I Heart Moosiq: Jessie Ware + The xx.... !!!!!!!!!!!!! -
WHAT what WHAT what WHAT? Yea, that’s right! Jessie Ware and The xx!!! The xx have been touring with their “Night + Day” event in Europe. I’m JELLY OF EUROPE. SO, SO, JELLY. There’s been some awesome on stage collaborations as a result. In Berlin, Jessie Ware jumped on stage with The xx and…
1 of the 5 new albums I brought back from my trip to the easy coast. Seriously - this duo is making me get all types of soul funky in my living room. Check out Lady when you can.
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“Some of these music blogs could actually benefit from hiring people who REALLY understand the culture of R&B to write about R&B. Some of these music blogs could actually benefit from hiring people who REALLY understand the culture of hip hop to write about hip hop. Like you really should know about deep Brandy album cuts before you are giving a “grade” or a “score” to any R&B artist. And ivy league credentials don’t give you any insight on “grading” a rapper’s body of work…when you’ve had no access to the REAL culture. There are SO many gifted writers who truly understand. Who didn’t get hip to R&B & Hip-Hop via the crossover artist of their childhood. Just hire them please, so you can stop insulting peeps’ knowledge. So you can stop acting like it just popped off last year for R&B. Like it just got interesting and experimental. So you can stop praising every rapper who raps over a trap beat, but can’t form literate sentences and then you market it as some hip shit. And that wasn’t a rant. It was an observation and a request.” — Solange Knowles
(Source: gradientlair, via strugglingtobeheard)
“Vinyl records so often sound like home in large part because that’s the only place you’re likely to listen to them.” — NPR’s Stephen Thompson helps you build a vinyl collection (via nprmusic)
Sara Bareilles last night. There are no words.
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Tonight. First Avenue.
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