By Kara Warner
If you don't know Moroccan mega-producer/songwriter RedOne by name, you know him by song. He's the man behind Lady Gaga's "Poker Face," "Just Dance" "Bad Romance" and "Judas," as well as Jennifer Lopez's "On The Floor" and "Papi," just to name a few.
With the release of yet another expected chart-topper looming on the horizon - Cher and Gaga's duet, "The Greatest Thing," MTV News caught up with the man behind the music to learn a little bit more about his 2101 Records label and which new artists we should be looking out for.
By Lindsay Wallace
I've spent the last two years waiting for my favorite band of this decade, Sweden's the Knife, to come out with a new album. The most recent release I came across was their live "Silent Shout Audiovisual Experience" — and for anyone who has been to one of their live shows, it's breathtaking and exciting to have those visuals on DVD. But I want more! Fresh material, new songs ... A year or so ago, I heard that singer Karin Dreijer was pregnant, and the brother-sister duo was on hiatus. Congrats to her, but disaster for me! Recently, we found out that Olof Dreijer was off in the Amazon recording birds, animals, and nature for a new Darwinian Opera. What? Perhaps a Swede's take on a Steve Reich-ian/Philip Glass-ian geological/environmental recording concept will be refreshing. Still, though, us Knife fans yearn for the strikingly haunting and beautiful voice of Karin (and don't you dare say she sounds like Björk!).
It's that time of year again — that time of year when music lovers the world over congregate in the hipster throes of the East Village, the Lower East Side and Williamsburg to celebrate all things indie rock and open bar. It's the time of year when, within a week, bands can break out or break up — and all the while, get handfuls of free stuff. Ladies and gents, it's the CMJ Music Marathon.
