Keeping It Fresh

After a short hiatus, I am back at it again with some great new music for you all! Coming back from vacation, I heard a lot of music, discovered a lot of music, and just jammed out a lot. So today I though I would get the ball rolling with some music by the artist known as NF. This is a guy who is a crazy sick rapper. I mean absolutely incredible. The style of rap in this song is one of my favorites. It is this syncopated but fast style of rapping, one that allows rappers to spit rhymes out and get in as much lyrical content as possible. Now I really love this style for two reasons. One, being able to hear the words and verses that the rapper writes is amazing. More often than not, songs like this have some sort of powerful meaning, and this song is definitely one of those. This is a song that talks about the music industry in general, about how music has changed and become a source of profit instead of art. Which is something that I can agree with, and the way this whole song is worde...

Today is going to be the last post for a few days, mainly because I am hitting up California! I am definitely going to try and get in some posts, but it will be a little spotty. I am hoping to come back with a lot of new music for you though! Anyway, hopefully you'll hear from me and don't forget, keep rocking on!

Today I have an absolutely a beautiful song for you, coming from my mother country, India. This has to be one of the most moving and comforting songs I have heard in such a long time. A little preface on this song, but the meaning of it lies in the metaphor of a little bird. This is something that a lot of Indian songs do, compare life to a series of metaphors and scenes of nature. But the little bird in this song actually refers to the younger sisters and the young daughters of the world. This is a song about how wonderfully strong they are, despite all the darkness surrounding us. But it is also a reminder to appreciate and love the beauty of the world and themselves, and enjoy the wonder that is being a girl. I have to say, this song almost made me cry because of how bright and calm this song is. The rich and moving meaning of the song makes this something that leaves the heart and soul in a state of love and warmth and comfort. This is such a heartwarming song, both in lyrical cont...

Today I have some music for you by the singer-songwriter known as Kevin Garret. This is the first song I heard by him, and I have to say, it left me in this beautiful state of melancholy and fragility. This is the kind of song that leaves you hoping that nothing shatters the silence that follows the end of the song because of how much of a soul hitting song it is. This is a gorgeously pained single, one that is full of heartbreak and loss. This is a song that poignantly walks through a relationship that is slowly disintegrating, scattering into the winds. This song is one that seems to reflect on that one moment in every relationship, the moment so vulnerable and fragile that one touch could splinter and shiver into millions of pieces. This song explores the thoughts and feelings that seem to rush through your body as this moment overwhelms you, telling us that we either know what we want or we don't. And Kevin Garret's mature and emotive voice passionately and vulnerably expre...

Today I have music for you by a band that goes by the name Clubfeet. This song has a really cool sound to it. When you feel like listening to indie style electronic music, this group is one that can satiate your desire. This group has such a smooth sound to it but it falls on that psychedelic side of music as well. This song is one that is hard for me to describe because it sounds very familiar but also sounds very original from what I have heard before. I feel like this is something that could be featured on an episode of Teen Wolf. It has that independent and unique vibe and sound that no one else can copy. I am a huge fan of the way the vocals are presented because it is done so with layers. It is never just one voice and one sound you hear from the vocals, but many harmonies and different ways of singing the same lines. Something about that is very much like Imogen Heap's style of vocal layering. I also like the fact that they do maintain the conventional band instruments while...

Today I have the latest single by Zayn Malik for you. It seems like Zayn Malik has really discovered what his sound his, what style of music he needs to produce for a voice like his. As someone who is very much into R&B, this song was something that left me absolutely speechless. While I can't say that the lyrics are anything incredibly special, it is the delivery of these lyrics that makes this song something that draws you in and doesn't let you go. The chord progression and key changes in this song are absolutely mind blowing, something that is breathtakingly stark and hauntingly beautiful. This song has an almost eerie sound to it, but that is something that makes this song stand out among all of the R&B songs to come out lately. Zayn Malik sings very gently, letting a more vulnerable and emotive side show, while soaring through his falsetto and bringing it back down to a soft touch. The dreamy and ambient synth provides to be an ethereal accompaniment to the pensiv...

Today I have some cool music for you from two very unique and wonderful places! This weekend marked a dance competition for me, so of course I have to post some Indian music. But plot twist, this is a mashup between Indian and Western music. I haven't posted music like this in a long time, so I think it will be a really cool change of pace! We all know that mashups are all over places like Soundcloud and YouTube, and a lot of these mashups are often two English songs coming together. But, when you delve deeper into the world of mashups, you get some really cool mixes of music from all over the world. A combination of English and Spanish, Spanish and Hindi, French and English, etc. There are so many kinds of mashups out there and it dawned on me that it would be so perfect for me to share some of them! So today I am trying it out, seeing if I can find a style of mashup that people really like. Now for me personally, Hindi mashups of any kind are some of the sickest. Of course I am a...