Self-proclaimed New Orleans “soldiers of funk” Dumpstaphunk broke the hiatus in their recording career last year to release this “hopeful, yet cautious” track, featuring guest star Trombone Shorty, with the lofty ambition that we might change society and “see the end of all that is wrong”.
While there was plenty of soft rock, country rock and hard rock in the 70s, there was also a plethora of bubblegum rock. The Bay City Rollers, Leif Garrett, Donny Osmond and David Cassidy were some of the performers who belted out teen-dream lyrics. David’s image blew up when he was a member of the fictional television family band The Partridge Family…
For a while Bearcubs was primary known as an electronic music producer before surprising us with his first EP Underwaterfall as a vocalist. The production is dark and minimalistic. The lyrics hint at anxiety and depression issues. As the track picks up steam you realize how deep this track hits. With swirling vocals and heavy synths Bearcubs takes you under into the abyss.
Society does a poor job of dealing with grief, particularly in western European culture – it seems as if we’re happier to just tuck it away, not deal with it – to keep it hidden and put on the brave face. But we all know that’s a shitty way to cope with it, why wouldn’t we want help?
This track is pure happiness and celebration of life. Legendary Afro-Beat drummer Tony Allen was Fela Kuti’s drummer for many years, and eventually put out several albums under his own name. Allen’s love of jazz and upbringing in Nigeria led him to fuse jazz and Yoruban rhythms to build the foundation of Afro-Beat. Returning to his early influences, he released a jazz album in tribute to the late, great Art Blakey in September of this year.
What do you do with the sadness when you’re in a position to make others feel good? Where do you put it when you need to hide it?
Music and any other form of art might be a great escape, but that’s the tricky point: art usually demands you to be true to yourself and get in touch with your feelings. So how are you supposed to show up a smile when you’re doing exactly the one thing who forces you to remember how much you’re feeling down?
In recent years Wolf Alice has occasionally popped up on my radar. I thoroughly enjoyed them in 2014, when I discovered their song “She” off of their EP Blush. I bopped my head to “Fluffy,” one of the lead singles off their debut Your Love is Cool. But I didn’t really love them until Visions of a Life, their sophomore record.
Here we have it folks…. The undisputed King of Diesel-Billy or as he was known in the 70’s as “The Titan of The Telecaster”.
I have no doubt, that all of you car lovers out there know why Bill’s “Rockabilly Funeral” has made an appearance….
Marlon Williams uses a very unique narrative type when writing lyrics for his songs. Sometimes he sings from the perspective of made up characters, but in Dark Child, he sings as himself as he ponders what it might be like to have a child. He looks at himself and how his child will grow up to have the same doubts and slightly depressing outlook on life he does. The song takes an interesting shift when he says, “Looking in from the outside.” Take a listen for yourself.
She can hear the tiny voice now, it has always been there talking, telling her. Stirring until awake, the eyes of the tiny voice are open, she is ready to roar. Her time spent with a candle in the dark to find that voice in the distance has paid off, she can hear her, she is her. I have waited hours for this, I’ve made myself so sick….. It is ironic that we surely know ourselves the most, but when feeling fragmented, I know I don’t always feel….Close to me.
1) Who is Big inf
Big Inf is a Emcee/dj.curator who currently has a New Album called New industry in all Digital music platforms
This is a high quality production track with many layers that never gets boring!
It has a melancholic vibe to it, but when it comes to sound, voice and lyrics it is also strangely upbeat. In the minute the beat sets in, the track becomes really powerful and suddenly you feel like on a massive rave where you can let totally go of all your sadness and anger, where you can fall beautifully apart!