Song of the Day - Cravin - DaniLeigh, G-Eazy

Here's a hot rap jam set to an infectious R&B groove by the multi-talented DaniLeigh, with G-Eazy.  Check out Cravin...

Song of the Day - This Is America - Childish Gambino

Warning: Explicit content contained in the video for today's Song of the Day.

Mesmerizing. Disturbing. Violent. Beautiful. Tragic. Chaotic. Powerful. Surreal. Genius. Artistic. Truth. Unsettling.

These are just a few of the words used to describe Childish Gambino's instant smash and very talked-about new track, This Is America.  All of these adjectives are absolutely spot on, and that's not even mentioning the cool dance moves!  Check out This Is America...  

New Music Fridays, March 9th, 2018

Better late than never!  Due to reasons beyond my control I haven't been able to review this week's crop of new music until just this morning.  Nevertheless, there's some great stuff to be heard from this week's new music releases, so check it out...

Wassup - Logic, Big Sean

I don't usually highlight hip hop/rap tunes on this feature, but I'm making a rare exception with this one.  Maybe it's because I like Big Sean, but really it's because it's kind of like old school rap, with a killer hook undercutting the raps throughout the jam.  Check out the groove on Wassup...

My Life - ZHU, Tame Impala

I've loved the chill vibes of Zhu ever since 2015's Hold Up Wait a Minute, with Bone Thugs and Harmony, and this week the EDM artist returns with a chill vibe that to me hearkens the sounds of the spring that's coming.  Check out My Life...

Baby I'm a Queen - Sofi Tukker

If you follow this blog regularly, then you know that Sofi Tukker is one of my most watched acts in the past year or so.  Well they've finally announced the release of a complete album due out next month called Treehouse.  Along with the announcement comes a new single, and it's as cool and funky as anything they've ever done.  Check out Baby I'm a Queen on Conan...

Talk - Liv Dawson

British singer/songwriter Liv Dawson returns to the music scene with a ear-pleasing pop tune that got island sounds and a nice, catchy chorus.  Check out Talk...

MyBoi - Billie Eilish, TroyBoi

London-based remixer TroyBoi takes a sweet Billie Eilish tune and turns it into a trip-hop masterpiece!  Check out this hypnotic mix of MyBoi...

So there you have it...five hot new tunes for your listening pleasure.  Stay tuned for net week's edition of New Music Fridays and in the meantime check out this week's honorable mentions...

Fly - Marshmello, Leah Culver

Minimum Wage - REMMI

Give Me Something - Callum Scott

Magic - Sia

Wide Awake - Parquet Courts

Colors - Jason Derulo

Song of the Day - Dumb For You - Hoodie Allen

I've got this playlist on my iPod.  It's called Current Faves.  I know I organize my music in a way that probably no one else does, but anyway my main playlist I call Current.  It's where I put my most, you got it, current music discoveries.  Every once in awhile, though, I need to clean out that folder, and so for those one or two hit wonders that I don't want to get lost somewhere, I pop em into the Current Faves.  That way I get to hear them every once in awhile, because, well, they're always worth more listens.  So I'll be posting songs from this playlist all week long, so stay tuned.  In the meantime, off to today's jam... 

Hoodie Allen's Dumb For You is one of those such songs.  It came out three years ago and I loved it from the first time I heard it.  It's kind of a white boy, smooth kinda bop your head and sing along rap song.  It's really catchy and if you haven't heard it before, check it out...

Flashback Friday Song of the Day - Let Me Blow Ya Mind - Eve, feat. Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani played Jones Beach in Wantagh last night and if I had only paid a little attention to the concert schedule I certainly would've gone.  Many of my FB friends went, as pictures and vids dotted my wall all last night and this morning.  Here's a video from 2001 with Gwen and female rap empressaria Eve on the now classic Let Me Blow Ya Mind...

A Black History Month Song of the Day - Goin' Back to Cali - LL Cool J

I'm going back to Cali, rising, surprising

Advising realizing, she's sizing me up

Her bikini - small; heels - tall

She said, she liked, the ocean

She showed me a beach, gave me a peach

and pulled out the suntan lotion

Now I thought that was fast, but this girl was faster

She's lookin for a real good time

I said, "Close your eyes, I got a surprise, "

and I ran away with the bottle of wine

A very monumental era in black music history was the dawn of the rap age in the early to mid-1980's. It all began with the early and primitive sounds of the Sugar Hill Gang and went big time mainstream a couple of years later with the trio from Hollis, Queens known as Run DMC.  Before the genre morphed into hip-hop (some have returned to calling it rap these days), another fellow from Queens by the name of LL Cool J carried DMC's torch into the late 80's and beyond.  LL had a string of hits in those days and perhaps none cooler than this one, a slow, steady jam about, well, California life. So if you were ever a fan of the genre, click play below and relive the smooth stylings of LL Cool J and Goin' Back to Cali...