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Rest In Peace Traci Braxton
LIVE on KEXP (Live Room) Wednesday, March 30 at 12:00 PM!!
Performing at Freakout Weekender in Seattle, April 1st! www.the-freakout.com
Boom-bap drums and chunky bass lines are front-and-center creating a perfect head-nodding backdrop for Lady Wray to take on the good, the bad, the difficult, and the joyful on her most personal collection of songs to date.
“You have to go through something for it to be real,” the Virginia-born soulstress has said of her rollercoaster ride of a music career.
April 22 at Seattle's Showbox SoDo - more tour dates and music: www.ghettogods.com
Read their profile with Pitchfork's Rising column: pitchfork.com
Happy birthday to Quincy Jones!!!
In 1989, Siedah Garrett wrote lyrics to the song, and it was recorded by Quincy Jones featuring Tevin Campbell on vocals for the album Back on the Block.
Blue Scholars expertly sample "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" by Quincy Jones on this track!
Sagaba, translates to ‘suffering’ in Ilocano, the third largest language in the Philippines. The song is an artfully told story about dreams. Here are the lyrics: genius.com
Official debut album from this London rapper (aka Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah) kojeyradical.online
This is the 4th full-length album from Detroit veteran eLZhi. Georgia Anne Muldrow behind the boards for Zhigeist.
New four-track EP from Lilblackkids - a collaborative project between Georgia Anne Muldrow & Keith Rice. " linktr.ee
3x GRAMMY nominated Hiatus Kaiyote announce remix album “Mood Variant”–out April 3rd on Brainfeeder. Georgia Anne Muldrow comes through for the remix of “Get Sun.”
“Mood Valiant” is currently nominated for Best Progressive R&B Album at the 2022 GRAMMYS in April.
Amerigo Gazaway’s *Soul Mates* series continues the theme of his previous work in creating collaborations that never were. On the series’ latest installment, Amerigo unites Brooklyn rapper Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and soul legend Marvin Gaye for a dream collaboration aptly titled “Yasiin Gaye”. Building the album's foundation from deconstructed samples of Gaye’s Motown classics, Gazaway re-purposes the instrumentation into new productions within a similar framework. Carefully weaving Bey’s tangled raps and Gaye’s soulful vocals over his new arrangements, the producer delivers a quality much closer to an authentic collaboration than a lukewarm "mashup" album. - amerigo.bandcamp.com
Khingz was named MC of the year in 2009 by Seattle Weekly readers, the same year this album was released.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Gabriel Teodros, host of Early on KEXP, is "Pedestal" by Yugen Blakrok & Kanif The Jhatmaster, a 2022 single on I.O.T. Records. - www.kexp.org
Hailing from the Eastern Cape, rapper Yugen Blackrok shot to stardom with her 2013 debut album Return of the Astro-Goth, landing three nominations in the South African Hip-Hop Awards for Best Lyricist, Best Newcomer, and Best Female Artist. Here in the States, she was a stand-out on 2018's Black Panther: The Album, appearing on the track "Opps" alongside heavy-hitters Kendrick Lamar and Vince Staples. Earlier this year, she returned with the single "Pedestal," which finds her reunited with long-time producer Kanif the Jhatmaster.
Godessa are a South African three-girl hip-hop crew from Cape Town, formed in the year 2000. Debut single "Social Ills" was released in 2002 and got playlisted in the UK, the Czech Republic, and back home as well being made available on 12" vinyl through Lowlands Distribution in Belgium. - www.discogs.com
Khuluma means 'speak' in Xhosa.
The fifth studio record from Somi honors the late South African singer-songwriter and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba marking what would have been Makeba's 90th birthday. - www.broadwayworld.com
The first collaborative album from Michigan multi-instrumentalist/producer The Lasso and New Mexico-based singer/rapper A. Billi Free, is a groove-filled guidebook for healing, the soundtrack to help you move from tear-streaming breakdown to full-body boogie. It’s also a quest for self-realization and self-preservation. - thelasso-mmg.bandcamp.com
Describing her lo-fi jungle style as ‘future-classic’, 22-year-old Nia Archives is carving new shapes in a genre linked intrinsically to her dual-cultural identity. “I grew up around soundsystem culture, as half of my family are Jamaican, and I was always drawn towards that sound, the drums and the distorted bass,” she says.
A new EP titled ‘Forbidden Feelingz’ is set to arrive in February, which she describes as a representation of her life in its current state.
archivesnia.bandcamp.com
Playing in Seattle at the Showbox SoDo on Monday, April 11th! www.showboxpresents.com
Pre-Order 'Gifted': www.originalkoffee.com
A conceptual work surrounding heartbreak, the songs on What's After 'I Love You?' chronicle the life-shattering stages after a breakup. Within it, MALIA navigates realising a love is lost, questions all she once knew to be true, and finds healing in channelling her experiences into creativity. MALIA embraces vulnerability on the record, invites us to open ourselves up to love, and shows us that beauty can come from pain.
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, the alternative R&B/neo-soul songstress garnered some initial buzz after opening for The Internet's Syd on her West Coast tour and went on to amass millions of streams on her EPs Late Bloomer and Ripe.
- www.broadwayworld.com
In a press release, Robert Glasper said, “‘Better Than I Imagined’ is an ardent dedication to the value and virtue of Black love.”
Grammy Award-winning drummer, producer and educator Terri Lyne Carrington formed and her new band, Social Science, to confront a wide spectrum of social justice Issues on 'Waiting Game'. terrilynecarrington.bandcamp.com
E-40's partner 2Pacalypse released one of his best albums on this date as well, back in 1995