New Music Tuesday #111

The Epstein Files are the most important release this week but also new J. Cole.

A genuine laugh out loud moment online is rare for me these days but I really enjoy seeing videos of those humanoid robots toppling over or glitching out. I recently stumbled upon (no pun intended) a video of someone from the Mavericks pushing one down and it just stopped moving all together. Does it make me a bad person that I watched it several times and laughed even harder at each replay?

I saw another video where a robot fell on Cardi B while she was trying to dance up on it. I don’t know how heavy those things are but I was pretty scared for her safety but when I found out that she wasn’t hurt… I laughed. Hard.

SHOWS

Feb 14 -Franklin Park for Valentine’s Day. Got a free jam for all the lovers out there.
Feb 16 - Frankenstein’s Baby has Janeane Garofalo, Petey DeAbreu, Jatty Robinson and Fareeha Khan on the show and hopefully you’ll be in the audience!
Feb 20 - Portland - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall w/ Michelle Buteau
Feb 21 - Seattle - Moore Theatre w/ Michelle Buteau
Feb 22 - Vancouver - Vogue Theatre w/ Michelle Buteau
Feb 23 - STILL TBA
Feb 26 - Aspen - Wheeler Opera House w/ Michelle Buteau
Feb 27 - Denver - Paramount Theatre w/ Michelle Buteau

NEWS

Good: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance was really dope and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I don’t have many thoughts on the actual game though as I’ve fully settled into my ‘I don’t follow sports’ stance.

Bad: Chris Brown saw the reacted to the half time show by posting “I THINK ITS SAFE TO SAY.. THEY NEED ME!” on his Instagram story. LOL. I severely doubt Chris will ever get that call.

Ugly: Turning Point USA had an alternate half time show where Kid Rock and a few folk performed. The shoulda called that thing LollapaLOSER.

VIDEOS

J. Cole finally dropped his album and he has been driving around in his old Honda Civic selling CDs hand to hand to fans to promote it. It seems to be getting a pretty mixed reception overall but some of that isn’t even based on the music as much as it is fall out from the battle. Double discs are a pretty tricky proposition but he’s framing this as his last album which is giving it even more emphasis to be great.

Jill Scott hit Noochie’s Front Porch and did the damn thing. You gotta love it. Big Areola Music has touched down in the uhrea!

This DJ set was so good that I had to share it. Boogie and Disco Funk are my happy place and this set was full of songs I’d never heard before.

ALBUMS

I have no idea who Owelu Dreamhouse is but I thoroughly enjoyed the little bit of this song that I heard.

Blu popped up with this EP and it’s pretty dope. I had to double check to make sure it was actually him because sometimes other artsit’s music ends up posted on his page. That’s a bigger issue with streaming tho.

RZA’s Bobby Digital alter ego produced a Juice Crew project and I haven’t heard it yet.

SONGS

Man nomi. is so dope.

Rapsody is the only person on this song who I know but man this joint go hard.

This is a jam. I don’t know who Ace Clark is tho.

This is a cool lil posse cut.

RANDOM

The Epstein files are the most important release this week. There is so much going on in the world that it’s kinda hard to keep a handle on it all. Did you know that he’s trying to nationalize elections? If you don’t know what that means just know that it’s not good.

On a lighter note here is a super cut of robots being clumsy and dumb. Hopefully it brings you as much joy as it brings me.

The robot in the cowboy hat that falls down and starts thrashing gets me every time.