Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle - Meet me Tonight Mix

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Continuing to send the love and to hope everyone along the East Coast is safe and sound.  We have a jam packed shuffle that ebbs and flows and cross borders and back and forth and builds and lifts and rises.... Higher....


I happened to catch Frank Ocean on SNL this past weekend (I had missed it the first time he was on), and I was stuck by the stunningly beautiful song Thinkin' Bout You from Channel Orange. The song of unrequited first love and loss and regret is so emotionally raw and honest. It's a good reminder of how far the hip-hop genre has come.

 

We can't stop listening to The Dead Exs raucous newish album Relovolution.  Another song from that album made an appearance in today's shuffle. White Collar Crime is more hard blues-rock goodness from the New York band.

 

Here are The Dead Exs from their Texas run of shows

Ain't had a enough blues? We continue the raw two-man blues band sound with Husky Burnette from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Coming from the musical lineage of Johhny Burnette and Dorsey Burnette and with experience playing with the likes of Roger Alan Wade and Hank Williams III, Husky Burnette as set out on his own and recruited drummer Tony Jones to join him.  Today we have Mile Marker 68 which comes from Burnette's 2011 album Face Down in the Dirt.  Check it out.

 

Coming full circle, we close out today's shuffle with some more contemporary West Coast hip-hop with a new non-album track from rapper Kendrick Lamar called The Heart Pt. 3 which features Jay-Rock and Ab-Soul.  Lamar's new album good kid, m.A.A.d. city dropped last week.

 

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Thursday "Morning" Music Shuffle - Skinny Jeans Mix

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It's the late night edition of the Morning Music Shuffle.  The shuffle was from this morning, the post drops now!


First up, we have Sugar and the Hi Lows from their self-titled album that came out back in February with See It For Yourself. Sugar and the Hi Lows are Trent Dabbs and Amy Stroup who are Nashville residents and part of the Ten out of Tenn collective.  They play a rootsy mix of vintage soulful music.  

Next up we have experimental hip-hop artists from Toronto, Valued Customer with their song, Frank Ocean from the Album Voice/Drum which came out (no pun intended) back in June.

Next we have another New Jersey band which came to us via Popatunes.  It's Conor and the Stonehill Kids with the title track from their 2011 EP called Don't Move.

Here is a video for a different song by the band...

And finally, we have a song from one of current Featured Artists who are in the running for Band of the Month (polls now open - here).  On this shuffle we have True Mad North taking it into a rocking country direction with Glass of Gasoline of their self-titled album that came out late last year.

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