Read more dance music stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/23298/dance-music.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:53:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/63671/mobys-wait-for-me-is-pleasant-bland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMoby’s latest album, Wait For Me, is a pleasant if forgettable trip to the artist’s softer, more ambient side, writes Jess Harvell for Pitchfork. Coming a decade after 1999’s Play , a record that perfectly captured the “post-rave” zeitgeist of pop at the time to become a smash hit, Wait For...http://www.newser.com/story/63671/mobys-wait-for-me-is-pleasant-bland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 17:29:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63186/william-reveals-jackos-last-album-dance-music.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Jackson plotted his comeback album with Will.i.am, and the Black Eyed Peas frontman now tells the Mirror it was going to be “something Michael has never done before—a dance music album.” The King of Pop kept the demos “under lock and key,” but Will.i.am...http://www.newser.com/story/63186/william-reveals-jackos-last-album-dance-music.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 30 Jun 2009 14:21:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59509/omars-idon-takes-reggaeton-back-to-the-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagReggaeton superstar Don Omar blends dancehall with Blade Runner on new album iDon , Jody Rosen writes for Slate. The Puerto Rican’s journey into “dystopian cyberfantasy” features plenty of “cybernetic mumbo-jumbo, foreboding synth chords, and techno twitches,” Rosen writes, backtracked by some more familiar big booming beats.http://www.newser.com/story/59509/omars-idon-takes-reggaeton-back-to-the-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 10:32:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36787/you-are-your-music-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOur favorite music speaks volumes about who we are, according to a new psychological study. It turns out that Indie fans are miserable, and metal heads act a lot like classical music lovers. The Independent breaks down personalities by genre: Indie: Low self-esteem and lazy, not to mention selfish and...http://www.newser.com/story/36787/you-are-your-music-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 06 Sep 2008 18:11:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/26051/madonnas-candy-not-so-sweet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere is something noticeably absent in Madonna’s new record, writes Rashod Ollison in The Baltimore Sun : Madonna. Her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, “is a mostly stale piece of self-consciously fluffy pop” in which the superstar “plays it safe.” Enlisting younger hit makers like Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, and Timberland...http://www.newser.com/story/26051/madonnas-candy-not-so-sweet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Apr 2008 12:16:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24129/b-52s-shimmy-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSixteen years after the release of their last album, the B-52s are still rocking the cosmic party, this time with the all-new album Funplex . The Georgia band still performs regularly, but "if we're going to keep doing this, we need new material," guitarist Keith Strickland told NPR. "And our fans...http://www.newser.com/story/24129/b-52s-shimmy-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 14 Apr 2008 14:30:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/19361/ivory-coast-crazy-for-big-butts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBobaraba! It means “big bottom,” and it's a hit song and butt-shaking dance phenom sweeping the Ivory Coast, the BBC reports. In fact, some women in the west African nation are so caught up in bobaraba-mania that a black market of “bottom enhancers” has emerged, targeting those who want more...http://www.newser.com/story/19361/ivory-coast-crazy-for-big-butts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 18 Feb 2008 14:20:40 CST