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Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament Kicks Off With A Battle Between Good Old Boys And Wonky Pop [Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament]
As promised , our quest to find 2008's official summer jam in a reader-determined tournament starts today; over the next few days we'll roll out the rest of the nominees, which come from all over the radio map, including even those areas we aren't very excited to be traveling through . (Hey, we have to acknowledge the inevitable, although you should know that the Katy Perry song has been ...
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What Is Your Top Summer Jam Of '08 Candidate? [Somethin 4 The Weekend]
idolator.com 5/28/2008 — Happy Memorial Day weekend! To celebrate, I am going to put up my away message and read Madame Bovary on my back porch. (Who says I don't know how to party?) But before I go, I want to ask a question that sorta pertains to this weekend's status as ...
Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament Gets A Bit Hands-On [Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament]Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
Our quest for the No. 1 song of summer 2008 continues today with a face-off between two songs that seem to have been expressly designed for maximum June-September listening, Kid Rock's Warren Zevon homage "All Summer Long" and Tyga's Harry Nilsson-inspired "Coconut Juice." The clips, the defenses, and the all-important poll after the jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're ...
Kid Rock, "All Summer Long" [Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament]Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
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. Plus, that "Werewolves Of London" backdrop is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than anything Kid Rock's done in years. Shameless pandering of this scope takes balls and, these days, a ...
Tyga, "Coconut Juice" [Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament]Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
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!) of hand claps and "ay-yay-yay" breaks over a beat that's been Dopplerized in anticipation of it floating and bending out of arriving and ...
Alphabeat, "Fascination" [Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament]Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
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...You get the feeling that "Fascination" should be playing on a radio in a suburban garage as someone washes a car on a Saturday afternoon." It seems I had preemptively prepared a ...
Brooks & Dunn, "Put A Girl In It" [Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament]Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
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. The duo capture the spirit of early Beach Boys tracks—songs about girls, fun, and not ...
Def Jam’s 2008 Summer ScheduleThe Rap Up
Wonder what the #1 major hip-hop label is cooking up for the summer, I snuck into Def Jam’s secret safe, via telekinetic movement, to find out. Just for you. Here’s Def Jam’s Summer lineup for 2008. Karina - First Love - August 19th, 2008 16 @ War is a solid single, but Def Jam’s latest songbird will have to drop an entire album’s worth of decent music ...
Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament: Pick The Song That Will Be Inescapable By This Time Next Month [Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament]Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
Now that it's warm out and I can run around my backyard barefoot, it's time to figure out just what, exactly, will be the jam of the coming summer, the song that will become inescapable through sheer will. And what better way to do it via bracketed tournament, what with the current run of major sports tournaments? (Those of you who think it's too soon to start calling these sorts of things ...
SUMMER JAM AND CANDIDSURBAN-HOOPLA.COM
Popular NYC radio station Hot 97 had its annual Summer Jam yesterday with an all-star roster which included Alicia Keys and Kanye West - to name a few. REAL TALK NY has a clip of Kanye's freestyle at the hip-hop concert. According to THIS REPORT, Kanye's late mother Dr. Donde West has a library named after her in Sierra Leone. New mom Christina Aguilera made an appearance at LAX nightclub in
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Miss Info @ Summer JamillRoots
So Miss Info will be bringing her webcam with her backstage to Hot 97’s Summer Jam tonight. Our buddy King Allister will be helping her out with it online. Guests include Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Public Enemy, Rihanna, D-Block and many others. Be sure to check it out!
Sum 41 at Fly Summer Jam 2008Avril Groupie
Sum 41 will be playing at Fly Summer Jam 2008 this year on June 21 at the Altamont Fairgrounds in Albany, New York. Be sure to click here and vote for Sum 41 as “Favorite Band.” The guys are playing as a part of Fly 92.3’s (an upstate NY radio station) Summer Jam. Click here to purchase tickets! The rest of the line-up includes Natasha Beddingfield and Simple Plan . ...