Watch the official music video for “Shells” by Shabazz PBG featuring Lil Uzi Vert. The video was directed by Creative Ryan with DP – YCImaging! Tune in to the video below then let us know what you think of this collab in the comments!
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Shabazz PBG x Lil Uzi Vert – Shells (Video)
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The Ignobles – Make Me Wanna
Continuing the tradition. Of good reggae music, Happy As A Lark Records out of Chicago is at it again with the mighty band known as The Ignobles. Made up of band members of The Drastics, Deal,s Gone Bad, The Far East, Uzimon, and the Full Watts Band, the members hail from Chitown and NYC. Their style is simple: a vintage Jamaican sound, carefully thought out lyrics, and a nod to the past, keeping the sounds of JA alive in 2018. Their second single for HAAL is a side that contains a message; inequality and of voices not heard, “Make Me Wanna” is indeed a powerful side. Equally powerful and also penned by lead man Mike Sarason, “Living Dangerously” reaches out to individuals and the world of humans to stop living the life (or lives) they’re living. Ann updated message not just to Rudy but to the world we live in. Also present on these recordings were the master King Tony, who kept it old school with analog four track cassette tapes, reverb and delay. Available in black and limited edition yellowvinyl and comes with a one inch Ignobles logo button. Bonus!
Listen to the tracks here:
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Mary Lattimore shares new instrumental “Mary, You Were Wrong”
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[[ GROOVES N JAMS S.O.T.Y. 2018 ]][ nO. 19/50 ]“Space Cowboy”...
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“Space Cowboy” by Kacey Musgraves
MG:
It felt like the whole wide world came around on Kacey Musgraves this year and I guess Grooves N Jams is no exception. Except, we are, because even amid outsize praise and accolades for Golden Hour, “Space Cowboy” was dismissed as a middling ballad. First of all, no such thing. Second, don’t tell me “Space Cowboy” would be better played in double time. It’s a lovely dirge; it could be even slower. I don’t know if it’s that even our wallowing is impatient now or if it would always be out of vogue to build a palatial ode to this particular flavor of toxic masculinity in 2018. I don’t know, but I do know that everyone should take a deep, relaxing breath and give “Space Cowboy” another go. Pay particular attention to the literal space Musgraves inserts between the titular words, the way the first word tumbles from a great height and lands dead on the second. For her, falling out of love is a chicken and egg proposition. Was it the space or was it the cowboy?
DV:
Reader, I was the one who told MG this song would sound better if it was faster, a decision I regretted as soon as I cued up the video in 1.5 time but that I’m only coming clean about now. I am fairly sure no one else this year made a claim as poorly thought out; “Space Cowboy” belongs at exactly its own pace, and sounds like a Frankenstein if you push it any faster than Musgraves made it. It’s an irrepressibly, gorgeously sad song, and it’s earned its plodding tempo. The title is too clever by half but it’s balanced by the other wordplay the song throws out: a Neil Young reference here, a classic Western ultimatum there. Musgraves undersells these like she oversells the chorus’s pause, and it’s the best possible decision in both cases. “Space Cowboy” finds the beauty in breaking up and letting go, and it couldn’t do it at any other speed.
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SONG PICK: Indigo Velvet – Nineteen
“Nineteen” by Scottish quartet Indigo Velvet, is as joyous as the band photo indicates: it will make you smile, guaranteed! Just hit ‘play’ and see for yourself. Wether you are remember having been nineteen more wistfully or find yourself more in the midst of it, the song will appeal to anybody who appreciates a well made pop song.
Listen to the infectious “Nineteen”, our Song Pick of the Day:
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‘Breathless’
A little more than a month ago, while digging into tracks recorded on November 24, I noted a difficulty in tracking the performance of “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover” as recorded on November 24, 1941, by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra. I wrote, “My reference library has a historical gap in it; Pop Memories gets me to 1940, and [Joel] Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles picks things up in 1955. For the fifteen years in between, I’m on my own.”
Well, I am on my own no longer. One of the Christmas gift the Texas Gal gave me this week was Joel Whitburn’s Billboard Pop Hits, subtitled Singles & Albums 1940-1954. That means I now have the tools necessary to make mistakes about music throughout the Twentieth Century.
I’ve not yet spent a lot of time digging into the book. The holiday and household chores it delayed have kept me busy. But I plan to spend some time paging through and browsing later today. For now, I think I’m going to play some Games With Numbers. I’ll take today’s date – 12/27/18 – and go to Page 57 in the book. I’ll find the twelfth listed record, and we’ll see if we get lucky. (If the twelfth listed record is not available at YouTube, we’ll move to the eighteenth and see how that goes.)
We land on a 1942 record credited to Shep Fields & His New Music: “Breathless.” The record was the first with that credits. Until then, Fields’ reed-heavy music had been credited to Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra.
Fields, who was born in 1910 in Brooklyn, formed his own band in 1929, and starting in 1936, was a fixture in the charts for the next four years, charting thirty-six records between 1936 and 1943. Seven of those records went to No. 1, with the most successful being 1939’s “South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way),” which stayed on top of the chart for five weeks.
