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py & damu // blind

Londoner Jade Elizabeth Pybus does one thing extremely well, and that’s opening her mouth and letting pure sun-sound wash over your eardrums. As Py she is known to lay the vocals on thick and relentlessly plush, and currently she has teamed up with music guru Damu and together they’ve conjured up 100% magic. Check out the track “Blind” and you’ll be all in, and maybe a bit undone by the sheer beauty of it. You can get the download on SoundCloud and play it to your hearts desire. Be on the lookout for Py’s mixtape Tripping On Wisdom on May 21st. Peace. Continue reading “py & damu // blind”

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Scratch Massive // Closer Ft. Chloé

The song “Closer” Ft. Chloé” is a dangerously dark funk swamp in which one could sink within for hours on end. It dirties your fingertips it does, and muddles your neck with sucking kisses vampire like. It paws and scratches your delicate skin. It leaves bruises on body party and they aren’t ashamed to display these little remembrances like trophies. This is what a Scratch Massive song can do, and just when you think you’ve had enough you click repeat and Maud Geffray and Sébastien Chenuthave seduce you all over again. Peace. Continue reading “Scratch Massive // Closer Ft. Chloé”

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The Hood Internet // Touch One (Khaled + Drake + Rick Ross + Lil’ Wayne + Holy Other + Supreme Cuts)

If you’re down, then you’re down. Aaron Brink (aka ABX) and Steve Reidell (aka STV SLV) known as The Hood Internet are down. And what exactly does being down entail. Well, for starters it means not having limitations regarding what a song or track can be. Then also, being down translates into being fearless, in that you follow your heart, and the groove wherever it takes you. On both counts the Chicago-based duo more than fit the bill. And if you’re not familiar check ’em out, but it’s going to take some doing because The Hood Internet’s back catalog is massive, like juggernaut style massive. For instance, if one could take all the mind alternating grooves they’ve collectively produced over the years and put then end to end they would ring Nirvana infinitely. Check out what these two gifted sound surgeons have done with the track “Touch One,” they’ve taken some of hip-hops finest and set them adrift upon a compendium of  sensuous sound waves. They’ve enwrapped them one and all is a soft gossamer shroud, and more importantly, nary a street cred was harmed in the making of this remix. You want more? Well, you can cop this track and plenty more at www.thehoodinternet.com Peace. Continue reading “The Hood Internet // Touch One (Khaled + Drake + Rick Ross + Lil’ Wayne + Holy Other + Supreme Cuts)”

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Beast Make Bomb // Zombie Song + Coney Island (Video)

There is a whole heap of hustle in the post/punk/pop groove wave that is Brooklyn-based band Beast Make Bomb, and it’s all good. Good like “good weed” or “good porn,” are ya feelin me now? Firstly, I am so tangled up in lead song-spitter Ceci G‘s (G = Gomez) vocals (and tangled up in her voice is where I’d like to stay), think crystalline shards of lightning stitched through with mellifluous rant. And then there is the frenetic free-range guitar courtesy of Ms. Glenn VanDyke (Ms. Gomez throws in some mean guitar rabbit-punches too).  Mr. Hartley Lewis wails majestically on the skins (and looks like a wildish warrior warlock while doing it), meanwhile Sam Goldfine channels beauteous testosterone laden low-register sonics on the bass. The bands kaleidoscopic patchwork of sound does the body good.  In that, once the music of BMB is cranked way up to 11, you better toss all your earthly worries to the wind and just rock the fuck out!  Check out my favorite, “Zombie Song,” it’s the last track on the BMB‘s mini-LP Skinny Legs. And for good measure, and because the music is so devilishly good, I’ve also throw in the band’s latest Sourpuss EP. Love it and it’ll love you right back, promise. Peace. Continue reading “Beast Make Bomb // Zombie Song + Coney Island (Video)”

