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Band of Blogs: Saul Williams, King, New Noise & Mayer Hawthorne

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Saul Williams

Last month, the poet / rapper / awesome human quietly released a France-only album called Volcanic Sunlight. It’ll get a release here soon but you can hear a few songs from it on his website.

saulwilliams.com

Mayer Hawthorne covers EP

Impressions is a free EP of covers by ultra-hip soul white boy Mayer Hawthorne of songs by Chromeo, ELO, The Isley Brothers and Jon Brion.
Listen at Stones Throw

New Noise

Jon Hillcock’s New Noise show is a weekly podcast consistently filled with the best in new, alternative and independent music.

http://newnoise.tumblr.com

King

A girl trio from LA who are making proper old-fashioned soul music with a modern electronic twist. As music blogger Bitzl R says “it will stop you in your tracks”.

Listen at Bitzlr

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The Revolving Internet & other Sites of the Week

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The Revolving Internet

No doubt this site is being used as a prank in colleges worldwide.

therevolvinginternet.com

Google Music

Google has launched its cloud music service which allows up to 20,000 songs to be uploaded and streaming on Android devices. It is currently U.S. only.

music.google.com/about/

Bjork’s Biophilia

Bjork has relaunched her website in anticipation of her forthcoming Biophilia album which also serves as a multimedia project focusing on the exploration of music, nature and technology.

bjork.com

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Band of Blogs: Blood Orange, Uffie, SebastiAn & The Very Best

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Blood Orange

Lightspeed Champion’s Devonte Hynes goes into ’80s mode for his new project which was produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor. Check out the Prince-inspired cold dancefloor stylings of single Dinner.

Uffie covers Tom Tom Club

France’s electronic enfant terrible finally comes good with a cover of Tom Tom Club’s Wordy Rappinghood. With TTC playing Vicar Street on July 22nd, the revival has started.

SebastiAn – Love In Motion

Uffie’s Ed Banger label-mate SebastiAn (capital A essential) goes into dark electro territory and ropes in soulful white boy Mayer Hawthorne for the hypnotic hook.
bit.ly/loveinmotion

The Very Best – Super Mom

Originally released for Mother’s Day in North America last Sunday, The Very Best’s new mixtape works well all year round with African-led covers of Kanye, Cee-Lo, Kate Bush and LCD Soundsystem. A free download.
theverybestmusic.com

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