Posts tagged "N.E.R.D."

Frank Ocean's Channel Orange is blowing our minds, and we're still trying to piece our brains back together three days after its surprise midnight release. But the one thing we know immediately is that "Pyramids" is a song for the ages. Over the course of 10 minutes Ocean crafts an epic dreamscape of love …

The Essence Music Festival took over this 4th of July holiday weekend at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, treating fans to performances by a number of American Idol vets as well as R&B/hip hop heavies like Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, and Usher. Jennifer Hudson and Fantasia shared the main stage …

Pharrell Williams and Jessica Biel share a moment in the black-and-white commercial for Revlon's Grow Luscious Plumping Mascara, which features the N.E.R.D. frontman and yacht enthusiast anxiously headed down the hallway to Biel's boudoir. The clip was shot by Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky, and it could seriously use a twist where Jessica ha …

Pharrell Williams is one tough pop star/producer. You think it's easy shooting hot, fun music videos and dreaming up new tunes with beautiful, innovative talents like like Sara Bareilles and Oh Land? It's not, we can assure you. That's why we're happy to hear that Pharrell occasionally finds time to …

N.E.R.D. hit up the Tonight Show With Jay Leno and performed their soulful, heartening Nothing track "God Bless Us All". True, we would have preferred to hear the trio's spacey, mesmerizing single "Hypnotize U" instead, but after that one's video premiere last week maybe Pharrell & Co. are of the mindset that …

The sexy stone-faced ladies from N.E.R.D.'s Letterman performance of "Hypnotize U"  (the same appearance in which they premiered this Daft Punk-produced single) star in the group's new video, following Pharrell Williams' every move throughout his enormous mansion. Fall under N.E.R.D.'s spell by watching the clip below.

Prepare to be hypnotized by the coolest band around - N.E.R.D. is doing a free, Web-only live show for Sprite's Fresh Sound Studio Performance series. But the only way you can catch the "Hot N' Fun" group in action is with an access code. Never fear! Get all the details by …

N.E.R.D. teams up with other abbreviated act T.I. for the funky party song "Party People", the opening track off the group's Nothing. Partying is probably the last thing T.I. will be doing for quite some time, but that shouldn't stop you from rocking out to this infectious fast-paced jam. Party people, …

N.E.R.D.'s hauntingly sexy single "Hypnotize U" surprised us all with its production by French robo-duo Daft Punk. And in the wake of such an intriguig tune, the arrival of the Pharrell Williams-fronted trio's plodding new song "Help Me" and its accompanying video—assembled from politically-minded historical imagery and live footage of the band—seems a …

It's a bit curious why N.E.R.D. is releasing a track called "Nothing On You" the same year B.o.B and Bruno Mars' "Nothin' On You" was a giant hit. Isn't that a bit like dropping a song called "Umbrellas" just a few months after Rihanna's "Umbrella" dominated the charts in 2007? We'll just assume it's a …

Daft Punk are making us hold out as long as possible til they drop new tunes (their Tron: Legacy soundtrack finally drops November 22), but their influence is heard in spades on N.E.R.D.'s new single, "Hypnotize U". The band premiered their low-key, but no less awesome collaboration with the French house-music masters o …

Pharrell left his fancy army headdress at home and instead showed off his falsetto during N.E.R.D.'s performance of their single "Hypnotize You" (from their upcoming LP Nothing) on David Letterman last night. And though we're slowly falling under the spell of the Daft Punk-produced song, we're more curious why there was a baricade …

Pharrell looks Yankee Doodle dandy in the cover art for N.E.R.D.’s upcoming fourth album Nothing, dropping Nov. 2. By sticking patriotic feathers in his combat helmet, Pharrell appears to be doing more than just showing us his peacock — but what’s the bold statement? It it an anti-war declaration? Or is he just trying to …

A lot went down tonight at the 2010 BET Awards. Drake was "Successful" and took home Best Male Hip-Hop Artist. Te Harajuku Barbie, Nicki Minaj, won Best Female Hip-Hop Artist. And the title of Video Of The Year was awarded to Lady Gaga and Beyonce's "Telephone". But before any of that award action took place, …

The best thing about the new video for "Hot N' Fun", the first track of N.E.R.D.'s upcoming fourth album, is that it depicts what we believe to be Pharrell Williams' everyday life: he rolls through the desert in a psychedelic Rolls Royce Phantom, picking up more or less topless hitchhikers, watching cartoons float by …

N.E.R.D. teamed up with Nelly Furtado for the sexy club jam "Hot N Fun," off the boys' upcoming fourth studio album, Nothing. Does the track live up to its song title, or is it more akin to the hip-hop trio's album name? Listen below.

Erykah Badu fans not able to catch the "Window Seat" performer at Lilith Fair or Lollapalooza this summer now have a third chance to see her live, as North American dates for her Out Of My Mind, Just In Time tour have been annouced on the singer's official site. Joining …

Continuing his efforts to prove to fans that the club and the rock show can, indeed, coexist, Chris Cornell has released a mixtape in conjunction with DJ Skee based on his new solo album Scream. In addition to the Fray's American Idol-enshrined cover of "Heartless" and a version of "Outshined" credited to Audioslave, the 63 …

Kanye West, whose blog has become my go-to source for new videos over the past few days, posted the above clip for N.E.R.D.'s remix of "Everyone Nose" with the simple declaration "THIS IS WHY I FUCK WITH HYPE!!!" …

At this point, we've all heard that Lil Wayne is going to dominate the charts next week, approaching the long-forgotten one week/one million sold mark last achieved by 50 Cent in 2005.