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THEESatisfaction // QueenS (Official Video)

Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White who comprise the duo THEESatisfaction released their non-too-shabby album awE naturalE March of this year to much avail. Yeah, there kinda’ a big deal. Yep, you might have guessed they are a couple of down sisters with a penchant for hip hop and high-tuned conscious lyrics. So it is with great pleasure that I present to you the duos video premiers of “QueenS”. And yes indeed, it’s hella’ dope. Peace. Continue reading “THEESatisfaction // QueenS (Official Video)”

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Beachwood Sparks // Myth

it breaks
silently
no a flood
but it dreams to be

these tears
are emotion
overflowing

these tears
are no myth.

According to Sub Pop Records’ Bud Scoppa, “Some albums were made to be played on a Saturday night. The Tarnished Gold LP by Los Angeles’  Beachwood Sparks is meant to be played on a Sunday afternoon. Listening to Beachwood Sparks’ first album in 11 years is like being under cobalt blue skies and smelling the night-blooming jasmine on a perfect spring day in Los Angeles.” Now, who can argue with that, except why limit your listening experience to a Sunday afternoon? And their utterly heart melting song, “Myth” well I’ll end with this. Some songs just start you thinking about moments. Moments suspended in time and melancholy. Hell, it even inspired me to pen the poem preceding this review. I hope it puts a wan smile upon your heart as well. The bands forthcoming album is scheduled to drop June the 26th. Peace. Continue reading “Beachwood Sparks // Myth”

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The Black Atlantic // An Archer, A Dancer (Video)

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call’d him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To case upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!”
~John Keats

For those who have been following this blog for a while you know of my great appreciation for the band The Black Atlantic. They had me with their debut album Reverence For Fallen Trees don’t you know. And now, with their latest album Darkling, I Listen I’m even more over the moon about them. They’ve even got a new video for their song, “An Archer, A Dancer” and it’s a beautiful thing to behold. Enjoy. Peace. Continue reading “The Black Atlantic // An Archer, A Dancer (Video)”

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The Shins // The Rifle’s Spiral (Video Premiere)

If you’re like me you have an intense admiration for James Mercer and his wonderful band The Shins. And like you need another reason to go gaga over this wonderful troupe of bandoliers. The video premiere of “The Rifle’s Spiral” is showing exclusively on www.nowness.com. Check it out and see, and hear, what all the fuss is all about.

A 5 song EP of The Shins‘ Google/YouTube SXSW Live From the Lot party performance is now available exclusively on Google Music! And, “The Rifle’s Spiral” from Live at the Lot is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD on Google Music. Peace.

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Major Lazer // Get Free (Ft. Amber Coffman)

Future time beatnauts Switch and Diplo conjure up another sonic pièce de résistance with their latest, “Get Free” featuring vocals and lyrics by the incomparable Amber Coffman (Dirty Projectors). Like all of their work this one is ultra bashy! Like smooth sweet cream butta’ on your very own piping hot slice of life. And don’t fret, you can cop a free download of this very track at www.majorlazergetfree.com. Peace. Continue reading “Major Lazer // Get Free (Ft. Amber Coffman)”

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Jakwob // Electrcfy (Ft. Jetta) (Our Sunday Best)

Multi-instrumentalist/producer James Jacob bka Jakwob is gaining recognition in the world of music, and his is a sound we can definitely use more of. The song “Electrify” (Ft. Jetta) is indeed some kind of wonderful. This up and coming beatologist possesses a  style which transcends  any one particular genre, commingling elements of dub step, electro, R&B and break-beat into a confluence of earth-born majesty. Currently working on a debut album, and very much in demand as a producer, he’s redefining the musical landscape and making us love and anticipate everything he blesses us with, and that is why Jakwob is Our Sunday Best. Peace. Continue reading “Jakwob // Electrcfy (Ft. Jetta) (Our Sunday Best)”

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xxxy // i know this (can’t be love)

One of the best kept secrets out of Manchester, U.K. is dj/producer xxxy bka Rupert Taylor. I describe his work as glassy bass, because is so clean. And with the sticky deep lows akin to stepping into a deep chasm and well-traveled frenetic beats. It all makes for a memorable (and global) experience whenever I hear his music. The latest track “I Know This (Can’t Be Love) taken for the Everything EP is all you want in a club track (it has sex appeal aplenty). I also put up additional club all-stars from xxxy, “Ordinary Things” and “You Always Start It,” both are sure to titillate your ear drums. For more, check xxxy’s Soundcloud. Enjoy. Peace. Continue reading “xxxy // i know this (can’t be love)”

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World Blanket // And Here We Are (Again Maybe)

The band is World Blanket, and although these are big city (Brooklyn, NYC) men, their music sounds like it may well have been wrought in more rural environs. Listen to, “And Here We Are (Again Maybe) and the Syd Barrett cover, “Let’s Split” and you can easily reconcile the fact that the bands geographic location is of little consequence at all. World Blanket’s latest LP album titled 2012 will drop everywhere worldwide on April 3rd. Totally good stuff. Like good sex, good liquor and good times. Peace. Continue reading “World Blanket // And Here We Are (Again Maybe)”

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Ravens & Chimes // Night

I just found a total heart breaker of an album, and a clear shoe-in for one of the best albums of 2012.  You’re apt to return to this collection of songs like the migratory geese revisiting the north lands of one’s thawing heart. And if the songs, “Night” and “Carousel” aren’t evidence enough of the band’s resounding beauty and tender trap fragility, then I implore you to warm your ethereal soul over the smoldering coals of the whole album. Lead vocalist Asher Lack delivers lyrics like the steady fall of spring rain; slowly eroding your heart to pieces. And then there is the soft crooning of Rebecca Rossi providing those soft delicate undercurrents of moody poetry. This is a band whose music ebbs and flows like small gifts of illuminating moonlight, but at times the music swells into orchestral waves of shattered sunspots leaving your breath caught in a net of forlorn beauty, oh how it captivates. You can gain this bit of gold and magic at Amazon and likewise on iTunes. Peace. Continue reading “Ravens & Chimes // Night”