Although CuDi’s sophomore album MOTM2: The Legend of Mr. Rager was initially penned for an early September release, news recently filtered through that it has been pushed back for a third time to October 26th.

Which is why I’m so surprised that the album has sprung a new leak in the form of Mojo So Dope.

The track has a much more laid back feel to it than either REVOFEV or Erase Me, sounding more like his material from Man on the Moon: The End of Day.

Kid CuDi – Mojo So Dope

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Chase & Status today unveiled the official music video for their latest single Let You Go, which is finally released on 15th August.

It’s an interesting narrative for the video, that I assume is based extremely loosely around The Jeremy Kyle show which is an English version of Jerry Springer. Well maybe just the start of the video at least.

The iTunes digital bundle of Let You Go features some fantastic remixes by Brookes Brothers, Nero, Feed Me. Chase & Status have also thrown in a VIP mix to boot.

Don’t worry yourselves, singer/songwriter/producer (and Simon Cowell’s gateway to cool) hasn’t decided to go and do a cover of that song from the musical Hair. It’s just the coincidental name of his first solo single.

Let The Sun Shine is a mid-tempo number that should do pretty well for itself (if we actually manage to get any fucking sun in this country that is).

I’m a big fan of Labrinth and it’s plain to see that he is a tremendous talent. Syco signing him up was probably one of the best strategic decisions they have ever made.

Labrinth – Let The Sun Shine

I know we only just posted a Lissie track up here the other day, but it seems like she has just premiered the official music video for her second single Cuckoo.

The video focuses on a young version of Lissie, we follow her as she first falls in love and becomes a musician.

If you like the single, her Cuckoo EP will be avaliable on iTunes from August 30th.

Don’t Turn The Lights On is the Canadian duo’s second single from their forthcoming third LP Business Casual. The electro beat underlying the ’80s synth-pop and guitar funk is masterful.

The video is very fun to watch. It’s visually compelling by delivering heavy doses of originality and freakiness in equal measure.

Enjoy.

After playing second fiddle to the likes of Bashy, Chipmunk and Sway for the past few years, Loick Essien finally gets a chance to step out of the shadows with his first solo single Love Drunk.

Loick was recently snapped up by Sony and was quickly signed on a development deal. Since then he has spent much of his time travelling between LA and Sweden working on writing and recording his debut album.

Love Drunk is a Labrinth produced electro/R&B crossover track that should place highly in the UK charts if he gets sufficient backing from Sony. Labrinth of course is signed to Sony’s umbrella record label Syco, so I’d expect to his name appear frequently on the album’s final tracklist.

Loick Essien – Love Drunk

On June 1, 2010 the Manic Street Preachers announced on their website that a new album called Postcards From a Young Man would be released on September 20, 2010.

Frontman James Dean Bradfield has previously said that the album would be an unashamedly pop-orientated affair following 2009’s Journal For Plague Lovers.

“We’re going for big radio hits on this one,” he told NME. “It isn’t a follow-up to Journal For Plague Lovers. It’s one last shot at mass communication.”

(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love is the first single and it has that sound that makes you think that it wouldn’t go amiss on James Dean Bradfield’s solo album The Great Western.

The single will be available to purchase on September 13th, and they are on tour across the UK just after (which I am extremely excited about).

Manic Street Preachers – (It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love (Radio Rip)

We featured Lissie way back earlier in June when she did an amazing cover of Kid CuDi’s Pursuit of Happiness, this time however we are focusing on her own material.

Bully is Lissie’s first single that will be taken from her debut album, Catching A Tiger, which is already available to buy in the UK, but will be released in the US very shortly.

Lissie – Bully

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Lauren Pritchard is a 22-year-old singer/songwriter who was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee. Pritchard now lives and plies her trade in London which kind of explains the name of her forthcoming album, Wasted in Jackson.

She has a stunningly soulful voice which is used to great effect when twinned with her thought provoking lyrics. When you already possess those two amazing qualities and then proceed to throw Talib Kweli into the mix, you definitely have something special on your hands.

Check out the official remix of her new single Painkillers below. Enjoy.

Lauren Pritchard – Painkillers feat. Talib Kweli (Remix)

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Last week we posted up a Neon Hitch cover of a Sia & Mike Poser blend, which on the whole seemed to receive positive reviews. Well it seems she has gone into create overdrive, as now we have a Snoop Dogg x Alina Orlova rework of his 2004 hit single Drop It Like It’s Hot.

Similarly to the previous Neon Hitch post, it shouldn’t work, but it definitely does.

Neon Hitch – Drop It Like Its Hot (Snoop Dogg x Alina Orlova)

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