Bobby Valentino is back and we’ve got these two brand new tracks for you good peoples!
Bobby Valeninto – “Your Smile“ Feat Lil Wayne
We’re actually feeling both these tracks at the moment, so they both come recommended.
Have a listen and let us know what you’re thinkin. Do you like the new Bobby Valentino or are you not feelin it??
Peace, Love & R&B
SpeakerBox
That’s right y’all the clocks moved forward on sunday night and you had better believe it was hard to get up this morning!
But BST is the best time of year, the sun is out longer, the sky is brighter and damnit people are just happier! Fingers crossed we get a good summer this year, otherwise we just might have to consider emigrating!
Get your sunshine on, look out the Windowpane
We don’t like this here at PinBoard.
During an interview with The Guardian, Estelle expressed her frastration with what she sees as “blindless in the British media and music industry to Black talent“. The singer, who is currently sitting at the top of the British charts also went on to question the promotion of an overwhelming white generation of young British singers…
We’re not saying Estelle is 100% wrong here [that's not to say we think she's 100% right either btw!], but it’s what she goes on to say that really doesn’t sit too well with us…
Estelle went on to single out Adele and Duffy saying:
“I’m not mad at them, but I’m wondering – how the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul? Adele ain’t soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she’s got a deeper voice – that don’t mean she’s soul. That don’t mean nothing to me in the grand scheme of my life as a black person. As a songwriter, I get what they do. As a black person, I’m like: you’re telling me this is my music? Fuck that!“
It’s one thing to express an opinion on the current situation in the music/media industry regarding [a lack of] multiculturalism, but to go on and bad mouth other artists for having the success they have had – is a whole different [and rather ugly] matter.
It’s not hot to come down on those who have had success or are having success just because they are singing Soul music - they really are not the ones you need to be venting your frustrations out on. Estelle is obviously proving that there is more than enough room for more artists [from all ethnicity's for that matter] to make an impact in the British media, but by knocking other artists in the way she has appeared to have done here – well, it’s not only nonconstructive, it also weakens her credibility.
That’s our take on the matter anyhow…What do you think?
Peace, Love & The Universal Language [Music]
SpeakerBox
P.s We can’t help but think, that maybe this whole issue/interview is more in the name of publicity than political awareness. It comes at an all-too-convenient time we think…Hmmm..?
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=56_K6q_LoNk]
B I G!
Peace, Love & Classic Moments
SpeakerBox
Mariah will be arriving in the UK on April 1st and will doing a whole host of cool things…
On the day of her arrival [April 1st] she will be exclusively signing her latest single “Touch My Body” in Selfridges, Oxford Street @ 5pm [you needs to be there!]. She will also be hosting The Friday Night Project that week (one of the best shows on TV at the moment!), which we think is pretty damn cool! As well as all of this, she will be on the Paul O’Grady show on April 4th.
…And as mentioned previously on PinBoard, London seems to be the place for major artists at the moment and we can now add Mariah to the must-see gigs this summer. Rumour has it that the biggest selling female artist of all time [don't hate us Madonna/Whitney/Celine/Barbara] will be touring in the UK around June-ish. We’ll be thurr…will you? As soon as we know more (dates/ticket info etc) you’ll know more!
So get ready London, the DIVA is coming…
Peace, Love & Mariah
P.s Er…We’re just hoping all this isn’t some April Fool’s day joke?! LOL!
This tune is B I G!
Sam Sparro, an LA based-UK signed artist is about to blow up [we think] and here is his newest tune/video. The dude is funky…
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY]
We’re hoping he does well, the PinBoard crew have seen him live and his voice is SERIOUS…
To check out more from Mr Sparro go to his Myspace Page – HERE
Peace, Love & Funky Music
SpeakerBox
We posted this last week and just wanted to give it another chance at the top of the Blog.
Go HERE to watch the new video from Lupe Fiasco…
Peace, Love & Hip Hop Saved MY Life
SpeakerBox
This tune was on the KanYe West mixtape “Can’t Tell Me Nothin”, which surfaced about a year ago…so, it’s been around for quite some time…But yet, many people haven’t heard about it or seen this video.
We love, love, love this tune not only because it brings three of the biggest/coolest/dopest rappers of the moment together for the first time: KanYe West, Pharrell Williams & Lupe Fiasco, but also because this video is SO heavi!
Check it out:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=zCL9861SXaU]
…What do you think??
Peace, Love & Us Placers
SpeakerBox
P.s Check out the supa talented, supa successful and supa, dupa young director of Us Placers HERE…
Mariah Carey + Radio Interview + Presenter with Bad Research =
*Watch Till The Very End*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF0V44wRJvo]
W-O-W.
Peace, Love & The Ultimate Diva
The Roots are legendary, we know this…And they’re back…Did you know this?
