Heston’s long awaited sophmore album Warm Human Cold World drops this June. To build anticipation, he’s released his first single, Greatest Lover, a smooth danceable number with Heston’s smoky vocals and some great brass on top. The single is available for purchase on iTunes
Originally released exactly a year ago for Mother’s Day, this timeless remake has now beautifully received the visual treatment! Featuring queens of all ages representing the present, past,
Visioneers are back with a limited edition picture sleeve 7″ (vinyl only) – one for the collectors! The classic B-Boy remakes Apache and Shaft in
Cherri’s smart, jazz/soul hybrid, Misery makes love to your ear from the very first note. You don’t really hear songs like this anymore so it’s truly a pleasure to hear it and Cherri executes it so well. Thankfully, although the song personifies the emotion, listening to it does just the opposite. I dare anyone to listen to this and not fall in love with it.
Seattle musician Darrius returns with a video for his first new album since 2003’s Love Will Visit. The title track, Can’t Get Enough is the return to soul music that many look forward to with soulful, sincere lyrics and vocals plus some really great instrumentation. The album is in stores now and includes features from Jake One, Choklate, and Vitamin D. Described as “sweet, melodic, harmonically rich, and infectious,”
After a 2 year hiatus from music, on Wednesday, April 27th Amanda Diva is set to release the Madame Monochrome FreEp with production from Ski
In 2009 a close-knit London-based collective of musicians travelled to Kenya to collaborate with local musicians in Nairobi. There they met Joseph Nyamungu – phenomenal
Here’s a project that I’m expecting to let me down; I love eLZHi as a spitter and as a Golden Era Hip Hop head illmatic is one of my favorites. eLZHi has some big shoes to fill with eLmatic and with the help has on this one (peep the trailer) he just may pull it off, but I’m skeptical. I’m gonna support though. I’ve always liked eLZHi
We turned you on to Thomas Berghaus AKA Shareholder Tom’s second album Havanna – Asmara, via Colonia HERE. If his second album was a “musical trip around the world” then his 3 track Wanna Dance EP is “straight for the dancefloor”. Ishaga, the final track on side B is “a lively track with flickering afro-inspired analog synthesizer-sounds and jazzy transverse flute” that reminds me of going to a “day party” where you can dance in the sun or just chill out and enjoy beverages w/friends. Enjoy!
Here’s some smart new Hip Hop from the SomeOthaShip camp that makes you believe that there can be a message in the music again. Kadence
We first mentioned the Roy Ayers Project here, plus a few recent Mr. Ayers related projects here. Its so great to see documentaries of legends while
June 1 is a day that I am now eagerly anticipating as we get more and more teases and snippets from Ishe and Hezekiah’s upcoming
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