Esteemed poet Emily Dickenson once stated that fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. The spotlight is a double edged sword, and those who are placed within are both rewarded by it's benefits and thwarted by it's scrutiny. Every year a handful of artists manage to tread faster than others, emerging from the underground and bursting forth into the light of recognition. It is these chosen few that we as audiophiles obsess over, marveling at their rise to fame and salivating over the good fortune. Yet as we scramble...
![Tamara Saul - Neon Nights [EP]](/thumbs/post/485x231/city-drive50.png)
After a making an appearance on rising Parisian producer and fellow labelmate Mister Bibal's Failure LP, Croatian songstress Tamara Saul made a brief albeit memorable impression on Bibal's talent packed album among such names as Black Spade, Wildchild and John Robinson to name a few. After lending her vocals to Bibal's recent project the sultry Ms. Saul has broke out on her own with the release of her solo EP, Neon Nights earlier this year. Written entirely by herself and serving as her formal debut and...
![Lili K. & theWHOevers - Hands of Time [Video]](/thumbs/post/320x152/Lili-k5.png)
No stranger to genre-bending collaborations, Chicago soul singer Lili K. returns with a new soul meets hip-hop collaborative effort this time enlisting the aid of hip-hop duo theWHOevers for their joint single "Hands of Time". Play Blending...
We'll attempt to talk about how great it is to have Ryan Hemsworth remix a Rhye song but it'll be hard not to string together a non-sensical series of positive words, simply because each artist is outstanding in their own right. RBMA said it best: "This song is too good for an edit..." but...
One week shy of Bilal's newest studio album, A Love Surreal, the veteran soul enigma premiered the entire LP on NPR as part of their "First Listen" series. Still eclectic, still soulful, A Love Surreal evokes the soul-tethered funk early Bilal fans will be familiar with -- his voice pinning...
The mysterious Budapest based producer Unravel feasts us with another sample based tune in "Am I a Love Addict?". Not much is known about the artist who generally lays R&B and hip-hop over ambient soundscapes, as his only trace (off of his Facebook) reads "bent lights and lost melodies". That...
![Daley and Miguel Take the London Forum [Recap]](/thumbs/post/320x152/you-just-dont-care62.png)
On the way into the London Forum in Kentish Town, my friend and I passed several tickets totes selling tickets to the Miguel show with opening performer, Daley, a soul-stirring newcomer who is lighting up the UK R&B scene. Unaware of the night I was in for, I looked over at her cynically and...
![How to Dress Well - & It Was U [Video]](/thumbs/post/320x152/how-to-dress-well.png)
If you haven't been listening to Colorado's tangy R&B experimentalist How To Dress Well, it's likely there are several people who've been telling you to get on with it already. For the most part, we'd like to be among those guiding voices, as Tom Krell remains one of the most interesting...
![Bilal - A Love Surreal [Stream]](/thumbs/post/320x152/feetsky18.png)
