You’re All Talk – The Pandoras
At a time when some of their contemporaries, like The Bangles, were embracing mainstream pop success, California’s The Pandoras were leaning back into the 60s with an aggressive thrust forward into 80s punk rock…
Living for the City – Stevie Wonder
Inspired in part by the fatal shooting in New York of a ten-year-old black boy by a white plain-clothes policeman, the audacious centrepiece of Stevie Wonder’s experimental 1973 album was a seven-and-a-half-minute meditation on the brutality of black America: Living for the City…
Winter Nights – Dormio
Late evening hours are one of my favorite moments of the day when I’m just chill in my bedroom texting my family or friends, listening to music, reading, or just waiting for that special message of someone I am starting to feel connected to…
Back In The Village – Iron Maiden
I’ve been remiss to not have an Iron Maiden tune on this list yet. One of my all time favorite bands, Maiden cranked out five of the best metal (and any genre really) albums ever between 1980-84 and changed the face of music…
Necessary – DRB LasGidi
Necessary is a hip hop song by Nigerian musical group DRB LasGidi. It was formed in 2007 and includes members: Boj, Teezee, and Fresh L…
Bangs – Manycolors
The summer heat is here and this groove from Manycolors is breezy af. Bangs has that push and pull, wavy-stutter rhythm to it, but with buoyant, dream-like melodies rounding it all out…
Good Morning – Alex Aiono
Life can get incredibly dark sometimes, something that soulful pop singer/songwriter Alex Aiono clearly highlights on “Good Morning.” You can get bogged down in negativity and let the tribulations be your undoing…
Next Day – CASHY CASH
Today we get something new from BX Spitter CASHY CASH called Next Day and it is a Bop…
Gin & Lemonade – TOVE
Who’s up for an alcohol induced ascent above the madness? And I’m not talking about some upbeat energetic overview where you’re in a balloon or an airplane and you’re feeling great about it all – no – I’m talking about a loose edged experience, laid back and fuzzy, where ‘cos you can’t see the ground, you don’t have to worry about it…
Warm – Rudegaze
You know when you’re spoiled for choice, when you have so many options that you end up choosing none of them? There’s an interesting study involving Jam that the Harvard Business Review can tell you about – point being – I’m overwhelmed with amazing tracks that I could put on the essay writing list that I just don’t know where to start…
In The Backseat – Arcade Fire
It was really hard to choose something fitting to sound right next to “On The Nature Of Daylight”. It took several days of trial and error and finally I chose this song…
Cop That – C.NOTES
Today we get something new from the homie who has been consistent for quite some time now with dropping banger after banger…