Taste Test: Drake – So Far Gone

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Featured, Music, Taste Test, Toronto, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on December 10th, 2009

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So Far Gone is an EP by Canadian artist Drake, released on September 15, 2009. It was originally released as a mixtape on February 13, 2009. However due to the success of the mixtape’s two singles, “Best I Ever Had” and “Successful”, it was decided that it should be released as an album available for purchase with only 5 of the 18 songs from the mixtape, with “Fear” and “I’m Going In” being new tracks.

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Taste Test: Music from Glee, Volume 2

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Featured, Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on December 9th, 2009

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There’s no such thing as too much Glee! Featuring 17 more songs from the hit FOX show including “Imagine”, “Jump” and “My Life Would Suck Without You”.

Taste Test: Carrie Underwood – Play On

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on December 9th, 2009

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Four-time GRAMMY Award winner, ACM Entertainer of the Year, and reigning, three time CMA and ACM Female Vocalist winner Carrie Underwood has clearly amassed not only the respect of the industry, but also the adulation of fans who are anxiously awaiting the arrival of her third album, which Carrie has titled Play On.

Play On draws its title from the name of a song featured on the new album, but it’s certainly appropriate for the feelings of the countless fans who have come to love Carrie’s music over the past four years. Since the release of her debut album, Some Hearts, in 2005, Underwood has amassed sales of more than 10 million albums with Some Hearts and 2007’s Carnival Ride. Along the way, she has consistently broken new ground and earlier this year became the first country artist in history and the only American Idol winner ever to achieve 10 #1 singles from their first two albums.

Carrie has once again teamed with producer Mark Bright, who helmed her Carnival Ride collection as well as seven tracks from Some Hearts.

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Taste Test: Alicia Keys – The Element of Freedom

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Featured, Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on December 8th, 2009

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The fourth album from the 12-time Grammy Award winning Pop/R&B diva. The album was produced by Alicia, Kerry Krucial Brothers and Jeff Bhasker and includes the singles ‘Doesn’t Mean Anything’ and ‘Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart’. Alicia has sold over 25 million albums worldwide and over 6.7 million digital tracks in the U.S. alone. Elements Of Freedom is yet another big step forward for Alicia. With each album, she has grown as an artist and performer and has achieved commercial success that has lifted her to ‘Superstar’ status.

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Taste Test: Timbaland presents Shock Value, Volume 2

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Featured, Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on December 8th, 2009

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2009 release, the third solo album from R&B producer Timbaland and the second volume of the platinum-selling Shock Value. The album features guest appearances from Justin Timberlake (on the first single, ‘Carry Out’) Daughtry, The Fray, Gucci Mane, Nickelback, Drake, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, T-Pain, Chris Brown, Keri Hilson, All American Rejects and Brandy.

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Taste Test: Daughtry – Leave this Town

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on November 30th, 2009

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Daughtry achieved global success with its self-titled debut, the biggest selling artist release of the past two years. The band’s Grammy-nominated, quadruple-platinum debut garnered multiple American Music Awards, World Music Awards, and Billboard Music Awards. Daughtry spent most of the last two years on the road, performing to sold-out arenas, but is now back with the follow-up to the its massive debut.

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Taste Test: Shakira – She Wolf

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Featured, Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on November 25th, 2009

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Shakira’s brand new English album She Wolf is an uptempo pop album. It is all about synthesizers and electronical concepts, all mixed with the world sounds that we are used to from Shakira, sounds from countries like India, the Middle East and her home country of Colombia. She Wolf features a predominantly English track list with a follow up album of new and unique repertoire in Spanish to come in 2010. The title track “She-Wolf”; boasts the infectious and energizing sound that made Shakira a household name, with a slightly more dancey/ electronic beat (about 125 beats per minute). Though most tracks on the upcoming album will be in English, Shakira chose to service the Spanish version of the first single, “Loba,” two weeks before the English single is launched.

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Taste Test: Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in American Idol, Featured, Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on November 24th, 2009

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2009 album from the first runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol. Immediately following his participation on American Idol, Lambert began writing collaborating with predominant Pop hit makers such as Lady GaGa, Greg Wells, Max Martin, Linda Perry, RedOne, Ryan Tedder, Sam Sparro, Kara DioGuardi and P!nk. The album features ‘Soaked’, written by Matthew Bellamy of Muse and ‘Music Again’ written by Justin Hawkins from The Darkness. Lambert also co-wrote four of the songs on the album: ‘Strut’, ‘Aftermath’, ‘Pick U Up’ and ‘Broken Open’. The album includes the hit single ‘Time For Miracle’ from the blockbuster motion picture 2012.

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Taste Test: Rihanna – Rated R

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Featured, Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on November 24th, 2009

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The wait is ova – for one of the most hotly anticipated new albums in recent history, as multi-platinum, award-winning Def Jam recording artist Rihanna announces the completion of her fourth original studio album, Rated R, scheduled to arrive in the physical and digital marketplace on Monday, November 23rd.The “Russian Roulette” video, directed by Anthony Mandler, will premiere in prime-time on ABC.

“Russian Roulette” was written and produced by fellow Def Jam artist Ne-Yo, whose long track record with Rihanna includes the #1 hit “Unfaithful” (2006, from A Girl Like Me), their Top 10 duet “Hate That I Love You” (2007, from Good Girl Gone Bad), and #1 pop/ #1 R&B “Take A Bow” (2008, from Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded). In addition to Ne-Yo, other producers and writers on Rihanna’s new album include the team of The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, Chase & Status, Stargate, Justin Timberlake and more.

Rated R is the long-awaited follow-up to Good Girl Gone Bad (May 2007), which contained the non-stop string of hit singles that began with the MTV VMA and Grammy Award-winning global #1 hit “Umbrella” (featuring Jay-Z), then “Shut Up and Drive,” “Hate That I Love You” (featur­ing Ne-Yo), and “Don’t Stop the Music.” Good Girl Gone Bad spent 98 total weeks on the Soundscan chart, earned cumulative sales of more than 36-times platinum in at least 20 territories around the world, and spun off the CD+DVD package Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded (January 2009) – which continued the string of hits with the #1 “Take A Bow,” and the #1 “Disturbia.”

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Taste Test: Lady GaGa – The Fame Monster

Posted by Moondoggy | Posted in Featured, Music, Taste Test, WD Taste Test | No Comments » | Posted on November 24th, 2009

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Has an album title ever been so self-prophetic? In its first year, this electropop opus rocketed Lady Gaga from unknown New York lounge singer to the world’s biggest pop star this side of Britney Spears. The Fame’s brand of pop is shamelessly decadent: 11 of its 13 songs are about money, celebrity, sex, clubbing, or a sticky combination of all four. It’s insipid subject matter, unless you consider Gaga as less of a silly, manufactured blonde than an ingenious artist playing the part of a glitzy pop star. Witness The Fame’s impeccably sleek opening songs, from the carelessly rambling chorus of “Just Dance” to the snappy, futuristic beat of “LoveGame”: Gaga’s got the outrageous outfits and dance moves down to a science, but underneath it all, the music is aggressive and authoritarian in ways that most other Top 40 tunes are not. Often compared to Gwen Stefani’s, Gaga’s vocals are in fact richer and rounder, allowing her a certain stylistic versatility, and her personae alternate from wild party kid to vulnerable lover. Some of the risks don’t always pay off, but the Lady Gaga of the dark and ardent megahit “Poker Face” prevails. She is commandeering enough, bizarre and beguiling enough, to ensure that she’ll be basking in our attention for a very long time.

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