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MP3s: Experimental Hip-Hop For The Year 2525

Posted Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:12pm PDT
If you're like me, today's hip-hop lacks a little something. Call it perspective, originality, depth. With that in mind, here's a vote for the hip-hop stars of tomorrow, to those guys working away in anonymity from coast to coast, perfecting their be More »
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MP3s: Paris’ Sweet ElodieO, Soft And Silly With Barcelona’s Vladimir

Posted Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:22pm PDT
Parisian born ElodieO is currently hitting her stride on New York's NuBlu scene, and she looks to conquer the same hipster club demographic that adores jet setting acts like Brazilian Girls and Kudu. But ElodieO's music spans the decades, not just th More »
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MP3s: Metaform's Shoulders, Jenny Scheinman's Legs

Posted Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:14pm PDT
Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants (isn't that an Oasis album title?) is the real deal, jockeying between 70s R&B vocal swooners like the O'Jays to slow mo drugged landscapes ala DJ Shadow... More »
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MP3s: Top Ten Downloads

Posted Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:35pm PDT
According to IODA’s Promonet, the tool many (legal) MP3 bloggers use to spread love, hope and new music to the masses, these are the top ten jazz downloads as of today. Check ‘em out, let me know what you think of their rating system. More »
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MP3s: Seu Jorge Is Back! Toninho Horta’s Birthday Bash

Posted Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:11pm PDT
Jorge hit the international radar as good guy Knockout Ned in 2002's volatile, multi-Academy Award nominated film, City Of God. Who knew Jorge could also croon? Now Jorge returns with América Brasil, his first album of original material since "Cru" More »
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MP3s: Female Vocalists Friday

Posted Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:13pm PDT
Young women espousing complex harmonies and sprightly rhythms are seemingly on the rise. Here’s a few of the new, a few of the best. More »
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MP3s: Eliza Carthy Follows The Dollar, Incredible String Band Returns

Posted Wed Jul 9, 2008 4:49pm PDT
A few years ago Mojo magazine went gaga for Eliza Carthy’s 1998 release, Red Rice. Eliza is a rather traditional English folk singer--perhaps fuzzy folk tunes performed on even fuzzier instruments. But Eliza Carthy is an artist deserving of greater More »
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MP3s: Vanessa Daou From The World, Di Johnson From Shanghai

Posted Mon Jul 7, 2008 5:41pm PDT
Sultry, sleek, and at times overtly sexual, Vanessa Daou sings for adults. Daou has been featured in The New York Times, Billboard, TIME Magazine, VIBE, URB, Mixer, Wire, ELLE France, and Vogue Homme. More »
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MP3s: Heavy Circles Lift Our Eyes; Tim Fite's Freak-Out

Posted Thu Jul 3, 2008 2:31pm PDT
She--the wife of Paul Simon and former face of the platinum selling New Bohemians; he--the son of Paul Simon, and thus, her stepson. More »
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MP3s: Feral Children Bite Back; The Lodger Goes Warm And Fuzzy

Posted Wed Jul 2, 2008 5:37pm PDT
Sloppy-energetic like Seattle’s Love Battery, melodic, ferocious and experimental like English master shoegazers Swervedriver, Feral Children find a missing niche and fill it. More »
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