[Music Video] Watch The Duck – Poppin’ Off In Atlanta

This is a good one, ‘SoulDubstep’ as they term it by new crew from the A, Watch The Duck. Think Zeds Dead meets Chicago juke music proponents, BBU with Mystikal (or is that a Pharrell/N*E*R*D influence??) hollerin’ over top. Video features the DragonHouse dancers. I digs. What y’all think though??

[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

88 Days of Fortune: 3rd Anniversary Party featuring THEESatisfaction TONIGHT / Time Travelers Mixtape

If you read this blog regularly, you already know about Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White aka Stas and Cat of THEESatisfaction. If you live in the T.Dot/GTA region and you have at all dug what they do, then you need to be at their performance tonight at the Third Anniversary celebration for the local urban progressive artist collective, 88 Days of Fortune. Don’t sleep, NOW magazine knows what’s up and featured the event in this week’s issue that just hit newsstands this morning. Check it:

88DAYS OF FORTUNE 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY & PERFORMANCE
FEATURING:
THEESATISFACTION {SUB POP RECORDS}

WITH PERFORMANCES BY:
LES FEMME FATALES
88 DAYS
PROGRESS {REDPILL MUSIC}

HOSTED BY: DAINTY BOX
DJ SUNSUN , DJ CAT & STAS ALL NIGHT LONG!

DATE: THURSDAY JUNE 28TH
TIME: DOORS @9PM SHOW @10PM
PLACE: CINECYCLE 129 SPADINA
PRICE: $12 IN ADVANCE – ticketzone.com [click link to buy tix]
$18 AT THE DOOR
*LIMITED CAPACITY
19+

CLICK HERE for more info at the Facebook event page.

Still not convinced? Then check the 88 Days’ latest Time Travelers mixtape (Side A and B):

[mixtape via Brendan]

A Look at the Polaris Long List: 38. The Weeknd – Echoes of Silence

This is one of the few nominated albums I was already familiar with before the Polaris long list was announced last week. Not to toot my own horn but I was the person largely responsible for getting The Weeknd short-listed last year. But as you know if you read this blog regularly, neither The Weeknd‘s Thursday or Echoes Of Silence mixtapes made it onto my Long List ballot for this year.

I think Abel is an important artist, not just for ‘urban’ music in Canada but music in general but if I had to keep it one hunid, I’d say House of Balloons is still his best work to date. That being said, compared to a lot of the albums I’ve been listening to on the Long List this past week, Echoes of Silence might actually be competitive for Short List consideration after all. BTW: not sure what’s going on but the amazing cover of Michael Jackson‘s “Dirty Diana” he opened EOS with has been excised from this soundcloud embed for some reason so this is not technically the real, full album posted above.

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[Music Video] Saukrates – Tomorrow

I’m a little late on this but here’s the latest video from Saukrates‘ new Season One album. I love the album, which can be considered as much an urban pop album as a hip-hop one, others not so much. Whatchu think though? Hit the jump to stream the entire album if you didn’t hear it yet from the last time I posted it.

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