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A sparkling apparition in high heels dramatically cast against an East London backdrop: glamor, ridiculousness, cleverness and sharp irony – all brought together by dancefloor lady Róisín Murphy playing the part of a diva dazzling her mundane surroundings with the power of her sparkling persona.
All the ladies in the house say, “oh yeah”!
With International Women’s Day on March 8th, there is no better time to honor the greatest and finest females in music. Tune in to our spanking new Viva La Woman! AUPEO! Station in our Pop section which, you guessed it, is free for the whole month of March.
That today’s women can work side by side with their male cohorts, and of course rival them in singing, rapping and awesome guitar solos, is pretty much a given. The likes of Janet Jackson and Lady Gaga are proving to the music industry that women have more than what it takes to be global superstars.
Our Viva La Woman! AUPEO! Station is a multi-genre adventure that focuses on women’s contribution to popular and groundbreaking music in the last five decades. Amongst those at the party are Paula Abdul, Nelly Furtado and Mary J. Blige. Naturally, there are massive hits (Heart of Glass, anyone?) and singalong faves (“It’s like raaaain on your wedding day!”). But we’ll also be tipping our hat – or giving shout-outs, whichever appropriate – to many fantastic female MCs, bands, vocalists and DJs who have made an impact on the way we listen to music. They’ve definitely set the bar that much higher for future musicians, female or otherwise.
On that note, let us end with a lovely sugar-studded gem from the past:
Recommended If You Like: Bangles walk like Egyptians, Madonna thinks you’re her lucky star, Deee-Lite’s got groove in the heart and Rihanna assures that you can stand under her umbrella, ella, ella.
Once upon a time, way back when there were a few degrees of innocence still involved in urban living, popular music was beautiful. It had lush orchestrations, big beautiful arrangements and tense vocal harmonies, all screamed and cried onto wax. This music turned out to be so timeless that most of us, old or young, still recognize the biggest stars of this period by their first names; Otis, Tina, Diana, Stevie… the list really could be endless.
Our brand-new Soulful AUPEO! Station (in the R&B/ Hip-Hop section) offers a collection of all things soulful to both seasoned veterans and newcomers to the genre. It’s all there, from the gospel influenced early recordings of Garnet Mimms to the criminally under appreciated mixture of deep, funky yet mellow soul of Gloria Scott to the disco-funk of The Mary Jane Girls. Now this might sound scary to some, but what makes these songs timeless is that they are about feelings. To avoid further name dropping and other music-nerdy ways of simplifying things, have a look at one of the original Kings of Comedy, Steve Harvey getting the point across (things get interesting at around 1min. 10 secs.):
Recommended If You Like: some other-worldly vocals of Minnie Riperton on Adventures in Paradise, the sexual predator Betty Davis on her first self-titled album, the blues-soul and beautiful guitar playing of Little Beaver on Joey, the Roy Ayers influenced RAMP on Come into Knowledge or the blaxploitation sound of Willie Hutch on The Mack. It’s sometimes sweet, other times sweaty and often both at the same time. It’s oh so soulful. Now go on and get your superfreak on!
How do you translate sound into image? There’s no easy or simple answer, and certainly each person has a different opinion, but in Germany it seems like someone came up with a good looking solution for this a long, long time ago…
This month, we’re launching six new AUPEO! Stations!
To have full access to over 80 AUPEO! Stations, go Premium! You will also enjoy better quality (192kbps audio streaming) and absolutely no advertisement interruptions. With so much music waiting for you on AUPEO! Premium, you’ll never need to worry about finding the perfect soundtrack to your day.
And now, new for March on AUPEO!:
To commemorate International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating all the amazing contributions women have made to music by launching our brand-new Viva La Woman! AUPEO! Station! To thank all the women – from Diana Ross, Madonna and Joni Mitchell to Tina Turner, Yoko Ono and La Roux– who have made intense and multifaceted music, and all of you for making AUPEO! your place to discover new music, we’re leaving our proudly feminine AUPEO! Station in free rotation under the Pop genre heading during the whole month of March. Viva La Woman!
Soul has taken many twists and turns over its 60-year history, but there is a core group of artists and songs that EVERY fan of Soul should have on their shelves – from the early 50’s Soul of Solomon Burke, the Motown sound of Stevie Wonder to the Disco Soul of Freda Payne. We’ve compiled it all in one place so all you need to do is go to the R&B/ Hip-Hop category, click on our Soulful AUPEO! Station’s logo, sit back and enjoy (or revisit) the hallmark tracks that have stood the test of time and are just as amazing as they were the day they were released.
Our newly launched Underground Nation AUPEO! Station chronicles guitar-based Rock as it existed under the mainstream radar for the last 20 years. While all those that made it big were great, bands like Dinosaur Jr., The Jesus Lizard and Sonic Youth pushed the limits of loud guitar Rock out of its boundaries. You’ll find many of them here, with more tracks being added regularly. Underground Nation is in our Rock section and free for all Basic users this month. Discover some of the best rock you’ve never heard!
