab) and Michael Happoldt for a very short time (guitar). The [...]
Feist – My Moon My Man
Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Juno Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Canadian singer-songwriter. She performs as a solo artist under the name Feist and as a member of the indie rock supergroup Broken Social Scene. At the 2008 Juno Awards on April 6, 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, she was [...]