Blog: Cannibal Cheerleader

Here's a hot find for you listless lovers out there - Mayer Hawthorne , the personality formerly known as DJ Haircut, recent signee to our favorite hip-hop label Stones Throw Records , and owner of the most soulful, sonorous voice this side of the racial divide, a nerdtastic white kid from Michigan, is here to make all your worries drift away. With a killer, blue-eyed soul sound and a taste for retro-arrangements recalling an understated Curtis Mayfield single, Hawthorne, having just released his debut album A Strange Arrangement , seems poised to smolder in the stereos of [...]

• Mayer Hawthorne - "Make Her Mine" » 07 Make her mine.mp3
• Mayer Hawthorne - "Shiny and New" » 10 Shiny and new.mp3