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New music.. from Philly! GRAMMY-nominated alternative blues/hip-hop artist G. Love has shared his new single "Mississippi," the next preview from his forthcoming album Philadelphia Mississippi, due out June 24.
"It's hill country blues meets the golden age of hip-hop on 'Mississippi,'" shares G. Love.
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"Light of Day" is the 6th single from The Last Goodbye, out July 22nd. ODESZA shared a message alongside the single’s release:
“‘Light Of Day’ was one of the first songs off the record we finished…It served as a bookend for the record—and really, a guiding light for the project as a whole.”
Odesza are playing Climate Pledge Arena three nights July 29th - 31st! odesza.bandcamp.com
From 1985! The track "19" was notable for early use of sampled and processed speech, in particular a synthesized stutter effect used on the words "nineteen" and "destruction".
"The Bottom Line" is from "This Is Big Audio Dynamite", the debut album from Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1985. The band (often abbreviated BAD) was the project of Mick Jones, former lead vocalist and Guitarist of The Clash.
New from Lancaster, Pennsylvania-PA based Man With Roses -- their fifth full length!
"This collection of tracks combines vintage sounds with a modern lo-fi twist. Chopped soul and jazz samples mixed with synth embellishments are layered of dusty beats and breaks. forest/fire is the search for acoustic, hazy, natural beauty in a beat." manwithroses.bandcamp.com
New from Drake! A stylistic departure from Drake's previous releases, the record adopts inspiration from House and Baltimore club.
The song "Texts Go Green" was used by Google in an Android advertisement to call on Apple Inc. to adopt Rich Communication Services (RCS), in reference to the song's premise of iPhone users being blocked on iMessage (as Android users similarly cannot access iMessage's proprietary platform). twitter.com
The third studio album, and the group's first album for Atlantic after leaving Motown.
"I'll Be Around" was the group's first American top-ten and R&B number-one hit.
New music! Lizzo is playing at Climate Pledge Arena on Wednesday, November 9. bit.ly The new Lizzo album is out now! www.lizzomusic.com
From 1985! This song was written by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. This fabulous duet appears on both the Eurythmics' "Be Yourself Tonight" album and Franklin’s "Who’s Zoomin' Who?"
That distinct gospel sound come from Franklin and the Charles Williams Gospel Choir.
Jungle is playing the THING! Festival in Port Townsend in on Sunday, August 28th. thingnw.org
“The older we get, the more we stop giving a fuck. The more you can release your fears of what you think you can be or what you can do, you’re just in this creative freedom. It’s why Jungle is reaching where it is and why, in our view, Jungle is reaching its creative pinnacle,” he said. bit.ly
1985!! Listen Like Thieves is the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band INXS.
"Someone said to me recently that it sounds like a British poet from back in the 19th century. But that particular string of words is not a modern vernacular," says bandmember Andrew Farriss.
THEM are playing TOMORROW 2PM at West Seattle Summer Fest! westseattlesummerfest.com
THEM are also playing an abortion fundraiser "My Body, My Choice" at Neumos on Thursday, July 28 with TeZATalks + La Fonda + Tinsley + Linda From Work + Sea Lemon. bit.ly
THEM, a Seattle-based band of 16 to 19-year-old girls, first met next door to the Skylark at Mode Music Studios on Delridge Way Southwest. When Mode Owner Erin Rubin saw the girls’ potential, she grouped them together for a Sunday night rock class, where they received mentorship from artist Eva Walker of The Black Tones & KEXP. bit.ly
"This song is about impostor syndrome. About being in Japan for the first time, somewhere I’ve always wanted to go, and playing my music to people who want to hear it, feeling like I’m living someone else's life. I dissociate when bad things happen to me, but also when good things happen. It can feel like I’m performing what I think I’m supposed to be like."
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Phoebe Bridgers performed a Live on KEXP at Home session in August 2020.
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Lizzo shares the origin of the song: "Cardi tweeted that she wanted to hear a love song from me next. And I was like, ‘OK, if Lizzo did a love song, what would it be? ‘I love you, b*tch?” It was one of those rare times where I had the title before the song." uproxx.com
From 1985! The song became Madonna's second number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and reached the top of the charts of Australia and Canada.
