Final day of May so why not share some tunes that I’ve been digging this past month. Hope you enjoy!
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DoYouHearTheMusic.com – 2016 Top Albums
30 DecAnother year down, another year filled with great tunes. Below is a list (in alphabetical order) of 50 albums I dug in 2016. Normally I shy away from naming my top album because quite frankly I think there is too much great music that gets released throughout the year but this year is different because to me, A Tribe Called Quest didn’t just shock everyone by announcing and releasing its first album in 18 years, coupled with the loss earlier this year of Phife Dawg but it was the perfect album at the right time when “We The People” needed it. We Got It From Here…Thank You For Your Service is the album of the year and if you haven’t for some reason, dive into it, listen closely. We need more like ATCQ in 2017 and the years to come, there is a purpose to this album, find yours as I found mine. Peace + Love + Music. See you in 2017.
| A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service |
| Anderson .Paak – Malibu |
| Angel Olsen – My Woman |
| Anohni – Hopelessness |
| Blood Orange – Freetown Sound |
| Blossoms – ST |
| Boulevards – Groove! |
| Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial |
| Catfish and the Bottlemen – The Ride |
| Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book |
| Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love! |
| Christine and The Queens – Charleur Humaine |
| Crystal Fighters – Everything Is My Family |
| David Bowie – Blackstar |
| DAWES – We’re All Gonna Die |
| DIIV – Is the Is are |
| Empire of the Sun – Two Vines |
| Flume – Skin |
| Gallant – Ology |
| Glass Animals – How To Be A Human Being |
| GOAT – Requiem |
| Goldroom – West of the West |
| J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only |
| Jack Garratt – Phase |
| Kaiser Chiefs – Stay Together |
| Kaytranada – 99.9% |
| Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered |
| Kings of Leon – Walls |
| Lapsley – Long Way Home |
| Lewis Del Mar – ST |
| Mitski – Puberty 2 |
| Mumford & Sons – Johannesburg EP |
| Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – A Little Something More From Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| Nice As Fuck – ST |
| NxWorries – Yes Lawd! |
| Phish – Big Boat |
| Run The Jewels – RTJ3 |
| Saint Mesa – Jungle EP |
| St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Sea Of Noise |
| Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth |
| The Avett Brothers – Trus Sadness |
| The Head and The Heart – Signs of Light |
| The Lumineers – Ophelia |
| The National +++++ – Day of The Dead (Grateful Dead) |
| The Rolling Stones – Blue and Lonesome |
| The Shelters – ST |
| Tycho – Epoch |
| Whitney – Light Upon The Lake |
| Wolfmother – Victorious |
| ZHU – Generation Why |
Life is Beautiful Single Day Tickets are on sale now!
11 AugGet ’em while their hot…….and available! Limited number of single day tickets to Life is Beautiful are on sale now! Visit www.lifeisbeautiful.com to purchase and hope to see you in 42 days!
Tunes for Memorial Day Weekend and all summer long
26 MayHitting the road this weekend, hosting a BBQ or just chilling by the pool for MDW? Here’s a playlist for you to listen to, the Life is Beautiful 2016 mixtape courtesy of our friends at Pandora! Enjoy and rock out! http://pdora.co/LIBFestival
It’s the 4 most wonderful days of the year!! The 2016 Bonnaroo lineup is officially here!
20 JanBonnaroo 15! Let the countdown begin! IMOO the best four days of the year are happening June 9-12 in Manchester, Tennessee and while the lineup leaked last week it was officially released last night on Conan.
