A Music Blog for Recovering Mix-Tapers
Featuring: Surprise Chef, Polibio Mayorga y Su Conjunto, Television, Eshu Tune feat. Danny Brown & Paul Wall, Princess Nokia, Julie Christmas, Dave Okumu, Caroline Rose, Huw Marc Bennett, Kara Jackson, Jordan Tice, Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy, Gotopo feat. Don Elektron, The Gaslamp Killer with The Heliocentrics, Dele Sosimi & the Estuary 21, Bandejas Especiales, Albert King, Lucho y su Conjunto, and Manzanita y su Conjunto.
Read MoreFeaturing: De La Soul, Marika Hackman, Florist, Bruno Pernadas, Temps, Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane’s Original Fulu Mziki of Kinshasa, Spiritual Cramp, Rozi Plain, Selda Bagčan, Camille, Anna Wise, Nappy Nina feat. Moor Mother, Don Couto and Karen y Los Remedios, Altin Gün, and Adam Brisbin.
Read MoreFeaturing: Banda Jardes, Natalia Lafourade, Julieta Venegas, Camille, Leland Whitty, Metric, Black Thought & El Michels Affair, The Good Ones, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou, Jerron Paxton, Adam Brisbin, Omar Apollo, Manu Gavassi, Fatoumata Diawara w/Damon Albarn, and Gorillaz
Read MoreFeaturing: Makaya McCraven, Lucrecia Dalt, Kaki King, Seamus Eagan, Latin Playboys, Abstract Rude and Aceyalone, R.A.P. Ferreria, Ski Mask The Slump God, Marlon Coles, Cindy Lee, Temple of the Dog, Depeche Mode, Low, Rozi Plain, Horse Lords, Bilou XIV and Zo Flame, Algiers w/Zack De La Rocha, SZA, and Hermanos Gutiérrez.
Read MoreFeaturing: Medicine Singers w/Jaimie Branch, Jack White, Carlos Truly, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Preoccupations, Ralfi Pagan, Ebo Taylor, Dezron Douglas and Brandee Younger, Susso, Sylvan Esso, Doctor Nativo, Rebecca Lane, Freddie Gibbs w/Anderson .Paak and Raekwon, Cate Le Bon and Bradford Cox, and Meridien Brothers.
Read MoreFeaturing: Spacebomb House Band, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Y La Bamba, Camayenne Sofa, Damon Albarn, Samora Pinderhughes, Das Racist, Aesop Rock, Bambara, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Muzz, Preoccupations, Adrian Quesada, iLe, Doechii, Rosalía, Kilo Kish, Ellie Dixon, Noori & His Dorpa Band, and Matt Gold.
Read MoreFeaturing: Doja Cat, Birdz, Gordon Koang, Pérez Prado, Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, Black Milk, Suga Free, Hania Rani & Dubrowa Czocher, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Wilco, Feist, Orestes Macias, Jimmy McCracklin, La Sonora Dinamita, and Run the Jewels w/Mexican Institute of Sound & Santa Fe Klan
Read MoreFeaturing: Matthew E. White, Sleigh Bells, Mon Laferte, Aida Bossa, LUMP, Masked Wolf, DJ Shadow & Nils Frahm, Kurt Vile & John Prine, Beck, Los Miticos Del Ritmo, The Slits, Totó La Momposina, The Garifuna Collective, Ream Daranoi, Rubio, Brian Eno w/Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, Sotomayor, Graham Nash, and Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson.
Read MoreFeaturing: Los Destellos, Suda Chuenbarn, El Michels Affair w/Piya Malik, Ocean Wisdom w/The Four Owls, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Anna Fox Rochinski, Yu Su, Calle 13, Cut Chemist, El-P, Curtis Fuller Quartet, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, Andy Shauf, Donny Hathaway, Angelique Kidjo, and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Read MoreAretha Franklin - You Send Me
Horace Silver Quintet - Senor Blues
Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, and Mike Reed - Jo Jar
JAWN - Leaving
CLiQ, feat. Alika - Get Wavey
Beastie Boys - Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
Ava Rocha - Singular
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
E-40 - Practice Looking Hard
Bun B, feat. Run the Jewels - Myself
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“Luckily, my first exposure to footwork was live, and came accompanied by about 12 dancers. Otherwise, I think it would have been impossible for me to understand this music. At once magnificently cerebral and viscerally physical, it's music that is quite literally designed for dancing.”
Featuring: Makaya McCraven, Onyeka Onwenu, Mala Rodríguez, Tshegue, and more.
Read More“There's something strange about being at a live concert that involves a tuba, saxophone, and two drummers and thinking ‘This is the greatest rock band I've seen all year.’"
Featuring: Sons of Kemet, Paul McCartney, Pongo, Jay Rock, and more.
Read More“This song knocked me out all month. At under two minutes long, it packs an incredible amount of narrative punch, summoning a whole short story's-worth of characters and situations with the barest amount of lyrical information. I imagine using this in a creative writing class as an example of how powerfully a work can be improved by decisive editing, whether it's a song, poem, story, etc.”
Featuring: The Shins, Pongo, Natalie Prass, Ebo Taylor, and more.
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