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Joint of The Moment: “Love Heart Cheat Code” by Hiatus Kaiyote

Melbourne-based, worldwide-beloved, genre-fluid Hiatus Kaiyote returns in 2024 with their new album Love Heart Cheat Code. Naomi "Nai Palm" Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keyboards), and Perrin Moss (drums) debuted in 2012 with LP Tawk Tomahawk, making fans of Erykah Badu, Questlove, and Prince, and embraced by tastemakers like Gilles Peterson and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Their first R&B Grammy nomination, for "Nakamarra," was followed by another for "Breathing Underwater," from their second LP, 2015's Choose Your Weapon and a third for their 2021 album Mood Valiant for Best Progressive R&B Album. They've been sampled on songs by…

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The Vibe of The Moment Has To Be “Velour” by Ian Ewing

lan grew up a self-taught instrumentalist who has always been hungry to create musical ideas of his own. From a young age, he fell in love with hip hop and the history behind it. This was his gateway into electronic music production where he finds himself today, as he strives to create ambient compositions of sample-based sounds blended with his own instrumentation. While he claims to be "the official soundtrack of hummus everywhere", this has yet to be confirmed.

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Common and Pete Rock Debut Their New Song “Dreamin'”

[From Common via YouTube] Five bucks says longtime rap fans got chills when they first heard Common and Pete Rock were working on a project. Chicago’s most poetic OG connecting with the revered Mt. Vernon hero behind “They Reminisce Over You”? C’mon, that’s an event. And maybe those chills became a bit more pronounced when the same fans heard “Wise Up,” the first volley from the forthcoming ‘The Auditorium Vol. 1.’. Boom bap echoes with a 2024 sheen, the track, and its very cool video, arrive with an old school gravitas driven by a modern sense of kinetics. “We don’t…

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