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  • [new song] The Weeknd — Often

    [new song] The Weeknd — Often

    [soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/theweekndxo/the-weeknd-often”]

    the Weeknd, Avel Tesfaye is no more new comer, he already released 3 mixtapes then 3 albums in 1 box and 1 more album. And his fame is getteing higher and higher without boost and fallen. He stick to his style in this song revealed through some net media with soundcloud, He shows he still with his fans.

    Drunk, hipnotize, or love? Do they have any differences?

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    artist: The Weeknd
    title: Trilogy
    soundcloud description:
    http://theweeknd.com
    from SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/theweekndxo/the-weeknd-often
  • Jessica Stam in W Magazine March 2005

    Jessica Stam in W Magazine March 2005

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    She looks STUUNING.
    No more words.

    [amazonjs asin=”1419704478″ locale=”US” title=”W: The First 40 Years”]

  • [video] The Internet – Shadow Dance

    [video] The Internet – Shadow Dance

    This video is from the band, Internet’s 2013 work “Feel Good”.
    This album was one of the best albums in 2013 without a doubt. And this video features some scenes from relationship between lead vocal member Syd and her girlfriend through intentional black & white expression. Impressive.

    It’s still not so many expression like this around the world, and it’s beautiful, nice & brave in same time. Hope the world can change that I don’t need to write like ↑this.

    [amazonjs asin=”B00F5I493Q” locale=”US” title=”Feel Good Explicit”]

    artist: The Internet
    title: Feel Good
    The Internet – “Shadow Dance” Director: Rob Alexander Editor: Erick Sasso/Robert Alexander Associate producers: Trisha Cummings & Dorota Wasielewska Cinematography : Robert Alexander Make-up: Jessica Plummer www.internet-band.com www.oddfuture.com
  • [audio] Shabazz Palaces – #CAKE

    [audio] Shabazz Palaces – #CAKE

    [soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/subpop/shabazz-palaces-cake”]

    Shabazz Palaces well known to longtime music lovers, because he once get the grammy as a member of the Digable Planets in 90s. But now, he releases his works under the name Shabazz Palaces. His music is so interesting cuz he doesn’t care about pop hit anymore, It seems he just want to mixture recent bass & beats music into his own feelings with rap/poetry.

    It’s a bit dark but energetic and cool.
    We can’t get something like this from anyone else.
    Just cool.

    [amazonjs asin=”B005765R5U” locale=”US” title=”Black Up Explicit”]

    soundcloud description:
    From Shabazz Palaces’ forthcoming full-length ‘Lese Majesty’, out July 29th on Sub Pop Records. Pre-order: https://www.subpop.com/artists/shabazz_palaces https://www.facebook.com/shabazzpalaces https://twitter.com/shabazzpalaces twitter.com/subpop www.facebook.com/subpoprecords instagram.com/subpop# subpop.tumblr.com
    from SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/subpop/shabazz-palaces-cake
  • [video] Blood Orange – You’re Not Good Enough

    [video] Blood Orange – You’re Not Good Enough

    I never aware of UO music. It’s a music label/service/sub-brand by big apparel retailer Urban Outfitters and they features good and unique artist named Dev Hynes goes by the name of Blood Orange. Like in this video, he approaches through 80s influenced style of soul music and it made with partly thin taste on purpose.

    As everybody knows, almost all of recent pop music from African American people became more “white,” but Blood Orange get into that kind of music because of his love, and it made his music so cool. In this point, the visuals of this video emphasize the concept of his music.

    Also you can find a lady Gia Coppola, the grand daughter of the Coppola directed this video and show her appreciation with Blood Orange. It’s pretty…interesting, anyway.

