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Tuesday Forecast

First things first, Cibo Matto! It’s been 15 years, and while Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda have been busy in the meantime, it makes this boy very happy to see them come back together.

Hip Hop: Galapagos4 is the little indie Chicago label the could, putting out consistent, quality, creative Hip Hop. They just put out another Qwazaar & Batsauce project. SelfJupiter (Freestyle Fellowship) also reappears with a new album as Burgundy Fats. Buck 65 drops another quirky, not-in-a-box Bike For Three! one.

Electronic, Atmospheric, Geeky, Synthesizer: Illum Sphere and Poemss are two groups I’m unfamiliar with but am a bit excited about. And I’m really excited about Tinariwen, a band that had to leave Mali and recorded this in the states, just go listen. For the synth fans and geeks, Solvent’s album is music from the documentary I Dream of Wires.

Singer/Songwriter, Quirky, Electro-pop, Indie, Jazz, Blues, Psychedelic: Nostalgia 77 and Zara Macfarlane are on some contemporary but throwback Jazz and Blues that I’m really digging. Same for Temples with their 60s, Psych sound. There’s also some more moody, creative, singer/songwriter type joints that aren’t usually my thing but hey, good music is good music.

There’s also a pretty great Punk compilation that focuses on across the pond, the first one did the same for stateside.

       

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Tuesday Forecast

Uh. A wide vast array of releases here. Don’t even know what to say. Just throw a dart at your monitor and then click wherever it dings and cracks. Jazz, Hip Hop, Electronic (?), Soul, Metal. Old, new.

       

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Tuesday Forecast

I’ll say first off, I haven’t heard anything off of the YokoKimThurston project but I don’t know how you can’t be intrigued by an album of the Sonic Youth kids and  Yoko Ono. Awesome? Horrible? Horribly awesome?
Also, I’m afraid to say the sequel of Food & Liquor is going to be a dicey bet. A pleasant surprise maybe? Let’s hope.
I’m feeling more confidence in hungry newcomer 7even Thirty. And Typical Cats from Chicago with their lyrical jazz crushing chunky hip hop beats, future forward old school. Bumpy Knuckles will also abuse you as badly audibly as he would in a dark alley if you did something wrong. Peeeeeeeace…

      

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