Pearl Jam
Dead & Company
LCD Soundsystem
J. Cole
Ellie Goulding
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Tame Impala
Death Cab for Cutie
M83
HAIM
Halsey
Ween
Jason Isbell
CHVRCHES
Miguel
Chris Stapleton
Judd Apatow & Friends
The Chainsmokers
SuperJam
Big Grams (Big Boi + Phantogram)
Band of Horses
Leon Bridges
Grace Potter
Father John Misty
Adam Devine
Purity Ring
The Claypool Lennon Delirium
Two Door Cinema Club
Sam Hunt
Flosstradamus
Zeds Dead
Tyler The Creator
Bridget Everett
Griz
Mavis Staples
Touchpants
Lamb Of God
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Blood Orange
Adventure Club
Lord Huron
RL Grime
The Bluegrass Situation Superjam (Featuring Ed Helms and Friends)
X Ambassadors
Piff the Magic Dragon
Lucius
Vince Staples
Third Eye Blind
Cymande
Misterwives
Clutch
GoldLink
Lettuce
St. Lucia
Cashmere Cat
Goddamn Comedy Jam
FIDLER
Ibeyi
Keys N Krates
Sam Bush Band
The Wood Brothers
Saint Motel
Daughter
The Floozies
Marian Hill
Kamasi Washington
BØRNS
Post Malone
Shamir
Allen Stone
Brett Dennen
Oh Wonder
Boy & Bear
Dungen
Judah & The Lion
Steve Gunn
Steep Canyon Rangers
The Oh Hellos
The Internet
John Moreland
Andra Day
Anderson East
Twin Peaks
Bully
Natalie Prass
Chicano Batman
Givers
Hermitude
Jarryd James
Lizzo
Papadosio
Rayland Baxter
Vulfpeck
Sara Watkins
The Knocks
Waxahatchee
Beach Fossils
Whilk and Misky
Hundred Waters
The London Souls
Lolawolf
Civil Twilight
Roman Gianarthur
LANY
Con Brio
Flux Capacitor
New Music: J Cole – Cole World:The Sideline Story
27 SepThe loooooong awaited debut album by J Cole, Cole World: The Sideline Story has finally arrived. Currently number one on iTunes, check out this article from the Wall Street Journal on the first artist signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation record label. After an endless summer that saw the rising artist tour nonstop and introduce himself to new groups of fans at major festivals, today he can celebrate as the album has dropped.
DoYouHearTheMusic.com Fall Playlist
23 Sep
First day of Fall which means it’s time for another DoYouHearTheMusic.com Playlist. Hope you enjoy the selections below and they help keep your spirits up beat as the temperature drops.
Young The Giant – “Cough Syrup”
The Cinema – “Kill It”
SuperHeavy – “Beautiful People”
Ximena Sarinana – “Different”
GROUPLOVE – “Lovely Cup”
Kassidy – “I Don’t Know”
Deer Tick – “Miss K”
Walk The Moon – “Tightrope”
O.A.R. – “Taking On The World Today”
Childish Gambino – “Bonfire”
J Cole – “Nobody’s Perfect” ft. Missy Elliot
Chancellor Warhol – “Wings”
NewVillager – “Rich Doors”
M83 – “Ok Pal”
The Rapture – “Miss You”
Girls – “Honey Bunny”
Maps & Atlases – “Israeli Caves”
Bonnaroo X Schedule Released Today
13 May
Finally the Bonnaroo schedule has been released! Click HERE to take a look. As expected when the schedule came out, there are many many conflicts and overlaps with artists and set times. Of course for me there are the staple artists that are marked as must sees (Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, Buffalo Springfield, Mumford & Sons, Gregg Allman, Robert Plant, G. Love, The Black Keys, Warren Haynes, etc.) and after that, time to figure out the rest. Who knows, my ideal schedule today may end up being completely different when I arrive. All I know is there is a ton of great music and I can’t wait to be surrounded by 90,000 of my new closest friends.
Bonnaroo Artist Additions
7 AprToday Bonnaroo announced artist additions and the comedy line-up for this summer. I know some people were hoping for bigger names but really, you couldn’t expect more headlining acts to be announced. Could it have been better, sure but either way I for one am stoked as two of my favorite artists we added, G. Love and Black Joe Lewis. Add in Galactic, Black Uhuru and Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub and Superfly definitely added some great talent. DJ line-up should be coming soon too.
