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[Watch] Wrabel - "11 Blocks" (Lyric Video)
stolen from Wrabel's Instagram, taken by the also incredibly talented Mr. Hudson
I was honestly getting worried for a moment there that we'd never hear from Wrabel again after his debut EP. Turns out fam just needed a moment to find himself.
As you recall from my live encounter with him almost 2 years ago, the kid's pipes and overall presence stuck with me more so than the EP I stumbled across on Rdio (RIP) on a random New Music Tuesday. That said, it's important to remember that just because you have excellent songwriting skills and a powerful voice doesn't mean you're a qualified producer, arranger, etc. Kid had to find the sound that was the most himself.
"I Want You" clearly taught him that he doesn't want his fans to sit still, but our friend with his small tuff of curly goldie locks knew that it wasn't *just right* yet.
Enter: "11 Blocks", which just dropped today. Not an EDM anthem, but not solely a piano pounder either. It's just right because it's finally him, all the way down to the hand written lyric video complete with his signature doodles one could find on his Instagram (or his body for that matter) at any given moment.
No more auto tune or chest rattling bass, just an authentic representation of his talents carefully crafted together with the help of some people who took the time to invest in his talents the way that we should be doing with every single artist we choose to get behind.
Every artist should be able to say, "it's me. it feels like me." with every single thing they put out. I'm very excited that you all are able to finally see what I was able to see for myself on September 10th, 2014 at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2.
💖YAY WRABEL!💖
Now that you've fallen in love DON'T FORGET TO, YOU KNOW...
GO BUY IT.
(Also, you should follow him on Snapchat because his #content is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I am just saying.)
#skoaradio 11/14/2015 liner notes
"Kibbe, aren't you posting these liner notes kind of late?"
I'm late to getting this up. Sorry. Clearly from the amount of posts I've done so far today I'm trying tog get caught up. It's a nice problem to have with 3 fire shows in a week being the root of not being able to get #content out on time.
Anyway, this is going to be the last time I put together a separate playlist for the show. That's right, from now on you'll have to scramble to pull the songs from a playlist that I'm going to be changing on the regular. This is mutually beneficial because it will force me to get these out sooner rather than later so you can snatch up the goodies I share with you.
Hope you're having a great weekend fam!
<3
- Miami Horror - "Cellophane (So Cruel)"
- BOOTS - "C.U.R.E."
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Can't Keep Checking My Phone"
- Maiday - "Wish You'd Met Me First"
- Mr. Hudson - "Dancing Through It"
- Kate Boy - "When I Was Young"
- Bob Moses - "Tearing Me Up"
- Secular Ghost - "Bystander Effect"
- Good Morning - "Cab Deg"
- Skaters - "Mental Case"
- MRENC - "Everything Is So Great"
- LCD Soundsystem - "Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up"
- Ryan Hemsworth (with Dawn Golden) - "Snow In Newark "
- Superpoze - "Unlive"
- ARRWS - "The Dark (feat. FEM FEL)"
- The Streets - "The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living"
- Toddla T - "Watch Me Dance"
- Born Gold - "I Want To Guard You From Boredom"
- JR JR - "James Dean"
- Son Little - "The River"
- Darlingside - "Go Back"
- Jake Isaac - "Home"
- Chet Faker and Marcus Marr - "The Trouble With Us"
- Sami Switch - "Self Destruct"
- Tuxedo - "Number One"
- Disclosure - "Molecules"
Read these things and get smarter okay?
- Is Apple positioning Apple Music’s Connect as Vevo/YouTube alternative with new video embed option?
- New York Attorney General asked to investigate Spotify’s unpaid mechanicals
- ASCAP’s Online Database Now Includes Licensable Share Information
Feel free to grab this playlist, obvi.
#skoaradio 10/24/2015 liner notes
artist rendition of my convo with Alex from Kingswood after I shut the mic off post-interview.lol
Hey fam!
Things refuse to slow down in SKOA HQ, but I'm not complaining! I wrapped up CMJ with a day in Aussie Heaven where we interviewed KINGSWOOD prior to watching them totally kill it. I can't believe how much fun I had. Kinda wish it had never ended tbh. Oh well. Time to prep for Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, which is coming up super fast. I've got a couple of new tracks on this week's show. As always would love to hear your thoughts so @ me bb if you liked what you heard!
