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As befitting a track that features both Jay Z and Justin Timberlake, ‘Holy Grail’ – taken from Jigga’s recent Magna Carta Holy Grail album – has been given a very slick and expensive looking promo video. The atmospheric video dives straight into the dark and twisted heart of fame, riches and opulence, and was debut […]
Part one of my round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. AlunaGeorge – ‘You Know You Like It / Bad Idea’ It does feel like a real let down when you get this sort of musical sequel coming on the coat-tails of ‘Your Drums, Your Love’ and the excellent ‘Attracting […]
Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail {rating} Buy: Magna Carta… Holy Grail If you’ve been following Jay-Z’s publicity campaign for this album you’ll know he’s big on establishing ‘new rules’ for the music industry. As well as helping to align this release with Kanye’s ‘challenging’ Yeezus, these ‘new rules’ also amount to him selling off […]
Summer is finally here, and there’s some big albums coming your way to help soundtrack the long and sunny days of July. Here’s my pick of the best albums coming out this month – which ones are you looking forward to hearing? 7 July Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail New Order – Live at […]
It’s all about the ‘new rules’ for Jay-Z at the minute, who is trying to shake up the industry with new ways to promote and release an album. His new LP Magna Carta Holy Grail was announced last week along with the news that Samsung have already purchased a million copies to give away for […]
Following on the heels of Kanye’s surprise new album Yeezus, Jay-Z last night announced his own Rick Rubin-produced album with a similarly biblical title. Jay-Z made the announcement in a US TV ad, revealing the album will be called Magna Carta Holy Grail and will be released on 4 July. Whereas Kanye went for the […]
Regular contributor Philip Lickley takes us through the pick of this weeks single releases… Single Reviews – 20 January Featuring new releases from Justin Timberlake, Jessie Ware, Amelia Lily and more. Share your own verdicts on this weeks new singles in the comments section at the bottom. Al Lewis – ‘Make A Little Room’ [rating:3/5] […]
Can you believe it’s been eight whole years since the then relatively unknown producer Danger Mouse unleashed his masterful Jay-Z / Beatles mash-up The Grey Album? Well it has, and today a digitally remastered version of the genre-defining album has been released by studio engineer John Stewart. In keeping with the spirit of the original, […]
Superstar rap duo Jay-Z and Kanye West caused a stir in London today as they premiered the video for ‘Niggas In Paris’, the next single to be taken from their Watch The Throne collaboration. The video, below, mostly features footage of the pair doing their thing at a recent gig in LA, with a cameo […]
The Throne – Watch The Throne [rating:4.5/5] While it may not be quite as dead as the naysayers might have you believe, hip-hop certainly feels like a genre in flux at the moment. At one end of the spectrum there’s the new blood like Odd Future ripping up the rule book looking to establish a […]