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The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night – Review
“A Hard Day’s Night” explodes out of the gate and is an interesting type of song in that it doesn’t fit the normal formula of verse-chorus-verse. It is impossible not to love. The mix of Lennon and McCartney’s voices brings an entirely new Beatles to the forefront. And they don’t stop their insane pace of…
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The Beatles – With The Beatles – Review
The few cover are significantly better on ‘With The Beatles’ versus ‘Please Please Me.’ Classic covers include: “Please Mr. Postman,” “Roll Over Beethoven” and “You Really Got A Hold On Me.” As simple, and silly, as “I Wanna Be Your Man” sounds, Ringo brings an absolute gem. It’s almost as if Ringo designed the foundation…
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The Beatles – Please Please Me – Review
“Misery” and “Anna (Go To Him)” is completely forgettable. You can see early days and signs where The Beatles are going but nothing here would indicate they’d be massive stars aside from “I Saw Her Standing There.” If anything, songs like “Chains” make John Lennon sound like a Buddy Holly knock-off. Ringo’s version of “Boys”…
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The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds – review
It’s nearly impossible to describe “it.” But there isn’t one song on ‘Pet Sounds’ that doesn’t have ‘it.’ I defy you to listen and not fall in love as every song comes on with a sound that is bigger than most artists ever attempt. Take the beautiful opening of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” with its…
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OneRepublic to join Maroon 5 on tour
OneRepublic is getting ready to hit the road for a string of headlining dates this week as their new single “Secrets” debuts on the Top 40 radio chart at #37! The Colorado based band will head back out on tour this fall joining friends Maroon 5 for a thirteen city trek. “Secrets,” the second single…
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Ozzy Osbourne’s “Scream” tops Charts around the World
“Scream”-Ozzy Osbourne’s first album in three years and 10th studio album overall–has entered the charts in the Top Ten in seven countries. Beyond earning the #1 slot on the charts in Greece, SCREAM’s chart entries include: U.S., #4; Finland, #3; Japan #4 (international chart, #11 on combined chart); Norway, #5; Canada, #4; andGermany, #7. In…
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Video: Maroon 5 “Misery”
Maroon 5 have premiered the official video for their new single “Misery.” Watch front man Adam Levine take a serious beating from his lady in the action-packed clip directed by Joseph Kahn (Britney Spears, Blink 182, Muse). “Misery” appears on the Mutt Lange produced “Hands All Over” due out September 21st.
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Video: American Bang “Wild and Young”
American Bang’s video for “Wild & Young,” the debut single off their upcoming self-titled album, has now been added to MTV’s AMTV morning playlist. MTV is holding a contest for all band’s on AMTV, where the band with the highest trending topic on Twitter worldwide, will get a special half hour on Monday (7/12) dedicated…
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Video: Alexandra Amor behind the scenes “Superstar”
Alexandra Amor rose to fame online by covering her favorite pop songs, but she really started to shine once she hit the studio to record her own original material, with producers including The Agency (Ciara, Jordin Sparks, Cody Simpson), Naz Tokio (McFly) and Da Internz (Jesse McCartney, Sean Kingston). A peppy, polished pop anthem full…
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Alexandra Amor biography
Alexandra Amor has some advice for starry-eyed teens: Do your homework. That’s how her path to superstardom started, when the seemingly typical Florida teen took a unique, bold approach to her assignment in Communications class in early 2010. Instructed to give a 2-minute self introduction that would captivate the audience, Alexandra put an unexpected twist…
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