Erykah Badu x Steven Lopez
LA-based visual artist Steven Lopez is working with Erykah Badu on a unique collaboration to help raise money for her non-profit Beautiful Love Incorporated Non-Profit Development (B.L.I.N.D.), a charity organization she established to provide community-based programs for inner-city youth. 100 limited edition prints, signed by both Badu and Lopez will be sold via www.aftermidnightsoul.com from...
Go Buy Lisa Shaw – Free
Thanks to the lovely EMusic I recently grabbed Lisa Shaw’s brand new album “Free” and I’m pretty much in love with it. It’s full of the soulful downtempo-y, housey goodness you would expect. Lisa Shaw does this better than anyone else so grab this album for a wonderful end-to-end listen. She has just released a...
Peter Hadar – Planets Video ft. Selita Ebanks
“Planets” is taken from Peter Hadar’s Well Dressed For The Art Show album. Given Peter’s unique style and futuristic spacefunk music, this quirky video is very fitting. And of course there’s the added touch of model Selita Ebanks playing leading lady.
New Album Coming From Jonas – Waitt
The most soulful dude ever to come out of Denmark – Jonas has just announced his new album WAITT will be released in May: My new album “WAITT” will be released 25th of May 2009 through Playground Music Denmark, including a DVD documentary. 13 songs recorded live with a full band in the studio in...
Pursuit Grooves – Fun Like Passion
It’s taken me too long to get around to writing this post, but now that I’m on kind of an instrumental kick, it seems appropriate. Here’s another great producer you need to be up on, Pursuit Grooves. If you like Flying Lotus, 14KT and those type of folks, you’ll dig Pursuit Grooves. She was kind...
The Grouch – Hot Air Balloons – Video
Cool jazzy hip-hop track from Living Legends’ The Grouch and featuring Bicasso and Scarub. “Hot Air Balloons” taken from the album Show You The World and the video is nicely done.
The Angel – Guest DJ on KPFK + Covert Movements Instrumental
Producer/composer The Angel is doing a 1 1/2 hour guest DJ spot on Kristi Lomax’s “Restless Soul” show on KPFK this Monday, March 23rd, at 10:30pm. You can listen live at: http://www.kpfk.org/listen-live.html The Angel will be playing some of the new material from her next album release, “Supa Crucial Downtempo Remixes & Rarities” which includes...
Outasight – From There To Here
To be honest I’m not sure about this cat. I feel like it’s a case of some great white over-hype. The production is great, but his nasal-y, ho-hum rapping, and even more nasal-y ‘singing’ is not anything to write home about. I’ll take Colin Munroe over this because at least dude seems authentically himself. Outasight...
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