See you next week!
<3
- Battle Tapes - "Valkyrie"
- Debut album Polygon drops on November 20th!
- BOOTS - "Bombs Away"
- New track "C.U.R.E." out now
- Debut full length Aquaria drops November 23th!
- BOOTS is playing Rough Trade for his release show! You've officially missed your chance to get tix :(
- Good Morning - "You"
- Official writeup of my interview with them from last week's CMJ show coming soon!
- Car Seat Headrest - "Times To Die"
- New album Teens of Style drops October 30th!
- Shows coming up in the UK & US.
- Weaves - "Motorcycle"
- Did you know that THE NEW YORK TIMES reviewed one of their CMJ shows!?! AMAZING!!
- Monarchy - "Black Widow"
- Sam Sparro - "Hands Up"
- Sam's new EP Quantum Physical Vol 2 is out now! GO GET IT!
- Kenna - "Sleep When We Die"
- Dude just finished up 35 days of traveling to shoot his "Sleep When We Die" video. The NYC Core got some hugs with him while he was here.
- Go help fund Songs For Flight!
- JR JR - "Gone"
- JR JR available now.
- Slum Sociable - "All Night"
- Go grab TQ now
- You can also see pitchas of these guys from my CMJ coverage. I may or may not have seen them three times :)
- Little May - "Boardwalks"
- Caught these little darlings this week at Mercury Lounge. Show review coming soon!
- Go grab their album For The Company asap okay
- Don Diablo & Matt Nash - "Starlight (Could You Be Mine)"
- Don Diablo moved up like a gazillion slots to NUMBER 30 IN DJ MAG'S TOP 100 DJS LIST OMG YAYYYY!!
- Interpol - "All Fired Up"
- If you don't have their latest record, El Pintor well then shame on you (this track is from Our Love To Admire tho)
- The Dead Weather - "I Feel Love(Every Million Miles)"
- Dodge and Burn is good fam, you needs it.
- KINGSWOOD Interview!
- KINGSWOOD - "Ohio"
- Hope you enjoyed this interview. Don't worry, imma pull out the good bits to write up all official :)
- Mr. Hudson - "Dancing Thru It"
- I'M. SO. HAPPY. HE'S. BACK!!!!!!!!!
- Can't be too mad considering he was off working on the new Duran Duran album, which is great tbh.
- Also the Souncloud page for this says MORE MUSIC COMING. YES YES YES YES YES.
- Magic Sword - "Battlefield"
- Have you read the comic for this btw? Pretty cool stuff.
- Official write up for this interview is coming soon too. :)
- Sami Switch - "Self Destruct"
- This guy's story is so cool. You have to watch this mini docu about his trajectory in the past few years. He's gone from homeless to selling out shows in London. Good for him.
- Wrabel - "I Want You"
- Still tryna figure out why "bae-bel" still hasn't upped this to iTunes/Spotify/Whatever yet. It's on YouTube and Soundcloud at least? And you can haz for $FREE.99
- Anyway you can grab his first EP Sideways to show love. I think that's fair right?
THINGS I TALKED ABOUT ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK INCLUDE:
[Download] Mr. Hudson - "White Lies (Asher Roth Remix)"
It's been awhile since we heard from Mr. Hudson other than a few tweets a day. Hopefully that means he's so immersed in working on a new album that he can't be bothered. This rework by Asher Roth of "White Lies" recently surfaced and it made us miss all the pre-Straight No Chaser hype.
Mr. Hudson - "White Lies" (Remix) Feat. Asher Roth by Some Kind of Awesome
[Download] Mr Hudson - "Angel Eyes"
Sorry for being a bit late on the tunes. I'm in NYC with my better half of SKoA, Kibbe, and i ended up somewhere on the floor passed out drunk. lol. Anyways on to the tunage!
Mr Hudson dropped a new tune for Kanye West's G.O.O.D Fridays. Check out the awesome track titled "Angel Eyes" below!
[Download] Caspa & Mr Hudson - Love Never Dies (Back For The First Time)
Mr Hudson jumps on Caspa's track "Back For The First Time" to create the hot summer record "Love Never Dies (Back For The First Time). Check out the song that Zane Lowe is declaring the Hottest Record right now below!
Caspa & Mr Hudson - Love Never Dies (Back For The First Time) by Some Kind of Awesome