Two years ago, Wynter Gordon told Rap-Up that a track called “Surrender” was going to be the follow-up single to “Dirty Talk” from her upcoming debut album.

The song ultimately went unreleased–until now, that is.

“Surrender” is a solid dance floor stormer produced by Jerry Wonder, complete with surging synthesizers and a touch of bossa nova to boot: “Surrender, surrender my heart/Yes, I will surrender/I’ll give you my all,” Gordon gorgeously croons–a clear precursor to her utterly phenomonal 2011 club-pop effort, With The Music I Die. (Check out the album review!)

Again, this track was recorded back in 2010 and is old. Wynter’s onto bigger and more exciting ventures with new music on teh way (she’s currently on the road with Dev–tour dates here). Nonetheless, this is a major gem for fellow hardcore Wynter maniacs.

Click below to listen to “Surrender”! Enjoy!

After a brief turn beating the shit out of Steve Aoki on “Ladi Dadi,” my darling Wynter Gordon is back in a loving (and less bloodthirsty) state of mind.

“Mr. Mister” is one of Wynter’s latest club collaborations, as well as the debut single by mystery production troupe, Sato Goldschlag. They’ve only just launched their Facebook and Twitter, but they’ve apparently been around for a while: “We’re a new group, though separately we continue to do a ton of work in music under different names for everyone from Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rihanna, to Tiesto, Major Lazer and Dada Life.” Interesting.

Like Wynter’s unbelievably good collaboration with The Freemasons (“Believer”), “Mr. Mister” finds the dance-pop chanteuse diving into deep club territory: “Close the door, don’t you keep me waiting/Keep me anymore,” Gordon croons on repeat above a light electronica twinkle (which seriously reminds me of Björk‘s “Desired Constellation”–go figure!)

And then, the House beats come pouring in: “Write my name all over your heart,” Gordon triumphantly declares on repeat until the track pours into its surging synth breakdown. Pump, pump, pump it up!

For fellow suckers for chopped ‘n’ screwed vocals, the track gets even more delightful at the 4:30 mark as Gordon turns into a st-st-stuttering lovesick fool. Ooh, la la!

Still no idea who the Mr. Misters are, but with beats this blazin’, I can deal with a little Mr. Mystery if that’s how they want to play.

Congratulations on yet another club smash, Ms. Gordon!

“Mr. Mister” was released on February 14. (iTunes)

Wynter Gordon and Steve Aoki have a little score to settle between themselves: You see, they’re having a bit of a lover’s quarrel. (Or, as Dannii Minogue would say, a love fight.)

In the Mr. & Mrs. Smith-inspired clip for Aoki’s dubstep-happy “Ladi Dadi (feat. Wynter Gordon),” a track off his brand new album Wonderland, Gordon (who’s looking utterly ravishing, by the way!) and her love interest, Mr. Aoki, have more than just an eye for each other–they’ve got a fist, teeth and a whole lot of blood too.

From decadent dinner to all-out blood bath in mere seconds, this shit gets serious fast. Look at Wynter twirling those blades! And then that stair scene–oof! And then the balcony–OW! Fists flying everywhere…MERCILESS!

I still can’t tell whether or not this one was a fair fight (Wynter didn’t even get a chance to take off her earrings!), but I do know that Mizz Gordon is a fierce glamazon warrior who knows how to serve Kill Bill realness and throw the fuck down.

Pop ladies, you might need more than a few wig fasteners when Wynter comes through with new tunes in 2012.

Wonderland was released on January 10. (iTunes)

FIERCE VIDEO ALERT.

Ka-chinggg! Check out the fabulously vintage clip for Wynter Gordon‘s “Buy My Love,” which just premiered earlier today on LOGO.

Co-starring Zelda Williams and Tristan Wilds, Gordon’s latest video finds an absolutely gawgeous Gordon twirling ’round sequins, bangles and shoulder pads while trying on couture galore in a vintage knick-knack shop. As the Pet Shop Boys would say: We’re S-H-O-PP-I-N-G, we’re shopping.

And oh–the choreography! So fierce! The side shuffles. The peace signs. That Brit Brit “Circus”-like arm-through-arm move. The butt slap. So, so tight! And speaking of, um…that stomach, Wynter? GIRL. You FIT.

The video is a perfectly cheeky blend of ’80′s nostalgia and modern fresh-to-deathness. I absolutely love it!

I guess what I’m most trying to say is that this is basically like one amazing ode to the entire vintage shop/dressing room scene in The Sweetest Thing, which is basically one amazing ode to Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles and every other ’80′s romantic teen comedy ever.

