Pretend

Anyway is a good song! Her album was not easy to find, gonna listen later. Can someone send me ScandiRara EP?

 

Edit: Now that I see, I found the 11 track version. According to Wikipedia, there's a 17 track version. And there's nothing on her Soundcloud anymore. -_-

I'll upload a masterpost tomorrow 

 

Since the release of her debut - Jungle PoP EP, MoXiiE has been on the journey from underground to center stage. Her debut single "Dancing In Dirt" landed on MTV's Buzzworthy and Moxiie has been on a relentless mission ever since.

UK's own Popjustice featured her new single "Anyway" which was produced by Reo of The Soundkillers and placed Moxiie in its "new favorite popstar territory".

Afropunk, Earmilk, StupidDope, and The 405 all describe the rising star as one to watch.

This unsigned Haitian-American, Brooklyn born artist has performed all over NYC to packed venues in Midtown like XL to intimate lower east side haunts like the legendary Arlene's Grocery, Bowery Electric and The Delancey - to name a few.

A songwriter first, Moxiie spent sleepless nights in studios honing her craft and has emerged as a risk taker and a dynamic songwriter. "I started partying when I was 12, so I've seen it all. I kinda burned out on the scene early. It's fun sometimes, but I have an addictive personality & it's gotten me into trouble. I just prefer to put that energy into my music."

 

Yo, can anyone get a hold of these? (NTMT instrumentals)

http://downtownmusicservices.com/cds/3821

They have loads of instrumentals there but no one seems to have access to the site 

If someone does have a login though... http://downtownmusicservices.com/cds/4735  

Question, why doesn't she have a Vevo?

Warner Music haven't signed an agreement with Vevo yet, so all of their artists - such as Charli - upload videos through their own channels.

 

Bombay Calling, the sophomore album from Norwegian singer Samsaya, isn't just a genre-busting set of songs drawing from pop, dance, hip hop, funk, soul and Bollywood. It's a long-distance call to the singer's heritage, one that augments modern pop with traditional Indian sounds that'll still fill any club in Miami or Los Angeles, but won't sound like the same clichéd Top 40 songs you've heard for years.

On Bombay, one hears the uptempo funk of "Stereotype" and bubbly synths of "Superhero" clash against the grinding, industrial pop of "Good With the Bad" and R&B synths-meets-Indian percussion of the title track.  Produced by multi-platinum-selling Roc Nation producer Fred Ball, the album fits alongside your favorite Rihanna, M.I.A. and Amy Winehouse records, with a twist.

"I like to make music that comes from an emotional place, and sometimes, that may not sound pretty, and I don't think it necessarily should," says Samsaya from her home in Norway. "It's okay for it to sound a little ugly. The music is about pureness."

This extends to Bombay Calling's lyrics, which draw on the singer's experiences "growing up feeling Norwegian but not looking stereotypically Norwegian." "A lot of people are run by fear and I try to infuse so much love that you don't have to fearm" the singer says. "Music is an architect with the power to build bridges. It meets you at the dance floor but it still makes you think and connects your heart."

Influenced by everyone from Mary J. Blige and TLC to OutKast and famed Indian singer Asha Bhosle, Samsaya, whose name means "doubt" in Hindi, has "always questioned everything," writing reactionary, iconoclastic lyrics as a child. "At 12, I heard Dinah Washington's 'I'm Mad About the Boy' and hearing that trumpet-type voice, something happened to me," recalls the singer. "Religious lyrics and traditional music didn't touch me. This moved me." Eschewing her parents' pleas to play classical Indian music in favor of more beat-driven tracks, Samsaya released Shedding Skin, her debut album, in 2004, and has released a steady stream of singles since.

When major labels asked the singer to fix a three-millimeter gap between her two front teeth, she refused and named her own record label 3MM Records. "I thought my teeth were the prettiest, coolest thing about me," the singer says. "It later became a big symbol to me of self-perception and not compromising."

This extends to Samsaya's live performance, which always features a heart painted over the singer's left eye. "It's a reminder that everything I meet and see, I will look upon with my heart and see it with an open mind," says the singer. "The first thing people see is the face and I was always hoping people would see beyond that. I started wearing what was inside of me on the outside."

"Bombay Calling" out April 29th (April 28th in US and Canada, April 13th in Norway) - tracklisting:
1. Kushboo
2. Stereotype
3. Bombay Calling
4. Beginning at the End
5. Love Maze
6. Good with the Bad
7. Breaking Bad
8. Jaywalking
9. Superhero
10. First Time
11. U & Me
12. My Mind

 

According to ASCAP, Charli's Boyfriend Material actually went to Bella Thorne. 

Does anyone have the new Chad + Paul pics from the album sampler videos in HQ? 

Here's Wanna Control Myself: http://illuminxtemyheart.tumblr.com/private/83759697589/tumblr_n4k5k2qRiN1tw9c2z

The song is amazing, the production is AMAZING, the lyrics are ok, a little repetitive as Seashells though.

 

The worst part is how short the song is! Well... both songs are shorter than 3 minutes... perhaps they are radio edits or short versions for the music videos.

 

Maybe she doesn't want us to hear the whole track before the EP hits stores.

They're sadly the full songs. 

Tanika is a singer-songwriter from London, United Kingdom. 

Coincidence had brought her to sing a hook as a favour on a track in the now-legendary studio where Naughty Boy, Maiday and others were all grinding out their tracks without reward – yet. She impressed people, found new management in New York, and was so certain she’d found her path she immediately quit her job – without any promise of a label or money, just on a feeling.

