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Each month I select 20 songs (10 songs twice a month) that I am either hooked on or am curious about. Most of the music I select are rock, hip-hop, R&B and pop songs.
My song selection comes from 20-30 CDs I get from various sources each month, as well as recommendations from iTunes and Amazon. I also check out the charts in US, UK and Japan.
Aerosmith lead singer has a famous daughter, Liv Tyler. Now Aerosmith lead guitarist, Joe Perry's two sons could become just as famous (maybe). They started a band with a friend called Tab the Band, but the music doesn't sound very American. They sound quite a bit like Rolling Stones.
Four white guys from Columbia University decided to start a band with African influenced music. One African music blog picked them up, and more blogs picked them up and all of a sudden they became one of the biggest unsigned bands, thanks to all the bloggers. They sound like African version of Jack Johnson music. I don't know what this song is about, but it sounds happy.
Talk about sounding like any other emo band out there. These guys are from Florida (that's where Dashboard guys is from) and sounds like all of the other one hit wonder emo band out now. But they actually sound pretty good.
Thanks to MacBook Air commercial using this song, this song was one of the most downloaded songs on iTunes this month, which caused this song to enter the Billboard chart at #9 (whoa). Who sings this catchy happy song? Yael Naim is a French-Israeli singer. On her album, she also covers Britney's Toxic, which sounds quite a bit mysterious.
He is the hardest working dead artist... ever. Last month, he released two albums; Best Of 2Pac-Part 1:Thug and Best of 2Pac-Part 2:Life. As the album title suggests, they are mostly compilation of his previous hits (like
California Love) but also has a couple of previously unreleased songs and new remixes like this one.
Panic! At the Disco recently stated that they will be dropping "!" from their name, but Against Me! will be keeping theirs. Their album was produced by Butch Vigg (drummer of Garbage) who also produced Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins in early 90s. Against Me! is one of my favorite new bands right now.
Daft Punk's last year's "Alive" tour was voted as one of the best concert of 2007. How could two electronic DJs have the best show? Do a quick search on YouTube for some of the clips, and it looks amazing. I wish I had gone. This song mixes two of their biggest hits "Around the World" and "Harder Better Faster Stronger" which Kanye West sampled recently on his hit single, "Stronger".
Good solid performance from Grace Potter and her band. The music is a little like Norah Jones with the piano in the background. Good chill out song.
Another single off of Kanye's third album, Graduation. The beat reminds me a lot of Justin Timberlake's "My Love." The music video for this song ends quite abruptly, making people wonder what happens next?
The Swedish rock band was in Seattle just a few months ago, and they will be back in February again. This song cleverly samples cheerleaders chanting.
Ms. Janet didn't have such a good time after exposing her breast on national TV a couple of years ago and her album not selling so much. This time, she changed her label, and she's hoping to make a comeback. It's a good dance track from her upcoming album, Discipline.
She looks a bit like Lindsay Lohan, but sings much better. This video was featured on VH1 as their new music video. It's silly but does a good job of covering hip-hop into folky rock.
Aerosmith lead singer has a famous daughter, Liv Tyler. Now Aerosmith lead guitarist, Joe Perry's two sons could become just as famous (maybe). They started a band with a friend called Tab the Band, but the music doesn't sound very American. They sound quite a bit like Rolling Stones.
Four white guys from Columbia University decided to start a band with African influenced music. One African music blog picked them up, and more blogs picked them up and all of a sudden they became one of the biggest unsigned bands, thanks to all the bloggers. They sound like African version of Jack Johnson music. I don't know what this song is about, but it sounds happy.
Talk about sounding like any other emo band out there. These guys are from Florida (that's where Dashboard guys is from) and sounds like all of the other one hit wonder emo band out now. But they actually sound pretty good.
Thanks to MacBook Air commercial using this song, this song was one of the most downloaded songs on iTunes this month, which caused this song to enter the Billboard chart at #9 (whoa). Who sings this catchy happy song? Yael Naim is a French-Israeli singer. On her album, she also covers Britney's Toxic, which sounds quite a bit mysterious.
He is the hardest working dead artist... ever. Last month, he released two albums; Best Of 2Pac-Part 1:Thug and Best of 2Pac-Part 2:Life. As the album title suggests, they are mostly compilation of his previous hits (like California Love) but also has a couple of previously unreleased songs and new remixes like this one.
Panic! At the Disco recently stated that they will be dropping "!" from their name, but Against Me! will be keeping theirs. Their album was produced by Butch Vigg (drummer of Garbage) who also produced Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins in early 90s. Against Me! is one of my favorite new bands right now.
Daft Punk's last year's "Alive" tour was voted as one of the best concert of 2007. How could two electronic DJs have the best show? Do a quick search on YouTube for some of the clips, and it looks amazing. I wish I had gone. This song mixes two of their biggest hits "Around the World" and "Harder Better Faster Stronger" which Kanye West sampled recently on his hit single, "Stronger".
Good solid performance from Grace Potter and her band. The music is a little like Norah Jones with the piano in the background. Good chill out song.
Another single off of Kanye's third album, Graduation. The beat reminds me a lot of Justin Timberlake's "My Love." The music video for this song ends quite abruptly, making people wonder what happens next?
The Swedish rock band was in Seattle just a few months ago, and they will be back in February again. This song cleverly samples cheerleaders chanting.
Ms. Janet didn't have such a good time after exposing her breast on national TV a couple of years ago and her album not selling so much. This time, she changed her label, and she's hoping to make a comeback. It's a good dance track from her upcoming album, Discipline.
She looks a bit like Lindsay Lohan, but sings much better. This video was featured on VH1 as their new music video. It's silly but does a good job of covering hip-hop into folky rock.
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