People Under the Stairs released their 7th album, Carried Away, on Om Records earlier this month. The Los Angeles duo are known for creating west coast style party hip hop with distinctively chill, sample heavy beats. The sound of the new album is just as fun and cool as PUTS has ever been. Tracks like [...] Read More…
There are a lot of cool ways to share music with your friends. I used to make a lot of mixes and I still have a lot of my old playlists. The iLike Playlist Editor let’s you make and share your playlists with anyone. You can send a link for your playlist to your friends or [...] Read More…
Back in February, an exclusive KCRW Femi Kuti remix album was released. Femi VS KCRW Soundclash features remixes from a bunch of the KCRW DJs. Some of them are really great. If you didn’t already know, Femi Kuti is the son of the late Afro-beat legend Fela Kuti. Check out Jeremy Sole’s remix of “Tell Me” which [...] Read More…
James Yancey a.k.a. Jay Dee a.k.a. J Dilla produced 3 of my favorite hip hop albums- De La Soul’s Stakes Is High, Slum Village’s Fantastic Volume II, and Pharcyde’s Labcabincalifornia. He passed away just a couple of years ago, but he was one of the best. Too many people hadn’t heard of him until after he died. Some of his music was sample-free, while some [...] Read More…
Royksopp’s “Happy Up Here” is the first single leaked from the Norwegian duo’s upcoming album, Junior, which will be released on March 16, 2009. The single samples an old favorite of mine- Parliament’s “Do That Stuff”- which was originally released back in 1976 on The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein. The drum break intro is an incredibly crisp and [...] Read More…
The MIA song “Paper Planes” was a huge hit last year after Pineapple Express introduced the song to a very large audience. The song just took off- it was all over TV, the radio, and the blogosphere. You couldn’t go into a bar or a club without hearing “Paper Planes”, or at least a remix, or one right after [...] Read More…
First song is “Don’t Want To Know” by the John Martyn who passed away this last Thursday. In memory, Jason Bentley played “Don’t Want To Know” on KCRW Thursday morning and that was my introduction to the song. I couldn’t find a link to any MP3 of the song, so here is the song in it’s entirety [...] Read More…
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Tagged Asa, Emiliana, Empire of the Sun, John Martyn, Torrini
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Today it seems many of us are quick to catch on to anything with an old sound. This is the natural proclivity for nostalgia that the human ear contains and it’s great. But it seems like every other act that comes out is doing their best to sound like a [...] Read More…
PRESENCE - A GREAT, FORGOTTEN ROCK ALBUM
by Charles K
Led Zeppelin… who hasn’t heard of these guys, right? Well if you haven’t then its time to get your ass out from under the rock you’ve been living under and prepare yourselves to be blown away. The gods of rock got it right when [...] Read More…
A Digital Timeline…
The Four Seasons song “Beggin’” was released in 1967 on their album New Gold Hits.
Four Seasons – Beggin’
Shocking Blue covered “Beggin’” and released their version on Good Times in 1974.
Shocking Blue – Beggin’
And 40 years after the song was originally released- Madcon, a Norwegian hip hop duo, released their own version of “Beggin’” [...] Read More…