There’s really no point in us trying to convince you about this titanic rap group, if you’re not convinced thus far, you probably never will be. It’s hard to conceive any Hip Hop fan (or music fan for that matter) who do not dig The Roots. Their jazz, funk, electro, groove, drum & bass filled Hip Hop is nothing less than inspiring, thought provoking and straight up crazy [in that very good way]. They have been around forever and have yet to come out with anything less than outstanding – and i’m sure if they had, it would have more to do with our lack of understanding, and less to do with their lack of quality [that's how much we trust them!]
This track has been floating around the TinterNet for some time now, so we thought we’d pop it up for you good people to have a listen. It’s rather big. The track is taken from their up-and-coming 10TH (yes, 10th!) album “Rising Down”, set for an April 2008 release.
Have a listen to “Rising Up”. We are LOVING the live instruments, no one does it like The Roots.
The Roots Ft Wale & Chrisette Michele – “Rising Up”
PinBoard Public Announcement: Citizens of the TinterNet, if you haven’t already you MUST educate yourselves on The Roots! Grab as much of their music as you possibly can, however you can!
Peace, Love & The Roots
Ok, so, we understand that this post may seem a bit strange, esp in relative terms to our previous posts – HOWEVER, music is music [at the end of the day] and we think this track is rather BIG!
PinBoard has a particular history with Ladyhawke and are totally over the moon that things are starting to happen for her. This video is a THROW BACK to some SERIOUS 80′s, electro, pop, type thing…but the tune is dope. Seriously. Even if you don’t like it at first, we promise you, you’ll LOVE it after a few listens. Summer 2008 is gonna be all about Ladyhawke and you heard it HERE, on PinBoard first.
Check out “Back Of The Van”:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhPh6ou8Kbk]
For more information/good stuff from Ladyhawke check out her Myspace page HERE
Peace, Love & Ladyhawke
SpeakerBox
After the H U G E success of “Sensual Seduction”, Snoop Dogg is back with this little banger.
“Life Of The Party” – The video’s ‘aiight’ (standard Hip Hop video really) and the tune is definitely a head bopper. Is it the best thing The Dog Father has released? Well, not exactly but hey…have a listen and check it out…
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=ai7ASY3HWCw&feature=PlayList&p=F7D10DA5D3574982&index=6]
Snoop has come a long way from his early West Coast Gangsta vibe back in the early 90′s. The PinBoard crew think this is a good thing. SO many rappers stay in one state of mind for years – progression is natural and without it you can’t really stay current/relevant. Snoop has found a balance – he’s still respected as a rapper (granted, not the most influential right now but still) and as a figure of ‘pop’ culture. We’ve seen Snoop in porn flicks, movies and TV shows and yet he still maintains his street cred…That’s a good look no?!
Peace, Love and D-O-’Double G’…
SpeakerBox
We went with this choice today, just because a) she sounds amazing and b) many people have forgotten, what it is, Whitney Houston does (You know, sing, without looking/sounding like a crack head!).
It is a shame what happened to her, but hey, moving on – she’s on the mend and is recording an album under the supervision of Mr Clive (Genius) Davis, which is set for a “holidays” release (October/December 2008). We. Can’t. Wait.
Just LISTEN to this:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=yjtvhOCgeEE&feature=related]
Peace, Love & Classic Moments
SpeakerBox
As like nearly every British artist does, Leona has recorded a couple more tracks for the U, S of A version of her massive album “Spirit”.
We don’t really understand why labels do this, we understand they want to make the record as great as possible, but what’s that saying about us? Like, if you think that the album would have sounded better with this added track, why the heck wasn’t it on the UK version? They do the same thing with music videos too – Leona’s video for “Bleeding Love” was pretty ‘polished’ for a [new] UK artist (we thought this was because it would translate better to US audiences), so why then did she have to re-record a NEW video for the U, S of A? Very annoying in our opinion!
ANYWAYS…With that rant over, here’s the new track. It’s an upbeat track and as mentioned previously on PinBoard, exactly what the album needed more of in our opinion.
Have a listen and tell us what YOU think:
Peace, Love & Baby Diva
SpeakerBox
While browsing YouTube (as you do!) we fell upon this video, dunno how new/old it is, but it’s of Mariah in the studio singing a new track that’s gonna be on “E=Mc2″ - called “Love Song”.
We kinda like it…”Touch My Body”, the first single off of her up-and-coming album wasn’t really do much for us…esp with that [dumb] video – but today was the first time we actually started bopping to it – so we think it’s growing on us. This track though, is cool – its very promising and while we dont want a totally slow album, we all know Mariah delivers on those big ballads!
The video quality isn’t that great (bootleg we believe!)…
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=pd-Xhwx7KjA]
Peace, Love & Mariah
