To kick off the first episode of the thirty-eighth season of the long running NBC late night sketch comedy and variety series Saturday Night Live last night, Frank Ocean hit the stage to perform two tracks from his critically acclaimed Def Jam debut album channel ORANGE. [...]
September 16, 2012
Verse
TV
Guitar superstar John Mayer checks in with the video for the country-ish “Queen of California,” the second single from his latest LP Born & Raised. [...]
July 31, 2012
Max-El
Music Videos
The most immediately striking aspect of channel ORANGE upon first listen is how palpably mature an album it is. I know there is a necessity to categorise musicians by genre, but it’s simply impossible to box Frank Ocean in the R&B category with artists like Chris Brown and Trey Songz. While his so-called peers embrace [...]
July 18, 2012
David Hailey
Music, New Music, Reviews, Soul/R&B/Alt
Aaron Camper, for the uninitiated amongst you, is a Grammy nominated singer-songwriter from Salisbury, Maryland. He’s also the son of a preacher man and I think it’s fair to say that they make for pretty damn good singers. We’ve already brought you his mixtape, Welcome To My World Volume 1, and whilst we await the [...]
Frank Ocean is in a very giving mood right now. After giving us the album a week early, then leaking one of the album’s most-anticipated tracks, he now allows us to listen to channel ORANGE in its entirety before we commit to purchasing it. It’s all ORANGE everything. [...]
July 10, 2012
Max-El
Album Streams
The man who gave birth to tracks like “Your Body Is A Wonderland” and “Gravity” just released Born and Raised, which is believed to be his last album The album’s promotion seems a force to be reckoned with, with John Mayer‘s latest offering coming in the form of the beautiful “Queen of California,” and its [...]
June 27, 2012
Alya Mooro
Music Videos
The lovely R&B singing star on the rise Jhené Aiko got a little bored and took to her Youtube to upload this webcam video of her singing a cover of one of her favorite songs of all time, “Stop This Train” by John Mayer which is taken from his 2006 release Continuum. Watch the performance [...]
May 4, 2012
Verse
Cover Versions
Mr. John Mayer is at his best when penning classic songs made to set the mood, as shown with tracks like “Your Body Is A Wonderland,” and “Don’t Trust Myself.” Hoping to recreate the magic once again, Mayer is on the verge of releasing his new album Born and Raised. Originally scheduled for an October [...]
April 30, 2012
Erin Duncan
Music Videos, New Music
Last night a special telethon on “Larry King Live” raised more than $8 million in disaster relief for Haiti. Larry King was joined by a plethora of artists and celebrities to draw attention to the state of affairs in Haiti and encourage the world to give what they can to make a change. Watch John [...]
January 19, 2010
Verse
Music