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Tuesday Forecast: 07.29.14

thos — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:49:46 +0000

This week all hip hop eyes should probably land on the new Shabazz Palaces, Kev Brown, and Planet Asia. For those that don’t know Shabazz Palaces is in part comprised of Ishmael aka Butterfly from Digable Planets (now based in Seattle). Kev Brown has been doing his blue collar work ethic thing for awhile. And Planet Asia, while I still think his first ep is by far the best, is still dropping gems when teamed up with the right producer.

In the non hip hop world I think Land Observation’s The Grand Tour takes the cake. This is a travel record, guitar orchestrated beautiful instrumentals for zoning out or zoning in. Then there’s the zany-ness of Wastoid, psych-rock of Wildest Dream, and some crooning from Nicola Conte.

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Tuesday Forecast

thos — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:18:59 +0000

I am definitely hands down geeked about three albums: J-Zone, Janelle Monae, and King Krule. Dopeness cubed. The new Stepkids album should be promising some more good weird/pop/r&b/funk on the Stonesthrow label. Planet Asia also comes again with a new project, fingers crossed for this one since although being one of my favorite emcee’s his stuff varies from spectacular to ehh, the little I’ve heard is very hopeful though. Trombone Shorty who came up in the jazz/brass bands of Nola drops a bit of a guitar heavy release but manages to make it a lot better than that sounds. Throw in some German instrumental hip hop, mindless guilty pleasures, what you expect from DFA, some sappy goo, and it’s a wrap.

For J-Zone I highly suggest going straight to the source-