Entre la visión extática y el arquetipo de amor mitológico divino, Gorky’s nos brinda unas ubicaciones en la primera fila del voyerismo para asistir al acto de intimidad entre 2 personas o tal vez sean 2 dioses o tal vez sea lo mismo una cosa que otra…
How can something so far away seem so close at the same time? We often long for something that’s right in front of our eyes, but remain focused on what lies in the distance. This idea, this emotion, is put into a musical format thanks to Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent. Personally I get this sense in a lot of his music, but nothing like the feeling I get from “The Mermaid Parade.” No matter what is going on in my life, this song hits me right in the feels and makes me think about what’s really important; music can’t be strange like that…
When I first heard this song there was just something about it that was so innocent, sexy yet dirty at the same time. It paints a deep, intricate, spontaneous fantasy. “Desire” by Years & Years just blows my mind every time I listen to it. It makes one feel young, wild and free and makes one constantly and consistently crave adventure…
This week, I selected a mystical, sad, relaxing track written in the first years of 1900 by Thomas de Hartmann under dictation of mr. G. I. Gurdjieff, a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Alexandrapol (yep, no commercial airplains yet!)…
What makes a song good? Andrew, our fearless leader, and I talked about that recently in our little video chat. He also asked me, what a song submission needs for me to include it in my playlist. I told him: It’s a matter of songwriting, production and mood. You’re more likely to be receptive to a certain kind of song, if you’re more open to it because of the way you feel, so that’s a pretty flimsy variable…
Like Music to Dali & Jay-Z Lovers post last week, this week’s Save the World! entry was inspired by the recent release of Marvel’s Black Panther. It’s rare that to have a film score deviate from traditional cinematic motifs and pull it off so well, but I really feel my enjoyment of the film was in no small part due to Kendrick’s impeccable song curation. As curators ourselves, we know the impact that the right song can have on a particular moment, and it was humbling to see it done on a Hollywood scale…
What’s not to love about a track in which both instrumental and lyrics can take you to a trip around the world? And by “world” I don’t mean only Earth, but also your mind, your own world.
Well, allow yourself to take a “Vacation” by listening to this awesome track, which, itself, is an intercontinental trip, being produced by jazzy hop French kings, Jazz Liberatorz, featuring the vocals of American multi talented artist J. Live…
Emcee and production team Forever M.C. & It’s Different are preparing the world for their forthcoming compilation album Forever M.C., and it’s stacked with the grittiest lyricists in the game. Earlier this month, the first single “Terminally Ill” debuted with Tech N9ne, Rittz, KXNG Crooked, and Chino XL spazzing over dope scratches courtesy of Statik Selektah. Today, Forever M.C. & It’s Different drop off their next big single “King Kong.”
As I role though the years it seems, I’m saying farewell to friends all too often.
I buried one of the good ol boy’s this week, a true brother…
Something Beneath, written by Douglas Holmquist and featuring a haunting vocal performance by Susanna Lundgren, is a track from Mediocre’s mobile masterpiece PinOut! for iOS and Android. PinOut! puts a beautifully designed new spin on the old arcade classic pinball, turning it into a race against the clock through a seemingly infinite range of intricate and varied pinball tables…
This song is avoiding your problems and going out on the town, waking up cold and inviting someone in to warm you back up. This song is whisky on the rocks to avoid your ex in the back room, screaming in the car when your friends finally force you to leave, this is a bright painful break up that stings and burns long into the night…
Sometimes, one gets to know people who one knows will introduce them to good music. A fleeting friendship with a rather interesting person was the source of my introduction to Roo Panes–and I am very happy about it.