Category Archive: Listen

-[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]- “Diamonds” by Izzy Bizu

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London has been oozing with new talent for decades, and it’s latest gem is 19-year-old singer/ songwriter, Izzy Bizu, hailing from South West London. Growing up, it’s said she often listened to classic singers such… Continue reading

-[Listen]- Remembering Frankie Knuckles, The Godfather of House Music

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Late Monday evening, the music world was stunned by the loss of Frankie Knuckles, the pioneer of house music. As a DJ, producer and remixer in the 1980s and ’90s, he laid the… Continue reading

-[Listen]- Little Dragon Announce US Tour and Share “Klapp Klapp” Remix

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Little Dragon is one of those bands that sound just as good live as they do in your headphones or speakers at home. Since the release of their self-titled album in 2007, the Swedish… 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

-[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

-[Listen]- Elle Varner Plays True Detective On Her New Single “Cold Case”

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The subtly awesome titled song “Cold Case” is the new single by up- and-coming soul singer Elle Varner. Elle does an amazing job exploring the ebb and flow of emotion that only infidelity… Continue reading