Cover It Up: But Take Care Rihanna and Drake. Not the usual Berri-suspects, but their track “I’ll Take Care Of You” from Drake’s 2011 album “Take Care” is, in this case, worth keeping in remand. Rihanna & Drake – I’ll Take Care Of You Download here (Right Click, Save As) Guilty of blasphemy? I will [...]
With the Olympics going on, I've been watching way more live TV than normal, which has given me plenty of opportunity to see which of the latest hip, indie tracks are being harvested for mass consumption via car, beer and cell phone commercials. So that brings us to another edition of my long-running Commercial Watch series, where I watch the ads so you can keep skipping them with your fancy DVR-machines. There's twenty commercials embedded below with MP3s / streams of the songs included. Make sure to click the continue reading link to see them all! [...]
A lot of people said 2011 was a terrible year. Myself included. And sure, in some ways it was, and in some ways it wasn't, and 2011 is as subject to perspective and the theory of relativity as any other year. But it seemed tough for a lot of people. Europe began sinking into critical debt, natural disasters seemed particularly rife with 2011 kicking off in Australia with devastating floods in Queensland... And of course as the people of multiple countries stood up to their dickhead dictators and said 'enough', they were (among other things) used as human shields. It [...]
Omgigosh, 2011 is almost done. This is the music that got me through. Here's our best album / ep picks!!! 25. Radiohead - King Of Limbs Radiohead surprised fans with a new album in February announcing it five days before it's release with out any press following it because they don't need to. Radiohead - Morning Mr Magpie 24.Lil B "Based God" - I'm Gay [...]
There's nothing quite like coming in from the cold and listening to some rich, textured music as you warm up. So, without further ado, here are five of our favorite songs that will hopefully warm you up and melt your ears. Grab a blanket and some headphones, turn the volumen up, and hit play! Drake Song: Fireworks (Deadboy Slo Mo House Edit) [ Download ] [...]
50 (All week we’re counting down the top songs of 2011. For previous entries on the list, click here . We hope you enjoy the music.) 20. Gil Scott-Heron & Jaime xx - We're New Here [...]
For the best albums in 2011, SF Critic will highlight each of our staff's picks, rather than an accumulative 25, 50, 1,000 best album list. About William Clarke: Will has written for SF Critic for just over a year now. We met at college. Will and I have always shared our tastes in music. Well, actually, I always asked Will what he was listening to, to which he replied "Some indie stuff you've probably never heard." At that time, as has become the [...]
In a recent Radio 1 special on future garage, DJ Rob da Bank referred to it as "future garage," "post-dubstep," "ambient garage," and "bass" in less than two hours. For this seemingly nameless London centred genre, 2011 has been a great year. Artists like Jamie xx have made huge headlines, with productions for the likes of Drake and Gil Scott-Heron, the Boiler Room has become one of the most successful broadcasts on the Internet, and labels such as Glasgow's Numbers continue to go from strength to strength. On the back of such [...]
50 (All week we’re counting down the top songs of 2011. For previous entries on the list, click here . We hope you enjoy the music.) 20. Shabazz Palaces feat. THEESatisfaction - "Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)" A lot of adjectives could be used to describe our #1 hip-hop album of the year , Shabazz Palaces' Black Up . "Accessible" is not one of them. [...]
In many ways, listening to electronic music takes a lot of patience. While there are always new EPs and releases coming out from some great producers that can keep you entertained for a while, discovering something innovative and fresh that you can't exactly categorize can often take quite a long time. It was starting to seem like forever since I heard something like this from the dubstep genre. It's not my intention to bad mouth any of these producers, but it was just starting to seem like every new track from Skrillex, Zeds Dead, Flux Pavilion, Datsik and whoever else [...]
I came across a track from this new 2011 LP on a MOG mix done by David Byrne, which was quite eclectic and enjoyable. It peaked my interest enough to pick up the full album, and upon further listening, I'm really glad I did. For those of you that don't already know (like me), Gil-Scott Heron was a soul/jazz/spoken word artist coming up in the 70s. He recorded an album last year titled I'm New Here. This album is a completed reworked/remixed version of that album done by Jamie Smith aka Jamie xx from the indie group XX, who I [...]
It's a slow night here, not too much going on besides trying to hold on till the weekend. It's so close I can almost taste it...but until then here's a quick playlist of tunes to hold you over until Mixtape Fridays tomorrow. Have a good night out there, peace. Purple Rain- J. Cole Graveyard Shift (Produced by 9th Wonder)- Metermaids NY Is Killing Me- Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx [...]
Last Friday, Taylor posted his top albums of the year so far . As usual, he left a bunch of good records off the list and I’m here once again to correct his oversights. I didn’t include anything on Taylor’s honorable mention and near-misses list so that I could highlight more albums that he apparently hates. Or just likes less than the ones on his list. Whatever, the point is he was wrong. It’s OK, we all make mistakes. If you still think there is something we missed, feel free to leave a comment. Anyway, here we go again: [...]
(Today, we continue our countdown of the top 20 albums of 2011 so far. For previous entries in the series, click here .) 15. Gil Scot-Heron & Jaime xx - We're New Here Jamie xx's reimagines last year's I'm New Here , an already perfect self-penned eulogy, to incorporate elements of electro and dubstep instead of free-form jazz and blues. While not exactly necessary, We're New Here highlights the similarities between artists at complete opposite sides of the generational spectrum, not to [...]
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - I’m New Here Mp3: Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX- I’m New Here
Do you ever have that moment in a club when you look around at your friends, and then look down at yourself, down at your arms, down at your legs and the space where you're dancing on the floor, and then look up and imagine looking down on yourself from above, and you realise that you are very, very much alive? Very much alive, and very much in love with being alive, in love with friendship, in love with music. Bloody great feeling that. This song made me feel [...]
Parrain du rap. Gil Scott Heron restera grand. Gil Scott Heron - I'll Take Care Of You Et le remix géant de Jamie xx : Gil Scott Heron - I'll Take Care Of You (Jamie xx)
Click image to download full album Song: Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised "Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" What's so good? This week marks the sad passing away of Gil Scott-Heron at age 62. From the Telegraph: "Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27 aged 62, was a composer, musician, poet and author whose writings and recordings provided a vivid, and often stinging, commentary on social injustice and the black American experience; [...]
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - NY Is Killing Me Coming out in New York .
So Osama bin Laden is dead. That much we've figured out. Here's the problem. We have pretty much shown the world we're not above everyone else when it came to our reaction. The fans in Philadelphia at the Mets/Phillies game started a "USA! USA!" chant. The website Philly Gameday had one of the best titles on the reaction by fans. Phillies fans cheer the death of elderly man Now, while I may not go into such a cynical look into the reaction, I did find [...]
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