Tag Archives: dance music

According to the manager of 80’s R&B/dance star Teena Marie, the four-time Grammy nominee died in her sleep last night at the age of 54. No cause of death has been revealed. The protege of the late Rick James, Teena Marie was arguably the most successful white female performer of R&B. In 1982 her landmark lawsuit against Motown Records established …

NSFW, obvs. UPDATE: Watch the video on Hit Fix.

Jared at Pop In Stereo tips us to this new single from out artist Sam Sparro, which totally is taking me back to South Beach of the early 90’s.

Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic is the guest rapper/vocalist on this dance track from Duran Duran’s new album, All You Need Is Now, which will be released tomorrow.

Not terrible, but the classic disco version is this one.

Popnography shivers over the new video from Scissor Sisters: Just when we thought Black Swan was going to win the award for the creepiest, most beautiful thing we laid our innocent, virginal eyes on this year, 2010 Out 100 honorees Scissor Sisters debut the video for “Invisible Light,” off their stellar Night Work. Rife with coffins, blood, stigmata, a clown, …

The video for this nicely retro electro single from New Zealand’s Miles McDougall seems like it’s going in some gay direction, what with the solo boy and the rainbow unicorn, but by the end it’s not so clear. McDougall’s voice reminds me a bit of that Crash Test Dummies dude.

Here’s the new Erasure single that I mentioned a couple of days ago. Get it now on iTunes. Proceeds from the track will be donated to The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York, and the True Colors Fund. The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ youth service organization, provides a safe …

Another brilliant entry from the Australian wunderkind.

Director David Lynch takes a stab at dance music.

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker provides the vocals on this great track from French dance outfit Discodeine. I ran across this yesterday on the excellent Pop In Stereo, which is totally going on the blogroll.

I posted one of the remixes a few days ago, this is the production video. None of the band members appear, possibly due to their ages, which is a shame. Good clip, though.

The album version of Cher’s first single from Burlesque is rather standard Diane Warren bombastic schlock. This Almighty mix is actually pretty great.

Their first new single in a decade and this remix is by legendary French disco star Cerrone! Night People will be available on iTunes this Tuesday and the full-length Credo, their ninth studio album, comes out in March.

Nicely understated electro featuring LCD Soundsystem vocalist Nancy Whang, who gets rotoscoped through the unlovely landscape of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

JMG reader Gary points out this Jazz Times article about openly gay jazz artists, where I found mention of Dave Koz’ new cover of Burt Bacharach’s 1968 classic, This Guy’s In Love With You. “I’ve refashioned that as a wedding song in support of gay marriage,” Koz says. “It’s an interesting way to re-listen to a classic. That’s one of …