
Keeping with the vintage toons, here's another mostly soul mix for your listening pleasure. FYI - that's Inez Foxx on the cover. January 2012 Mix 01 Dionne Warwick - You're Gonna Need Me (1973) 02 Mable John - No Love (1960) 03 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Didn't You Know (You'd Have to Cry Sometime) (1969) 04 Barbara & The Browns - It Hurts Me So Much (To Be Able To Look And To [...]

Here's a little something from a singer-songwriter named Austin Basham and his new ep Little Foxes . Oh!

Meet Justin Jones, an acoustic singer/song-writer coming out of Charlottesville, VA. I just discovered him via a random promo email, and decided to check out what kind of music he was putting out there. Risky move on my part, as a solid 63% of shit that gets sent to my inbox is horrifyingly terrible. There are your gems in there for sure, but you have to scour a bit. Anyways, as I hit this acoustic songwriter's website, creatively titled justin-jones.com , his track "Little Fox" started playing immediately, and it struck a chord with me. Long story short, I [...]

Move over Dischord , there's a new label in town. Owners of the legendary 930 Club have started a new record label, 930 Records . Armed with a mantra, “If It Ain’t Broke, Break It!,” Seth Hurwitz , chairman of I.M.P. and co-owner of the 9:30 Club, said he decided to start the label after hearing local talent, Justin Jones . “You can imagine I’ve been exposed to more music than most, but once in a very blue moon, a new artist stops me dead in my tracks,” said Hurwitz. “When I first heard [...]

i don't understand thai, but sometimes beauty transcends language, as i'm reminded when i listen to little fox 's "old". the song is taken off his self-titled album, a fine collection of thai and english folk songs unashamedly romantic and idyllic. recorded in the presence of a few friends so "there is a place to send energy to" as little fox shares with me, the mood is intimate and the delivery delicate. in songs like "old", the patient pace allows me the chance to reminisce and dream - something i'm given the freedom to indulge in and not feel [...]
this was an article i wrote last year on the blossoming underground scene in bangkok, based on the exciting developments of label collective so on::dry flower . fittingly, the next few posts will feature the musicians mentioned in this piece, which i hope will serve as a useful primer to the curious but uninitiated. so on::dry flower - found sound in the bangkok underground by daniel tham It was about two years ago when I first stepped into the bustling street [...]