What a nice surprise. New short Spitta EP. ‘Congratulations to the Little Giants, but this is for the Jets’ is something Curren$y would probably say. He’s kinda spitting like Ca$h Money Curren$y on this.
DOWNLOAD: Curren$y – Here EP
via Pigeons & Planes
“It was dope to have so many people from so many different backgrounds speaking so many different languages come together to create something that we believed in. I thought I was gonna die on the shoot when I saw the drifting. It was a four day shoot so everyone was on edge the whole time specifically ME when I had to do bluesteel singing to the camera while the cars did doughnuts on the wet road ten feet away. In my mind I was thinking how I was gonna deliver the video to Vice with no legs.”
The video was shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco, and is directed by Romain Gavras (M.I.A. “Born Free” and JUSTICE “Stress”). “Bad Girls” is out now on iTunes
This great track from Newbury Park, California’s The Neighbourhood premiered on BBC Radio 1′s Zane Lowe show the other night, and the black & white video shot by Zack Sekular and the band premiered at NME on Tuesday. Yes, the winged miscreants at Pigeons & Planes and those foreign guys at HYPETRAK scooped me on The Neighborhood, there is very little known about the vague and mysterious 4 member outfit.
That songwriting and production is undeniable. It combines my favorite parts of sweeping Brit Rock serenades like Editors/Doves with a touch of groups like Cold War Kids and Walkmen. Expect a debut EP this spring and in the mean time show them some love on Facebook.
FADER asked the Black Hippy what he’s holding and the answer is probably not that surprising. A bottle of lean, a g in twenty dollar bills, an inhaler, and an iPad.
Previously on ScHoolboy Q Doin Things, ScHoolboy Q freestyles for Beats By Dre. Shoutout to all my honeydips in that office. Go get ScHoolboy Q’s Habits & Contradictions now!
A Canadian Troubadour, Troy from Community and a Doobie Brother walk into the bar. Check out this animated vignette of Ryan Adams, Childish Gambino and Michael McDonald performing their own renditions of TV themes like Saved By The Bell, Passions, and Night Rider. Ultimately Cee-Lo Green (the Soul Machine) aka ‘The Voice’ takes the ship. Bravo, Tina Fey and crazy 30 Rock writers and shoutout to our very own Kenneth, Stuart.
Here’s the second mixtape in Rhymesayers emcee I Self Devine‘s The Culture Series. Look for one final mixtape leading to the release of The Sounds Of Low Class America on May 8th.
DOWNLOAD: I Self Devine – The Upliftment Struggle
White Flame dropped yesterday, but don’t you agree this song deserves a separate post? I’m sure there’s #rare and #based video coming soon. Based God over Daft Punk > Kanye over Daft Punk. And if you disagree, Based God probably fucked your bitch.
Oh damn, Based God. You’re so nonchalant, Based God.
This track from Minneapolis emcee MaLLy is called ‘Future’s Classic,’ but it really harkens back to the boom bap era, before finely manicured goatees (Cole World!!) and sing-along choruses were a hip hop fixture. Not only does MN have 10,000 lakes, but there is no denying the emcee clout from the Twin Cities. Must be something in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.
Oh, and Miami producer Rem’ put his foot in the production on this. Looking forward to hearing more from these two rising stars.
via Prefix
Our love of all things ‘Chaz’ is well documented by now (gentle). Drift to this, via the great people at Daytrotter:
Toro Y Moi – Welcome to Daytrotter
Toro Y Moi – Still Sound
Toro Y Moi – Go With You
Toro Y Moi – I Will Talk To You
The whole “missing you baby” thing takes on so much more meaning when it’s not just a lover that someone’s missing, but it’s everything. It takes on a significantly different meaning when the person doing the missing is never home, is never with that lover and never around any of the people or things that he or she loves. It’s not as infrequent of a condition as one would suspect. Even those who work 70-hour weeks still get home most nights to tuck the kids into bed, take the doggie for a night walk and spend at least a little time with their significant other. It could just be a couple of dinners a week, where you’re actually sitting down and talking to one another, maybe watching a movie – on a strict time schedule – holding hands or giving massages for the duration of the film, before cramming in a little more work, a little more computer time before you pass out completely, with one foot under the covers and one hanging over the side of the bed, like a drunk.
The feeling of love and loss, even when love has theoretically been obtained or is held, is a thousand times stronger and more destructive on the heads and nerves of those travelers, whose work it is to bust from one city to the next to make their livelihood. For musicians, the better they do, the more people want to see them, the more they stay or are kept out on the road, cashing in on the moment that no one knows when will end. Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi has been exploring these nagging feelings of desertion and some sort of obsolescent invisibility when you’re away, when everything is still happening back home without you, for a few years now. The ideas seem to come to a head on last year’s full-length album, “Underneath The Pine.” You get a sense that he’s picked out a specific pine (he says as much) and – in a completely non-morbid way has thought about the pleasures of just being laid to rest, anything to stop moving for a while and to just be closer to where he knows best, surrounded by the people he knows best. He sings, “You should do it while you can/Don’t let it go/You should hold her while you can/Don’t let her go,” and yet, there are insinuations that he might also be talking about this whole music thing, taking his smooth groove and indie funk songs out, all over the world, without much time to rest those legs and that throat and to just be human for a spell.
“Still Sound,” is a song that makes us gyrate. There’s no doubt about it. It gives you the inner feeling of being a Casanova and no one else around you is saying anything, but they feel that there’s something different in the air. They can sense it. It’s sexy, deep down sexy and yet it couldn’t be a more lonely song, speaking to over-compensating for sadness and remembering better times that may or may not ever be regained. Bundick sings, “It was a finer life when I was with my friends and I could always see my family/That’s what I still want now, even if I’m here and I think that they won’t be waiting/Cause I don’t want to be alone.” There’s just nothing that can be done to make anything better here. The struggle persists. The loneliness wins, somehow, in spite of all the dirty dancing going on around it.
PAY ATTENTION. Tried to put you guys onto mysterious DJ/figment of imagination A. Chal, but you weren’t listening. All I can say is this is right on time. Up until now, very little is known about this artist shrouded in mystery and bong smoke.
But the blog world is clamoring to this art-house mix of hip hop and tasteful dubstep. Get in where you fit in.
via HT
