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05/24/2022 10:59 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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This Brooklyn rapper’s third studio album is a potent blend of hip hop, R&B and other styles, featuring often-spare production combining a variety of moody beats and addictive song hooks with her hypnotic flow and sharp rhymes revolving around love, desire and gaining self-confidence |
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05/24/2022 10:56 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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This got Thundercat nominated for the Best Progressive R&B album! NPR wrote about the music video, "Thundercat has dropped off the all-too-necessary video for "Dragonball Durag," the second single off his upcoming album 'It Is What It Is.' Directed by Zack Fox, who seems to have filmed the whole thing on an iPhone and edited it in iMovie, the visuals deliver an important PSA: Modern funk's greatest songwriter is lonely. What's the point of dressing immaculately — in a floral kimono top, sparkling Gucci belt and radiant red shorts — with no one to show it off to?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormQQG2UhtQ |
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05/24/2022 10:53 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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In late February 2021, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak announced on social media the formation of their new band, Silk Sonic, and revealed the artwork for their debut studio album, An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021). They also announced the release of the first single, Leave the Door Open, on March 5, 2021. The duo teased new music in the months leading up to the release of "Skate." Mars has confessed that the track "came about as part of thought exercise in the studio" as he and his team were imagining if they were performing a song "in the middle of a roller rink" and what the bass, the guitar, and the drums would sound like. Mars added, "And I wanted to play congas and that's what you get. You get a song called "Skate". Talking about I'm trying to float. I'm trying to glide." https://bit.ly/3Friz7V |
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05/24/2022 10:50 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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New from Seattle's Death Cab for Cutie upcoming record, Asphalt Meadows (their tenth album) out September 16th! They will be performing at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Thursday, October 27 -- an all-ages show for the Asphalt Meadows Tour. https://www.deathcabforcutie.com/ |
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05/24/2022 10:46 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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"Impossible Weight" came in at #1 in our listeners' poll of top albums of 2020. -- Deep Sea Diver enlisted Sharon Van Etten for this song. She provided a guest verse and backing vocals for "Impossible Weight’" and also appeared in the official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkr2i6Szy8&feature=emb_title |
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05/24/2022 10:43 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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Hatchie's thoughts on her hew record: “My last record I wanted people to sing along to,” she says. “This one was more about something you can move to. After kind of floating through young adulthood, I realised a lot of the things I'd been missing out on by under-appreciating myself. It's led me to making different decisions not only in regards to my music but also my personal life, the way I dress, the way I socialise, the way I treat my body etc.” https://hatchie.bandcamp.com/album/giving-the-world-away https://www.hatchie.net/ |
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05/24/2022 10:39 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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The debut Weird Nightmare album from METZ guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins is a hook-filled set blown-out power-pop with distorted guitars, punchy rhythms and bright pop melodies. Chad VanGaalen and Bully’s Alicia Bognanno make special guest appearances. Featuring guest vocals from Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, “‘Wrecked’ is about missing someone,” Metz’s Alex Edkins said in a statement. “For me, it’s about missing my wife and son while on tour." - https://bit.ly/3KYM4Rv https://weirdnightmare.bandcamp.com/ |
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05/24/2022 10:35 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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Sudan Archives will pay at Capitol Hill Block Party July 22nd - 24th: https://www.capitolhillblockparty.com/ “Selfish Soul” is a song Sudan Archives describes as being “about women and the celebration of hair. It’s about representation of different hair textures and embracing all colors and textures of it.” |
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05/24/2022 10:31 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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This review says that "Ware’s fourth album of defiantly sexy, plush post-disco is a flirtatious joy." https://bit.ly/3yYRnKY About the video for the album's title track, Ware wrote, “I love this video, I love this song and I love how filthy you’re all gonna be in the comments.” https://bit.ly/3raSMeG https://youtu.be/eWazsCKdlhg |
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05/24/2022 10:26 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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“Breathe Deeper” is a track about remaining calm in situations that are stressful, and remembering to breathe deeply. https://bit.ly/3Eoh4Ir Watch the animated CGI dragonfly in the video for "Breathe Deeper": https://youtu.be/UTwlmgV3pEI |
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05/24/2022 10:21 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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This LA-via-Chicago artist’s debut album is an impressive set of atmospheric R&B inflected at times with dream-pop, Afrobeats and other styles. Executive produced by Luke Titus and featuring production from Steve Lacy, Kaytranada, Sango, Foushee and other notables, the album combines pillowy synths, fluid guitars and often-imaginative beats with Lenae’s supple, breathy vocals and lyrics of love, desire and heartache. |
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05/24/2022 10:18 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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05/24/2022 10:15 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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05/24/2022 10:09 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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Santigold is back with her first solo release since 2018. "I called this song "High Priestess" because this song was about my greatness," Santigold said in a press release. "I needed to be a witness to myself at that point, calling out my own power, my own fortitude, my own wisdom, because I felt like I had become disconnected from it, having been stripped out of the rhythm of life that I had cultivated for myself, and thrust into this smaller, one dimensional version of myself, grounded and isolated for too long. The lyrics are fun though, rap lyrics in general, boastful, cocky, but that’s what I was talking about underneath it all.” |
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05/24/2022 10:05 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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Dan Snaith, known by his stage name of Caribou, is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist. Snaith: "I'm not the type of person who takes physical things apart and plays around with them, but I like taking mental ideas apart and playing around with them. That's what appeals to me about what I've spent my life doing." |
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05/24/2022 10:00 PM DJ: Larry Rose |
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Jembaa Groove is a Berlin-based collaborative project between Ghana-born percussionist/vocalist Eric Owusu and Germany-born bassist/composer Yannick Nolting. Their debut album is a groovy blend of traditional West African and highlife rhythms infused with classic jazz and soul touchpoints that's all complemented beautifully by Owusu's vocals. |
