This week it’s about the beats – again!
Soul, funk, hip hop jazz – combine those together and your’e going to get something like Mr. Scruff’s Hairy Bumpercress groove. I love these kind of tracks – it’s been on repeat for the last 30 minutes and my head just can’t stop moving – fortunately neither can my fingers…
The wistful, the wiser and the wilder side speaks louder than the rest and here arises the raspy roar of María – a lioness awakening all things ethereal and otherworldly…
This week the playlist is transported into a trance of modern r&b from the melody king Swae Lee. Sextasy is the latest release from the popular artist and he does an amazing job of using his vocals to bring the track to life, as well as give it a modern r&b feel…
This is an amazingly simple and sweet track which compels the listener to hear it again and again…
I can’t think of a better way to introduce rap into “Sooth the Soul” then with Noname. A staple in any conversation about Chicago hiphop, poetry, or art in general…
BJ The Chicago Kid and Anderson .Paak team up to create a soulful blend of hip-hop and r&b. In Anderson .Paak’s verse, he raps about how much he appreciates the childhood and adolescent years with his family despite the financial hardships they went through…
“I wanna copy what you eat, how you look, who you fuck / Wanna be anybody but me.” The final line of the aforementioned lyric, excerpted from the first verse of “White Privilege,” hailing from British singer/songwriter Sam Fender, ultimately becomes the refrain…
It washes over me, seeping into every fibre of my being, immersing each and every atom to the point where I don’t know where I stop and it begins…
“Try” is Caren Tevanny’s latest single, and is a testament that rock music will never die! This genre always had an infamous stereotype of being loud and full of angst. However, the track breaks that stereotype as it is light on the ears with a powerful inspirational message…
Church organs (or maybe it’s just called organs) are objectively the best way to open a song. That and a Pharrell 4-count beat. This track of the week is from British songwriter/singer Emeli Sandè, “Real Life”, off her new album with the same name…
The Bronx stands tall in “Yes,” the latest single by hometown hero Fat Joe. With help from two of hip-hop’s most monumental Latinx voices — Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B and Latin trap star Anuel AA — the prolific Puerto Rican-Cuban MC dropped the surprise new track at midnight on Thursday…
If you watched the off-Broadway production of “Hamilton” or Spike Lee’s T.V. series, “She’s Gotta Have It”, you’ve definitely seen Anthony Ramos put in work. This talented artist is releasing his album, “The Good and The Bad” on October 25, 2019…