Keeping It Fresh

Today I have some music by a rock band out of Tennessee. The Kings of Leon is a band that has done a great job of staying out of the spotlight despite their popularity. I for one have become such a big fan of their work for a few reasons. One, is that this is a band that doesn't mind experimenting, but they still have that solid rock sound that they claim as their own. There is something about rock music like this that I love. It isn't your stereotypical hard guitar work kind of sound, but one that is wholesome and includes a balance of all the instruments. The Kings of Leon create such incredible balances that you can help but be totally captured by the music. Which brings me to the second point. The Kings of Leon make music for us to understand and feel. Every song has a different vibe to it, but each album seems to have a common thread between all the songs. This album is one that has that atmospheric rock kind of sound, the kind of sound you get when you hear a live show. T...

Today I have some music for you by a an artist who seems to have blown up the charts this past year. G-Eazy is one of the more popular rappers making music right now, even though there is quite a bit of music that goes unnoticed and unheard by the vast majority of radio listeners. G-Eazy is an artist that has the capability of creating extremely meaningful and heart breaking music. This is one of those deep songs, a song that shows the grounded side of G-Eazy. A lot of rap and hip hop today is about living larger life, that feeling of being completely invincible and constantly on cloud 9. But what G-Eazy does with this song, is bring it back to humanity, bringing the music back to that flawed and imperfect sense of humanity. This song is definitely a meaningful one for G-Eazy, bringing his own demons up to the surface. And I love that he did this song with Kehlani because of what she has gone through. Kehlani has met some very dark times, and she has had to sacrifice quite a bit to pul...