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NPR Music First Listen: Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream [FULL Album Stream Preview]

Check out the new Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dreams album on NPR Music’s First Listen, fantastic! Recommended if you dig Frank Ocean‘s Channel Orange. Some amazing music coming out this year so far. Don’t wanna hear any of that old man carping about how music isn’t as good nowadays as in the past.

[NPR via StupidDope.com]

[MP3] Listen to the new Rochelle Jordan – Pressure album in FULL (stream)

New soul talent coming out of the T.dot. Don’t sleep ‘cos you don’t know the name (yet!). This is hot, in the realm (roughly) of The Weeknd, Frank Ocean and Miguel to use some reference points of some like-minded (and sounding) artists that might get your attention. Seriously, check this out. And if you dig, go check out some of her prior releases on her Bandcamp.

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[MP3 Audio] Listen to the new Skratch Bastid & The Gaff – Soul Sisters, Stand Up! Mixtape

Part 1 – Stand Up!:


Part 2 – Good Old Days:

The release event was last Friday which I couldn’t make but this mixtape, mixed, scratched, blended & sequenced by Skratch Bastid & The Gaff, is still worth checking out….

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[Audio] Lisa Banton – Mirror Mirror Vol​.​ 2 R&B Mixtape

Latest mixtape from local (T.dot) soul singer, Lisa Banton. Some have dismissed her as a poor man’s Mary J. Blige but there’s some talent here. I’d like to to hear her start to do more original music instead of these mixtape style remakes though. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Previously on The Kitchen: Lisa Banton – Mirror Mirror Vol​.​ 1 R&B Mixtape