
New Maxwell! It’s been a minute since the understated but brilliant, BLACKsummers’night album (2009 to be exact) but it’s long-anticipated follow-up, blackSUMMERS’night is finally coming July 1 and here goes the first single.

NOW THIS IS HIP-HOP! We’re on a good roll here, let’s keep it going….

Whoa, two of my current favorite acts, Kaytranada and Anderson .Paak connect like Voltron for a track from the forthcoming (on May 6) official debut full length album by MTL’s finest entitled, 99.9%.
Bonus:
I should have posted this last week in the lead-up to the excellent Pusha T show in Toronto but here’s a track, “Illusions” produced by Kaytranada in conjunction with Doc McKinney (The Weeknd, Esthero) and T.dot’s River Tiber featuring with King Push, recorded at Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles for Red Bull Sound Select.

I missed the tribute at The Apollo yesterday but this new posthumously-released Phife Dawg single & video, “Nutshell” is EVERYTHING! Pure hip-hop, top to bottom. And a beat made J. Dilla??! Could not be more fitting. Love it! #RIPPhifeDawg


First is a remix/mash-up of Aaliyah‘s “One In A Million” interpolating Prince‘s “Purple Rain” and the second a very radically remade ‘tribute’ to the late, legendary soul singer, Marvin Gaye‘s late night, baby-making classic, “Let’s Get It On.”
So, are we sold on these latest proteges of Drake? I’m not saying they’re bad at all but I feel like I heard this sound done better by Maxwell 20 years ago. Just sayin’! Their album is out though so I need to dive into it a little deeper and see if my thinking on them evolves based on that. More to come….
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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