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Who’d we forget? Probably dozens more. Our apologies if we left you out. We hope you get the point though; these days, Philly is miles deep and miles wide with talent and creativity. If 2012 was a “ten,” here’s 15 reasons why Philly’s music scene is about to go to 11 in 2013. Continue reading
Bing & Ruth’s David Moore on the ambient performance he brings to The Barnes Friday [link]
The new LP from The Fleeting Ends, Our Eyes are Peeled, gets the Unlocked treatment [link]
Dave Hartley, bassist for The War on Drugs, launches his sports column From The Key [link]
South Jersey pop-punks Aspiga treat us to a song from each release in their Key session [link]
Roots collaborator Truck North releases Our American Cousin free EP [link]
Does cover art make the album? We ponder this and look at some great local album covers [link]
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and drummer John Maloney tonight at Space 1026 [link]
Brooklyn duo She Keeps Bees is features on this week’s Folkadelphia session [link]
Roots collaborator Truck North has released his new EP, Our America Cousin, that you can download for free here. Our American Cousin features various production support from The Wurx, Rashad, Dame the Great and Schooley V and appearances by Black Thought & Asher Roth. Below, you can get a taste of two songs from the EP.
Below, listen to a new song, “Capital Crime” from the forthcoming EP by Truck North, American Cousin. Produced by The Wurx, the song features Black Thought of the legendary Roots crew (of which North is a collaborator with) and Asher Roth and was produced by The Wurxs.
Okayplayer tipped us to this new Truck North song, “The Rain Maker.” Produced by The Wurx, it’s from his forthcoming EP, Our American Cousin. North, a legendary Roots Crew Affiliate and member of the Money Making Jam Boys. “The Rain Maker” is built on a a simple yet deceptive and haunting piano chord progression, looped over a tight nicely syncopated beat, snippets of Malcolm X quotes, and North’s always on time rhymes.
Truck North has a new song called “A Song About Girls” that you can download and listen to at okayplayer here. The frequent Roots collaborator and Money Making Jam Boy raps over a Jake One instrumental with some raps about girls that highlights Truck’s clever writing skills. Check it out here.
Check out (below) this new song called “Deep Shadows” written by Chill Moody, Charlie K from WrittenHouse., and Truck North. It was produced by Joe Logic and recorded at Milkboy Studio and Paintbooth Studio. It’s due out on the Sunshine Philadelphia Volume 3 album The Features.
