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J. Cole is one of my favorite hip hop artists these days, but it's Amber Coffman's vocals and the sampling of Cults ' "Bad Things" that makes this track so good.  J. Cole's latest, Born Sinner , is due out June 18th.  You can stream the new album now over at BornSinner . web // facebook // twitter // soundcloud // shows // iTunes

There's an instantaneous allure to Brooklyn troupe  Celestial Shore and that's probably for a plethora of reasons, but most detectably there's an immediate familiarity to their first composition I've really  got in the appositely twinkly, and so too delectable form of Stairs Under Stars. For starters, it sounds strikingly redolent of fellow Williamsburgers Dirty Projectors at their insouciant best and features Lorely Rodriguez (aka Empress Of ) interpreting the role of Amber Coffman. Other than that, it recalls the eccentric whimsies of The Apples in Stereo and Deerhoof (whose very own Greg Saunier mixed the Brooklynites' début [...]

• Celestial Shore - Stairs Under Stars

For a composer with such an apparent taurine partiality, Sonsick from 23-year-old Brooklynite Ellis Ludwig-Leone is less a bull in a china shop and more an invigorating bolt from the blues of disenfranchised youth. Having previously combined with Nico Muhly to provide arrangements for the likes of The National, Sufjan et al., there is thus a perhaps inevitable dexterity at play within this first glimpse into the chamber-pop proclivities of  San Fermin , with tone and focus flitting almost whimsically between impassioned intimacy and the hulking fanfare of brassy bombast. "I'll fall for you soon enough" vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly [...]

• San Fermin - Sonsick

J. Cole previously indicated his new album Born Sinner (out June 18) wouldn't feature any other rappers. Today, though, he posted the tracklist in screencap form , and it turns out he actually made room for one (or two, depending on how you're counting). His buddy Kendrick Lamar  joins the festivities on "Forbidden Fruit," which may serve as a preview of their hopefully in-the-works joint album. The other big name is  50 Cent , who is on a track with  Bas  called "New York Times" (which we're guessing isn't about The Gray Lady), but [...]

(photo:  Karl Scullin ) Ooooooweeeeeee. It's time for some new Pikelet everybody. 'Pressure Cooker' is a groovin' jam replete with the characteristically scattered vocals of lead, Evelyn Morris. What this Melbourne based four piece does well, is provide 'alt-pop' that goes completely against the grain. As a band that's a staple on community radio, Pikelet who makes you think about the construction of music than what's presented through perceived national tastemakers. Tagged as 'psych pop' on their Soundcloud, it seems 'Pressure Cooker' does exactly that. From the get [...]

After experimenting with three formats for the Monthly Mix - MP3 zip, Spotify playlist, Soundcloud set, etc. - in March we finally came upon a solution that pleased everyone: all of them. And so, for you, here is the month's music, whittled down to its very best, via each of the aforementioned mediums, limited only by its availability on said mediums. This means a 13-track zip, a 12-track Spotify playlist, and a whopping 54-track Soundcloud stream. And somehow, falling through all the cracks and not represented on any is one of the month's finest: The National's straight-to-Youtube " [...]

• Stereogum - Stereogum Monthly Mix: April 2013

Escucha la nueva canción de Snoop Lion junto a Amber Coffman y T.I., "No Regrets" Snoop Lion lanzó recientemente Reincarnated , su primer álbum bajo ese sobrenombre, dando a entender que, ha llegado para quedarse. " No Regrets " es uno de los bonus tracks del LP, y cuenta con la colaboración de T.I. y Amber Coffman de Dirty Projectors . El corte fue producido por Major Lazer y Ariel Rechstaid . Escúchalo a continuación. [...]

Snoop Lion recently released  Reincarnated , the first album under his new animal moniker, solidifying that, yes indeed, the name is  here to stay . "No Regrets" is one of the LP's bonus cuts and features T.I. and The Dirty Projectors ' own Amber Coffman . Produced by Major Lazer and Ariel Rechstaid, the jam's got a slow and simmering bounce. Listen to it below.

There are many questionable things about Snoop's fake patois-drenched reboot as roots-reggae uplifter Snoop Lion - and perhaps, per the NYT , tapping fellow Caribbean appropriators Major Lazer to produce is chief amongst them. But since Snoop's already set down this path for a full album ( Reincarnation ), this bonus track here is at least a partial step toward the redemption of his decision making process, because in addition to Major Lazer it features the production talents of Ariel Rechtshaid (he of the new Vampire Weekend record, and of Sky Ferreira's greatest hit [...]