18 months later she was signed for publishing, having been “broke as hell and grinding it out with a son, but I knew something was coming. It was a good hell though – on the creative side and the music side, and all the new friends I met. The dreams got bigger the more I believed in myself.”

Four years followed of writing and recording in the big studio they all “basically lived in”. Sessions might start “hungover because I was two hours late and a complete mess,” having been out and not slept, but from that feeling that “I’m not good, I am gonna sleep with you and not care” she’d find the incredible ‘Bad for You’. When she met (Wretch’s number 1 ‘Don’t Go’ co-writer) Maiday for the first time in the studio, Tanika and Naughty Boy were drinking Grey Goose at 1 in the afternoon. Despite the terrible first impression, Tanika’s gift for writing a lyric and a hook brought about first single proper ‘Nine’ that same session.

It’s obviously been an intense four years to get herself together: after the writing came work on her performance: “literally studio, gym, studio, gym, mothering,” and repeat. And then, it all clicked: a showcase, signed, and now she’s ready. Her mixtape Thoughts of Love shows what she’s all about: a life-forged popstar who knows what’s worthwhile and is here to soundtrack our loves and losses. As the title track of that mixtape shows, she’s a very modern sounding star, plugged into the dark vibes of the Weeknd and Drake; then on ‘Casualty’ teaching Rihanna how to really be a bad girl.

“There’s no bravado – there’s just me singing and trying to make you feel good and believe that you can get through any door you want. My excitement now comes after a gig when people come up to me, when you know that something you actually wrote, which is such a self-indulgent thing, has just hit someone else.” She’ll keep writing, not worried about the past, excited about what’s next.

You can listen to her new EP "Fucking with My Heart" (out Sunday) here: http://soundcloud.com/iamtanika/sets/tanika-fucking-with-my-heart/s-aAzsZ

LGFT is still in the top 10 in Ireland

HOH preorder is up. 

https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/holding-onto-heaven/id843267391

https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/holding-onto-heaven-remixes/id843391935

Thank you! Is that a scan or you used Chaos picture?

I used his picture 

Eh, well I want the real one. I'll just ask my friend to do it I guess. He's made awesome artwork for me before so I know he can probably do this.

This one?

I'm still waiting for someone to remake this one or at least uploading an HQ scan

 

Do you have the original pic?

i didn't know whether i should include instrumentals or not

also i think the HOH lyric video is the same....just 1 second shorter

also the Shaking Heads pre-order version is most likely the same as the album version

The HOH lyric video uses different vocals, and the Shaking Heads pre-order version is longer than the one on iTunes at the moment.

Kiesza is a Canadian singer from Calgary who has most recently worked out of New York City and London.

When she was 16 she took part in the Sail and Lifetime Training Society (SALTS) program and a year later she joined the Royal Canadian Navy along with her brother, with which she became a code breaker. Whilst at that, she also entered the Miss Universe Canada pageant. She attributes her time in the Navy as a reason why, in 2008, she gave away 4,500 CDs to Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan.

Kiesza took part in the Young Canadians, performing tap and jazz dancing, as well as theatre. When Kiesza was 18, she says that her parents' divorce caused her to write her first song, as a way of expressing her feelings. The same year, she heard a song of hers played on the radio.

In February 2014 Kiesza released the video for her new single Hideaway through the indie label "Lokal Legend". Idolator considered it unique, for having a single take through the entire video, as Kiesza walked through the streets of Brooklyn. John Gentile of Rolling Stone called the style "impressive". Kiesza reported to Rolling Stone that she had trouble making the video, partly because she broke a rib just before filming, and "couldn't move for an entire month afterward." The song was released in the UK in April, and debuted at the top of the charts. Giant In My Heart followed, and also reached the top 5. Her debut major label album, Sound of a Woman, will be released October 21st in the US, and November 17th in the UK.

DISCOGRAPHY

Talking to Ghosts - Demo

Youth - Album version, Radio Edit, Album Sampler

Holding onto Heaven - iTunes version, radio edit, sampler

White Coats - Warrior version (same on album)

Let Go For Tonight - Demo, Sampler version, second demo, single/album version

Night Glo - Sampler

Night Owls - Demo, Sampler

Glorious - Sampler demo, Sampler 

Echo - album version, radio edit

Shaking Heads - album version

Count the Saints - sampler

Beauty Queen - Sampler Demo, demo, radio edit, album version

Home - album

In her Arms - Warrior version

The Unknown - demo

We also have:

Holding onto Heaven - lyric video version

Let Go For Tonight - radio edit, radio edit instrumental and demo instrumental

Echo - instrumental

Home - instrumental

White Coats - instrumental

Warrior - instrumental

Youth - instrumental

Shaking Heads - pre-order version

New press photos (click for UHQ):

Also, the radio edit of HOH is basically what we have, except the intro's shortened and the extra "but I need you tonight" in the first verse is also removed.

Guys, on her youtube channel, three videos were uploaded earlier only called Foxes - Let Go for Tonight and all three are unavaiable in my country. What are they?

Which channel? I can't see anything on her Vevo page, but I'm assuming they're just the 3 remixes.

Actually can anyone post like UHQ photos from the Glorious photoshoot?

Why would put a remix of a song on the tracklist that we don't even have?

She could have at least released the Moon Boots remix instead 

Final tracklisting and track lengths:

1. Seashells - 2:53

2. Free Falling - 2:40

3. Wanna Control Myself - 3:30

4. Little White Lies (Shadow Child Dub Mix) - 4:55
5. Seashells (Preditah Remix) - 3:01

Also, the Seashells video is released Friday!

The third track on the EP is called Free Falling - a picture from the video shoot: