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My parade of this year’s preferred tracks goes marching on. (Click here to see them all so far.) Cold Specks, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, was one of my favorites this year. It's soulful and gloomy an great for listening to straight through.
Pusha T stopped by the Blockley last Thursday night to perform for hip-hop week (Philadelphia’s Freeway, Talib Kweli and Stalley were there earlier in the week), marking the first time he's played Philly since joining his G.O.O.D. Music labelmates on stage at the Budweiser Made in America festival. He was also performing with A-Trak and A$AP Rocky in New York City on Thursday night, which is the reason he didn't arrive for this show until 12:30 a.m. Despite the delay, the Blockley exploded when the Clipse member appeared on stage.
While most fans appreciated “Exodus 23:1” and “I Still Wanna” (especially when fellow Re-Up Gang member Ab-Liva came on stage to perform his part), it was Cruel Summer tracks “Mercy,” “I Don’t Like” and “New God Flow” that got the crowd excited. He was only on stage for 45 minutes, but Pusha T gave an energetic performance and kept the bar’s crowd entertained with some of his characteristic, intelligently menacing wordplay.
You know the drill. Every night at midnight I'm posting the best stuff I heard this year. These songs usually have decent videos to go with them. Like everything The Heartless Bastards do, this song's kind of a groovy slow burn. They put an album this year called Arrow and it is damn good.
Assuming I don’t run out, I’ll be posting some of the best songs/videos of the year every night at midnight. Or my favorites, anyway. Some might be great songs with awful videos. Or vice versa. Some could just be hipster bullshit. Hopefully you’ll discover something you like. The reunited GBV do not actually appear in this video, but we do get Jon Glaser (star of Delocated and a Conan regular).
Assuming I don’t run out, I’ll be posting some of the best songs/videos of the year every night at midnight. Or my favorites, anyway. Some might be great songs with awful videos. Or vice versa. Some could just be hipster bullshit. Hopefully you’ll discover something you like. I'd rather see Philly rap wunderkind Meek Mill trading slow, filthy/sacrilegious metaphors with a cupcake like Drake than buzzmarketing with Rick Ross. I'm betting this song in particular is the one that set that preacher off.
View galleryThe Electric Factory was probably an appropriate place for Passion Pit to play last night — at least in name. The band's performance was, itself, electrifying. And of course, the band is often categorized as "electropop." From the moment the band took the stage, lead singer Michael Angelakos channeled all the electro-chemical impulses in his body and fused them with the electronic admixture of synthetic and acoustic instruments to create an extremely energetic set.
Assuming I don’t run out, I’ll be posting some of the best songs/videos of the year every night at midnight. Or my favorites, anyway. Some might be great songs with awful videos. Or vice versa. Some could just be hipster bullshit. Hopefully you’ll discover something you like. I first saw The Dirty Ghosts in a basement in Austin and I was smitten with the way they rocked the room as if there wasn't a portapotty 10 feet from the stage.
Weathervane Music is a Philly-based nonprofit that gives independent artists a boost while building community and releasing great new music. Shaking Through is their kickass documentary video series wherein we watch the songs sprout and bloom. Uh. The video explains it better. Right now they're raising money for Volume 4. They could use your support.
Assuming I don’t run out, I’ll be posting some of the best songs/videos of the year every night at midnight. Or my favorites, anyway. Some might be great songs with awful videos. Or vice versa. Some could just be hipster bullshit. Hopefully you’ll discover something you like. Bob Mould, formerly of Sugar and Hüsker Dü, put out an excellent album this year, Silver Age. It's his most Sugary stuff in years, and is best played loud and often.
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