[Video] D’Angelo Plugs In for GQ Magazine

The King of Soul is back! In a MAJOR way.

Related:
Read the GQ magazine interview with D’Angelo HERE.

[CONTEST] Win Tickets to the Muhsinah Show at Revival Bar in Toronto on May 22

The Kitchen does it again, ANOTHER FREE ticket giveaway. This time for The Main Ingredient ORGANICS present DC-based soul singer and Grammy nominee, MUHSINAH. Peep the event details:

Deejays:
DJ SEAN SAX & DJ MENSA

TICKETS (online only):
$10 early bird (extended to Mon, May 7 @ noon)
$15 regular advance
BUY them via Eventbrite

or….

To WIN a FREE pair of tickets to the show, tweet to @Stellaskid the following message: ‘I want the tickets to see @Muhsinah live at @RevivalBarTO on May 22 pres. by The Main Ingredient’ and I will select a winner at random at 12 noon on May 22.

About the ORGANICS Series
The Main Ingredient crew have an abundance of amazing music we want to present to Toronto music lovers. An array of soulful goodness where each artist brings elements that represent the ORGANICS of the music we embrace. A series that’s based less on hype, and more on substance. Grown without synthetic additives…dig in!

See the flyer above for more details or CLICK HERE for the Facebook event page.

Thanks to Jesse Ohtake [@AskJesseO] and The Main Ingredient for graciously offering us the tickets to run this contest. Join The Main Ingredient on Facebook.

[CONTEST] Win Tickets to see The Slakadeliqs Live in Toronto on Friday (May 11) at Cafe Awtash

People already know how I feel about this album. The Slakadeliqs The Other Side of Tomorrow is one of the best albums of the year, no doubt. If you missed their debut show at CMW, you have another chance this Friday and I’m giving away a pair of tickets too courtesy of On The Fly PR. Tweet the message: ‘I want the tickets for @TheSlakadeliqs show at @AwtashCafe in Toronto on May 11’ and I will select a winner at random on Friday at 12noon. And if you don’t win the tickets, come through anyway, it’ll be the best $10 you’ll spend on a live music experience this year, trust.

Cafe Awtash
419 College St.,
Toronto, ON M5T 1T1

CLICK HERE for more details on the Facebook event page.

Not convinced, I’m posting the album yet again because that’s how good it is and how much I believe in it:

Follow The Slakadeliqs online: Facebook | twitter | website

[MP3] Purple Hearts – You Got It

New music from my dude, 88 Days of Fortune crew member and occasional contributor here at The Kitchen, Brendan Philip. Regular readers know I’m a big booster for the 88 Days collective who I think are doing some very cool stuff.

Purple Hearts is Brendan’s group with Lord Quest. This is the first single from a forthcoming album by the duo. Check the Purple Hearts Bandcamp page for more music they’ve already released if you dig what you hear though.

Introducing New Artist: Quadron – Baby Be Mine (Michael Jackson cover)

Out of idle curiosity I was listening to the Think Like a Man soundtrack with a great deal of skepticism today and got put up on the Danish future-soul duo, Quadron via their very quirky but more-than-solid cover of Michael Jackson‘s “Baby Be Mine.” I got curious and then found this…

Bonus:

Check out a collab between Quadron and soul artist, songwriter & producing legend, Leon Ware (Marvin Gaye, Minnie, Ripperton, Maxwelll). This sounds in pocket with Ware’s trademark layered, silky smooth sound as heard on albums he produced like my Top 10 All-time fave, I Want You by Marvin Gaye. I can’t front, if these cats are holding their own working with soul and R&B’s all-time greats, the future bodes well for them.

[“Orchids in the Sun” soundcloud via Kevin Nottingham]