SOL
Sol’s signature sound maintains a marriage between the core values of hip-hop and the mainstream sensibility of pop(ular) music. Sol says that he grew up on a combination of 90’s rap music (Outkast and De La Soul), while his parent’s favorites Prince and Marvin Gaye played in the background.
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
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“Dear Friends”
OC NOTES
Another day, another downloadable bundle of songs from Seattle’s OC Notes (Otis Calvin, III). The 25-year-old producer/singer/rapper is Seattle’s combination Madlib and Mos Def. Such reductive comparisons don’t do him justice — but will get you within rock-throwing distance of his woozy style, which moves fluidly from hip-hop to radio theater to house music.
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
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“Live on Capitol Hill”
SONNY & THE SUNSETS
Sonny Smith began singing while a patient at Warm Springs Foundation Hospital in Texas, to amuse the other patients. Quasi-mystical with a tendency to write about new-agey subjects such as hypnotherapy, extrasensory perception, fortune tellers, palm readers and channelers Smith has been given his own genre by the press as ‘pop supernaturalism’.
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
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“Chasing The Moon”
LITTLE WINGS
Little Wings is a musical project started in 1998 by Kyle Field (born in San Luis Obispo, California), who has been joined by assorted musicians, many from K Records, who have released six Little Wings albums. Kyle has played with The Microphones, and also makes art.
Prior to being a solo act, Kyle was bassist and singer in the band Rodriguez.
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Saturday, July 16th, 2011
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“Mr. Natural”
SHABAZZ PALACES
Mysterious hip-hop group from Seattle, WA. After releasing several recordings themselves or small time labels, in 2010 they contracted to release an EP with Sub Pop and have collaborated in recordings and on stage with artists such as Mc Silk and THEESatisfaction. They deliver sincere and radical lyrics with sounds and beats from around the world. Containing echos of funk, minor-key jazz, London dubstep and mbira sounds they structure their songs outside the 16-bars/chorus/repeat form of much hip hop.
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
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“An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum”
“Belhaven Meridian”
HELLADOPE
Helladope is the creative partnership of town veteran MC Jerm of Seattle supergroup Alpha P, and MC/Producer Tay Sean from the South End of Seattle.
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Saturday, July 16th, 2011
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NAT BALDWIN
Double bassist/singer-songwriter Nat Baldwin’s forthcoming album People Changes is much like the stark Maine setting which it was created. His fourth full-length shows welcome markings of his experimental bent from years as the Dirty Projectors bassist and former disciple of free jazz legend Anthony Braxton, but the serene isolation of 17 million acres of New England forest land make this cabin-born set intimate and sincere.
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HANNI EL KHATIB
Hanni El Khatib professes to a love for well-crafted objects: classsic cars, cans pomade and stiletto switchblades. El Khatib is inspired and informed by the specificity of a guitar tone or the fuzziness of an amp sound. His background in DIY manifests as a desire to “keep mistakes in” and make things “as raw as possible.” Merging primitive rock sounds with punk aesthetics, El Khatib toes lines between all genres and ends up firmly in his own.
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Saturday, July 16th, 2011
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“Loved One”
“You Rascal You”
“Dead Wrong”