Groove On FireOhmega Watts – “Labor of Love Vol. 5 @ 45 RPM’s”
The criminally underrated MC and producer Ohmega Watts brings us the 5th installment of his “Labor of Love” series with this 45-only mix chock full of soul, funk and R&B, but also with plenty of sweet surprises. Spread the love… [spotted at OkayPlayer]
Category: Listening Room
Tags: Funk, Mixtape, Ohmega Watts, R&B, Soul
Mayer Hawthorne – “Designer Drug”
Mayer Hawthorne just released a new track for your listening pleasure, this one a bit different then his usual retro-soul output as it leans more on the disco and electro-funk side of things. Nonetheless, it is up to his usual standards and maybe this is what we can expect from his next album. And, it’s [...]
Category: New Music
Tags: Disco, Funk, Mayer Hawthorne, Soul
Charles Bradley – “Strictly Reserved For You”
LISTEN: Charles Bradley – The World (Is Going Up In Flames) Last year we had Lee Fields great “Faithful Man” to feed our vintage soul music fix, and now we get news that Charles Bradley is gonna hook us up this year with the release of “Victim of Love” coming April 2nd on Dunham/Daptone Records. [...]
Category: New Music
Tags: Charles Bradley, Daptone Records, Dunham, Soul
Monday Music: Bill Withers – “Lovely Day”
LISTEN: Bill Withers – Lovely Day From “Menagerie” : 1977 : Columbia Records (Buy) Bill Withers – one of soul music’s greatest singer/songwriters – will always be best remembered for his early classics Lean On Me and Use Me, but he has a ridiculous amount of amazing tunes, many from albums later in his career. [...]
Category: Listening Room
Tags: Bill Withers, Soul
“D’Angelo Live”
LISTEN: D’Angelo – Devil’s Pie (Live) “D’Angelo Live” is an amazing mixtape put together by Sam Champ for Okayplayer. It came out over a year ago, but I just got turned on to it (props to Pipomixes) and thank goodness because any new(ish) D’Angelo is better than nothing and this project recreates a live experience [...]
Pillowfight – “Used To Think”
Used To Think is the second leaked track from the upcoming Dan The Automator and Emily Wells project Pillowfight (the first one Get Your Sh*t Together here). The self-titled album will be out January 22nd and judging by what we’ve heard so far, it would be shocking if the whole album isn’t gonna be excellent and [...]
Category: New Music
Tags: Dan The Automator, Emily Wells, Hip-Hop, Pillowfight, Soul
Justin Timberlake – “Suit & Tie (feat. Jay-Z)”
Yah, this song is everywhere right now, but in case you missed it (and because Justin Timberlake is a bad-ass and one of the few mainstream artists still repping 1970′s style soul and R&B music) check out the new Timbaland produced track Suit & Tie featuring Jay-Z at his site here. He also has posted [...]
Frank Ocean – “Wise Man”
LISTEN: Frank Ocean – Wise Man (From YouTube) A great new track from Frank Ocean that was to appear on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s new movie “Django Unchained” (trailer here) but didn’t make it on there. Wise Man features Ocean over some nice minimalistic instrumentation and is as good as anything that appears on [...]
Category: New Music
Tags: Django Unchained, Frank Ocean, R&B, Soul
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