The ‘Ga (aka
Lady Gaga) has a new video out for her song ‘The Edge of Glory’. Compared to her other vids it’s kind of boring, apart from the mysterious stoop-sittin’ saxman:
R. Kelly is a genius, who also happens to be quite funny (see: ‘Trapped in the Closet’). His new song isn’t really filled with hilarity, but Kellz pours his emotions into it as per usual:
While
Com Truise is a terrible name, the New Jersey producer makes pretty decent music. His full-length debut comes out via Ghostly in early July, but here’s the album stream (thanks Hype Machine!) in the meantime:
Up and coming Brooklyn MC
Erick Arc Elliott recently dropped his new album for free. It’s called
Almost Remembered; download it over on his
Bandcamp page.
This is a song from new Stones Throw artist
Jonti, whose album
Twirligig will be out in American fall (aka Australian spring). The video is fairly trippy:
Brian Eno has a new album coming out on Warp in a couple of weeks. Here are two tracks off the LP titled
Drums Between the Bells:
Brian Eno - bless this space (taken from Drums Between The Bells) by Warp Records
Brian Eno - pour it out (taken from Drums Between The Bells) by Warp Records
Highly underrated producer
Machinedrum put together a mix for Electronic Explorations. It’s just under an hour and features Africa Hitech, Chrissy Murderbot, Hudson Mohawke and more. Download
here.
His buddy Praveen Sharma, aka the other half of the Sepalcure, aka
Braille, did a podcast for their record label, Hotflush. The tracklist includes the likes of Krystal Klear, Addison Groove, Rainbow Arabia, Roska and more. You can download that
here.
For the laffs: the
Rob Zombie-directed commercial for Woolite (a US brand of laundry detergent). It features clothes torture:
Flying Lotus finally made a
SoundCloud account last week. All the beatheads are psyched (and he already has over 10K followers).
FlyLo’s record label, Warp, is giving away a free sampler via Amazon. It features a bunch of dope artists (Gonjasufi, Jamie Lidell, Clark, Rustie). Go
get it.
And how can we not resist posting this bedtime audio book for kids. It’s called
Go the Fuck to Sleep and out of all the people to narrate it, they chose the perfect person for the job – Samuel L. Jackson. Go to
Audible to download it for free, or at the very least, just listen to the sample.