The Musik Lounge

What's up world?! Welcome to a new year! Another rotation, another stellar music year. To celebrate I had Yakoob pull up to the show with a bag of records and some other notes of things that caught his ears and we got down for 4 HOURS! Thanks for rocking with me this year and as always catch me live every Sunday from 1 - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! UPDATE: This episode is no longer available to stream. If you'd like to listen back, holler at me! Tracklist: David Murray, Questlove & Ray Angry “Plumb” Danny Brown “Bass Jam” Killer Mike ft. Eryn Allen Kane “Motherless” B. Cool Aid “Cnt Fk Around” Seafood Sam “Rainboots & Ponchos” Black Thought & El Michaels Affair “The Weather” Kassa Overall ft. Laura Mvula & Francis and the Lights” jaimie branch “Burning Grey” Etienne Charles “Theatre of the Absurd” Hal Warren “Teuer Klunker” Butcher Brown ft. Jay Prince “Move (Ride)” OGSb “F.W.T.W.F.W.Y. (Fuck With Those Who Fuck With You)” Shaheed & DJ Supreme ft. Chali 2na “Appre...

As I was contemplating this piece, sitting with the three albums being inspected, I was struck with a lot of thoughts around my journey to Jazz. Recently I mentioned my first hearing Kind of Blue and my inability to grasp the beauty of it at the time. I was a high schooler who was consumed with rap just beginning to step away from the stars of the era and digging into an underground that was vibrant and diverse. I had more digesting to do. This is a repeated pattern throughout my sonic history. I find some music that strikes a chord and I dig in. The napster fueled download era was a dream. Then came the blog era which also rewarded this kind of deep dive. I was trapped in a purgatory of my own making as streaming took rise and was fairly tuned out from anything that wasn’t equally dark and hopeless. As I emerged from that darkness and began hearing names I hadn’t heard of before, exploring this world of modern Jazz became the new quest. Initially it seemed too vast, too much. But I ...