New Music

Let’s start this week with Rihanna‘s latest single with Drake titled What’s My Name? This is the second single for her upcoming album Loud which critics are praising the single saying, “it does seem like another effortless hit on Rihanna's hands”. Next up, we have the second album from the rejected American Idol Jason Castro. That wasn’t meant to sound as mean as it did - let me make it up to him. Did you know he was the first contestant in the history of the show to ever play an instrument on the American Idol stage? That’s pretty cool!
We have a lot going on in Hip Hop this week. Considered a legend by many in Chicago’s hip hop scene and was even entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992 for the fastest rapper, Twista brings his latest album The Perfect Storm. Kid Cudi’s sophomore album Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager has received a lot of critical acclaim, and the single Erase Me is charting really well on our network. Lil Boosie, Webbie, Lil Trill and Trill Fam tell us in their collaborative album that it’s All or Nothing. And we have a compilation of Bad Boy’s Greatest Hits which include fan favorites from Biggie, Craig Mack and others.
Are you ready to rock?! Let’s do that with a classic rerelease of Sleep’s second album Sleep’s Holy Mountain which is widely considered one of the seminal albums in the evolution of stoner rock. Next is Travis Barker’s second single Carry It, from his up coming album which blends hard rock drums with Wu Tang Clan rappers. It could work; I’ll let you be the judge. We also have a critically acclaimed space rock/ progressive metal album (Who comes up with these genes?) from Arjen A. Lucassen’s Star One. I hear good thing from metal/rock blogs. And last but not least, Hawthorne Heights’ Midwestern: The Hits!