The times were crying out for a pop star like Lady GaGa -- a self-styled, self-made shooting star, one who mocked the tabloid digital age while still wanting to wallow in it -- and one who's smart enough to pull ...

Originally released in the U.S. as KEEP ON MOVIN'. The 10th Anniversary Edition contains six remixes previously unreleased on CD. Where previous British translations of classic US black music styles had been hit and miss affairs, Jazzie B revolutionised contemporary soul ...

Liner Note Author: Edgar Froese. Recording information: The Eastgate Studios, Vienna (2011).

Fans of the club sensations "Mr. Saxobeat," "Lollipop," and "Get Back (A.S.A.P.)" will be pleased that Alexandra Stan has more to offer. The Romanian singer's 2010 album Saxobeats features new remixes of these three singles, as well as the equally ...

During its early-'90s heyday, few could have predicted the enduring resilience of the Euro-dance format. More than a decade later, though, another "happy hardcore" sensation arrived in the form of 23-year-old Swede Jonas Altberg -- better known as Basshunter -- ...

Track Listing: Math Is Fun!; Number March; Five Little Crabs; I Know An Old Lady; Chant And Write; Sing And Spell; Five Little Monkeys; Kitty Cat-Position Scat; Spy A Shape; Shape A Loo; Days Of The Week; Months Of The ...

For years, if you wanted a comprehensive Chicago hits collection, your choices were slim. 1975's single-disc/eleven-track collection, Greatest Hits (Chicago IX) remained your best bet, but it only included tracks from the group's beginning to the mid-'70s (without question their ...

Recorded between 1969 & 1993. Includes liner notes by Elena Oumano. Although this is subtitled "The Best of Jimmy Cliff," it's really a label-specific best-of, not a true survey of the best material Cliff's done in his lengthy career. That's because ...

Wild Belle's 2013 debut album, Isles, features the band's catchy, laid-back mix of indie pop, reggae, and singer/songwriter soul. Centered around the brother and sister duo of Elliot and Natalie Bergman, the Chicago-based Wild Belle often utilize Elliot's funk and ...

This is not a true greatest hits, but a collection of newly remixed (1987) versions of her hits. Madonna's meteoric rise to stardom had as its springboard the early '80s NY club scene; dance music has provided a home base for ...

The idea of creating a score for a fictional film is nothing new, but London producer Daniel Stephens and Joe Ray, aka Nero, are perhaps the first act from the increasingly dominant dubstep scene to tackle such an ambitious concept ...

Rednex, a Swedish band, plays square-dance music with a techno beat, and had an instant dance-floor novelty hit with the opening track of this debut album. "Cotton-Eye Joe," which shows up again, remixed, as the album's final track, is an ...

3CDS Track Listing: Achy Breaky Heart; No One Else on Earth; Bubba Shot the Jukebox; Papa Loved Mama; I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why); What Part of No; One More Payment; Jukebox With a Country Song, A; What'cha ...

With the illuminated big head and all, Canadian producer Joel Zimmerman's Deadmau5 alias is a blast to see live, but you can also bring quite a bit of that tech-house-meets-slammin'-electro excitement home with 4 x 4 = 12. As bad ...

Just when it seemed 2009's trash-brat electro scene (3OH!3, LMFAO, Shwayze) was about to crumble under its own weight, rapper/singer/songwriter Kesha became the genre's biggest star, graduating from being Flo Rida's backup singer (she provided the hook on the rapper's ...

Sci-fi, film, and music fans alike cheered when it was announced Daft Punk would score Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 classic Tron. After all, the French duo's robo-aesthetic owed a notable debt to the film's forward-thinking, playful, yet ...

The Best of Santa Esmeralda: You're My Everything reveals that the group's recordings have held up quite well. The disc wisely chooses the full-length album versions of the group's tracks, thus allowing the listener to get the full effect of ...

In a career that has spanned over 26 years, no other British female artist has achieved so much. This greatest hits compilation includes 12 of her legendary solo hits on CD as well as 2 brand new recordings, her first ...

TRANCEPORT is a continuous, in-the-mix recording by Paul Oakenfold. Paul Oakenfold was already a guru of the techno world by the time this 1998 sampler was released, and the deeply textured tracks on TRANCEPORT only served to underscore his popularity. Given ...

Although it was released in June of 2007, Rihanna's GOOD GIRL GONE BAD refused to quit well into the summer of 2008, lingering on the Billboard charts and sending up single after single, including "Umbrella," "Shut Up and Drive," "Hate ...

Released the same year as Virgin's The Best of Shaggy, Universal's The Boombastic Collection contains all the hits missing from its competition including the big one-two punch of "It Wasn't Me" and "Church Heathen." The earlier singles "Boombastic" and "Oh ...

Photographers: Kirill Bichutsky; Autumn de Wilde. Personnel: Eric DLux (vocals).

Following electronic dance music can easily lead to a sort of jaundiced lassitude. The more of it you listen to, the more every groove sounds like just another peg stuck into a well-established hole: a thumping house beat here, a ...

The 90's proved to be an interesting time for MTV's First Lady as she dabbled with different music styles while pursuing movies, music and motherhood (not necessarily in that order). Like its perfect predecessor THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION, GHV2 features edited ...

"Get Ur Freak On" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. "Scream a.k.a Itchin'" won the 2003 Grammy Awards for Female Rap Solo Performance. "Scream a.k.a Itchin'" won the 2003 Grammy Award for Female Rap Solo Performance. SO ADDICTIVE finds ...