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Vacationer // Trip

The band Vacationer is dedicated to perpetuating the fact that most people, me included, don’t unplug and unwind enough. Tru dat! And they’ve gone a created music to induce within our lives (or minds) space to unfurl our inhibitions to live a little via a truncated or extended session of chillaxation (real word). And their song, “Trip” does just that. Right now, while listening to this I’m no longer in Michigan. No, I’m floating on the blue-green waters of Turks and Caicos. So, if you need me for anything I’m out of commission, at least until the song has played about 1,000 times. Enjoy. Peace. Continue reading “Vacationer // Trip”

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chet faker // terms and conditions (video)

I’m adding Melbourne, Australia artist Chet Faker (Nick Murphy) to my list of new favs, and with good reason. What originally, and ultimately, won me over was his sumptuous re-edit of Radiohead’s song “Nude” with its drawn out slow-motion honey drip treatment which clings to your soul like sticky whale song. But that was only the beginning of my new-found addiction. Now, with his latest “Terms And Conditions” I have arrived at the epicenter of full-on famdom and it’s a great place to be. Check out the mini-lineup of songs after the jump, and of course there is a visual to massage your corneas into bliss. Peace. Continue reading “chet faker // terms and conditions (video)”

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wild belle // keep you

Chicago-based brother/sister duo Wild Belle (Natalie Bergman & Elliot Bergman) take dancehall/reggae to a whole new flavor level (think golden-sunshine-cosmic-mango) and it’s so tasty to your ears, kinda like a frosty Red Stripe with sonic implications. The song “Keep You” will put you in the right mood with it’s sunshine bubblyness and Caribbean groove. You can get your own addictive ray of musical sunshine that is “Keep You” on iTunes. Peace. Continue reading “wild belle // keep you”

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the lighthouse and the whaler // burst apart

The music made by The Lighthouse And The Whaler makes you care about it, even if you didn’t want to. This Cleveland, Ohio band is a 5-piece ensemble, and every single song I’ve heard thus far sounds like something unexplored, yet familiar. These songs sound like baking bread, or the muted colors burnt and radiant spilling forth from a spectacular sunset. These guys make music like a sighing lover exhaling your name, and all the while trailing warm breath across your breastbone. Yes, this is sweetness and light territory for sure. I listened to their songs, “White Days”, “Window”, and “Of The Heavens And The Earth” and I found myself not wanting to leave them alone. I got lost within these melodies. I was comfortable and I didn’t want to venture anywhere else. Their latest single, “Burst Apart” moves across your earlobe like a minnow, it tickles and it is innocent of the knowledge of darker things to come. TLATW‘s forthcoming Pioneers EP is scheduled for a March 13th release and you can pre-order it at www.thelighthouseandthewhaler.com. And surely you didn’t think the only good things in Cleveland was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Hot Dog Diner & Burger Co? Shame on you. Peace. Continue reading “the lighthouse and the whaler // burst apart”

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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs // Tapes & Money

Orlando Higginbottom transformed himself into Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and the dance music scene is no longer as they were. TEED has taken old school house music and breathed into it the chillness of Space Ghost with the  stylistic panache of a graffiti artist. No this isn’t hauteur hipness anywhere with this guy, his music is for the masses. Check out his latest, the David Terranova directed video for his new single “Tapes & Money” and look for the  new single release April 2, 2012. Peace.  Continue reading “Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs // Tapes & Money”

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Elliot Brood // Northern Air

The soulful music of Elliot Brood is found somewhere in-between the rusticity of folk and the twanginess of country, with a smidgen of bluegrass thrown in for good measure. It’s music emanating from a raw open heart of good intentions, and with all good intentions there is a chasm of humanity thrown into this pot of songs. The songs are from Elliot Brood’s album Days Into Years, and I hope you’re hungry for music with accoutrement enough to flavor emotions with the salt and pepper of life. By that, I mean to say these songs are garnished not with garish melodies nor are they sickly sweet, these songs are of the uncommon staple of wholesomeness. You’ll feel it all, the sadness, the conflict, and joy that is found in unsuspected places. After the jump, check of the songs “Northern Air” and “If I Get Old” both of which will make you feel that something magical is haunting your speakers when you fill them with Elliot Brood. Peace. Continue reading “Elliot Brood // Northern Air”