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Yuna - Live Your Life
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Questlove pays homage to J Dilla with a tribute mix | Free Download
10 February 2012
Michael Kiwanuka-'Tell Me A Tale'
Here's the sum total what I know about Michael Kiwanuka: He's from North London. He's 23. He's supported Adele on tour.
His new single, Tell Me A Tale, is allegedly a brand new recording, but I'd be willing to bet he found it down the back of Bill Withers' sofa, and is now trying to pass off as his own work. It's just too authentically rootsy to be a product of the 21st century.
But amazingly, somehow, Michael has managed to replicate the compressed, analogue recording techniques of Donny Hathaway and Bobby Womack: The vocals are too hot; the drums are mixed with casual disregard; the brass section is apparently punching its way out of a cardboard box.
Track list:
01.Tell Me A Tale
02.I Need Your Company
03.Worry Walks Beside Me
6 February 2012
D’Angelo – Live @ Le Zenith; Paris, France 1-29-12 (Full Show Download)
If you haven’t heard by now, you clearly must have been living under a rock, but D’Angelo is back. This past week, he resurfaced, doing his first live performances in over a decade. Judging from the first couple shows on his European tour, his music is just as strong, performing old classics and debuting new music (yes, we finally have new music from D’Angelo). The internet went into a frenzy this past week with visual evidence of D’Angelo’s return flooding YouTube and many music blogs. When he first announced his comeback tour, I was cautiously optimistic a full audio recording may surface, and it didnt take long for our prayers to be answered. Big thanks once again to the great folks at 'All the way live', here is the full audio of D’Angelo’s set @ Le Zenith in Paris from a few nights ago. Setlist and download are after the jump, as well as a stream of one of the new songs.
Setlist:
- Playa Playa
- Feel Like Makin’ Love
- Ain’t That Easy
- Devil’s Pie
- Chicken Grease
- The Line > The Root
- The Charade
- I’ve Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)
- Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
- Solo medley (Brown Sugar, Jonz In My Bonz, Spanish Joint, Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine, Cruisin’, Higher, One Mo’Gin, Untitled (How Does It Feel)
- Another Life
- Sugah Daddy
- Space Oddity
D'Angelo & The Testimony - Sugah Daddy - January 29, 2012 Paris, France - Le Zenith by Funk It Blog
4 February 2012
Stray Phrases - Dilla Tribute
Check out an audio download of the full set at http://www.itsallthewaylive.net/2011/02/stray-phrases-performs-j-dillas-donut....
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2 February 2012
Brooklyn Insiders: Lee Quinones
Brooklyn Insiders: Lee Quinones from Chuck Gibson on Vimeo.
Brooklyn Insiders is a video project that allows us to get to know influential people and the realities around them. For this episode BI take a look at their environment and let them tell us how and why Brooklyn is the reason they stay relevant.
Lee Quinones is considered the single most influential artist to emerge from the New York City subway art movement. He is a celebrated figure in both the contemporary art world and in popular culture circles, faithfully producing work that is ripe with provocative socio-political content and intricate composition.