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Little Dragon Interview [Video]
LA Weekly’s Urban Nomad caught up with Little Dragon recently and had a nice chat about race, the pros and cons of signing a U.S. major label deal, and why the ‘others’ are going to take over the world! You’ll have to watch to see what I’m talking about……Don’t forget to check out the live […]
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Little Dragon – Little Man – Live [video]
Thanks to LA Weekly’s Urban Nomad for giving us the heads up on this new Little Dragon footage. In this live video they perform a new song “Little Man” at a recent show at LA’s Natural History Museum. We’ll have some interview footage shortly (hopefully). Go shop for Little Dragon on iTunes, both albums are […]
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Little Dragon – 1-O.A.K. Remix of Blinking Pigs
Hot damn. This track is like, whoa. Seriously though, 1-O.A.K. did a ridiculous job of turning Little Dragon’s “Blinking Pigs” into a beautiful, hip-hop n’ jazz inflected head-nodder. 1-O.A.K, is Oakland’s Brandon McFarland – a vocalist, musician and producer who is part of the Bay Area Collective the Honor Roll. He entered this remix, titled […]
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Afta-1, Nikko Gray Love Fest
In honor of Afta-1 & Nikko Gray’s soul-stirring performance at Strictly Social (the best event in LA to see live progressive soul music) last week, I decided to round-up some choice downloads from them, for you, my lovely readers. Hopefully both these artists will drop full-length projects on us before too long…. More info on […]
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A Tribute To Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon
TheCouchSessions.com just released a free mixtape Tribute to Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon. It’s no secret that I’m a huge Little Dragon fan so I’m lovin’ this concept. They’ve put together a retrospective of sorts including some of her work with Koop, guest spots with Ge-ology, classic Little Dragon tracks and more. If you are […]
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Afta-1 – Love Is Real Vol 4
AFTA-1’s latest mix is simply beautiful. His description below really says it all, suffice to say that this mix is a must-have – beautifully crafted and a real inspiration. The months following the release of Love is Real Vol. 3 have again affirmed everything that GAS’D, myself and everyone else in the universe living for […]
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Little Dragon – Blinking Pigs and Machine Dreams
I’ve been a major slacker as far as blogging goes lately. But that’s ‘cos I’ve been un-slacking in other areas. You know, work and such. So anyway forgive me for what could be a series of really late passes. But anyways, Little Dragon are near and dear to my heart so here’s the infos on […]
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Little Dragon – After The Rain (Floating Points Remix)
As I wait patiently for a new Little Dragon album, I’ll basically take what I can get in the meantime. Garth Trinidad just threw us this none-too-shabby bone – a badass remix of “After The Rain” by Floating Points. Floating Points has got dopeness a-plenty goin’ on for himself – http://www.myspace.com/floatingpoints Listen to “After The […]
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GB Interprets His Contemporaries
Credit to Illmami @ Soulbounce for posting this. I was huge fan of GB’s Soundtrack For Sunrise album waaay back in 2004 but hadn’t heard much from GB since. Not sure if that’s because he wasn’t up to much, or I just wasn’t up on it. Either way I was excited to see that this […]
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Beatlife Top 8 of 2008
I don’t usually do year-end lists, but this year I decided to go full force and not only do my own, but gather a few from some esteemed musical colleagues which will be posted separately. Beatlife Top 8 of 2008 (in no particular order) Little Dragon – Little Dragon I said no particular order, but […]
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New (ish) Little Dragon Track
I stumbled upon this recently on the internets. A new (to my ears) Little Dragon track “Infinite Love”. In reality it looks like this track has been floating around for a few months, I’m just late to the game. But oh well. If you’ve read this blog for a while you’ll know that I’m fairly […]
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Love Note To Little Dragon
My Dearest Little DragonI by no means fall easily but since the warm opening notes of “Twice” first caressed my ears, I was quickly smitten. Infatuation rapidly blossomed into something all the more captivating as I explored all that your Myspace had to offer. “Test”, “Constant Surprises” and other delights revealed to me your innate […]