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NEWS ABOUT: dance music

dance music stories: 7 news summaries
music review

 Moby's Wait for Me 
 Is Pleasant, Bland 

Pitchfork describes album as 'background music in the purest sense'

Jul 6, 09 5:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Moby’s latest album, Wait For Me, is a pleasant if forgettable trip to the artist’s softer, more ambient side, writes Jess Harvell for Pitchfork. Coming a decade after 1999’s Play, a record that perfectly captured the “post-rave” zeitgeist of pop at the time to become... More »

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music • listeners • reviews • Moby • dance music • music review • indie rock • Wait for Me

 Will.i.am Reveals Jacko's Last 
 Album: Dance Music 

Singer kept demos extremely private

Jun 30, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson plotted his comeback album with Will.i.am, and the Black Eyed Peas frontman now tells the Mirror it was going to be “something Michael has never done before—a dance music album.” The King of Pop kept the demos “under lock and key,”... More »

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entertainment • music • celebrity • death • Michael Jackson • Black Eyed Peas • dance music • Will.i.am • album

ALBUM REVIEW

 Omar's iDon 
 Takes Reggaeton 
 Back to the Future 

Dancehall king blends familiar with futuristic with foray into cyberpunk

May 20, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reggaeton superstar Don Omar blends dancehall with Blade Runner on new album iDon, Jody Rosen writes for Slate. The Puerto Rican’s journey into “dystopian cyberfantasy” features plenty of “cybernetic mumbo-jumbo, foreboding synth chords, and techno twitches,” Rosen writes, backtracked by some more familiar big booming beats. More »

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entertainment • music • Blade Runner • reggae • dance music • music review • Jay-ZTV • Don Omar • reggaeton

 You Are Your Music: Study

Study says music reflects our personalities

Sep 6, 08 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Our favorite music speaks volumes about who we are, according to a new psychological study. It turns out that Indie fans are miserable, and metal heads act a lot like classical music lovers. The Independent breaks down personalities by genre:  
  • Indie: Low self-esteem and lazy, not to
... More »

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music • classical music • list • psychology • country music • rap music • reggae • heavy metal • blues • rock music • survey • dance music • indie rock

Music Review

 Madonna's
 Candy Not
 So Sweet 

Hard Candy lacks a key ingredient: the pop diva herself

Apr 30, 08 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - There is something noticeably absent in Madonna’s new record, writes Rashod Ollison in The Baltimore Sun: Madonna. Her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, “is a mostly stale piece of self-consciously fluffy pop” in which the superstar “plays it safe.” Enlisting younger hit makers like Justin Timberlake,... More »

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pop music • album release • Madonna • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame • dance music

 B-52s Shimmy Again 

Wacky New Wave band releases its first new album in 16 years

Apr 14, 08 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sixteen years after the release of their last album, the B-52s are still rocking the cosmic party, this time with the all-new album Funplex. The Georgia band still performs regularly, but "if we're going to keep doing this, we need new material," guitarist Keith Strickland told NPR. "... More »

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music • album release • rock bands • rock music • dance music • B-52s • Kate Pierson • Keith Strickland

Ivory Coast Crazy for Big Butts

Dance trend sweeps nation, raising interest in illicit booty treatments

Feb 18, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Bobaraba! It means “big bottom,” and it's a hit song and butt-shaking dance phenom sweeping the Ivory Coast, the BBC reports. In fact, some women in the west African nation are so caught up in bobaraba-mania that a black market of “bottom enhancers” has emerged, targeting those... More »

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Africa • dance • Ivory Coast • big butts • dance music • cosmetic treatments • Bobaraba • DJ Mix

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