This nice little number has been hiding from the world since 2004 when Spacek and Raphael Saadiq hooked up to make an album together. The album was never finished though so this track never saw

Photo: Dom Brady KCRW's Mathieu Schrayer is opening up his vaults of unreleased mid-00s gems. A couple of days ago we had a previously unreleased Dilla production - and today there's a Raphael Saadiq track, produced by Steve Spacek , from a 2004 record that was apparently never finished. Guest spots from Common [...]
Thank you, Internet, for sharing this holy neo-soul gem from the vaults. According to the folks at Bama ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media /raphael-saadiq-steve-spacek/t hey-dont-know-you-f-common-led isi-unreleased/61717/
Back in 2004 Raphael Saadiq opened his studio doors to Steve Spacek to produce an album for one of his sub labels. The album was supposed to be called Pookie Blue Room and features 10 songs produced by both Steve Spacek and Morgan Zarate with Raphael singing on all of them and featuring guest appearances by Common, Q-Tip, Ledisi, Steve Spacek and Sir Bentley. Anyhow the album was never completed and therefore never released. This is definitely some unreleased music that should pressed up at some point. [ via ] You can stream "They Don't Know [...]

President Barack Obama built his entire campaign on the premise of hope and change. Along the way, he's realigned the musical tastes associated with the leader of the free world, as evidenced by his love of hip-hop and Al Green and invitations to acts like The Killers and Yim Yames to play the White House. Fun fact: President Bush only had a paltry 250 songs on his iPod . In an effort to further play up his musical savviness (which undoubtedly translates to more votes in the Williamsburg region), [...]

Win Tix - Lenny Kravitz w/ Raphael Saadiq @ Nokia Theatre – Los Angeles, CA – 2/16/12 Win Tix - Lenny Kravitz w/ Raphael Saadiq @ Nokia Theatre Lenny Kravitz is a musical institution to say the least. He has released 9 studio albums and won 4 Grammy's for such hits as "Fly Away", "Again", "Dig In" and "American Woman". Lenny Kravitz spent 2010 opening for U2 on the North American Leg of their 360 Tour. Lenny is currently touring in support of his latest release [...]

So when I started this documentary project on the Sound Station last summer in 2011 it was really to celebrate something that was pretty unique to my dear old town of Westfield, New Jersey. The hope is that this story turns into a comeback for a little cultural mecca that was just starting to gets it's legs back. Embraced by the local NJ music scene like The Court Tavern was this was just another unexpected blow. The record store was going through a resurgence finding their audience on facebook and throwing free shows they were able [...]
Ever since the release of his hit single, fans are impatiently waiting for more from up-and-coming R&B singer CJ Hilton . Over a brazen, bass-spiked Salaam Remi beat, the young Baltimore crooner brings us "Cold Summer", released late last December. As the weather drops a few degrees this winter, this icy ballad is bound to stick in your brain as you wrap your scarf a bit tighter. Click here to view the embedded video. But to think [...]
Ever since the release of his hit single, fans are impatiently waiting for more from up-and-coming R&B singer CJ Hilton. Over a brazen, bass-spiked Salaam Remi beat, the young Baltimore crooner brings us "Cold Summer", released late last December. As the weather drops a few degrees this winter, this icy ballad is bound to stick [...]

Dem One is too damn dope!! He's just too damn good @ what he does. This mixtape right here my nigga? Hands down the best mixtape of the year (year just started tho No?!.....GIVE A FUCK!) Kids take heed & G's be proud. This is for us. DEM ONE - LIFE AFTER HIP HOP, THE MIXTAPE | DOWNLOAD

Following on (belatedly) from Eclectic Eavesdroppings Favourite Albums of the year, here are my Favourite Songs of 2011 . Compressing the musical year into a mere twenty-five songs is a tough task for a music junkie like myself. Listing the songs in order of preference is near impossible. But either way, I've done my best to get a list together and even though it's incredibly subjective, it sums up a very good year in music. Stream it as a playlist on YouTube over HERE or download a copy of the whole mix over HERE . [...]

As blogosphere music geeks, we are all, myself included, prone to fits of indie snobbery. It's just the way it goes, but sometimes said snobbery ensures that we'll miss some pretty great records oftentimes based on an artist's name alone. In the same way a film snob might dismiss a movie as awesome as, say, Point Break (dating myself much?), one of us indie snobs may turn our nose at the mere thought of listening to a new record by Stevie Nicks [...]

<!-- --> Click here for download Sounds like: The Peach Kings, Alex Clare, The Weeknd, Tony! Toni! Toné! Song: Raphael Saadiq - Good Man [download here ] What's so good? This is not a new song, but I was saddened to see that Indie Shuffle had thus far missed out on any [...]
Here is my highly-subjective, personal list of favorite albums of 2011. Wild Flag – Wild Flag | CD Vinyl MP3 Download "Romance" (mp3) Rarely do supergroups like this one meet their expectations. But the members of Sleater-Kinney, Helium, and The...
Here's the list...not in a strict order. Hope you get a chance to listen to them. 30. Balto – The Railyard 01 The Railyard by BaltoDan 29. Hezekiah Jones – Borrowed Heart Hezekiah jones - Borrowed Heart by ThroughMic 28. Jhameel – The Human Condition The Human Condition by jhameel 27. Lemolo – Whale Song Lemolo - Whale Song [...]
R.E.M. – Collapse Into NowDownload "Discoverer" Radiohead – The King of Limbs REKS – Rhythmatic Eternal King SupremeDownload "Face Off" feat. Termanology Release the Sunbird – Come Back to UsDownload "Always Like the Son" Richmond Fontaine – The High Country...
#20: Blue Scholars - Cinemetropolis (Self-Released) Not many people have heard of the Blue Scholars, or their 2011 release Cinemetropolis, and I'm not sure why not. My theory is that they're so ingrained in Seattle that most people can't relate to their music. The other reason could be that they are just content being [...]

Music bloggers love lists and regrettably, I'm not different. So to give the year some closure, it's only right if I list off my favourite musical moments of the calendar year. I'll start off with my 15 Favourite Albums of 2011 and then in a couple days time I'll put up my 25 Favourite Songs of 2011 . Just to reiterate, this is merely my humble opinion; nothing more, nothing less. I've only got one set of ears and simply can't listen to all the excellent music to justify any hyperbolic claims. The over-saturation of the online musical scene makes [...]

2011 was a real chicken-and-egg kind of year in music. Was there really less amazing music or did everything sound a little duller because it was a difficult year for me personally? Was there less sonically interesting music in 2011 or was it because I cut way back on listening to music with headphones? Was there less originality or is it because we're so bombarded with music all the time that it just takes so much more to cut through the sheer volume? While it may have been for personal reasons, it did seem as though 2011 was [...]