[Music Video] Saidah Baba Talibah – Revolution

Brand new video, beautifully shot and featuring some very cool characters, not from her last album, (S)cream. New album on the way??

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Previously on The Kitchen:

– Saidah Baba Talibah – So Cool [Music Video]

– Saidah Baba Talibah – What’s Inside Her Head [Mixtape]

A Look at the Polaris Long List: 35. The Slakadeliqs – The Other Side of Tomorrow

Yup, definitely saving the best ’til last. If you read this blog regularly, you already know I’m a major, major supporter of this album. It was #1 on my long list ballot and #1 on my short list ballot and I shout it out every chance I can including at the Long List Salon earlier this month.

Slakah has created an album of sublime yet ambitious, epic beauty. Lead single, “Keep Breathing” feat. Justin Nozuka is just the beginning of the album and of what is going here: soul, rock, psychedelia, pop, hip-hop and reggae have all been mashed up into a delicious stew that is at once vintage & organic yet still modern and fresh-sounding at the same time. Lazy pundits have dismissed this as Lenny Kravitz redux. Yes, that influence can be felt and has been acknowledged by Slakah himself but this feels like far more than just that and I truly feel sorry for those who don’t see/hear that. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now: no disrespect to 40, Boi-1da, T-Minus or any of the other young producers from Canada that are running the music charts right now, but Slakah is the best, most underrated producer in Canada today, bar none. If I know my business, and at one point I did, that will not stay the case for very much longer though.

The fact that The Slakadeliqs The Other Side of Tomorrow was long-listed was truly a surprise to me despite what i just said and my love & wholehearted endorsement of the album. Now I pray that some new converts to the cause were made during the short list voting period that can carry him through to the next round when the short list is announced tomorrow. Fingers crossed. And speaking of the short list….

[Audio] Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Full Album Stream)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re more than aware of the recent media interest around Frank Ocean. Timing couldn’t be better to have everyone talking about him for his official debut album, Channel Orange whose digital release was apparently pushed up to take advantage of the buzz. BTW: the video up top is of Ocean performing the single, “Bad Religion” from Channel Orange with The Roots on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ last night.

Previously on The Kitchen:

– Frank Ocean of Odd Future (OFWGKTA) – Nostalgia, Ultra (FULL album stream)

– 64 Unreleased Songs from Frank Ocean

Michael Joseph Jackson: August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009

Still the King and G.O.A.T. “I Want You Back” is my favorite pop song of all time and how I feel. R.I.P. we still miss you three years later, Michael.

[Audio Stream] D’Angelo and Questlove’s FULL Live Set at the 2012 Bonnaroo Festival

CAN’T WAIT to get into this. I was pretty psyched to check the video of them doing a version of The Beatles‘ “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” yesterday so to be able to listen to the full live set is a mind-blower. EPIC!!! Thank you, Questlove.

[Hypetrak via Roger / The Fader]