
Things are cooling off for the holidays and the music is getting interesting. The pickings seem slim upon first glance, perhaps, but prove to be quite bountiful when given the chance. For this we should be grateful. That's how we're supposed to feel this time of year, isn't it? This week gives us much reason to give thanks a few weeks early. The music never stops coming in from every neck of the woods, and what a blessing it is. -Winston Robbins Senior Staff Writer
Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads... Sneaky Sound System - Big (Oliver Remix) Swizz Beatz - Take A Picture (Urban Noize Remix) Meek Mill (ft. T.I., Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Birdman, Swizz Beatz & DJ Khaled) - I'm a Boss (Remix) Kyla La Grange - Lambs (Leopard of Honour remix) Luther Vandross – Sugar And Spice (Hey Champ Edit) Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl (Gemini Club Remix) Zun Zun Egui - Cowboy (Sun Araw Get Glazed mix) Star Slinger - Moet & Reese [...]

Chicago's Delmar & The Dedications premiered the first taste from their upcoming EP, Girls Club, earlier today on Consequence Of Sound . The track, Shut Up & Kiss Me, has a pretty cool early Elvis Costello vibe goin' on. The record should be unleashed early next year. You can listen to the track below. Delmar & The Dedications: Shut Up And Kiss Me

If you ever get the chance to talk to Chicago musician Zach Weinberg, you'll understand how passionate and dedicated he is to his craft. His focus is unrelenting, even in the face of a seemingly endless journey to perfect the sound he's got stuck in his head. Weinberg is the frontman for Delmar & the Dedications , a band that describes themselves as a girl-group without the girls . A description worth marveling at undoubtedly, but the band's last release, an EP titled Mansion Sessions , is actually a compelling synthesis of the hard-edge punk noise and [...]