Valentine’s Day is coming twice this year for lovers of BJ the Kid. Though his album Pineapple Now and Laters was scheduled to drop today, he took to Twitter to inform fans that the date has been pushed back to February 21st. Perfection calls for patience. In the meantime, the Kid delivered with some rich [...]
Categories: BJ the Kid,Hip Hop
Her first name means “to have faith in a higher power even though he’s not right in front of you” in Arabic while her last name is Abyssinian for “he made the call to prayer and he had the most beautiful voice.” Ihsan Bilal’s name is fitting, given her strength as a multi-talented vocalist and classically [...]
Categories: Experimental,Funk,IhsAn Bilal,Interview,Rock,the danvilles
“I don’t feel like I’ve hit a wall or a limitation that I couldn’t necessarily conquer in some form or fashion… this album has been fun,” the artist, emcee and poet, Chali 2na says in the trailer for his latest project, Against the Current a 5 EP installment to be released throughout this year. The [...]
Categories: chali 2na,Hip Hop,Jurassic 5,Ozomatli
This new track from California-based DJ Freddie Joachim comes to us just in time for Valentine’s Day. It’s hard to listen to “Morena” without thinking of how perfect it would be to have it on hand while the sandalwood incense is being lit. Or whatever you have planned for the night. Supple vocals are engrained into [...]
Categories: gotan project,Instrumental,Joachim Freddie,Moloko
In a very unfortunate way, it’s likely you’ve heard the venerable Chris Dave without realizing you have heard him. If you check the liner notes, he’s been included on works by Adele, Mos Def, Robert Glasper, Lupe Fiasco, MF Doom and Kanye West. Touted by Questlove as ”the most dangerous drummer alive” who “is totally reinventing just what [...]
Categories: Adele,Big Sean,Chris Dave,Cover,Hip Hop,j dilla,MF DOOM
More often than not, an artist’s success expectancy rate draws parallels to buying a new car: from the moment you drive it off the lot, it’s losing its value. It might be a pessimistic outlook but a good number of mainstream artists many of us know of — whether we listen to them deliberately or [...]
Categories: Corn-Mill,DJ Damage,Earmilk Exclusive,Hip Hop,J Mars,Rap,The Reservation,Zagga
Like the best music that flows from Seattle, THEESatisfaction has found a warm and cozy spot in our earbuds with its highly likeable and not to mention, very danceable, sound. Today the duo released their song, “QueenS” off their upcoming debut record awE naturalE, to be released on March 27 through Sub Pop Records. “QueenS”, for [...]
Categories: Hip Hop,Shabazz Palaces,Soul,THEESatisfaction
Touching on the subject of expensive jewelery is not necessarily new territory for hip hop artists but Delaware’s J Mars has been able to sidestep cliches with his track, “Black Diamond Shamballas”, produced by Corn-Mill Productions. It’s always refreshing when a rapper can drop a track about the finer things in life, yet does so [...]
Categories: Corn-Mill Productions,Hip Hop,J Mars
This post was going to be titled, “Introducing: Willie Brown” but the man doesn’t really need an introduction. A standard on the landscape of Los Angeles-based artists, Brown’s deep affiliation with the Black Hippy crew and Top Dawg Entertainment has added significant leverage to his title as a producer — though he his talents as a composer, [...]
Categories: Beat tape,Busta Rhymes,Hip Hop,Kendrick Lamar,Schoolboy Q,TDE,Willie Brown
Well, it’s here and it’s out. We’ve been following the making of The Internet’s Purple Naked Ladies album, both through its music releases and the making of that music. The latter comes from the lens of Brass, a burgeoning filmmaker with a keen eye for young, eclectic talent. While Purple Naked Ladies had been digitally [...]
Categories: Brass,Experimental,Matt Martian,OFWGKTA,Soul,Syd the Kid,The Internet
Seeing as how readers responded to our last Dunson post, it only seemed fitting to post more from the Baltimore rapper. After making a name for himself working with older brother John Legend on “Hold Me Down”, singer and songwriter Vaughn Anthony enlisted Dunson to create the Phatboiz produced single, “Curiosity” for Anthony’s upcoming mixtape [...]
Categories: Dunson,John Legend,Ludacris,Phatboiz,r&b,Vaughn Anthony
When it comes to an artist with as much musical prowess as D’Angelo, many fans will agree: if you need twelve years to come out with your next album, please, take it. Thankfully, the hiatus seems to be over as news has been surfacing that the once-troubled musician has been touring in Amsterdam and most [...]
With Purple Naked Ladies out on digital release and a physical release set for the very end of this month, Syd the Kid and Matt Martian offer up a visual interpretation of “Fastlane”, directed by Matt Alonzo. Syd’s eerily laid-back vocals contrast the song’s concept of getting as much as you can while you’ve got [...]
Categories: Experimental,Hip Hop,matt alonzo,Matt Martians,Syd the Kyd
In the business world, one of the most important things a business person can do is be able to sum up their skills and ideas in a succinct, compelling summation. Forget Powerpoint presentations, laser pointers, fresh-pressed business wear: if you can’t sell yourself in a quick conversation, and stand out amongst “the others,” you’ve lost [...]
Categories: de la soul,dj franchise,Earmilk Exclusive,Feature,Interview,Jay Z,keys n krates,Michael Jackson,Pharcyde
If you let her, Elle Varner could eventually be our next Chrisette Michele or dare I say, Mary J. Blige? But to call Varner “the next anything” would raid her of her own distinctive musical style, on which there is more to elaborate upon than mere comparisons might have one think. Whether waxing poetic over [...]
Categories: Elle Varner,Hip Hop,J Cole,Pop Wansel,r&b
Even without the visual treatment, Symba’s “Winning Pt. 2″ is, well, winning. It’s easy to write off an aspiring rapper at first listen, especially if bland production or uninspiring lyricism are involved in any way. But something about Symba’s music is different. While the visuals Aquavis Warfield has constructed for Symba’s “Winning Pt. 2″ are [...]
This has been a good week for fans of the Ipswich, England producer, S. Maharba. Just yesterday he released the extended version of “French Maid”, a track churning with grit and dripping with psychedelic instrumentals. The track first surfaced in 2008 on Marhaba’s independently released, self-titled LP but yesterday his label, BTS Records made the [...]
Categories: BTS Radio,BTS Records,Daedelus,Experimental,Instrumental,mndsgn,Psychedelic,S. Marhaba
One of the primary reasons fans love Flushing’s own Action Bronson is because of his ability to bring back old school rap. Unfazed by any musical gimmicks, this track is “Strictly Business”, taking us back with a Boys II Men intro to start with. Apparently his work with Boston producer Statik Selektah wasn’t over after [...]
Categories: Action Bronson,Hip Hop,Rap,Statik Selektah
In a recent interview with the 19-year old Irish electronica wonder, MMOTHS told me that once he heard the vocals of Sarah P., one half of the downtempo electronica duo, Keep Shelly in Athens, he knew he wanted to collaborate with the group. Enter “Heart”, as remixed by MMOTHS. With trembling reverb and palatial synths, [...]
Categories: Bon Iver,Dreamy,Electronica,keep shelly in athens,MMOTHS,Passion Pit
Expect Star Slinger to come out with some tres cool nightclub-graphic design fantasy land concept for his mixtape JET JAM. Apparently JET JAM is the name of a new club night he will be hosting in Slovenia with creative graphic design friends. The goal? “To simply throw parties where people let their hair down. We possess [...]
Categories: Chippy Nonstop,Electronica,Funk,mixtape,Soul,star slinger