12 months ago, for the first time in forever, it looked like US R&B wasn?t leading the pack. It seemed like urban music was scrambling behind a bunch of MJ influenced, EDM based, self-interested ?black pop? stars and had nothing to say but the tragic events of Charleston, Staten Island and Ferguson have changed all that.

We’re not sure how many people remember Arthur Russell, the extraordinary music maker from New York?

Russell was a classically trained (and quite avant-garde) cellist who also loved disco.

Some people say that, under the alter ego Loose Joints, he made the best disco record ever made… Stand up, Is It All Over My Face?

Has there ever been a more appropriate duo to program a TGIF party playlist than Portlandian electro/pop/dance/psych popsters Priory?

Well, when your first single (that’s blowing up all over radio as we type this) is called Weekend and is an ode to exactly that, it becomes obvious that they’d know a thing or two about jams that would be perfect to bump on a Friday night.

We do our darnedest to keep things fresh and run a mixed bag of content on this blog, but every now and then we get a case of the broken records about us and keep coming back to certain artists. Portugal. The Man, Charli XCX, Major Lazer, Blood Orange, Oscar Key Sung & FKA Twigs are all names that are constantly on high rotation around these parts but with quality like that can you really blame us?

Due to the sheer volume of music that you encounter on any given day, I find it becomes really hard to commit too much time to any one artist, track or album BUT that all went out the window today as soon as I heard London trio Juce. Georgia, Chalin & Cherish may only have one track but I must have listened to it at least 40 times today…

I don’t know much else other than the fact they look like some super rad girl (but not girl) group and this, their debut track Call You Out is already hands down my fave thing from 2014.

As the Manhattan invasion of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg continues to flourish, another Williamsburg institution is forced to close its doors.