Tag: frank ocean
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Alicia Keys – Girl On Fire | Album Review
Returning to the frontline and ready to offer up some of her signature sound, Alicia Keys puts out her RCA Records debut Girl On Fire. Her fifth studio album overall, it’s the first time she’s released any new material since 2009’s Element of Freedom. With her marriage to producer Swizz Beatz and the birth of…
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Brandy – Two Eleven (Deluxe) | Album Review
Early on lauded as one of the most popular artists in her genre and still one of the most celebrated and emulated, Brandy returns triumphantly with her sixth studio album Two Eleven, to once again stand in the lane she carved into R&B music.
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YADi – Banana Mix | Mixtape Review + Free Download
Thirty minutes of audio-travel through Algeria up to Scandinavia in 11 tracks? That would be with singer YADi’s newly released Banana mixtape.
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George the Poet does spoken word piece over Frank Ocean’s ‘Pink Matter’ | Poetry Video
Twenty-one-year-old spoken word artist George the Poet provides an amazing delivery with his take on Frank Ocean‘s “Pink Matter.”
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Frank Ocean – channel Orange | Album Review
The most immediately striking aspect of channel ORANGE upon first listen is how palpably mature an album it is. I know there is a necessity to categorise musicians by genre, but it’s simply impossible to box Frank Ocean in the R&B category with artists like Chris Brown and Trey Songz. While his so-called peers embrace…
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Odd Future – The OF Tape, Vol. 2 | Album Review
With their controversy, protests and uproar being cleared well out of the way in 2011, the radical stable of Odd Future now stands as an established and respected collective within music. From Tyler The Creator‘s well received Goblin album to the emergence of Frank Ocean as one of the leading vocalists in contemporary R&B, the…
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Bridget Kelly talks starting backwards, work ethic & Roc Nation
With her debut EP, titled Every Girl, released for free download at the tail end of 2011 building buzz towards the first album, New York singer Bridget Kelly recently got onto the phone with SoulCulture to share her musical inspirations [Mariah Carey – “She’s my all time favourite”] and the influences that drive her work…
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The Internet: Syd The Kyd & Matt Martian talk DIY generation & Odd Future
The conversation had with a musically inquisitive, 20-something friend from Italy shortly before writing this feature [scrutinous but open minded, we regularly harass each other for musical recommendations]: Have you listened to The Internet’s new album Purple Naked Ladies? No, never heard of them. Give it a listen. I will. Best songs on it are…
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Frank Ocean at XOYO, London | Live Review x Photos
Despite being album-less and never having left the United States of America, this time last week excitement was running high for Frank Ocean’s first solo tour and European show. Selling out tickets in less than half an hour, many had to make the heart wrenching decision of choosing between Mr. Ocean and J. Cole (who…
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Jay-Z x Kanye West – Watch The Throne | Album Review
If the thought alone sounded like a dream, the realisation of the finished product has created a euphoric, fantasy like feeling. The music world – for the first time in some years – stood waiting for with baited breath for the release of an empirical album which has avoided the now accustomed ‘week early leak.’…