• Snoop Lion - No Regrets ft. TI & Amber Coffman (Bonus Track)

Phoenix has become more or less a byword for Entertainment this week as the chic Versailles pop troupe first released long awaited fifth full-length  Bankrupt! before storming Shepherd's Bush that same evening, and here to perpetuate the applause that bit longer is a rework of  that single which comes courtesy of  Dirty Projectors . David Longstreth, most likely. A jittery springtime skip with Thomas Mars' vocal condensed a touch and plastered atop rudimentary drum machine clacking, restive glitch and whatnot, seems as though there's a pretty formidable, and dare I say it [...]

• Entertainment - Dirty Projectors Remix

It was almost about to become something like a never ending story but here it finally is - Free The Universe, the sophomore album by MAJOR LAZER or as you might like to call it also: "The personal playground of Thomas Wesley Pentz." And since he's better known under his alias DIPLO it is pretty The post Major Lazer - Free The Universe appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

Luego de su presentación en Buenos Aires , Diplo  se subió, junto a  Jillionaire, al escenario de Late Night With Jimmy Fallon con Amber Coffman de Dirty Projectors, the Roots y  Dave Longstreth  para interpretar Get Free . Mirá este explosivo show, acá. Major Lazer estuvo en la Argentina el pasado 5 de abril en el Planetario. Asímismo, el productor del sello  Mad Decent  realizó un DJ set el mismo día a la medianoche en  MSTRPLN. [...]

So Major Lazer this week release Free the Universe for widespread consumption, and today thus becomes a monumental day; a special event, and one which would surely be honoured with a polychromic carnival of Notting Hill depravity were it only that bit more engrossing, even from the off. For it has been postponed, put off and pushed from pillar to post (read: label to label) since it was first slated for liberation earlier on in the year. Of course it somewhat inevitably marks a change in the trajectory first traced by Diplo in the [...]

You know when you hit saturation point with that one song? You've heard it so many fucking times over – you know its every lyric and every intricate inflexion thereof; you can reproduce its slick lick round the back of your brain; know, and so too fear the exact second it'll end. That is, or rather was where I was at with Get Free – I foolishly believed I could immaculately reproduce Amber Coffman's elastane vocal; redo her squiggly guitar part, and as such I needed something; anything to rejuvenate the adoration. And one might set about questioning how it [...]

• Dots & Dashes - Major Lazer – Get Free (feat. Amber Coffman, David Longstreth & The Roots)

Major Lazer, The Roots y Dirty Projectors en Jimmy Fallon Ayer por la noche, Diplo llevó su proyecto Major Lazer al programa Late Night with Jimmy Fallo n, donde interpretó " Get Free " junto a The Roots y Amber Coffman y Dave Longstreth de Dirty Projectors . Checa la repetición a continuación. El segundo disco de Major Lazer , Free the Universe , saldrá a la venta la próxima semana vía Secretly [...]

"Get Free" was one of my favorite songs last year and it continues to live on in almost every playlist I make. I was a little bit nervous about how the song would go over live but I was not disappointed. The performance was actually pretty impressive. Amber's vocals sound very close to the studio version and it was cool to hear The Roots instrumentals oh AND then there's Diplo, HI DIPLO! If you somehow have missed the track, you poor thing, check it out here. *Dave Longstreth of the Dirty [...]

Major Lazer got a bit of a facelift last night when they performed on Fallon. While their crazy live show with butt-shaking, crowd-surfing antics is great, this was a serious "best foot forward" move. Diplo and the rest of Major Lazer recruited Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors to sing on "Get Free" with The Roots [...]

If you caught any of Major Lazer's frantic, fun-as-hell festival-rocking live shows over the last few years, you likely saw girls twerking on speaker-risers, Skerritt Bwoy performing death-defying feats of daggering, and Diplo perched behind his DJ table, looking vaguely bemused at the whole spectacle. But the Major Lazer that appeared last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was a very different beast. Diplo, all suited up, played keyboard on the slow, sultry reggae song " Get Free " while Dirty Projectors singer Amber Coffman cooed on the mic, her bandmate Dave Longstreth held down guitar duties, [...]

It's not every night that DJs go out of their way to perform live on television, but then again,  Major Lazer isn't any ordinary brand of DJ. Last night, Diplo brought his production project to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , where he performed "Get Free" alongside  The Roots and Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman and Dave Longstreth. Tune in below. Major Lazer's sophomore album Free the Universe is out next week via Secretly Canadian.

Watch Major Lazer on Jimmy Fallon with help from the Dirty Projectors. If you didn't catch Major Lazer on Jimmy Fallon last night. Now you can watch the clip featuring Dirty Projector members...