“Black Skinhead”

When I first the snippet of new Kanye song “New Slaves” I wasn’t too fussed. That changed when he performed that and other new track “Black Skinhead” over the weekend on SNL. The energy and the attitude that ‘Ye delivered made these songs and now I’m excited about the new album Yeezus, its going to be like nothing he has done before. 

“New Slaves”

Sam Smith owns one of the most disarming and beautiful voices in music right now. Whatever he does is going to be simply out of this world good. For now, we have this beautiful acoustic version of “Latch”, the Disclosure track that Smith featured on. It turns the house-garage groove on its head and makes it a straight up love song. 

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JoJo deserves all the success, she really does. She’s been slowly rebuilding herself and shredding the pre-teen star status with mixtapes and covers that showcase how talented this girl truly is. Only 22 still, here she is on the rap up session peforming “Andre” from her Agape mixtape and a Drake mash up featuring her brilliant cover of “Marvin’s Room”. 

We’ve had the weekend to listen to the new daft punk track and try and wade through all the hype. And yeah, it is good, its not mind blowingly amazing but its good. It’s going to make you want to boogie and thats enough for me. Here’s Pharrell performing it three times in a row, just because. 

If Este’s bass face wasn’t that much of a thing before, it should be after Haim’s performance on Jools Holland it. It is out in FORCE and it is FIERCE. Crazy faces aside, here’s Haim’s live performance of “Forever” on Later… with Jools Holland. 

Would have LOVED to be in the crowd for Major Lazer’s set at Coachella, it looked AMPED UP. 

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Major Lazer’s Free The Universe dropped today and it is amazing. I am BLOWN AWAY by the drum production on the opening track “You’re No Good” featuring Santigold, Vybz Kartel, Yasmin and Haim’s Danielle. Check out the spotify stream below. 

I am in love with this song. I am head over heels with a version that features The Roots.

Watch the full video at Baeblemusic.com

I am waiting and waiting for new material from this band but I never tire of “Wings”. Check out this live performance from last week’s SXSW. 

I’m in a bit of a Haim daze at the moment, their new one “Falling” is on repeat and YouTube does not have enough live videos to satiate me. Fortunately they do have tihs amazing live performance of “Go Slow” with all the Haim girls taking lead and making beautiful noise.

Just because it is freaking epic. One of the greatest live bands around.