Aussie rap impressario Iggy Azalea delivers perhaps her best track to date with “Bac 2 Tha Future (My Time)”. Excerpted here from her upcoming TRAPGOLD mixtape (due October), “Bac 2 Tha Future” wins on a breakneck all-go beat that ably picks up and transports Azalea’s flow to high level quality.
IGGY AZALEA – Bac 2 Tha Future (My Time)Iggy Azalea 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.3
Still looking for something amazing to do this weekend? Well, if you’re an avid music fan like us (and we know you are), then East Side Story taking place at The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles this Sunday needs to be at the top of your list. Host Abraham Beltran will be curating an evening of entertainment paying homage to the roots and glory of popular soul music, bridging the generation gaps and celebrating the knowledge and awareness that ‘music does last forever.’ Join as the Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble and a stellar cast of special guests including Mayer Hawthorne, Coco O. of Quadron, Bilal, James Gadson, Myron & E and Joey Dosik as they celebrate the timeless music of Etta James, James Brown, Brenton Wood, The Chi-Lites, The Delfonics, The Temptations, Billy Stewart, Mary Wells, The Flamingos, Barbara Lewis, Smokey Robinson, and many more!
Tickets for the show are $15 presale / $25 at the door, and you can get more info on purchasing tickets here. OR you can drop us a line and we’ll enter to you to win a FREE pair of tickets to this special event. To try your luck, just email us here and let us know that you want to catch East Side Story on sunday night to enter your name in our random drawing on Saturday evening (day before the show). Good luck!
Art Don’t Sleep 
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The 83rd spins a gem marrying Angel Haze’s “New York” track with Jamie & the late Gil’s “NY is Killing Me”.
Angel Haze x Jamie xx & Gil Scott-Heron – New York (The 83rd Mashup)Rating 8.3
MJB connects with three legendary R&B producers on newly unearthed track “Everyday People”. The illustrious production trio selects for Arrested Development’s ’92 “People Everyday” version of Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People”. A sample of a sample. (The Grammys, the more samples.) For her part, Ms. Blige spits feel good winner line after line. So so def.
Mary J. Blige – Everyday People (Prod. Pharrell, Jermaine Dupri & Bryan Cox)Mary J. Blige 
(Facebook(/a>)
Rating 8.2
Muse’s new The 2nd Law album drops next week. The guys have been telling us that this is the beginning of a new era stylistically for the band. That’s somewhat true on this album but Muse will always be Muse. For me, that’s a good thing. Their “Madness” single is doing very well, and “Survival” was named the Olympics theme. Both of course are on the album. “Panic Station” is different for them. It feels like if Nile Rodgers met up with Queen in the 80’s. By Bruce Rave
Muse – Panic StationMuse 
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*Check out Bruce’s Moheak Radio “Go Deep” show on Sunday nights 7-9 pm Pacific, 10-12 am Eastern, 3-5 am GMT. Also listen to past shows at Bruce’s blog and follow Bruce on Twitter.
Rhye returns with the brilliant orchestral pop of “The Fall”. Look out for an EP of the same name due on the great Innovative Leisure.
Rhye – The FallRhye (Official)
Rating 8.3
Here goes a hump day cooler c/o mysterious Ann Arbor, MI producer αtμ and incomparable Ms. Erykah Badu (& Martin Lawrence!). b3sci, Paul, and Tyrone.
αtμ – September Nightsαtμ 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
The mighty RH train kept rollin’ with his latest remix for Lianne La Havas. The Canadian producer opts for warm billowing synths and minimal beats that neatly fit about Lianne’s vocal. Maybe our favorite mix from Mr. Hemsworth yet.
Lianne La Havas – Age (Ryan Hemsworth Remix)Ryan Hemsworth 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
The dreamy “LoveLight” is new from Toronto soulstress Kaya. “LoveLight” is the sort of track that has that seemingly endless capacity to receive the emotions/feelings/problems/biz of the listener. By Matt Easton
Kaya (Bandcamp)
Rating 8.3
I have only the fondest memories of “Throw Some D’s”. The 2006 track by world’s largest forehead/rapper Rich Boy is one of those perfect rap tracks. Lined from pillar to post with top shelf hooks, flows & quotables, I remember a string of about three or four months that fall when “Throw Some D’s” was pretty much the only track I played (that and “Shoulder Lean”). Here, Charlotte producer Simon SMTHNG respins the track to a more melancholic soul palette. Utilizing a sweet as sugar minor-keyed soul/reggae? (Props to anybody who can pick out where this sample is from.) vocal line, Simon SMTHNG transforms one of the best rap songs of the last decade into one of the best remixes of the year. Check it out.
Rich Boy – Throw Some D’s (Simon SMTHNG Remix)Simon SMTHNG 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
The second single from Philly collective Sun Airway’s forthcoming Soft Fall LP has just hit the interwebs. “Black Noise” is a catchy upbeat popper complete with the crew’s signature psychedelic’ish flare. Get the track on Sun Airways’s new LP dropping October 2nd via Dead Oceans, and be sure to catch the group on tour with M83 this fall.
Sun Airway 
(Official)
Rating 8.4
Manchester’s Everything Everything bring their unique combobulation to this new rework of the Kodaline single “All I Want”. The remix stars a rhythmic tick of repitition with an especially noteworthy distorted organ, of which kinda blows our mind. Grab the track as a free download below and check out new debut self-titled EP from Kodaline available now.
Kodaline – All I Want (Everything Everything Remix)Kodaline 
(Soundcloud)
Everything Everything (Facebook)
Rating 8
