Lady GaGa and Tony Bennett sprung a surprise on the masses today when their new single ‘Anything Goes’ was released to iTunes.

The track is the first taste from their upcoming collaborative album ‘Cheek To Cheek’, which arrives later this year.

Take a listen to GaGa like you’ve never heard her below…

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Is it any good? No…it’s pretty excellent, featuring big and bold vocals from J and Grande and a spitfire verse from Minaj, made all the more better with a hook that’s just as soulful as it is “Pop.”

Check it out after the jump!

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Comic-Con is to thank for the animated gift waiting below, used to unveil the very first teaser of the forthcoming ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Family Guy’ crossover episode!

Five minutes long, the teaser below whets the appetites of fans also anticipating another ‘Simpsons’ hybrid episode. The second, being a special featuring the cast of ‘Futurama.‘

Check it out below!

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I’ve been coming into this new phase in my life, just becoming one with all that is, going deeper into myself and getting to the goal of my music, which is to share that feeling and pass on knowledge so that consciousness can be raised on this planet.

Willow Smith shared the above with ‘MTV‘ recently, doing so far removed from the Pop bop that was ‘Whip my Hair’, and as she heads towards deeper and far more thought provoking musical territory.

Today, she celebrates her arrival at said territory with ‘8’, a brand new song puled from DJ Kitty Cash’s ‘Love the Free II’ mix tape!

Press play for a brand new Willow, below…

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Lenny Kravitz is back!

Making his way back to his fans with new album ‘Strut‘, the ‘Precious’ singer/actor wows his audience with its lead single ‘Sex’, now available to enjoy below!

Due out on September 23d, his tenth studio album is now available to pre-order on iTunes and follows the release of 2011’s ‘Black and White America’, home to the single ‘Stand.’

How Lenny has grown since then?

Find out after the jump…

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‘Here I Am’ rapper Nicki Minaj has been slammed by ‘All Hip Hop’ owner Chuck Creekmur in an open letter penned today, written in response to the singer’s controversial artwork for new single ‘Anaconda.’ 

Why he feels the performer is a bad influence on the fan base she’s used to become one of the fastest selling entertainers to debut within the last decade?

A scathing review below…

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Can you guess who was spotted rocking a new braided hair ‘do today? Find out below..

HINT: She’s currently working on an album that’s the follow-up to her last effort, which hit stores in 2012.

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She may be the fastest rising R&B starlet on the ‘Hot 100’, but it would seem Rihanna‘s fan base, the Navy, are anything but impressed by Tinashe‘s impressive rise to superstardom.

Why they’ve taken aim at the ‘2 On’ singer? Well, after one Rihanna uncovered a series of tweets published by the singer allegedly dissing the ‘Loud‘ singer, it wasn’t long before the fan base launched a digital assault on Tinashe, flooding her timeline with a river of insults.

Details below…

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Sex tape empress Kim Kardashian and Pop superstar Rita Ora are just celebrities called on to rock this years ‘Teen Choice Awards‘, taking place on August 10th!

Airing live on FOX, the show will see Ora take to the stage to perform her #1 single ‘I Will Never Let You Down’ and see Kim serve as one of the night’s presenters, two years after Ora split with Kardashian’s younger Rob.

The award show’s viewers can also expect to see the likes of Fifth Harmony, Jason Derulo, Rixton and RCA’s Hillary Duff!

Your thoughts?

R&B new girl Tinashe most certainly got the party started in San Diego recently, when she turned up at the ‘Stingaree’ nightclub to “turn up” with partygoers.

There, weeks after rocking the ‘BET Awards’ did the Janet-inspired performer sizzle with a live serving of her smash hit single ‘2 On.’

A good time below…

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At a time where male R&B is on the up, we’d like to pay tribute to a song that  helped popularize the genre in the first place. Shaï’s ‘If I Ever Fall In Love’ is today’s From The Vault pick.

Released in a Boyz II Men-dominated era, the A Cappella track is a harmonizing masterclass that took the R&B world by storm in 1992. Written by band member Carl Martin, it was blocked from the #1 spot by Whitney Houston’s gargantuan smash ‘I Will Always Love You’ and had to settle for a #2 placing – for 8 weeks – on the Billboard Hot 100. It did get to the top spot of the Billboard Hip-Hop/R&B chart. It was also a UK Top 40 hit and placed 4th in the Australian charts.

The Ian Fletcher-directed video uses the same “less is more” approach the song does with the guys standing in a circle while singing the  track and a scant beauty shots injected for good measure. For us, the simplicity  allows the lyrics to really shine through, but most importantly the gentlemen’s voices to take centre-stage.

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We wish more artists today would be as vocally adventurous as Shaï and other acts from the 90’s with their vocal arrangements. Though autotune and studio trickery is a necessity for a slew of modern acts, we feel some might rely on it too much, resulting in robotic, soulless deliveries. Furthermore, the EDM era seems to have sacrificed melody in favor of anthemic hooks and repetitive riffs.

Hopefully, the reemergence of organic music will mean more melodically and vocally rich tunes that will go on to inspire the next generations the same way ‘If I Ever Fall In Love’ has inspired ours.

Shaï, we salute you, we thank you.

Your thoughts?

Nicki Minaj‘s Barbz have been bursting out of their boxes with anticipation for her new single ‘Anaconda’ – which the femcee announced this week.

Initially set to debut tomorrow, the star’s fans will now have to wait longer after she informed her 7 million Instagram followers that it’s been pushed back.

Her explanation below…

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