Snoop Lion ft Cori B. & Drake – No Guns Allowed

This is our song against ham-fisted message songs. [Video][Website] [3.50] Edward Okulicz: No doubt Snoop’s love of reggae is real, ...

Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu – Q.U.E.E.N.

Twerk it! [Video][Website] [7.00] Brad Shoup: This is why it’s called the Mothership.[8] Will Adams: With all the finesse of ...

Basement Jaxx – Back 2 the Wild

Seapunk? Played out? [Video][Website] [5.14] Anthony Easton: So much like a fashionable update of Bow Wow Wow, including the pleasures ...

Dirty Epics – Midnight Missing

Don’t watch the second half in a public space… [Video][Website] [4.83] Patrick St. Michel: So I guess enough time has ...

Fantasia ft. Kelly Rowland & Missy Elliott – Without Me

Did you miss us? [Video][Website] [7.25]Anthony Easton: This is so beautiful, isolated, crystalline, and exhausted — softer than Rihanna, but equally ...

When Saints Go Machine ft. Killer Mike – Love and Respect

One of those “75% of these words are about the featured artist” bits… [Video][Website] [4.57] Sonya Nicholson: I saw Killer ...

Jonas Brothers – Pom Poms

They ain’t holding pomp poms. [Video][Website] [5.27] Patrick St. Michel: 1. This entire song hinges on a marching-band theme, yet ...

Joanna Wang – Coins

Romney/Thatcher 2016! [Video][Website] [6.08] Katherine St Asaph: This is horribly US-centric of me, but my God, if only this existed ...

Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky

“Regarding the lyrical composition, Pharrell stated that the song is not just about a sexual conquest, but the fortune in ...

Roberto Junior y Su Bandeño – El Coco No

EVERYBODY SLAP YOUR HEAD… [Video][Website] [5.62] Josh Langhoff: The video for “El Coco No,” with its lurid depiction of a ...