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Yes! The third episode of HBO’s “Beyoncé x10” special featured the song "***Flawless". As y’all know, HBO is airing every Sunday before "True Blood" select professionally-shot performances of Beyoncé’s latest “The Mrs. Carter World Tour”. The third episode premiered on American TV on July 13th.…

Shakira is back at the World Cup. After setting the stage ablaze twice at the last World Cup four years ago in South Africa, FIFA bosses have called upon the Colombian superstar to repeat as musical guest at the 2014 Brazil World Cup. Shakira wasn’t scheduled to perform at this World Cup edition…

We’ve heard Brandy do covers of R&B girls like Rihanna (“Diamonds”) or Beyoncé (“1+1") or R&B legends such as Whitney Houston (“I Will Always Love You”), so imagine my surprise when I saw a tweet from Brandy on my timeline earlier this afternoon (July 13) linking to a Twitmusic page where you…

Sara Bareilles is an amazing singer who has no issue showing her face. She just covered Sia’s hit single “Chandelier” in concert and it is undoubtedly the best cover I have seen of the song so far. The ‘vocal slayage’ was real and I still have goosebumps on my skin. WHEN AND WHERE DID IT HAPPEN?…

Eminem became last night (July 11th) the first rapper ever to headline Wembley Stadium in London. The 90,000-capacity venue is to be the ‘home’ of the Detroit MC during two consecutive days, Friday and Saturday, as part of a mini UK tour. At the opening show, Eminem performed all of his hits and…

Iggy Azalea revealed on Friday night (July 11th) the official artwork for her next single “Black Widow” featuring Rita Ora. The Stargate-produced track serves as the fifth single from Iggy’s Top 3 debut album “The New Classic”. The song has already impacted on U.S radio and it’s currently on the…

Bad news for MMG and fans of Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill. A local judge has sentenced him to spend three to six months behind bars over a parole violation. The sentencing occurred after the District Attorney expressed concern and worry over Meek's recent actions and behavior. The news of Meek…

Sigma - a production duo consisting of Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie who met at Leeds University – unexpectedly topped the UK Singles Chart a few months ago with their latest single ‘Nobody to Love’, a rework of the Kanye West song ‘2 Bound’ featuring a fantastic drums-and-bass beat. And well,…

Columbia Records better have great promotional plans ahead for “Scarecrow” because I refuse that this song flops! Only two weeks after premiering their debut single on iTunes, Alex and Sierra drop today (July 11th) via VEVO the official music video for “Scarecrow”. The sentimental pop-folk song is…

Harmonizers! Fifth Harmony delivered the first televised performance of their new single “Boss” on ‘The Today Show’ on NBC on Friday morning, July 11th. The urban-pop track, produced by The Suspex, is the lead single from 5H’s upcoming full-length debut album arriving in stores via Epic Records…

Didn’t these two hate each other? A photo's just surfaced online showing Drake and Chris Brown making music together in a studio! Unnamed sources say this photograph was taken last night, Thursday (July 10) and that rapper Tyga was also present in the recording studio with the former enemies.…

I think we all know Mary Lambert from her feature on Macklemore’s "Same Love" hit but the 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Seattle is now ready to ride solo. Mary signed last year to Capitol Records and according to a press release sent to media this week she’ll be dropping her full-length debut…

Such a weird audience! Portugal-born, Portland-based DJ RAC has recently premiered on VEVO the music video for his next single "Cheap Sunglasses" featuring Matthew Koma, aka. Carly Rae Jepsen's boyfriend. The electro-pop song is the follow-up single to RAC's "Let Go" featuring Kele, whose music…

Kiesza! I’m in love with you! Your debut EP may only be 4 songs-long but that’s okay, and you may have performed “Hideaway” on “Late Show with David Letterman” last night, July 10th, even though “Giant In My Heart” is your new single but that’s okay too. Your performance was so unbelievably…

French Montana gives Hot 97's Funk Flex the green light to premiere his new track 'R&B Chicks' featuring Fabolous and Wale. Produced by The Mekanics, the collaboration finds the three rappers showing love to their favorite female artists in the music industry. From Rihanna to Miley Cyrus to…

Oooh! This is definitely a new sound from Rita Ora but it's so good! Anything that is PRINCE-written must be good right? The British singer commented in an interview with Paper magazine last March that she and the “Purple Rain” star had recently created new music together. “I flew to Minneapolis…

