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-[Listen]- ‘Space Is Still The Place’ According to The Bright Lights Social Hour

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In order for The Bright Lights Social Hour to handcraft their brand of ‘Future South’, they excavate the same celestial bedrocks that predecessors Sun Ra, Frankie Knuckles (hearken towards ‘Your Love’), and Silver… Continue reading

-[Listen]- Kendrick Lamar x Flying Lotus Step Outside with ‘Never Catch Me’

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California makes a cosmic connection on the new single entitled ‘Never Catch Me’ from FlyingLotus’s newest album ‘You’re Dead!’. FlyLo co-opts the lyrical stylings of Kendrick Lamar to help weave through this moving and complex… Continue reading

-[Listen]- AAHH! Fest Chicago 2014

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If you’ve been keeping tabs on the national media, it’s hard to ignore the discourse in regards to the troubles that surround the city of Chicago. Images of murders, arrests, gang activity, and… Continue reading

-[Eat,See]- Burgers and Lost Souls at Earnestine & Hazel’s, Memphis

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRWCwWdetEg While on a short trip to Memphis for some quick NBA action a few years back, we wandered into Earnestine and Hazel’s Juke Joint totally by accident. Our night to take in… Continue reading

-[Listen]- Mayer Hawthorne and Shintaro Sakamoto Team Up for Record Store Day

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Record Store Day will be upon us April 19th, and what better way to celebrate the occasion properly than with some new exclusive music. Michigan crooner Mayer Hawthorne and Japanese soul singer Shintaro… Continue reading

-[Listen]- Temples perform ‘Keep In The Dark’ at the Fader Fort, SXSW

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This year at SXSW, a shortlist of upcoming bands helped create a webseries of acoustic sets in the Mazda3 Backseat Studio at the Fader Fort. In this video, UK psychadelic rock band Temples… Continue reading

-[Eat]- Tropical Greatness at Caroline’s Cafe, Key West

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If you just so happen to find yourself lost 130 miles out from the Florida Atlantic coastline, smack dab in the middle of the ocean, just rest easy in the fact that you… Continue reading

-[Listen]- The GTW Champions the Chigeria Movement

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In a Chicago music scene best known for the fragments that make up it’s whole, it’s great to see someone like The GTW wear the city’s mosaic on his shoulders like a classic… Continue reading

-[See]- Mochilla and Quantic Document the Search For New Sounds in ‘Cali to Barranquilla’ Gallery

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Around the same time that the filming for the official Duvidó video went underway, photographic visionary and Mochilla founder Brian Cross (known to a certain few as B+) and dj/producer extraordinaire Will Holland… Continue reading

-[Listen]- “Live On” Through Howson’s Groove and Their New Promo Mix

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In anticipation for the release of their new album entitled Body And Soul , South London dance duo Howson’s Groove and XLR8R lace the electronic landscape with a nice, freshly chilled lead single… Continue reading