RIP, Carly Smithson. This Dion-like diva, arguably the best vocalist of American Idol Season 8, was eliminated from the show last Thursday in a most unmerciful fashion, and I’m still getting over it. Whether it was her Irish roots, her “disgracing” of Jesus Christ (superstar!), her tattoos or her boyfriend’s tattoos that ultimately did her […]

Nelly Furtado is officially the queen of Latin collabos. The pop princess—who just two months ago told a Chilean newspaper that she felt like a Latina—has jumped on a remix of Wisin y Yandel’s hit reggaeton jam, “Sexy Movimiento.” Click here to listen.
Our verdict: We love hearing Nelly coo “sexy movimiento” in the chorus, […]

Few people are as obsessed with American Idol as yours truly.
*Disclaimer: I was a serious Idol hater for years, and I’ve only been watching the show since Season 5–but as I started to get into it, I grew so emotionally invested that when Chris Daughtry was cast off by Ryan Seacrest, I felt like I’d […]

The scandal surrounding Maxim’s habit of reviewing albums before hearing them just keeps getting more embarrassing for the lad mag. First, there was uproar over Warpaint, the new album by hippie-rockers The Black Crowes, which was awarded 2.5 stars even though an advance copy was never provided to the music editor. Now, the New York […]

I know what you’re thinking. Another R&B singer? One who’s playing up his ’80s baby roots with songs that are drowning in synthesizers, to boot? Do we really need a new version of J.Holiday or The-Dream?
In this case, hell yeah. Meet Panamanian/Trinidadian artist Casely, who’s dubbing himself “The New […]

Nelly Furtado has always been known for her love of all things Latin–the pop star’s rumored to be pregnant by her Cuban sound engineer boyfriend Demacio Castellon, and she’s also been singing in Spanish and Portugese since the early days of her career–but now Nelly is taking that passion to the next level. “I definitely […]

We all know how crappy the movie award shows have been this year, but lest anyone forget, the music industry is also in critical condition–and it’s not even on strike! This year’s Grammys won’t have the celebratory air of years past, as sales continue to plummet and stars like Amy Winehouse have pesky rehab stints […]

How do I know 2008 will be the best year ever? We’re just three days deep into it, and already there’s a juicy bit of musical chisme shaking up my world. According to Mexican paper La Reforma, Fergie Ferg and her handlers have reached out to the coolest norteño band on the planet, Los Tigres […]

Here’s an artist you’ll be seeing a lot more of in ‘08: Cali’s own Omar Cruz. The Mexican/Colombian MC will finally drop his album with BYI Entertainment/Geffen early next year, and he’s already getting us hyped with the first single–it features The Game and you can listen to it now on Cruz’s MySpace page.
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Check out the music video for “Fuego,” the new single from Disney girl group The Cheetah Girls. Back in September, the ladies dropped TCG, their first album sans fourth member Raven-Symone. Now the lineup is down to former-3LW members Kiely Williams and Adrienne Bailón–I guess their third member ended up in no man’s land with […]