And all that makes me one very, very happy boy.

With The Music I Die EP was released on June 28. (iTunes)

Check it out! It’s your first look at the upcoming video for Wynter Gordon‘s next single, “Buy My Love,” which was shot in L.A. and directed by Bec Stupak. The video will include appearances bys Tristan Wilds of 90210 and up-and-coming actress Zelda Williams.

Looks to me like the “Dirty Talk” chanteuse is going on a rummage through a vintage shop for some sweet new finds! Looking hot, hot, hot Ms. Wynter! Oh, just one thing: I’m not mad that you’re wearing my golden shimmer hot pants…I just wish you would have asked me first before borrowing them, that’s all.

And remember: You may not be able to buy her love…but you can still buy her music!

The With The Music I Die EP was released on June 28. (iTunes)

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If you’re not already familiar with the musical stylings of Ms. Kimberly Cole, prepare to be schooled.

The former artistic roller skating champion (no, really–here’s the proof), former opener for acts including Katy Perry and LMFAO and one-fourth of soon-to-be pop group, Kimberlegend first struck it big last year with the release of “Smack You,” a feisty, bitchy electro-pop punch that found the California-born chanteuse talking trash and throwing ‘bows with some of the meanest hoes around. The full-on ‘tude track soon led to an official partnership with the Oxygen Network’s all-female, all-drama answer to Jersey Shore: The Bad Girls Club.

“Smack You” wound up traveling well beyond the Bad Girls Club promo commercials cycling on the Oxygen channel, eventually climbing to an impressive #4 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Charts last summer.

Following her lead single’s success, Cole then went on to release her debut record (and Oxygen Network’s first ever co-branded album) in December of 2010: Bad Girls Club, a sassy filth-fest of deliciously trashy, brazen electro-pop cuts about three-ways and vibrators. You know…only the finest things in life!

Now, the singer has taken a quick breather from smacking up bitches to jump into the studio with House DJ/producer Eddie Amador in order to cook up a brand new cut for 2011.

Kimberly Cole – Arrow Through My Heart (Preview) by muumuse

Click above to listen to an Excluusive 1-minute extended preview of Kimberly Cole’s new single, “Arrow Through My Heart,” which will be released in August 2.

The track finds Cole playing the temptress atop a searing, dub-laden dance floor throb. But don’t try and impress her with your money, ’cause she don’t want your dollar bills: “Give me something I can feel,” Cole cries out. “Push your arrow through my heart!” Bulls-eye!

After the release of “Arrow Through My Heart,” Cole will ring in a newly inked deal with Big Beat/Atlantic Records (home of MuuMuse fave Wynter Gordon!) with the release of her first major label single later this year.

“Arrow Through My Heart” will be released on August 2. (iTunes)

It was right after she first began posting demos on her MySpace–songs like 2007′s spacey “Surveillance” (which remains as next level today as it did the day she unleashed it upon the world), that I first took notice of Wynter Gordon, the 23-year-old underdog with a superstar’s worth of potential waiting to be unleashed each time she lays a pen to paper.

Just a few years after graduating from LaGuardia’s High School for the Performing Arts (alma mater of such notable acts as Kelis and Nicki Minaj), the young songstress had already notched herself a major writing credit with “Gonna Breakthrough,” a song from Mary J. Blige‘s Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album, The Breakthrough.

Ever since then, the co-writes and features (and unfortunately, the myriad leaks) only kept flowing for Wynter securing a spot on Danity Kane‘s 2008 sophomore record, Welcome To The Dollhouse (“2 Of You”), penning the impossibly catchy chorus of Flo-Rida‘s chart-topping 2009 radio smash “Sugar” and David Guetta‘s “Toyfriend,” joining The Freemasons on their essential 2010 summer jam “Believer” and, most recently, scribing three tracks off of Jennifer Lopez‘s stellar 2011 comeback record LOVE? including title track, “(What Is) Love?”

But despite all of her success as a writer, the song that truly launched Wynter as an artist in her own right was 2010′s “Dirty Talk,” a filthy-mouthed foray into kinky taunts and raunchy references to S&M above a dark disco beat that debuted nearly a year before Rihanna ever started crooning about her enthusiasm for chains and whips.

The song not only notched the singer’s first-ever #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play stateside, but kept her straddling Australia’s ARIA Chart at #1 for three weeks in January (and the duration of Australia’s summer season).

Now, nearly four years since she first started making ripples across the blogosphere and beyond, the Queens-born singer/songwriter has finally released her long-awaited, much delayed debut: The fabulously titled With The Music I Die.

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