Category Archives: MP3

Listen: Drake – “Started From the Bottom”

From October’s Very Own Blogspot:

My good friends,

It has truly been too long. I assume you’re all keeping well and making the most of this year that has been given to us. Today is the day to begin sharing my newest work with you. This is the first single off of my upcoming album. I feel sometimes that people don’t have enough information about my beginnings and therefore they make up a life story for me that isn’t consistent with actual events. My family and my second family (consisting of the best friends anybody could ever have) all struggled and worked extremely hard to make all this happen. I did not buy my way into this spot and it was the furthest thing from easy to achieve. I am proud of every part of my past and I’m excited for this song to find a place in your life as well. I didn’t feel I needed any interviews or radio or press to launch this song. It felt right to come back to the site that I started on and release it to the people that started here with me. Judging by this post, the tour that we’ve been planning, the conversations about new songs and album artwork…I think it’s safe to say we’re back together again. Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

“You don’t have to ask me how I’m doing…just listen to the music” – K.Samir

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Drake drops his first single off  of his new album in  a pretty humble-like manner.

Wednesday: Mice Parade at The Tree Bar

Though a coincidence – a tour date in Columbus a day after their 7th album is released – you can pretend like Mice Parade’s show at The Tree Bar on Wednesday night is a CD release party.

Candela‘s a great late-night listen – layers of sounds filling each song leading some to label Mice Parade as a shoegazer band. The hypnotic sway of the first single, “This River Has a Tide”, doesn’t prove contrary to this idea.

Download: “Contesa” (MP3)

The band is the brainchild of NYC’s Adam Pierce (mix those letters up and you get … yep … Mice Parade) and includes members of bands such as HiM, Dylan Group and the Swirlies.

Feature Films (featuring ex-members of Heavy Mole, Audion, and the Blue Revision) and solo artist Dan Lippel open the show. The cover is $7.

Listen: CZARFACE (Inspectah Deck & 7L & Esoteric) f/ Action Bronson “Its Raw”

CZARFACE (Insprectah Deck & 7L & Esoteric) will be released on 2-19-2013 via Brick Records

In addition to Action Bronson other guests include Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Ghostface,Roc Marciano, Vinnie Paz, Cappadonna & additional beats from DJ Premier & Oh No,

Listen: Dan The Automator’s Pillowfight “Used To Think”

Earth People, Dan the Automator’s new project Pillowfight with talented singer Emily Wells is the business if you mess with soulful pop musics. The new song Used To Think is especially good because the singer is talking shit and going in on a former lover.


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The Pillowfight Album drops digitally and on CD on 1/22/13 and Vinyl is due on 2/26/13 via Bulk Recordings. It features the help of Kid Koala and Lateef The Truthspeaker. Album art by David Choe.

Listen: Cassidy – “R.A.I.D.” (Meek Mill Diss)

Cassidy – R.A.I.D. (Meek Mill Diss)

Cassidy dropped a 10 minutes diss to Meek Mill over various instrumentals.  These two Philly rappers have been going back and forth since Meek clowned Cassidy’s Condom Style PSA.

Meek Mill response to Cassidy’s diss was dismissive..

Meek Mill is the higher profile artist and has a stronger infrastructure because he is in MMG.
What Cassidy has going for him is that he is respected in Philly as a battle emcee so he has a chance to irritate Meek in his home town.

Captured Tracks Partner With Flying Nun For Reissue Program

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Brooklyn-based label Captured Tracks is partnering with Flying Nun to reissue the late 70’s New Zealand label’s back catalog which includes bands like the Clean, The Chills, The Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, The Bats,

Obviously, Flying Nun has had a huge influence on the majority of Columbus, Ohio’s Siltbreeze bands.

Below is “Swimming Pool” which is off of an upcoming Toy Love Anthology that will be the first release from this partnership on 2/19.

Toy Love (pre-Tall Dwarfs/the Bats) was around from January 1979 to September 1980. The Toy Love Compilation collects all the A & B sides of the three Toy Love singles, plus the best demos from 1979, a live track and even a radio jingle. All mastered for vinyl, straight from the original analogue tapes, no nasty CDs nor digital sources were used at all. While, the back cover features a sketched cartoon of an early Toy Love flyer drawn by Chris Knox.

Thursday @ Woodlands: Souljazz Orchestra

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Columbus gets a rare treat as Toronto’s Souljazz Orchestra comes to Woodlands Tavern on Thursday night. After multiple Canadian and World tours, the 10-year old band is wrapping up its second American tour, in support of their recently released fourth full-length album Solidarity. This, their second album on Strut Records, sees the band continuing to expand its Afrobeat sound, a path begun on 2010’s Rising Sun. While that album was a more subdued, spiritual affair, however, the new record feels like a marriage of their increased musical base with the intensity of their earlier albums.

Featuring a wide range of collaborators from the diverse Toronto music scene, Solidarity brings forth a fiery mixture of Afrobeat, jazz, soul, tropical, and reggae stylings. Opener “Bibinay” sets a strong Afrobeat base for the proceedings, but the album then takes a hard left turn on “Kelen Ati Leen,” which is one of many Afro-latin hybrid smokers on the album. The horn-laden breakbeat funk of “Conquering Lion” is a highlight here, as well as the sultry singalong “Kingpin.” The tempo only really slows down for album finale “Nijaay,” leaving behind a trail of sweat and a destroyed dance floor. The horn and rhythm sections do plenty of work here, but the “vintage keyboards” of Pierre Chrétien are also a cornerstone of the band’s sound, driving songs like the Latin burner “Ya Basta.”

Opening Thursday’s show is Brooklyn Afrobeat band Zongo Junction (click the link for a download of their new single). The band draws on inspiration from Fela, but also acts like the Talking Heads and Sun Ra. Their debut Thieves was released in 2010, and a new album is planned for 2013.

Doors for this internationally funky double bill are at 9pm, and the cover is $10.

Listen to/download Souljazz Orchestra’s “Cartao Postal” below and stay tuned after the jump for more videos of both groups.

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MP3: Path – “Anna Nicole”

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Fresh off his 23rd, Bday Columbus emcee/producer Path drops a banger with A.U. Path has a solo ep on deck, and is working on Met from S.A.Smash next project.

MP3: Pearl Necklace – “Did You Feel It?” ft Arp


MP3: Pearl Necklace: “Did You Feel It” Feat Arp

Brooklyn duo Pearl Necklace’s “Did You Feel It” is a warm, minimal techno song off their upcoming “Soft Opening” album
on Smalltown Supersound which drops January 29th.

RZA & Big Boi on The Juan Epstein Show

If you want to start your Holiday weekend feeling enlightened I suggest listening to the RZA talk  Hurricane Sandy, the Man With The Iron Fists, spiritual insight,Wu’s crime Background, his favorite Wu-Tang album, NGE and Obama with Peter Rosenberg & Cipha Sounds ond the Juan Epstein Show. And there is a good Big Boi interview also.

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