"The verses are about separation when families are divided against their will. It’s about strong friends. It’s also about Samuel Beckett giving André The Giant lifts to school, and about how Beckett must have learned a lot from Andre’s wisdom." bit.ly
For a more detailed recounting of the Beckett/André story by none other than The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes, here you go: bit.ly
Joon Moon is not who you think she is. Behind this fictional character, we find Julien Decoret, a French multifaceted musician, songwriter, and producer.
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"Break My Soul" samples New Orleans' Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia -- and also samples "Show Me Love" by Robin S.
Robin S. didn't know she featured on Beyoncé's new single until her phone started pinging! ab.co
More 1985!
The overall meaning of the song is unclear to its writer today. In an interview with GQ magazine, Bernard Sumner said "I haven't a clue what this is about."
NEW MUSIC!!! The latest single - featuring Michael Kiwanuka - from the highly anticipated collaboration between Danger Mouse & Black Thought 'Cheat Codes' is due out next month - August 12!
"Aquamarine" Video!!
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Thanks to the Netflix show, Kate Bush reportedly earned a few more millions in royalties since Season 4 of Stranger Things came out! ultimateclassicrock.com
Kate's "Big Sky" is a nod to the simple pleasures enjoyed by children that most no longer find the time for, such as spending the afternoon looking at the sky, watching the clouds take on shapes.
"And no, when I sing ‘Take your mask off,’ I didn't mean your N95," Lizzo says. "I meant like the mask of the person that you have to uphold when you're out in the world, the mask that protects your true self. Take that off, because we accept you for who you are in this space." attitude.co.uk
The band's James Smith very candidly discloses, “we did ‘Tiny Dancer’ ‘cause our new best pal Elton has been so kind about us in the press recently.
“A song like ‘Tiny Dancer’ seems so far removed from what people assume Yard Act is, we thought it would be a really interesting way of showing not only our own versatility, but also the versatility of a song as good as ‘Tiny Dancer’.”
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Elton John saw our stuff and he started telling the press he thought we were good and then we chatted on the phone and after a few calls I said, “Elton, do you want to come to the studio and play piano on a tune?” because, fuck it, it doesn’t matter if he says no. Anyway, he said “yes,” so it doesn’t matter that he didn’t say no. I don’t know what else to say. He’s brilliant. Switched on, hilarious and an amazing musician.
Cover of U2's tune!
Check out the video, which was very well put together: www.youtube.com
New remix! Back in June, Australian production duo Flight Facilities released a stirring remix of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic, “Let’s Get It On.” The remix was produced to help celebrate Black Music Month.
1985! Title track from their fifth album, Dead Man's Party. The album contains the only two singles by the band to chart on the Billboard Hot 100: "Weird Science" at number 45, and "Just Another Day" at number 85.
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The song is generally interpreted as a song about the struggle of a married couple to find common ground, and find the grace to accept and respect each other for who they are.
Written by Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro, it came to them as a result of their own struggle to work together successfully. In an interview with The Tennesseean, Dan Navarro explained:
Cover of the song of the same name by The Temptations!
New music! South Seattle-based producer Sango pays homage to the roots of house and techno and the cities of Detroit and Chicago on his latest mixtape.
“2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)” — from Lizzo’s new album, Special — is a self-questioning self-help pop track with 1980s drum machines and synthesizers.
On the track, she’s met a man she wants to be with, but she’s unsure if she’s ready for the leap due to scars from previous relationships. Eventually, she takes the leap and navigates the ups and downs of a new relationship. www.latimes.com
Originally written for the three-piece girl group 3rd Party; rerecorded by Jennifer Lopez for her debut album.
Santigold will play the Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, November 8th. bit.ly
“The energy I was looking for couldn’t be the old version of punk rock, it had to be the future sound of punk rock,” Santigold said of the song in a statement, adding: “It all came together in a way I could never have imagined when we started, but it was exactly what I set out to make. I want to make music that sounds like the past and the future all in one; music that makes you feel safe enough to jump in, but then takes us on a journey to where we needed to go but have never even heard of.
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