Tailored Communication is an independent music publicity agency covering a wide range of renowned electronic artists such as Exercise One, Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts, and Deadbeat to name a few. They have handpicked a satisfying selection of heart-stirring tracks to create our cutting-edge Tailored Communication AUPEO! Station (available in free rotation for the entire month of March in our Electronic category) and now AUPEO! Premium members can hear a great selection of the must-hear latest releases from some of the top labels in Electronic music from Circus Company, Simple Records and Cynosure. What’s even better is that they’re constantly sending us new favorites, so you’ll always be on top of what’s new and hot in the Techno scene.
Moreover, for our German-speaking audience and all the lovers of German culture as well, this month we also have two special, enthralling and distinctly teutonic surprises! Find out more about them on our AUPEO! German blog or enjoy them in our Pop category!
We’ve also rotated in a new set of free AUPEO! Stations – available to all AUPEO! Basic users for the month of March:
POP: Viva La Woman! + Schlager Klassiker
JAZZ/ BLUES: Sing The Jazz
ELECTRONIC: Tailored Communication
R&B/ HIP-HOP: Hip-Hop Essentials
ROCK: Underground Nation
CLASSICAL: Grand Piano
But don’t forget that AUPEO! Premium gives you access to all of our AUPEO! Stations!
Why settle for a limited number of AUPEO! Stations when you can have access to our ever-growing list of AUPEO! Stations? Sign up for AUPEO! Premium and get instant access to over 80 AUPEO! Stations - edited by experts and waiting to give every second of your day enough variety to never want to turn them off.
And remember that you can enjoy the incredible diversity of music AUPEO! offers you anytime, anywhere with AUPEO! for iPhone. And if this was not enough, by downloading now our new AUPEO! application for iPhone, you’ll automatically get a free AUPEO! Premium account for 30 days!
It’s Friday at last, the sun is shining here in Berlin (well, kind of shining anyway), and the snow and ice that has blighted any attempt to walk anywhere without some kind of accident is finally beginning to melt away. The difference in people’s mood is unbelievable, so how appropriate that while we were looking for an image to use in our AUPEO! Music update, we came across a recurring theme, concerning what we think could be the most peaceful man of all time.
The AUPEO! iPhone app for iPhone and iPod Touch is FREE. Download it now!
As you might know, you can also get AUPEO! as an application for your iPhone or iPod Touch. While we’ve offered this application for quite some time already, it has now been improved.
With the AUPEO! app you can listen to music anywhere there is a mobile network or WLAN. And as a top-notch bonus for downloading the new version, you will automatically receive a free 30-day AUPEO! Premium trial! This means you’ll never hear an ad, have access to all AUPEO! Stations and get higher audio quality (192kbps).
AUPEO! for iPhone now automatically adjusts to a lower bandwith in case of poor reception and the increased buffer size means that you’ll never miss a beat. Furthermore the Mood Station as you know it has been given a genre filter which makes it even easier for you to listen to the music that perfectly suits your mood.
The AUPEO! iPhone app works just like the player on the website including the full feature set of Personal Station, Artist Station, Mood Station and AUPEO! Stations.
Personal Station - Plays music based on your feedback of ‘Loved’ and ‘Banned’ songs. If there is no initial feedback, AUPEO! for iPhone plays a default station for you.
Artist Station - Type in the artist which you would like to hear and this artist’s music will be played alongside the music of similar artists.
Mood Station - Plays back music according to the mood you have selected. As previously mentioned a genre filter has been added, which makes it even easier for you to listen to the music you like most. For example, you can now select both “Calm” and “Electronic” and you will get a selection of ambient electronic music. Or you can choose “Aggressive” and “Rock” and get driving guitar-based music.
AUPEO! Stations - Music stations compiled by AUPEO! specialists according to genre, sub-style and theme.
As an AUPEO! Premium member you have a vast array of AUPEO! Stations to choose from. Feeling in the mood for love? Head straight to the Love Love Love AUPEO! Station which has been carefully compiled to give you all the varied and wonderful feelings that come along with love.
Remember that the AUPEO! iPhone app is free and if you download it and register your device you will receive 30 days of AUPEO! Premium absolutely free!
Nearly a year has passed since Mos Def released his critically acclaimed album The Ecstatic. This is a lifetime in today’s hip-hop, where truly memorable albums are few and far between. The same goes for cover art. For every Bizarre Ride II Pharcyde, there are a hundred Malice N Wonderlands. Even the genre’s classic albums have seldom been adventurous with their cover art, more often than not barely even interesting, visually. Mos Def, however, has always been of a different breed and we at AUPEO! are still very much in love with The Ecstatic.
