Shocking Sounds of Electrik Red

From Destiny Child, Danity Kane, TLC, to Spicegirls all of the girl groups have fell off of the planet, only one stands...Electrik Red. Coming through to shock and shake the R&B genre of hip hop. The group consits of Naomi, Sarah, Lesley and Binkie they are reprein' New York city and Canada Binkie and Lesley, who attended NYC’s prestigious Laguardia School of Performing Arts, met the Toronto born Naomi and Sarah while individually performing as back-up dancers for artists such as: Usher, Mariah Carey and Ciara.
After constantly running into eachother time and time again at parties and auditions they began to form a friendship. Even though their individual careers began with dance they all shared a love for music.This was where Electrik Red was born.
In February of 2008, that one shot came when Electrik Red secured a deal with Def Jam. The girls were then paired with the hottest hit makers in town, The Dream and Tricky Stewart, who had worked with everyone from Mary J. Blige to Beyonce. “We all looked at each other and said ‘Holy shit guys!’” remembers Binkie. “Look where we’re at right now!”
I love their girl group gimeic and homefully their here to stay. With the sassy independent woman attitudes they have a fresh style to their music and I'm really diggin' it. There name truley matches their music...ELECTRIC!!!!!!! So my question for you is do you think girl groups should be reborn or stay in the grave??? Listen to their music at http://www.last.fm/music/Electrik+Red/+tracks and tell me what you think.

The Ting Tings

The Ting Tings orignally formed the group in 2004. They are from the lovely country of Salford, England.
The band consists of Katie White,who is the vocalist of the group and also plays the gutair and bass drums, and Jules De Martino, who plays the drums and is a vocalist as well.
They have currently released four hit singles from their record label, Columbia Records UK, which released my favorite two hit singles: "That's not my name" and "Shut up and let me go". I'm not the only one who is loving their sound because it charted number 1 on the UK singles chart on May 18th 2008. The album "We started Nothing" was released the day after on May 19th, 2008, which also charted the charts in the UK at number 1. Their sounds are slowly making their way over to the US, do you think they got what it takes to pursuade our American ears???
Listen to their music at http://www.last.fm/music/The+Ting+Tings/+tracks and tell me what you think.

The Cool Kids of Ilinois

Cool Kids that just with they are. Their name fits them just right. With their dope lyrics and original style these guys are the future. The Cool Kids are a duo from Illinois. The duo consits of Miley Rocks and Chuck Inglish, who is origially from Detroit. They met in the year 2005 when famous producer LA Reid found a beat on the internet that Ingersoll had produced.They met to discuss the terms beat's sale, then just eventually recording for two hours. They were inspired by hip hop in the 1980s and artists like Eric B. & Rakim. Ingersoll began promoting the new duo’s material, and it was eventually booked by Josh Young of Flosstradamus for a DJ performance.
At this performance (in a venue called Town Hall Pub), the duo met the electronic musician ,Diplo, who offered to release a mixtape of their unreleased tracks titled Totally Flossed Out on his label Mad Decent, though it was eventually released on C.A.K.E. Recordings. They also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his Fool’s Gold label, which they did, but only for one single.
Up until until now they have just been posting their music on their myspace page. Their record deal didn't come until their performances at the CMJ festival and the Pitchfork festival as well. The Cool Kids signed to Chocolate Industries, another independent label, which had previously been the label of rapper Lady Sovereign.
They have been and currently are on tour, opening for M.I.A. One of the duo’s singles, “Black Mags”, is featured in a late 2007 Rhapsody TV commercial.
In the same year, the group collaborated with Lil Wayne and DJ Benzi through the Internet on a track entitled “Gettin’ It”, which will reportedly appear on the DJ’s future album Get Right. The band has been featured in the video game NBA Live 08 with the song “88”, and in the episode “The First Cut Is the Deepest” from HBO’s TV series Entourage with the song “I Rock.” They were listed in Rolling Stone’s Ten Artists to Watch in 2008.
These guys are the hottest sound that is out and is sweeping the nation of hip-hop. With their influential sound of 80's hip-hop they are on their way to the top. All of their beats are inspired by 80's hip-hop beats. So which one is better 80's rap or the new generation of hip-hop? Listen to some of their tracks on http://www.last.fm/music/The+Cool+Kids/+tracks and tell me what you think.

Keri Hison

Keri Hilson is an American R&B singer and songwriter signed to Zone 4/Mosley Music Group/Interscope Records. She is part of a collective of writers and producers known as The Clutch. She has been writing music for other artist since the year 2001.
She broke out in the year 2006 when she appeared in Nelly Fertado's video titled "Promiscuous". Meanwhile she signed with the artist "Timeberland" and then soon after released her first single titled "The way I are". She also played the lead role in Usher's music video for "Love in This Club", (as well as co-writing its "Pt. II" remix) appeared as one of the "independent women" in Ne-Yo's music video for "Miss Independent" and appeared briefly on Nelly's "Party People" music video wearing a T-Shirt with the slogan 'Hip Hop aint dead'. Ironically, she was soon after featured on Nas' debut single from his controversial album "Untitled", "Hero".
Keri Hilson's debut solo album In a Perfect World... was released November 4th, 2008. The album's first single was "Energy" and its music video was released July 14, 2008. The second single is a Double A-Side of "Turnin' Me On" and "Return the Favor". She currently also features on Chris Brown's latest single "Superhuman".
Keri Hilson is a new artist that brings the ladies to the dance floor. Her beats are sick and her featured artists such a Lil Wayne and Kayne West do nothing but just complement her sick beats. Her style is like no other, do you think that she is the new sound of hip-hop? Listen to her beats and tell me what you think at http://www.last.fm/music/Keri+Hilson/+tracks