Spiritualized

Delegation

Thundercat

Velly Joonas

Little Dragon

Jim James

Tommy Guerrero

Nina Simone

Jacco Gardner

Dumbo Gets Mad

Dengue Fever

The Holydrug Couple

Ms Mr

The Album Leaf

Laurel Halo

Mount Kimbie

Matmos

Lonnie Holley

Lonnie Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. This song was produced by the late-great Richard Swift

Throttle Elevator Music

Cross Coltrane with The Clash and it would resemble the departure point Throttle Elevator Music leaps from. Tenor Saxophonist Kamasi Washington takes the lead and raises the bar of instrumental intensity on 16 original compositions ranging from shorter punk minded 45 second flurries to thematic uptempo romps, and rounding out with a few expansionary journeys. Kamasi’s melodic tonality melds nicely into the electric undercurrent laid down by punk drummer/guitarist Mike Hughes, Wide Hive Player’s bassist/keyboardist/composer Matt Montgomery, and Wide Hive Players composer/engineer/producer Gregory Howe.

Erykah Badu

The Cactus Channel

King Garbage

Lhasa

Antony and the Johnsons

Portishead

Miles Davis Quintet

U.S. Girls

Half Waif

Shigeto

Andrea Von Kampen

Adam Torres

Maxwell

Trish Toledo

Papa Bear & His Cubs

Founded in 1963 by Eddie Disnute Sr, Papa Bear & His Cubs was a family band—Disnute Sr and his six kids—from Hampton, Arkansas. The group toured, recorded at SugarHill Studios and produced an LP—though only two tracks ever surfaced from those sessions. Our favorite, “Sweetest Thing on This Side of Heaven,” is a rich and soulful gospel-influenced track. Disnute Sr taught the kids to sing and play instruments. They would play together until the early ’80s, as their releasing labels Athens of the North puts it: until “the cubs were bears themselves.”

Lizette and Quevin

Los Yesterdays

Cende

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

This Will Destroy You

Fog Lake

Arms and Sleepers

El Michels Affair