No one artist or song is responsible for creating any one genre of music. For every band credited with creating a genre, there are a dozen bands before them that inspired them to create what they did. Today, a focus...
Think you’ve got a good sound system? Want to test that out? Turn this one up and you’ll definitely be able to tell… booming, pulsing bass from Bristol’s Loadstar. Happy weekending.
This is the second track from The Robert Glasper Experiment‘s unbelievably good Black Radio album on SMCD. The Robert Glasper Experiment is the group you play and laugh maniacally after some idiot says, “hip hop isn’t real music.” This track...
TNGHT is a combination of Glasgow’s Hudson Mohawke and Montréal’s Lunice, and they have one firm rule: NO VOWELS. EVER! They also appear to have a firm rule of making big, fat party music – carefully calculated as the perfect...
A key distinction here – this is The Birds. Don’t confuse them with The Byrds, as all of the UK and North America did when this band released No Good Without You in 1965. The story of this band is...
Drop the Lime is New York City’s Luka Venezia. We first met him at Ottawa Bluesfest 2012 – and he made our jaws drop, as the first DJ we’ve seen pic up the mic and SING; looping his voice into...
Something to blow your mind this Sunday from Montreal’s Chilly Gonzalez. WHITE KEYS from SOLO PIANO II from Chilly Gonzales on Vimeo. This is from his new album Solo Piano 2 (which you can buy now). You have absolutely heard...
Okay – that title is a bit misleading. I’m sorry if you looked here expecting to see Justice stage an epic battle against a falcon. We would like to see that as well. But instead, settle for the pure bliss...
Get to know some classic soul this Sunday. Born Mary Frierson, Wendy René originally performed with her brother Johnny (among others) in a group called The Drapels, on Stax Records. The Drapels signed a deal with Stax Records in 1963,...
Some amazing new hip-hop from Killer Mike’s May 2012 release R.A.P. Music to pump you up for your weekend. From the first sound, it’s an album that has just the right mix of of thump, swagger, and street wisdom (3...
King Krule is the stage name for 18-year old Archy Marshall – a tremendously talented young British musician who has been releasing music under the name Zoo Kid since 2008. Straddling a whole bunch of genres, this track, Rock Bottom,...
Another absolute classic from MadDecent. This time, it’s New York’s Henry Steinway – better known in music circles as Clockwork. Listen to this track (released last week) called Titan. If it’s not the biggest, baddest new big room dance music...
Some chilled-out NYC Jazz from Nas’ dad – Olu Dara this afternoon. This is not specifically ‘new’ music – it was released in 1998 on Olu Dara’s In the World: From Natchez to New York album – but hopefully, it’s new to...
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs‘ debut album Trouble is the lead for my favourite album of the 2012 so far. It can be appreciated as a piece of mind-blowing sonic production, as a tremendous collection of indie songwriting, or as a...
Muse confirmed that they would be performing Survival at the closing ceremonies in London on Sunday. Ed Sheeran and George Michael have also confirmed that they will be taking part, but rumours are still swirling about a Spice Girls reunion....
