Categories for Music

Six Degrees

If you haven’t used whosampled.com, it’s a best way to find out which samples of songs, both musically and lyrically. Ie. Did you like Kanye’s Famous? Have you heard Sister Nancy’s version Bam Bam? Or did you know that the Beatles’ Lady Madonna and Richard Pryor were sampled in Sublime’s What I Got?

Anyways, using this amazing database of connections, they now have a game that figures out the degrees of separation between two artists. Try to see if you can get more than 4 degrees.

http://www.whosampled.com/six-degrees/

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Reignwolf

He starts out playing guitar and the bass drum. Watch it all, because he then he grabs a drumstick and plays the kit behind him while still on the guitar.

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Jamila Woods

You might remember her from being featured on Nora’s (and mine) favorite Chance the Rapper song, Sunday Candy. On the recommendation of some coworkers (and apparently the rest of the internet), I gave a listen to her new mixtape, HEAVN. You can download it via link on her Twitter, @duhmilo, or via her SoundCloud:

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Iko Iko

Happy Friday! If it isn’t already blowing up your facebook feed, here is Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, Sia and Natalie Portman doing a great cover of the Dixie Cups’ Iko Iko:

If you don’t want a happy friday, then check out Portishead’s cover of ABBA’s SOS.

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