Amel Larrieux: Ice Cream Everyday
Amel Larrieux Ice Cream Everyday (Blisslife Records) “Finding joy in my life everyday so I can be sane as a human, not just as an artist or as a mom of two teenage girls” is the metaphor behind Amel Larriuex’s More...
John Legend: Love In the Future
John Legend Love In the Future (G.O.O.D./Columbia) John Legend’s fourth solo studio LP, Love In the Future, sells us on all the good and right parts of finding a perfectly imperfect love. The great thing about More...
The Stuyvesants: Refined
The Stuyvesants Refined (SD Records) The Stuyvesants appeared on the music radar in the summer of 2010 with Brooklyn’s Finest, their take on instrumental hip-hop that included sampled soul tracks from years past. More...
AlunaGeorge: Body Music
AlunaGeorge Body Music (Universal Island Records) The British duo of Aluna Francis and George Reid creates future-soul with definite pop sensibilities. Fusing electronic music with R&B, soul and experimental takes, More...
Valerie June: Pushin’ Against a Stone
Valerie June Pushin’ Against a Stone (Concord Music Group) As a journalist when NPR music critic Ann Powers vouches for an artist, you tend to listen. Valerie June is a Memphis-based singer/songwriter that More...
India.Arie: SongVersation
India.Arie SongVersation (Motown) Six years later, India.Arie is back with Motown Records creating, encouraging and sharing the music her fans have loved since 2001’s Acoustic Soul. Though it’s been four More...
Little Boots: Nocturnes
Little Boots Nocturnes (On Repeat) Victoria Hesketh, professionally known as Little Boots, releases Nocturnes, a romp into the world of house and disco that is a delight to listen to. The first time I played the More...
Talib Kweli: Prisoner of Conscious
Talib Kweli Prisoner of Conscious (Javotti Media/EMI Records) In a recent interview with CNN, Talib Kweli, 37, says socially-conscious rap can be “pretentious and corny and condescending.” Having dropped his More...
The Great Gatsby Soundtrack: Various Artists
The Great Gatsby Soundtrack Various Artists (Water Tower Music/Interscope) The soundtrack to the film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 book classic, The Great Gatsby, is an amalgamation of decadence, style More...
Wax Poetic: On a Ride
Wax Poetic On a Ride (Nublu Records) Electronic trip hop outfit Wax Poetic returns with their latest, On a Ride, once again via famed Nublu Records. Started in 1997 by composer and musician Ilhan Ersahin, Wax More...