At last! We finally have the "All of Me" follow-up! After selling over 4 million digital copies and topping the Billboard Hot 100, R&B singer John Legend has at last picked the follow-up to his super-successful song “All of Me”, the lead single from his latest album “Love In The Future”. Which is…

Republic Records is doing it right! Florida Georgia Line premiered their new single “Dirt” on radio on Tuesday morning, immediately released it on iTunes, the single took almost no time to reach #1 on the Top 100, and nicely keeping with the momentum, the country duo's label had cleverly booked…

“I’ll bring him down, bring him down, down!” Yes! One of the most iconic songs on “Born This Way” was released from the ‘vault’ last night, July 9, at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. Lady Gaga performed there a new show of her on-going “ArtRave: The Artpop Ball” tour and totally caught fans by…

New OneRepublic! Check out a 1:30 minute snippet of a new song by the Ryan Tedder-led band titled “Ordinary Human”. The new song is part of the soundtrack of the upcoming Phillip Noyce-directed sci-fi film “The Giver”, opening in theatres in the U.S on August 15th. The film is based on the 1993…

The Ceremonies fans! Where you at!? Today’s your lucky day. Well, technically your lucky day will be in nine days should you win our fabulous contest! LA-based indie-rock band The Ceremonies has recently released their new single ‘Ballroom Bones’ – whose awesome lyric video we reviewed on DL. In…

Lucky Justin Bieber! After months of self-debating whether the ‘All Bad’ singer’s 'egging' attack was a misdemeanor or a felony, today, Wednesday, July 9, the L.A. County District Attorney finally decided it was MISDEMEANOR! “Misdemeanor vandalism” to be precise. That’s what we should now…

A snippet of a new track titled ‘Rock Star’ between Future and Nicki Minaj leaked earlier this year and today we’ve finally get a listen to the full version. The previously unreleased record was premiered by XXL and features production by DJ Clue. "Cuban linked up, cue the brinks truck/ If i was a…

Good and bad news for 5SOS fans. Where should I start first? Hmmm! OK, the good news first. Australia’s 5 Seconds of Summer CONFIRMED today, July 9th, via Twitter that they will be performing at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards on August 24. The nominees aren’t out yet but I bet 1 million dollars…

B.o.B gave us his junior album 'Underground Luxury' at the end of last year and now returns more than halfway into this year with the second installment in his 'No Genre' mixtape series. 'No Genre 2' includes 14 new tracks (2 of them interludes) and contains guest features from artists such as…

The first teaser is here! Why do I say 'the first'? Because with 20 days still to go till the premiere of 'Bang Bang’, you just know Jessie J is going to give us more. But the first is here right now! On Wednesday, July 9, the British singer took to her Instagram account to post a 15-sec teaser of…

Tyga scores a new remix. This time it’s the official remix to Becky G’s rising pop hit “Shower”. The Dr. Luke-produced track is the lead single from the 17-year-old L.A singer's upcoming full-length album. Becky G is signed to Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Records and RCA. “Shower” premiered on radio and…

The song is still exquisite so I'm going to refrain myself from throwing hate on this music video. The video for “Tough Love" does have a few beautiful parts especially those where Jessie Ware is lying in a field of purple flowers, but the video as a whole is a bit disappointing, obviously not her…

Wale made headlines earlier in the day courtesy of Meek Mill calling him out on Twitter but the MMG signee looks to change the topic of conversation with the release of a new track. The fresh solo song is titled 'The Followers' and features production by Marce Reazon and Pro Reese. "Song called…

Meek Mill has a new album, titled ‘Dreams Worth More Than Money’, dropping in September and he’s not too happy about fellow MMG member Wale not showing any type of love on social media. Meek took to Twitter this morning to vent his frustrations about the lack of support with a series of tweets…

Well, that was fast. Only a few hours after releasing their new single on iTunes, Florida Georgia Line premiere the music video for "Dirt" on VEVO. Watch it below! The sentimental country mid-tempo was co-written by Rodney Clawson & Chris Tompkins and it serves as the lead single from FGL’s…

New Usher, baby! The 35-yer-old crooner paid Chicago WGCI 107.5’s ‘Morning Riot with Tony Sculfield’ show a visit on Tuesday, July 8th to personally world premiere his new single “She Came To Give It To You” featuring Nicki Minaj and produced by Pharrell. The R&B-funk track is confirmed to be the…

Go Charli! Her latest single ‘Boom Clap’ is still getting new peaks on the Billboard Hot 100 and on Pop radio (she just entered the Top 20!) thanks to the love of pop fans and to viewers of 'The Fault in Our Stars’ film on whose soundtrack 'Boom Clap' appears. 'Boom Clap' is entirely written by…

