Billboard: Selena Gomez’s Top 10 Billboard Hits

18 Dec 2015/Filed in:

Witnessing Selena Gomez as she grows up from Disney tween to adult pop star has certainly been a trip. Honored as Billboard‘s Chart Topper for 2015 at Women in Music — airing Friday night (Dec. 18) at 8 p.m. on Lifetime — below is a list of Gomez’s 10 biggest songs, based on the Billboard Hot 100 chart…

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Rolling Stone: Ty Dolla $ign West Coast R&B star pairs beautiful hooks with dirty-old-man lyrics

04 Dec 2015/Filed in:

The gulf between exquisitely realized music and unapologetically crass lyrics is one that fans of Ty Dolla $ign have been forced to reconcile going all the way back to the L.A. singer’s earliest releases in 2011. That divide hasn’t gotten any slimmer in the intervening years, and it remains Grand Canyon-esque on his major-label debut – a record that can elicit a joyful head nod and a repulsed wince at the same time…

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VIBE Interview: Charles Perry’s Lovelorn Relationships Make For Beautiful Music

03 Dec 2015/Filed in:

ou may or may not have heard of the old souled crooner Charles Perry. If you aren’t familiar with the brokenhearted ballads of Perry, he’s looking to change that. For new ears, he’s destined to do it by earning his spot on airwaves with his strong vocals and true-to-life love stories…

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Premiere: Moxie Raia Unleashes a New Video for “How to Feel”

01 Dec 2015/Filed in:

Moxie Raia is currently putting the finishing touches on her upcoming mixtape, 931, and today, she debuts the video for her first single, “How to Feel.” The soothing track gets an equally pleasing visual treatment, with some crafty camera work while Moxie and her significant other go through the happy and turbulent stages of a relationship…

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Jezebel: The Muse: Y/N: Y: Moxie Raia “How To Feel” Premiere

25 Nov 2015/Filed in:

Upon the release of Adele’s 25 I had a real come-to-Jesus wherein I spent several days believing I just don’t like ballads or most music under 122 BPMs, but Moxie Raia has remedied for that for me…

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Fader: Moxie’s “How To Feel” Is A Cuffing Season Anthem For The Brokenhearted

23 Nov 2015/Filed in:

Moxie, the New York-based singer-songwriter, is back with her latest single, “How To Feel.” It’s one of those heart-wrenching tracks that comes along mid-cuffing season as a beacon of hope for those still reeling in their feelings from past relationships. Amid piano chords and finger-snaps, Moxie reminisces on a love turned sour

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SPIN Review: Ty Dolla $ign Lays All Doubts to Rest on His Long-Awaited ‘Free TC’

17 Nov 2015/Filed in:

Significant delays on the release of hip-hop and R&B albums are usually the fault of skeptical labels. But in the case of Ty Dolla $ign’s long-gestating major label debut, Free TC, it seems like it’s more his fault than Atlantic’s: The album is a dense, cinematic, always surprising and often moving album that sounds like it required the full three years that the L.A. crooner and producer spent chipping away at it to get right…

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Pitchfork Review of TY Dolla $ign Free TC

16 Nov 2015/Filed in:

There is a song on Ty Dolla $ign‘s first mixtape, Hou$e on the Hill, that wouldn’t be out of place in a Los Angeles Philharmonic pops concert. On the track, an orchestral sample dances under the near-onomatopoeic effect of Ty’s “up and down, up and down, up and down-down-down” chant. The song’s title? “Stripper Pole”…

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Charles Perry’s ‘Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat’ From ‘We Love Disney’ Album: Exclusive Premiere

25 Sep 2015/Filed in:

“The love child of James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Rick James, Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye and Randy Newman.” That’s how singer/songwriter Charles Perry unabashedly describes the DNA behind the dynamic fusion of pop, soul and funk on his EP, The Soul Superhero…

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BeatPort Release: “Break Through The Silence” Martin Garrix Vs Matisse & Sadko

13 Jul 2015/Filed in:

Exciting stuff from Martin Garrix, breaking the silence here with Matisse & Sadko with a straight up electro groove. Things start out deep, and as the vocals break out the breakdown works towards a truly powerful melodic drop. It’s a tune that sweeps you away…

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MTV: Watch Bea Miller Turn A Bedroom Angst-Fest Into A Rager In ‘Fire N Gold’

19 May 2015/Filed in:

Ever sat in your bedroom, surrounded by photos, and just had a little angst-out? That’s what I thought. MTV Artist To Watch Bea Miller is totally right there with you — but in the world of her “Fire N Gold” music video, said angst-out rapidly turns into a cathartic dance party…

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SPIN: Listen to Five New Bangers From Steve Aoki’s ‘Neon Future II’

05 May 2015/Filed in:

The follow-up to ‘Neon Future I’ features J.J. Abrams, Snoop Lion, and Rivers Cuomo. Steve Aoki, the (now only sometimes) cake-throwing, champagne-spraying DJ extraordinaire, will unleash his third studio LP next week. Neon Future II  — the aptly-named follow-up to last year’s Neon Future I — spotlights a diverse roster of guest stars including Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Snoop Lion, and Linkin Park. He’s already posted “Lightning Strikes” featuring NERVO and Tony Junior; now, as part of the “MTV First” initiative presented by Reese’s, you can stream the whole album and five tracks exclusive to SPIN and MTV a week before the album drops on May 12…

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