Artists Additions
NOFX
Galactic
G. Love & Special Sauce
Black Uhuru
Shpongle Presents Shpongletron Experience
Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub
Allen Toussaint (w Dr. John and The Original Meters)
Anthony B
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Ben Sollee
Graveyard
Dennis Coffey
Forro in the Dark
The Knux
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens
Futurebirds
Hangaii
Comedy Lineup!
Lewis Black
420 Comedy Blaze hosted by Cheech Marin featuring Ralphie May, the stars of Workaholics and more
John Waters
Henry Rollins
Henson Alternative’s Stuffed & Unstrung
The League (Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll, Jon Lajoie, Stephen Rannazzisi)
Donald Glover
The Gregory Brothers
Kathleen Madigan
Eugene Mirman
Ted Alexandro
Tim Minchin
Tig Notaro
Hannibal Buress
Craig Baldo
Nate Bergatze
Say Hello to BONNAROO 2011
15 FebThe Coachella lineup is pretty damn sick but after seeing the initial announcement of artists slated to perform at Bonnaroo, I am now torn and thinking I should look into heading to Tennessee this summer. I mean at Bonnaroo you have the return of Buffalo Springfield and Widespread Panic celebrating 25 years, String Cheese Incident, Warren Haynes and Gregg Allman which I can all but see some fun little guest appearances in the works, Mumford & Sons are thrust to the big time stage, Ray Lamontagne and Iron & Wine finally out of the tiny print on the line-up, just knowing Primus is going to be there leaves me wondering what Les Claypool has up his sleeve, Sleigh Bells, Portugal the Man, The Drums, Wavves, Ryan Bingham! Plus Smith Westerns, Beats Antique and STS9, Hayes Carll, Amos Lee, Deer Tick, Matt & Kim, Grace Potter and so many more great acts and that’s not even including the headliners, Eminem and Arcade Fire.
Here’s the line-up as of today:
- Eminem
- Arcade Fire
- Widespread Panic
- The Black Keys
- Buffalo Springfield feat Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Rick Rosas, Joe Vitale
- My Morning Jacket
- Lil Wayne
- String Cheese Incident
- Robert Plant & Band of Joy
- Mumford & Sons
- The Strokes
- The Decemberists
- Ray Lamontagne
- Bassnectar
- Iron & Wine
- Girl Talk
- Primus
- Dr. John and The Original Meters performing Desitively Bonnaroo
- Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
- Pretty Lights
- Florence & the Machine
- Superjam ft. Dan Auerbach and Dr. John
- Explosions in the Sky
- STS9
- Gogol Bordello
- Beirut
- Big Boi
- Scissor Sisters
- Gregg Allman
- Ratatat
- Global Gypsy Punk Revue curated by Eugene Hütz
- Robyn
- Warren Haynes Band
- Deerhunter
- Opeth
- Atmosphere
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- Bootsy Collins & the Funk University
- Wiz Khalifa
- Matt & Kim
- Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
- The Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Mavis Staples
- Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
- Chiddy Bang
- Jovanotti
- Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers
- Loretta Lynn
- Cold War Kids
- The Walkmen
- Devotchka
- Wanda Jackson
- Neon Trees
- Portugal. The Man
- Sleigh Bells
- Amos Lee
- Best Coast
- Dãm-Funk
- The Sword
- The Drums
- The Black Angels
- School of Seven Bells
- J. Cole
- Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea
- Wavves
- !!!
- Junip
- Freelance Whales
- Justin Townes Earle
- Ryan Bingham
- Deer Tick
- Band of Skulls
- Sharon Van Etten
- Abigail Washburn
- Omar Souleyman
- Twin Shadow
- Kylesa
- Man Man
- The Low Anthem
- Alberta Cross
- Railroad Earth
- Jessica Lea Mayfield
- Smith Westerns
- The Head and the Heart
- Karen Elson
- Beats Antique
- 22-20s
- Phosphorescent
- Clare MaGuire
- Hayes Carll
Do You Hear The Music? 