Thanks Consequence of Sound for sharing this gem off the upcoming Mark Ronson album Uptown Special. Click HERE to listen to “Daffodils” featuring Kevin Parker of Tame Impala. I can’t wait for Uptown Special to drop on January 27 which features a slew of appearance by well known musicians including Hudson Mohawke and Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow).
Now Playing: Belle and Sebastian – The Party Line
10 NovDigging this new track from Belle & Sebastian – “The Party Line.” Can’t wait for their new album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance to come out in January and hopefully get to see them live soon too!
Music.Mic: 33 Years Later, Bob Marley Still Speaks for Young People
6 NovGreat quick read from Music.Mic on the legendary Bob Marley. Click HERE to read the post.
But his solutions were of the biggest and truest variety: If the problems he saw in the world are around to this day, so too are the solutions. He blended the practical and the philosophical. “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds,” he sang on “Redemption Song” (a paraphrase of Marcus Garvey), and he inspired millions to do the same. Bono, one of today’s greatest musical philanthropists, has said he carries a copy of the song with him whenever he goes to meet with politicians, prime ministers or businessmen.
“It was for me a prophetic utterance,” Bono said, “or as Bob would say, ‘the small ax that could fell the big tree.'”