
This is kind of a big deal. This is really the first hip-hop or black electronic/urban-centric release to win this Canadian critics’ award. Well-deserved it is too. While I always liked the album, it took a minute to really grow on me but by time it was down to the wire I was fully on board as the video of me endorsing it above, that played as part of the full Gala broadcast Monday night, attests! Congrats, Kay and for the rest of you not on his train, get on board. This is the future….
Previously on the Kitchen:
– Listen to New Music From Kaytranada: Glowed Up Feat. Anderson .Paak / Illusions

A taco truck on every corner? No, it’s just the single from Moka Only from the forthcoming new Bassments of Badmen compilation. Kind of R.I.Y.L MF Doom tbh (with maybe a little Sean P in the mix too) but we like this one….

First single, “Thirst Trap” from Toronto hip hop duo, Ultra Magnus and DJ SLAM! off their sophomore album, Magnus Opus on Hand’Solo Records. R.I.Y.L early 90s backpack hip-hop. Anyone make it to the release event?


I’m still digesting their excellent Glaciers EP but Kitchen faves, Audego (now being stylized as AUDeGO??) are back with even more new music from a forthcoming new EP to be co-released through Bad Panda records, the sublime “I Don’t Need You”:
“I Don’t Need You” is about the uncertainty that surrounds wanting to be somebody’s somebody but not wanting to give yourself up. It’s about that sometimes awful feeling in the beginning of a crush where you’re trying to be cool but really your heart is about to fall out of your chest.
I’ve been there! Trust me….

Hours After Posting Bail, Chris Brown Releases New Track ‘What Would You Do?’
Chris Brown‘s life nowadays? Maaaan, I.O.E.N.O….
Official press announcement: Long-running, acclaimed Toronto music site, DIFFERENT KITCHEN officially announces the release of its new compilation album project, QUINCEAÑERA: MARVELOUS ISH to celebrate its 15th anniversary today (SEPTEMBER 7) . QUINCEAÑERA, a 15-track multi-genre collection of all new and unreleased music (some on an exclusive basis), will be released as a promo-only album […]
Here it is: the third pre-release single from the Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish 15th anniversary compilation album (yes, that’s the art above, figured we could let it out now that the album is finally coming out TODAY!) Nate Husser, one third of the acclaimed Montreal hip-hop group, The Posterz, is one of our absolute faves here […]
Well here it is, you may have seen varations of this in the lead-up campaign to the release this Friday but here, for the very first time, is the official front cover of Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish, the compilation album to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this here Different Kitchen blog. I won’t reiterate the concept […]
Well here it is: one of the first two opening salvos from the next big project from the Kitchen: Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish, a 15 track compilation album of brand new or previouly unreleased music to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the blog set for release this Friday (September 7, mark your calendars). We won’t get […]
We posted the single back in May but here goes an EXCLUSIVE World Premiere of the video for “Desert Rose”, the single previous to the current online viral hit (currently #7 on the HypeMachine chart), “magic on my pillow” from Brooklyn-by-way-of-Philly artist and new Kitchen fave, Yellow Shoots. Both tracks come from the forthcoming album, […]
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