“Breathless,” the tune we landed on today, came near the end of Fields’ run on the charts. It wasn’t a national hit; the information in Billboard Pop Hits says that “Breathless” spent one week at No. 17 on the magazine’s Midwestern Best Sellers chart. Beyond that, perhaps the most interesting thing about “Breathless” is that – as Whitburn notes – the vocal was performed by Ken Curtis, who twenty-some years later would achieve fame by portraying the character Festus on the television show Gunsmoke.
Here’s “Breathless.”
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MØ – WAY DOWN (SynthPop – Denmark)
Last October, Danish singer, songwriter and record producer MØ shared her sophomore album, Forever Neverland, the long-awaited follow-up to her hugely successful debut album, No Mythologies to Follow. Four years in the making, the record was preceded by a surprise EP, When I Was Young, released last year.
Forever Neverland has spawned five singles (“Nostalgia”, “Sun in Our Eyes” featuring Diplo, “Way Down”, “Imaginary Friend” and “Blur” featuring Foster The People) and it also features collaborations with Charli XCX, What So Not, Two Feet and Empress Of.
Find Mø on SoundClound and Facebook. Buy the music on
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Twist - Venus
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"'Hysteresis' Mix" by An-2
(Posted by: Zeroy Chimney) This is a pretty cool mix. A bit of everything. Ambient rock, Brazilian Tropicalia, electronic nuggets from 1974. Theomatic is offering a download
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Double Ferrari @ Caledonia Lounge 2018-12-22
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MrSkrtt – Again & Again
Check out the new single from Philly’s own MrSkrtt called “Again & Again”. The melodic banger showcases his different flows over production by BrizzyOnDaBeat! Tune in below then let us know what you think of this song in the comments!
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Derez De’Shon – Need Sum More ft. Lil Baby
Derez De’Shon keeps the pressure applied with new music this time featuring Lil Baby on the new song “Need Sum More”. Atlanta music scene is hot and this song represents their sound to the fullest! Tune in to the collab below then let us know what you think of this song in the comments!
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State Property – 2K18 Freestyle (Official Music Video)
Stream and watch new “State Property – 2K18 Freestyle (Official Music Video)” below.
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = BUCKCHERRY: “HEAD LIKE A HOLE” (NINE INCH NAILS COVER)
Buckcherry's new album Warpaint isn't out until March 8th, but they've already blessed us with the first single, a kick-ass rendition of Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like A Hole," which happens to be my all-time favorite Nine Inch Nails song. Meanwhile, Buckcherry is one of my favorite hard rock bands of all-time.
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[[ GROOVES N JAMS S.O.T.Y. 2018 ]][ nO. 18/50 ]“Wilson...
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“Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)” by Fall Out Boy
DV:
Three years after the extremely spotty American Beauty/American Psycho, Fall Out Boy returned with: another spotty album. Which is fine (their only solid LP is Folie à Deux). The important thing is that while it took them a while to get here - three albums into their reunion, and five singles into that album cycle - in “Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)” they’ve managed a song that stands alongside the very best of their pre-hiatus work, a song so good it not only justifies the whole reunion project but reminds me why I fell in love with the band to begin with. Quoting Wednesday Addams and Bill Murray gives the chorus a kick, but originals like “don’t you know/ I hate all my friends/ I miss the days when I pretended with you” more than match those reference points. And man do they tear into that hook, the kind that begs for an arena crowd to shout it but does that so well it’s impossible to begrudge it anything. Fall Out Boy were already one of a a handful of bright points in the past decade’s cycle of reunions: they’ve never embarrassed themselves or ruined their legacy, they mostly just picked up where they left off and kept chugging along. “Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)” is the first time I’ve thought they might have something new to add to their canon, and that’s a thrilling possibility. And until then, it’s a jam in its own right.
MG:
Okay. To deny “Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)” would be, profoundly, to deny MIA’s “Paper Planes” and as a recession graduate, I will never be comfortable doing that! But, are there some serious and confounding flaws also present, even heaped on top of the slightly faster and slightly beefier “Paper Planes” backing track? Yes, of course. To enjoy “Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)” is, profoundly, to feel every confusing second of the now all at once. It’s jarring and you’ll catch yourself asking no one in particular “…what?” but it’s also endearing in its place in both Fall Out Boy’s oeuvre and in the broader pop culture. Like, it’s lame to quote Moonrise Kingdom, right? Or am I the only person who is just fucking sick of Bill Murray? Shtick like that is played right alongside shtick like “I know it’s just a number/ but you’re the eighth wonder” which reminds me of “I’m just a notch in your bedpost/ but you’re just a line in a song.” It’s my estimation that Pete Wentz is right at the height of his lyrical powers, a spot that is also always the nadir.
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Recording: Thin Edge New Music Collective
Artist: Thin Edge New Music Collective
Piece: Shimmer, Tree (In Memoriam Jonathan Harvey): II. I count the fleeing hours [composer: Kotoka Suzuki]
Recorded at the Canadian Music Centre (Riparian Acoustics/CMC Presents), November 8, 2018.