Awww! Colbie Caillat, you just melted my little heart with this video. True her ‘Gypsy Heart (Side A)’ EP released last month a la ‘BEYONCÉ’ is flopping, but I still have the hope the lead single ‘Try’ is going to grow on everyone in the coming weeks. The song is a little gem! If you haven’t heard…

Do you like free music? So do I! The Dream may be on his honeymoon right now – after marrying girlfriend LaLone Martinez at San Francisco City Hall last Thursday, July 3 – but even that isn't preventing the hitmaker producer from releasing new music. Last night, July 8, The Dream released via…

Can you believe it's been seven years since these two released ‘Face Off’? That joint album debuted at #11 on the Billboard Top 200 in 2007, and it went on to be certified Gold. Now in 2014, Omarion and Bow Wow (who’s recently changed his artist name to Shad Moss) team up again on a new song…

Huh, I was not expecting a new single this soon. Didn't Florida Georgia Line just release the Jason Derulo remix of 'This Is How We Roll'? The country music duo caught fans by surprise this July 8th morning when they release on iTunes a new song called ‘Dirt’, which is 100% confirmed to be the…

One word to describe Fifth Harmony's 'Boss' video? Fierce, duh. The new urban-pop song is the confirmed lead single from the girl group's upcoming full-length debut album allegedly coming later in 2014 via Epic Records. You have to use the 'allegedly' because with Epic you never know what's going…

Paris Hilton isn’t giving up. The Cash Money Records artist just dropped a new single on iTunes today (July 8) called ‘Come Alive’. Just like ‘Good Time’, ‘Come Alive’ is a EDM song only a little bit more mellow. The new Paris single is co-written by Chris Richardson, Corte Ellis, Michael Puerari,…

Now this is quite an unexpected pairing! HAIM are celebrating today, July 7th, their seventh anniversary of being a band (according to a tweet, their first show was on 7/7/07), and as a treat to fans they exclusively premiered tonight via Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show 'new music'. What was it? Find out…

Ariana Grande just made everybody’s Monday a little bit brighter! The powerhouse petite singer has posted a video on Instagram that let us listen to 15 seconds of “Best Mistake”, a new song from her upcoming album "My Everything". “Best Mistake” is produced by Key Wane and features Big Sean.…

Canadian rising star Kiesza – who only last week slayed us with her LGBT-appreciating music video for ‘Giant In My Heart' – released today, July 7, her debut EP entitled ‘Hideaway’ on iTunes. The EP is made of only four songs: Kiesza' breakthrough hit 'Hideaway', the new single 'Giant In My…

For some reason Mercury Records is going ahead with the August 4th release of Pixie Lott’s self-titled fourth album. All the singles so far from the album have flopped, UK radio has turned its back on Pixie, and there is no real hype for the album, however, for some mysterious reason the record…

The second installment in Lil Durk’s ‘Signed To The Streets’ mixtape series has finally arrived. After suffering several delays over the past few weeks, the Chicago native delivers in the mid-afternoon on July 7th with the anticipated release. ‘Signed To The Streets 2’ contains 18 tracks and…

Kid Ink has been on a roll since the release of his debut album ‘My Own Lane’ back in January and continues the streak today (July 7th) with the release of the remix to his ‘Main Chick’ single. The original track only features Chris Brown but this new version comes with additional assistance from…

Welcome back, Amelia Lily! The ‘X Factor UK’ alum recently inked a new deal with Warner Music - after getting dropped by Sony last year - and will be releasing her new single 'California' on iTunes UK on August 24th! But in UK music industry fashion, the single is available for full stream NOW, a…

Mika travels through time in the newly-premiered music video for ‘Boum Boum Boum’, the lead (French) single from his yet-untitled forthcoming fourth studio album, which is expected to hit stores in early 2015. (Yeah, Mika likes to release his first singles well in advance!) The racy ‘Boum Boum…

Check out the music video for Foxes’ 'Glorious’, the title track from the British singer’s – née Louisa Rose Allen – debut album released in May this year. ‘Glorious' is the fourth single, and it's co-written by Foxes, and produced by Jonny Harris. While I understand the idea behind the video (the…

The second installment of the 'Beyonce x10' series aired on HBO on Sunday night (July 6) before the new episode of 'True Blood'. If the week before we got to watch Beyoncé stun with a mesmerizing performance of 'Ghost / Haunted', last night it was time for the former Destiny's Child leader to…