    [amazonjs asin=”B00FA1DEXY” locale=”US” title=”Cupid Deluxe”]

    artist: Blood Orange
    title: Cupid Deluxe
    For the 18th video in the UO Music Video Series, Gia Coppola jumps into the control room to direct this dance video for Blood Orange, partly inspired by daytime television performances. This music video follows the release of Palo Alto, Gia’s motion picture directorial debut, which features a dreamy soundtrack by frontman Dev Hynes. For a closer look at the making of “You’re Not Good Enough”, follow Dev, Gia, and the rest of the crew behind the scenes here: blog.urbanoutfitters.com/bloodorange Don’t forget to subscribe to the Urban Outfitters YouTube channel, and check out all 18 past videos from The UO Music Video Series here: http://bit.ly/OaOFLl
  • [audio] Full Crate – Birthday Boy Mix

    [audio] Full Crate – Birthday Boy Mix

    [soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/rocktheboatamsterdam/birthday-boy-mix”]

    Full Crate is famous for the Unit with smooth voice singer Mar, the producer from Amsterdam, Netherland. He collaborated with singers like Jesse Boykins III, Eric Roberson and of course his solo works are fabulous too. Melancholic chodes and vibrant beats is his thing, and his dj is also attractive for that point. This one is so good to weekend afternoon…

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    soundcloud description:
    The Birthday Boy Full Crate decided to make a Birthday Boy mix for all of you with his current fav tunes!!! ENJOY!
    from SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/rocktheboatamsterdam/birthday-boy-mix
  • [video] José James – EveryLittleThing

    [video] José James – EveryLittleThing

    José James is known for his “jazzy” style of new UK soul, but in this song he presents his new taste to us. It’s harder than ordinary pop R&B ish. Originaly he was introduced by Giles Peterson through Brownswood labal, then José got a deal with good old Blue Note label. This opportunity changed a part of his musical style, so this album includes more rock oriented songs, but if you like a singer like Aloe Blacc, you should try José too.

    José James’s new album “While You Were Sleeping” is now on sale.

    [amazonjs asin=”B00IZDWWBO” locale=”US” title=”While You Were Sleeping”]

    YouTube description:
    José James’ new album “While You Were Sleeping” is available now on Amazon (smarturl.it/jj-wyws-amazon) or iTunes (smarturl.it/jj-wyws-itunes) Music video by José James performing EveryLittleThing. (C) 2014 Blue Note Records
  • [video] Ab-Soul ”Closure”

    [video] Ab-Soul ”Closure”

    I love almost all of Top Dawg Entertainment’s roster but recent Ab-soul song were not for me. But this one is. This steamy video shows his another side and I like it.

    Ab-Soul’s new album “These Days…” will drop on later next Tuesday, 24th June.

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    YouTube description:
    Ab-Soul “Closure” – Official Video Directed by JeromeD. @JDDCdotTV Pre-Order #THESEDAYS… https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/these-days…/id889248321 twitter.com/abdashsoul www.txdxe.com/thesedays #TDE
  • [video] beautiful trailer of BANKS, the “Goddess” singer

    [video] beautiful trailer of BANKS, the “Goddess” singer

    This trailer of Banks shows us how beautiful the “GODDESS” singer is though her music seems a bit weak. So I put these sounds by Banks here.

    [soundcloud url=”https://soundcloud.com/banksbanksbanks/banks-drowning”]
    [soundcloud url=”https://soundcloud.com/banksbanksbanks/banks-goddess-1″]
    [soundcloud url=”https://soundcloud.com/banksbanksbanks/banks-brain-prod-by-shlohmo”]

    And in case if you just want to enjoy her beauty not the music, her instagram is here. This is only SNS she write directly, other SNS like twitter is run by her management.

  • [video] Black Coffee, DJ Spoko & More SummerStage NYC

    [video] Black Coffee, DJ Spoko & More SummerStage NYC

    What a wonderful party! And summer in NYC is filled with great free parties like this in almost every weekends.There is no doubt that african-american people can dance so lively, but everyone in there enjoys it and all of them dances like explosion of their emotions by the music. Good music like the Black Coffee can make the crowd move, literally.

    Black Coffee in iTS

    YouTube description: Okayafrica Presents: Black Coffee, DJ Spoko + Electrafrique at SummerStage in Central Park on June 15, 2014. Full story: http://bit.ly/OKATVSummerStage SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBE_okayplayerTV Videographers: Jake Remington, and Kevin Ornelas (Collabo! http://collabonyc.com/) Editor: Jake Remington Okayafrica http://www.okayafrica.com http://www.facebook.com/okayafrica http://www.twitter.com/okayafrica Okayplayer http://www.okayplayer.com http://www.facebook.com/okayplayer http://www.twitter.com/okayplayer