On yesterday’s episode of Beats 1, Majid Jordan took over the airwaves on OVO Sound Radio. Majid debuted the new song ‘Learn From Each Other’, and it’s filled with electro-R&B sounds. Once again, the duo doesn’t disappoint.
And even more exciting, they are working on their follow-up album to 2014’s EP A Place Like This.
Listen here! Hope you’re all having a great Sunday!
While it’s only 15 seconds, this snippet of what is probably called ‘Nothing’s Promised’ and a possible single off her next album, R8, is bound to be another banger. Produced by the talented Mike Will Made-It, the Ear Drummer Records producer posted this snippet on his Instagram. The audio below is from his Twitter page.
Check it – like what you hear so far?
New 🔥 w @Rihanna OTW! #NothingsPromised Who thinks they’re ready 🙊 pic.twitter.com/PBhJpnS16c
— Mike WiLL Made-It (@MikeWiLLMadeIt) July 20, 2015
It is about dang time! We officially have a release date for The Weeknd’s sophomore LP…
Friday, August 28!
Details were revealed when the album went for pre-order internationally on iTunes before being taken down. I was able to grab a screen shot for ya though 🙂 Pretty vague, but it’s official!
Beauty Behind the Madness will include 14 tracks, featuring already hit songs ‘Often,’ ‘The Hills,’ and ‘Can’t Feel My Face.’
He also took to Twitter to confirm that the album will be available for pre-order soon. The album marks the follow up to Kiss Land which debuted at No. 2 and was released in 2013. This is one album I am TRULY excited to listen to this year! I’m hoping there’s another Drake collab.
I’m torn! Miguel was very recently interviewed by the U.K.’s Sunday Times where he stated he believes he makes better music than Frank Ocean, who he actually ran into at a hotel bar in London during the interview (Kylie, he’s alive!).
Miguel is quoted saying, ‘To be completely honest—and no disrespect to anyone—I genuinely believe that I make better music, all the way around.”
I keep going back and forth in my head as to who I think makes better music. Miguel incorporates funk, hip hop, and edgy styles into his jams, while Ocean’s music features unconventional melodies that hover between speech and song.
Both are considered to be in the new wave of R&B and tend to sing about the same topics – love and nostalgia to name a few. And when they both hit that falsetto! I just can’t decide, you guys.
What do yinz think?!
I’m sure most of you have heard the original version of ‘Classic Man’ quite frequently on the radio. At first, I wasn’t a fan, but it did grow on me. Now with the addition of K.Dot for the remix, I am definitely digging it.
Check it below!
She’s back! This morning Janet Jackson kicked off her comeback with the release of a new and first single, ‘No Sleeep.’ Produced by longtime producers and friends Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the single features Janet singing longingly waiting for one-on-one time with her lover.
The track will be featured on her upcoming album, expected to drop this fall.
Listen below!
So I entered another Twitter contest (typical) earlier this week. This one was to attend an exclusive event in LA for Miguel’s new ‘WILDHEART’ album set to release at the end of this month. Although I didn’t win, I did get an email with a link to five unreleased tracks from the upcoming album. And since I love sharing new music with my friends and followers, here ya go. Link here.
Like I said, the link was taken down. BUT, Miguel did release three tracks via YouTube that you can still enjoy below!
What a great Monday! Today in San Francisco, Apple unveiled its new music streaming service at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a little help from an idol of mine…
…Drake! He will be using Apple Music to promote his own new album, so you better believe I will be supporting this new streaming service. And in the above picture, he is high-fiving (real word?) Eddy Cue, head of software and Internet services, after discussing the Connect feature of Apple Music. To learn more about the service, check out this New York Times article here. I haven’t done enough research to compare all of the streaming services out there, so I will write another post on that once the proper research is done! But I have a feeling this might be the cake taker. Or it could be just because Drake’s involved, but whatevs. From the few articles I’ve read thus far, Apple Music looks like it could have some real potential and truly engage fans, while still benefiting the artist (and not at $20/month for the fan). #praise
If that wasn’t exciting enough for me, The Weeknd also came out to world premiere his newest single ‘Can’t Feel My Face.’ Produced by Max Martin, who has also worked with Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift, Abel swoons over a love so strong that he can’t feel his face, metaphorically speaking of course.
I’m totally blowing it with embedding the actual song into this post, so you will just have to click here to listen. Sorry for the extra step, yinz, but I’m no coder and just want you to listen asap!
And at Drake’s most recent performance at the Governors Ball in NYC on Friday, he made mention during ‘Crew Love’ that an OVO + XO collab could be making a comeback. Maybe it will drop on Apple Music! Stay tuned, yinz…oh, and this post is my first post written in Pittsburgh 🙂
Better late posting than never! Having dropped yesterday, The Weeknd released not only a new song but (dark) visuals, as well, for his track titled ‘The Hills.’ Really really digging it. And no, Lauren Conrad and Lo aren’t featured in the video 🙂 Watch and listen below – enjoy!
Also check out…
FUTURE FT. RICK ROSS & BIG SEAN – ‘F*CK UP SOME COMMAS (REMIX)’
Listen to the star-studded remix on Future’s banger ‘F*ck Up Some Commas’ below.
I’m just going to leave this right here. I’m pretty confident this will be on Drake’s Views from the 6 . It’s definitely got a slower feel to it – not my favorite, but I’ll give it a few more listens. Also, apologies in advance if the track gets taken down, so enjoy it while you can!
And it got taken down – as did most of the others 😦 I will keep an eye out for another link for yinz!
Californyinz 