While it isn't exactly FRESH, "BREAKING NEWS" that Skylar Grey and producer-friend Alex da Kid are currently in the final stages of shaping up her debut album... The just-released music video for "Dance Without You" is, in fact, rather news-worthy. Grey's first legitimate "solo track" was recently unleashed and is serving as a promotional single, for all intensive purposes. It and the lead single, "Invisible" will both appear on Invinsible [invincible], currently slated for a Fall 2011 release. Expect a seperate music video produced for the latter, which was released to Pop radio stations back on June 16th, to be unveiled soon as well. Skylar Grey recently described the loose concept behind Invinsible (album) to Billboard's own Jason Lipshutz... Saying, in part, that the collection will chronicle her tumultuous journey from unknown Folk singer to sought-after Powerhouse: "I was depressed and broke and had nobody around and was feeling invisible to the world. That's what that ["Invisible"]'s about, that very first step... and so, within the album, you go on that journey of how I became invincible, and I think it's gonna be a story that a lot of people can relate to." Thus far, Hip-Hop Circles seem to be taking a liking to Grey/Alex's unique brand of Hip-Hop infused Alt. Pop; As Shake @ 2dopeboyz has posted semi-regular updates on Skylar Grey's progress, since the "Holly Brook" days!
The singer-songwriter had previously performed under an abridged version of her birth name, Holly Brook [Hafermann]. During this period, she wrote and recorded an album's-worth of material, a companion EP, and tracked a handful of features: Fort Minor(Mike Shinoda), Duncan Sheik, and Apathy. Brook was subsequently dropped from Machine Shop Recordings [label] when her 2006 disc, Like Blood Like Honey, failed to chart. Brook then re-emerged as "Skylar Grey" around 2010 - Signing (again) with Alex da Kid's label KIDinaKORNER, a sub-division of Interscope. Grey has since appeared on such Popular nation-wide hits as Dr. Dre - "I Need a Doctor," Lupe Fiasco - "Words I Never Said," and Diddy-Dirty Money - "Coming Home." Hafermann/Brook/Grey also had a hand in co-writing recent singles for Eminem, Rihanna, and T.I... This including all 3 versions of "Love the Way You Lie."
Lindsay Lohan essentially embodies exactly "What NOT to Do In Hollywood :" Fame, fortune, success... sex, drugs & Rock "N" Roll . Within a fairly short period of time, Lohan somehow managed to obtain a plentiful helping of POWER @ a very young age. This gradual rise-downfall was captured on film; Between 1998-2010, she portrayed a wide array of roles across the silver screen in movies including: Mean Girls, Bobby , Herbie Fully Loaded , Georgia Rule, Machete , and Freaky Friday . Between rapid-paced film shoots, Lindsay Lohan also found time to record 2 Pop Rock albums for Casablanca , Speak (2004) and A Litter More Personal-Raw (2005). Needless to say, Lindsay Lohan has gotten roped up in a lot of troubles and woes with the law over the last 3-5 years... a vicious cycle of drugs, arrest, court, rehab, "daddy issues," jail time [Repeat]. That's the pure basics of it - But Google that shit for additional info, if necessary. Towards the end of
Lana del Rey [Lizzy Grant] effectively became 2011's "It Girl" with the release of her phenomenal debut single, "Video Games" (Stranger) . Like many struggling singer-songwriters, Grant has been signed, dropped, and significantly changed her public image since bursting onto the scene (2009). With that said, it can be assumed that Lana del Rey has collected just as many "haters" as she has avid supporters. To be perfectly honest, the only other artist I can think of that made this much commotion... garnered so much wide-spread buzz/hate and critical acclaim -- right out of the gates -- with just one track is Britney Spears . And maybe in this post- Mike musical era, that's the true synthesis of Pop Culture: Britney Lynn Spears . After months of repeated teasing and speculation, Lana del Rey 's major label debut, Born 2 Die will [finally] be released this coming Jan. 30-31, 2012. Pitchfork reports that it will feature "Off to The Ra
Chocolate & Cheese (1994) was one of the first albums I bought with my own money. I was in some sort of BMG Music Club , where you'd buy 5 CD's and then get 10 for "FREE." It was all sent through mail order and you picked the titles from some special booklet. I'm almost positive that Chocolate & Cheese's side boob-baring album cover was what initially drew me in... mind you, I was 12-15 and the zany Ween logo/middle finger CD graphic really didn't hurt either. Honestly, I forget how I really felt about it @ the time, but a few years later, my older cousin Josh told me that Ween were this BIG college "jam band." CKY did some sort pf 93.3 radio takeover to promote their new album and played "Freedom of '76" late that night on air. Needless to say, I re-visited Chocolate & Cheese @ about 20-something this go 'round and I fucking loved it! Ween were really weird, yet talented... almost too talented. I can vaguel
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