b3sci fav Benjamin Francis Leftwich returns with one of his catchiest tracks to date, new single “Shine”. The track serves as further example of Leftwich ‘s excellent sense of construction and restraint in melody, rhythm, and arrangement. Great tune.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – ShineBenjamin Francis Leftwich 
: (Official) (Facebook)
Rating: 8.1
The awesome Summer Camp turned an already great song, UK songstress Jodie Marie’s “On the Road”, into an absolute must listen. Jodie’s voice is incredible, little hints of trip hop and a classic country twang give it a depth and broadness that is really arresting. The melody reminds of something taken from mid 90’s alt rock radio, like one of those big anthemic “Black Hole Sun” sort of songs. Amazing.
Jodie Marie (Official)
Rating 8.3
Something new for your speakers from The Prince of Brostep, Skrillex. The gut busting “Syndicate” will be featured on the forthcoming EA video game release of the same new due next Summer. The broader trend of high profile musicians cutting exclusive tracks for video games continues. Don’t hate, participate. (DoML)
Skrillex – SyndicateSkrillex 
(Official) (Facebook)
Rating 8.18953
Alex Clare, one of the dopest artists in any genre right now, recently cut this gripping (and we don’t use that word lightly) cover of “Damn Your Eyes”, a tune made famous by the legendary Etta James. It’s rare to hear an Etta song done so well, let alone by a male voice. Do not miss this one.
Rating 8.3
According to Wale, “Lotus Flower Bomb” is the first official, real, actual Ambition track to be leaked to the interwebs. The smooth, “call up your girlfriend cause its gonna be a special night” track is all sorts of major radio hit material. R&B dude Miguel Jontel hooks up an easy, sticky, stays-in-your-head type hook to complement Wale’s choice focused bars. Wale sounds focused. He sounds ready. Ambition is due November 1st.
Wale – Lotus Flower Bomb (Feat. Miguel)Wale 
(Official) (Twitter) (Myspace)
Rating 8.2
The stunning “Push It” is new from UK dance act Duologue. “Push It” is the sound of a band in transition. Formerly of a more electronic extraction, Duologue are pushing their sound forward into a more guitar-driven melodic territory. The dance references are still there, they’re evident in the percussive nature of the vocal melodies and guitar layering but the band is really moving into some extraordinary sort of material. “Push It” is beautiful, epic but also interesting and fresh. We cannot wait for more.
Duologue (Myspace) (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.8
If you love anthemic dramatic UK guitar rock as the crew here at b3sci does. You will looove The Deadsets. Think Oasis, Kasabian, etc and you’re in entering the right ballpark (which is where these guys seem destined to playing someday (in 1995)). Take that and lace it with some slick sounding Morricone western type shit, and that’s sort of the point from which The Deadsets start from. Grab your Supernova guitar or at least your Supernova air guitar, your Orange amplifier, turn all that up 100x and get involved by hitting play below.
The Deadsets 
(Soundcloud) (Facebook)
Rating 7.9
Up and comer popstress Ronika has a new EP due out October 3rd. The catchy as hell single “Only Only” is a nice sharp sounding update to “80’s club music”. Play.
Ronika – Only OnlyRonika (Facebook) (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.0
When Mud Hut Music maven and all around great bloke Ed Blow asked us to curate this month’s MHM Podcast, we were like, “YEAHHHHH!” Listen as we pay tribute to one of our ALL TIME favorite producers, Rodney Jerkins. Songwriting 101.
Mud Hut Music Podcast 025 – b3sci Presents: The Best Of > Darkchild – Gems From The Darc-hives by Mud Hut Digital
Tracklist:
01 Destiny’s Child – Lose My Breath
02 Shareefa – Need a Boss (Feat. Ludacris)
03 Mariah Carey – So Loney (Feat. Twista)
04 Brandy – What About Us
05 Toni Braxton – He Wasn’t Man Enough for Me
06 Black Eyed Peas – Just Can’t Get Enough
The always fashionable Sunday Girl takes a run at the b3sci staff’s consensus favorite Blur song. It’s “Tender”.
Sunday Girl – Tender (Blur Cover)Sunday Girl (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
The dark! mysterious! cryptic! (ooooh spooky!) NO CEREMONY/// just turned in this glitch-y, garage-y mix of Patrick Wolf’s “Time of My Life”. Definitely feeling the track after first couple spins. And now spin three…
NO CEREMONY/// ? (Official)
Rating 8.1
Cleveland is our city. Seriously, bloggers, can we do with a better starting phrase for Chip than “Cleveland’s own” which seems to start 80% of the posts about him. The only dude that should ever follow the phrase “Cleveland’s own” in a sentence is, no doubt, beloved toupee, Ted Henry, Cleveland’s own Ted Henry. Tell Ya Friends is due soon.
Chip Tha Ripper – The TruthChip Tha Ripper 
(Official) (Twitter) (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
