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“The days of dancing in one place are gone…”

The Time - The Walk

A CLASSIC JAM from my childhood.  Be Your Man by Jesse Johnson.

Rest In Peace Robin Gibb.

“When he was 21, the musician John Forté earned a Grammy nomination for his work with hip hop group The Fugees. Now 37, he’s the subject of a new documentary, called ‘The Russian Winter’. It chronicles a recent 9-week, 5-city tour he and his band took across Russia…” Hear the audio story (via PRI’s The World) View the Russian Winter documentary film trailer

“When he was 21, the musician John Forté earned a Grammy nomination for his work with hip hop group The Fugees. Now 37, he’s the subject of a new documentary, called ‘The Russian Winter’. It chronicles a recent 9-week, 5-city tour he and his band took across Russia…”

Hear the audio story (via PRI’s The World)

View the Russian Winter documentary film trailer

George Lewis Jr. (aka Twin Shadow) has announced the July 10 U.S. release (July 9 U.K. release) of his sophomore album entitled Confess.  It will follow his STELLAR 2010 debut album Forget. More including a FREE download of the track 5 Seconds from Confess at Twin Shadow’s website

George Lewis Jr. (aka Twin Shadow) has announced the July 10 U.S. release (July 9 U.K. release) of his sophomore album entitled Confess.  It will follow his STELLAR 2010 debut album Forget.

More including a FREE download of the track 5 Seconds from Confess at Twin Shadow’s website

Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington performs a SWINGIN’ rendition of Esperanza Spaulding’s Crayola with an ensemble of Berklee College of Music students.  Carrington is a graduate of Berklee.

Music video for Walking On A Dream by Empire of the Sun

Wild Nothing performing Confirmation from their album Gemini.  Great band!

NPR MUSIC EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio “The Robert Glasper Experiment is uniquely qualified to handle this blues continuum with care. All four members — Robert Glasper, keys; Casey Benjamin, sax and vocoder; Derrick Hodge, bass; Chris Dave, drums — come from deep, inducted-into-the-fraternity jazz backgrounds. But in this group, they all treat “jazz” more as verb than noun, which has allowed them to freely and frequently collaborate with rappers, singers and other unclassifiables of talent. Like The Roots as the house band of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the Experiment has become a model of versatility, open-mindedness and general good music appreciation; it, too, has become one of America’s premier black-music jam bands.  Hence the guest list here. Erykah Badu performs the jazz standard “Afro Blue.” Lalah Hathaway does a Sade song. Ledisi writes lyrics over a Glasper tune. Chrisette Michele and Musiq Soulchild hop on a slow jam. Lupe Fiasco raps. The artist formerly known as Mos Def raps. Bilal sings Bowie. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is covered. Meshell Ndegeocello. KING. Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra. Stokley Williams of Mint Condition. And so on.” – Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR

NPR MUSIC EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN

Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio

“The Robert Glasper Experiment is uniquely qualified to handle this blues continuum with care. All four members — Robert Glasper, keys; Casey Benjamin, sax and vocoder; Derrick Hodge, bass; Chris Dave, drums — come from deep, inducted-into-the-fraternity jazz backgrounds. But in this group, they all treat “jazz” more as verb than noun, which has allowed them to freely and frequently collaborate with rappers, singers and other unclassifiables of talent. Like The Roots as the house band of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the Experiment has become a model of versatility, open-mindedness and general good music appreciation; it, too, has become one of America’s premier black-music jam bands.  Hence the guest list here. Erykah Badu performs the jazz standard “Afro Blue.” Lalah Hathaway does a Sade song. Ledisi writes lyrics over a Glasper tune. Chrisette Michele and Musiq Soulchild hop on a slow jam. Lupe Fiasco raps. The artist formerly known as Mos Def raps. Bilal sings Bowie. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is covered. Meshell Ndegeocello. KING. Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra. Stokley Williams of Mint Condition. And so on.” – Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR

Rest In Peace Whitney.

FIRST WATCH: Kate Bush’s Shadow Play

In the video for her song, Lake Tahoe, Kate Bush uses shadow puppetry to tell a dreamlike story of a dog and its owner.

Read more at NPR.org

So Here We Are by Bloc Party

The Radio Dept. performing Heaven’s On Fire LIVE at WFUV.

The Christian Scott Quintet: Live In Concert (via NPR’s A Blog Supreme)

The Christian Scott Quintet: Live In Concert (via NPR’s A Blog Supreme)

NPR First Listen: Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow “Powdery fantasia. Contemplative. Winter matins. Playful. Opium reverie. Grounded. Ghost story. Sensual. Artistic recalibration. Unhurried. Drummer’s holiday. Quiet. Ode to the white keys. Imaginative. Exploration of the lower register. Floating. Mother-son duet. Solitary. Snowed-in erotica. Collaborative. Joni Mitchell answer record. Inimitable. Supernatural space odyssey. What we’d expect from Kate Bush…”

NPR First Listen: Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow

“Powdery fantasia. Contemplative. Winter matins. Playful. Opium reverie. Grounded. Ghost story. Sensual. Artistic recalibration. Unhurried. Drummer’s holiday. Quiet. Ode to the white keys. Imaginative. Exploration of the lower register. Floating. Mother-son duet. Solitary. Snowed-in erotica. Collaborative. Joni Mitchell answer record. Inimitable. Supernatural space odyssey. What we’d expect from Kate Bush…”