
Bing Ji Ling a.k.a. Quinn Luke, recently released the June Degrees in December EP , a collection of love grooves just waiting to throw a little extra something into your life. Bing Ji Ling will be playing later this week in NYC on March 22, at the 105 Club. audio: kathalina.mp3 june degrees in december.mp3 be here with you.mp3 [...]

"I saw Bing Ji Ling riding a bike near the Bedford stop in Brooklyn." – Jenn de la Vega, Fanatic Promotion "I saw him at the bus stop at 11th and A, and then the next day at Whole Foods." – Josh Bloom, Fanatic Promotion "I wasn't at either of those spots... I was on tour with Lynard Skynard ." – Bing Ji Ling. The Bing Ji Ling sightings mentioned above are not isolated incidents. This occurrence seems to be a daily thing with Quinn Luke who claims there are several folks impersonating [...]
Bing Ji Ling impersonators spotted around Manhattan - see the real deal onstage in NYC this week. New EP June Degrees In December out now. "I saw Bing Ji Ling riding a bike near the Bedford stop in Brooklyn." – Jenn de la Vega, Fanatic Promotion "I saw him at the bus stop at 11th and A, and then the next day at Whole Foods." – Josh Bloom, Fanatic Promotion "I wasn't at either of those spots... I was on tour with Lynard Skynard." – Bing Ji Ling. The Bing Ji Ling [...]

I'm feeling a bit duped. The PR guy for Bing Ji Ling (NYC-based Quinn Luke's outfit) sent me a note that got my juices flowing. "If Sly was a one-man family or if Beck and Prince took a double dip...," he wrote to promote BJL's latest, June Degrees . Being a huge fan of all three, I thought to myself that this was something that was going to funk me away. Well, I suppose the tracks I was sent to review had a marginal taste of "Strollin'" from Prince's Diamonds & Pearls to them, but [...]

I'm a little tardy again this week, but I won't blame the Drake this time (after all, he's not here to defend himself). -ed. Drake's Take: New Releases 03.04.08 It's another deep week for new releases, with the latest offering from Stephen Malkmus making most the headlines. I'm excited for the collaboration between Greg Dulli (Twilight Singers, Afghan Whigs) and Mark Lanegan (QOTSA, Screaming Trees,) see the light of day. For four years, Dulli and Lanegan have been working on the Gutter [...]
Wonderbread R&B on the Josh Rouse tip with hearty sex panther splashes. They call it yacht rock. They call him the shower. Bing Ji Ling - June Degrees In December Is that Sally Shapiro on the keys? June Degrees LP drops this week. Update from Mount Midoriyama - the BT retreat is going "swimmingly" although many of us [...]
While recent reports show CD sales dwindling - if not nose-diving - you would hardly know that from the spate of new releases this week, faithfully compiled by Largehearted Boy . Must owns include: Steve Malkmus & the Jicks, Born Ruffians, The Gutter Twins, and What Made Milwaukee Famous. Also worth considering: Jim White, These United States, Cadence Weapon, Howlin' Rain, White Hinterland, and a whole lot more! And what? Bauhaus has a new album? And it's white? ... You had better run quickly and pick these up - the apocalypse approaches! Hopefully, there's still time, though, [...]

It's another deep week for new releases, Playlist: New Releases 03.04.08 Album: Gutter Twins - Saturnalia On the face of it, Gutter Twins seems like an inevitable pairing of two like-minded frontmen strong ties to Seattle, but even after coming up with the project, it's taken Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan four years to complete this labor of love (and [...]
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal music downloads and full album streams from the week's CD releases . MP3 downloads and full album streams from CDs released this week: Baumer: Were It Not For You full album stream "In Your Stead" [mp3] [...]

Now here is some music to cheer you up on a rainy day. Check out the well-crafted and laid back tunes from New York singer Bing Ji Ling aka Quinn Luke. The songs are taken from his new LP "June Degrees in December" that represents a "continuation of Luke's pure soul pop," according to a press release. Bi Jing Li's music shows traces of Beck, Maxwell, John Legend and even a bit of Prince, and that should please many of you. Bi Jing Li "Be Here With You" [MP3] [...]

Looking back on when they were kids, many adults have a rather amiable image of the ice cream man. You know, the smiling dude who drove around in a white truck and played traditionally annoying tunes like "Pop Goes the Weasel" while making a profit from distributing cavities, even if they were tasty as hell. It may sound grim when looking back but the only thing of relevance at the time was that the ice cream was pretty damn good (especially on a summer day). So, imagine if your memories instead recalled a bearded man who substituted "Pop Goes the [...]
Every once in awhile EVP likes to reward their readership with a plethora of mp3s. We can't highlight every mp3 press release individually, but we want to get the free offerings out into the world so people will buy albums and make independent musicians a little happier. Aster "Attempting to Multiply" "Some Things Seldom Heard Of" Excpeter "Kill People" Chairs in the Arno "Winter Song" [...]

"Bing tickles the keys and channels early Prince , Mick Hucknall , and Earth, Wind & Fire , while bringing his funk squarely into the 21st century" - XLR8R "Some cats are born in the wrong decade. Others are late on purpose, to cast light on past riches and link them to the present. Bing Ji Ling, funky soul brother of the 21st century is that and more" - Planet Magazine "Bing is funkier than Fudgie the Whale with a blunt in his blowhole. If Sly [...]

just an advanced warning that i probably wont be around much, if at all, next week. i have enrolled in a ccna bootcamp and its mildly important that focus all my efforts on passing the certification at the end of the week. whist organizing my cds for the ongoing burn-a-thon for the eventul sell off, i came across a few poster children records that i havent listened to in a long while. the strange thing about the poster kids is that i found most of my poster kids love was filled by seeing them live rather than diggin [...]

I came home and was fortunate to give my evening/early morning an added dose of flair. I read this description about channeling Elvis Costello through Luther Vandross , and I didn't know what they meant. Well, when I threw this " Kathalina " tune on, I immediately felt the love groove, as if I had tapped into some new Soul/AM Seventies gems that hadn't long ago been burned into my head as a child. I'm talking about Bing Ji Ling , a.k.a. Quinn Luke, and his forthcoming [...]
Bing Ji Ling produces Tussle's latest, channels Elvis Costello through Luther Vandross on his own upcoming EP June Degrees In December, a between-the-sheets classic in the making. Bing tickles the keys and channels early Prince, Mick Hucknall, and Earth, Wind & Fire, while bringing his funk squarely into the 21st century" - XLR8R "Some cats are born in the wrong decade. Others are late on purpose, to cast light on past riches and link them to the present. Bing Ji Ling, funky soul brother of the 21st century is that and more" - Planet [...]

"Bing tickles the keys and channels early Prince , Mick Hucknall , and Earth, Wind & Fire , while bringing his funk squarely into the 21st century" - XLR8R "Some cats are born in the wrong decade. Others are late on purpose, to cast light on past riches and link them to the present. Bing Ji Ling, funky soul brother of the 21st century is that and more" - Planet Magazine "Bing is funkier than Fudgie the Whale with a blunt in his blowhole. If Sly [...]