It’s been quite the high profile week for The-Dream. Not only did a wedding photo of the hit-making songwriter-producer and Christina Milian just surface, his Love vs. Money was also singled out in Time‘s picks for the top albums of the year. Hopefully this calms him down after his recent Grammy snub.
Dirty Projectors, a favorite of Solange Knowles, ranked pretty high on the list, as did Lilith Fair 2010 performer Miranda Lambert.
Lady Gaga just managed to scrape in at #10 with The Fame Monster, and the publication notes “there’s still a little too much filler for global domination to be a real goal. But the hits… are towering and undeniable.”
Hop below the jump to see the 10 albums that Time magazine felt were worth their salt in 2009. More »
Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca was released only five months back, and already Solange Knowles has offered up a slow groove cover of the New York band’s “Stillness Is The Move.” Pitchfork posted an MP3 of the new version yesterday, but got their wrists slapped by Universal and had to yank it off the site.
Check out Solange’s rendition of “Stillness Is The Move,” which samples Soul Mann & The Brothers’ “Bumpy’s Lament,” and Dirty Projectors’ original after the jump. Good thing we found another clip on YouTube! More »
ARTIST: Dirty Projectors
TITLE: Bitte Orca
RELEASE DATE: June 9, 2009
WEB DEBUT: April 9, 2009
MTV discovers weirdo art-rock bands playing smelly punk houses in Brooklyn, and since online news clips are what the kids now have instead of 120 Minutes, here’s hoping this still means the Dirty Projectors will sell a few more records. More »
MTV discovers weirdo art-rock bands playing smelly punk houses in Brooklyn, and since online news clips are what the kids now have instead of 120 Minutes, here’s hoping this still means the Dirty Projectors will sell a few more records. More »
Naturally we heard more than 40 great songs in 2007. And so before we get to the top two slots, here are 10 tracks that might have made it into our list of awesomeness on another day, from Radio Disney to Brooklyn art-rock to Euro-techno to Britney:
Note to bands’ official banter-providers: If you’re going to use your position onstage to announce that one of your members is “R.I.P.,” it might help to remember that those three letters mean said person is d-e-d. More »
