Pervy French house jacking itself into a sullen frenzy (with occasional, not-quite-in-place horn hits) would be plenty to recommend any record by itself, but this one comes with one of the funnier animated clips in memory. More »
A late entry to the tournament, “Love Is Gone” achieved its berth because over the past four days it has become completely inescapable from New York’s summertime agora–it blared over the PA at Shea Stadium on Saturday, oozed out of the radio at a bodega later that day, and has seemingly been in… More »
Definitive proof that at this point in history the “clean” version is invariably better than the “explicit” one is this bonkers, skittering round of playful insults by an incredibly loose Chicago rap trio (plus host/guest Yung Joc). More »
I’ve raved about this song before, but hearing it on a properly summerlike day only serves to solidify my feelings that this song was pretty much designed to be ear candy for the sort of people who would spend their first-blushes-of-the-Z100-era days listening to a tinny boombox and getting… More »
Harry Nilsson as beyond-the-grave hook man? Well, I guess weirder things have happened. Tyga’s “Coconut Juice” sounds like the overcrowded pool party on the outskirts of Los Angeles depicted in its video, a big cacophonous mess (in a not-bad way!) More »
I’ve bitched about this song and will continue to bitch, but I have to grudgingly admire anything that takes the License To Ill obvious sample pile-up aesthetic and updates it for deadbeat dads with beer guts. More »
When I wrote about so-called Wonky Pop movement and its brightest prospect, the big, goofy Danish band Alphabeat, I said of my summer-jam nominee “…it hits you like a load of laundry just out of the dryer… More »
I generally assume that the biggest song of the summer–or, at very least, the one I’m going to remember–will come from the playlists of R&B/hip-hop stations. However, something about “Put A Girl In It” by Brooks & Dunn just screams out hanging out on the lake with a cooler full of beer. More »