Thin Edge New Music Collective - Shimmer, Tree [2nd mvt]Following on the triumph of their live soundtracking of Sarah Hennies' experimental documentary Contralto, Thin Edge headed to the Canadian Music Centre for this more modest night of intimate compositions. Consisting of solo pieces, duos and one trio (Barbara Monk Feldman's defiantly un-urgent drift of "The Northern Shore") these were mostly small-scale but deep sonic explorations from pianist Cheryl Duvall, percussionist Nathan Petitpas and violinist Aysel Taghi-Zada. As is usually the case with the works that Thin Edge chooses to explore, there were some uncanny frissons in the pieces here, whether the flowerpot clonks of Chiyoko Szlavnics' "Her Teeth Were White" or the broken furniture music of Samuel Andreyev's "Piano Pieces".
As of this posting, you can still watch the archive of the livestream here (note that the Barbara Monk Feldman piece, embedded below, is in a separate video!):
[The Riparian Acoustics/CMC Presents series continues on Thursday, January 17th with a night of vocalisations from Alex Samaras (along with Lara Dodds-Eden and Bram Gielen). There's also an excellent-looking night coming on February 22nd with Lindsay Dobbin and Kat Estacio.]
Image screencapped from CMC livestream.
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TOP 60 2018. DEL 40 AL 21
Las favoritas de 2018, las canciones que más nos han gustado en los últimos doce meses, lo mejor del año en Planeta Pop. Aquí está la segunda entrega con los puestos situados entre el 40 y el 21.
40. DISCLOSURE. ULTIMATUM FEAT. FATOUMATA DIAWARA (SINGLE)
39. BRAZILIAN GIRLS. PIRATES (LET’S MAKE LOVE)
38. SOFI TUKKER. THE DARE (TREEHOUSE)
37. DEJ LOAF. LIBERATED FEAT. LEON BRIDGES (SINGLE)
36. GRIZFOLK. SHAKY IN THE KNEES (SINGLE)
35. ANDREW BAYER. IN MY LAST LIFE FEAT. ALISON MAY (IN MY LAST LIFE)
34. 77:78. LOVE SAID (LET’S GO) (JELLIES)
33. DEVOTCHKA. SECOND CHANCE (THIS NIGHT FALLS FOREVER)
32. TRACYANNE & DANNY. HOME & DRY (TRACYANNE & DANNY)
31. GILLIGAN MOSE. WHAT HAPPENED? (WHAT HAPPENED? EP)
30. MAC MILLER. WHAT’S THE USE? (SWIMMING)
29. MGMT. ME AND MICHAEL (LITTLE DARK AGE)
28. CAUTIOUS CLAY. COLD WAR (BLOOD TYPE)
27. JIM JAMES. NO SECRETS (UNIFORM CLARITY)
26. CALVIN HARRIS. ONE KISS (WITH DUA LIPA) (SINGLE)
25. TOM MISCH. DISCO YES FEAT. POPPY AJUDHA (GEOGRAPHY)
24. SIGRID. I DON’T WANT TO KNOW (RAW)
23. SAM VALDEZ. FARTHER AWAY (MIRAGE)
22. JONATHAN WILSON. LOVING YOU (RARE BIRDS)
21. FATHER JOHN MISTY. MR. TILLMAN (GOD’S FAVORITE CUSTOMER)
La entrada TOP 60 2018. DEL 40 AL 21 aparece primero en Planeta Pop.
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Peter Senior – “The Christmas Tree”
“The Christmas Tree” is a bright, peppy seasonal track from Peter Senior, a Sydney-based singer/songwriter whose previous two releases, Cool Ride and Baby I Love You, drew praise for their infusion of retro rock/pop styles. This holiday release aptly is an upbeat, melodic take, with Senior’s crisp croon aligning well with various key-laden twinkles and melodic guitars. It’s a track that touts an optimistic spirit, making it an enjoyable listen even as the day passes. It’s structurally straightforward, as most Christmas songs are, though does the important thing in capturing a fun-loving holiday spirit in audible form.
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“The Christmas Tree” and other memorable tracks from this month can also be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of December 2018’ Spotify playlist.
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Jared Doherty – “Flower”
Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jared Doherty shows his charming psych-pop arsenal on new track “Flower,” a highlight from his Small Window LP, released in November. The Kamloops, British Columbia-based musician plays in the bands Mother Sun, At Mission Dolores and Elsewhere in addition to his solo output. In fusing more traditional folk-rock from inspirations like The Byrds and Neil Young into a modern take with hints of Mac DeMarco, Doherty shows on “Flower” a suave disposition with a multitude of memorable moments — like the chime at 00:53 – “shut your eyes and look around,” – as the vocals assume the forefront in leading back to the enjoyably melodic mixture of guitars and light percussion. “Flower” is a quality showing from Doherty.
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“Flower” and other memorable tracks from this month can also be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of December 2018’ Spotify playlist.
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