Alabama Shakes - Be Mine
So so so soulful
Kanye West - Lost In The World
My sentiments exactly.
Santigold - Disparate Youth
Lord of the Flies meets LOST. Loving this beat.
Little Dragon - Ritual Union [Maya Jane Cole Remix]
Miss Maya Jane Cole, a DJ from the UK, takes an already great Little Dragon song and makes it better. Spark.
If you don’t have Little Dragon’s Ritual Union yet, you probably wanna grab that.
Prada 2012 Video Campaign
The music is the seducer
blu - jesus∆
Summertime Cali vibe with Blu’s fantastic wordplay all over a Madlib beat. Serve me more of this please.
Ice Cube on architecture
“Before I did rap music, I studied architectural drafting.” That’s officially the best thing I’ve heard all month. Gotta respect contradictions.
Einstein.
Good to keep in mind at the start of a new year. Might want to switch something up.
Azealia Banks - 212
Man, I love dope girls.
JMSN - Love & Pain
JMSN’s †Priscilla† is out today. It’s pretty on point in a trippy, slightly morbid, pleasure & tragedy type of way.
Melanie Fiona - Wrong Side Of A Love Song
Not really a sucka for love songs, but this one has that passionate sing it in the mirror feeling.

True possession of a scene is a matter of making a conscious effort to notice elements and understand their construction. We can see beauty well enough by opening our eyes, but how long this beauty will survive in memory depends on how intentionally we have apprehended it. The camera blurs the distinction between looking and noticing, between seeing and possessing. -Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
* Photo by British photographer Christopher Bucklow
Shabazz Palaces - An Echo From the Hosts That Profess In Infinitum
The type of music that words really don’t do justice to.
The Seshen - Oblivion
The best new music I’ve heard in awhile. Claiming inspiration from Erykah, Dilla and Little Dragon, this Bay Area band weaves chill, interesting and theatrical in the best kind of way.