[Album Stream + Music Video] Shopé – XXY / Come Wid It

Check out the full album, XXY the winning song, “Come Wid It” from this year’s CBC Music Searchlight contest comes from. Video for “Come Wid It” above also.

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[MP3] Pops Staples – Somebody Was Watching

This is so cool (although I kind of wish someone like Questlove or Mark Ronson would have been given a shot to produce this). Fifteen years after Pops Staples, patriarch of the iconic Staple Singers died, daughter Mavis Staples has teamed up with her collaborative partner Jeff Tweedy (producer of her albums, You Are Not Alone and One True Vine) to finish the recordings of his final tracks that he made in 1999. The tracks will be released as Don’t Lose This on February 17 via Wilco‘s dBpm imprint and Anti-.

[via Pitchfork]

[MP3] Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens – Sinner

Sunday morning soul music vibes from Daptone! From Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens‘ forthcoming album, Cold World, out July 29th, 2014 [click that link to pre-order it via iTunes]. BUY the “Sinner” single HERE.