First song is the brand new Peter, Bjorn, and John track “Nothing To Worry About” due in March/April on their upcoming album Living Thing. Apparently, Kanye West leaked the track to the world after the Stockholm based crew personally sent it to him. PBJ backed the world’s most narcissistic hip hop solo act (and yes, that [...] Read More…
First song is Pocketknife’s remix of Jose Gonzalez’ “Storm”. It was originally available almost a year ago on UGHH.com- and I’m not really sure why since that’s a hip hop site- but the song was just released on iTunes a couple of days ago as the b-side to a Jose Gonzalez single. It’s a great remix… I’d [...] Read More…
First song is the new Franz Ferdinand track, “Ulysses”. I’m not a big Franz Ferdinand fan but I do like this song and a couple of other tracks of theirs. This song was produced by one of the guys from Hot Chip, Dan Carey. The new album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is set to be released early next year. The band is [...] Read More…
First song is by the new underground hip hop supergroup, The Mighty Underdogs, comprised of rappers Gift of Gab and Lateef the Truth Speaker, and producer Headnodic. This song is the first track of their debut album, Droppin’ Science Fiction. But the album is just good, it’s not great. Lateef used to be one of my favorite [...] Read More…
First track is from 1969 that you all may recognize from the Dockers commercials playing all throughout the NBA playoffs. It’s the classic California Soul by Marlena Shaw. It’s also been sampled by tons of hip hop producers including DJ Premier for 1992’s Step In The Arena by Gangstarr (track 7, Check the Technique). Marlena Shaw [...] Read More…