We’re loving the breezy carefree pop of “Dragg”, new from Idaho/California duo (two high school buds now living hundreds of miles apart created the record via throwing ideas back and forth online) Honey Bones. Get a good load of the quality of hooks on “Dragg”, it’s truly a great bit of pop songwriting. Honey Bones s/t is available on their bandcamp.
Honey Bones 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
The garage prototype. One of the strongest garage tracks of the year is one of the year’s best songs, our old friend Eliza Doolittle links up with the UK bass music mainstay Wookie for a TUNE that is as equally sultry as it is danceable (a no doubt difficult balance to navigate). Cheers to our pals at (KKS) for the tip.
Wookie 
(Facebook)
Eliza Doolitle (Official)
Rating 8.7
Our dude Patrick Baker taps the early 90’s sensual jam font for his latest creation “Control”. Very much of the vain of the sexier side of new jack swing and producers like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis & Dallas Austin, “Control” is the perfect track for your late-in-the-day midsummer cruise. We’re about to jump in the car and throw this jam on right now.
Patrick Baker 
(Official)
Rating 8.0
Pop rotation bright spot Ariana Grande (of the Big Pun-sampling “The Way” fame) keeps it 1990’s on new single the early Destiny’s Child-esque (complete w/ “yeah yeah yeah yeah’s”) “Baby I”. p.s. Grande girl can sing like crazy. Don’t miss it.
Ariana Grande (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
Chi rapper Mick Jenkins grabs a couple of his fellow bros in the 312 incl. emcee of the moment Chance The Rapper for a vibed-down jazzy tones On Gaud produced slow creeper.
Mick Jenkins 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.4
Texan Jesse Woods’ beautiful playfully plaintive folk gem “Gold in the Air” is preview here from his forthcoming debut Get Your Burdens Lifted LP, due August 6th on Guns in the Sun.
Jesse Woods 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
The gorgeousness that is Canadian artist Sundays new track for “Delicate” is not to be taken lightly. Do not take this beauty lightly. “Delicate” which Sundays also self-produced features among other very cool/strong qualities a vocal performance that while hushed and almost hypnotic in its simple easy repetition is among the most affecting set of melodies (and their execution) maybe of the year. This is the sort of music we want to play everyday at any hour. Sundays’ debut EP Of Eros and I is out in September.
Soundcloud 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
The Yuck are back (or at least the new Yuck; having replaced their lead singer following their last record) with the MBV-esque “Rebirth” and (we don’t use this very lightly) it is spectacular. On “Rebirth”, Yuck harness the instrumental girth and emotional casualness of classic shoegaze, while ably blending it soaring hooky pop melody; Yuck manage that without sound hokey, kitsch, or worse yet like Catherine Wheel or Chapterhouse. Rejoice! Yuck’s sophomore LP is due later this year on Fat Possum.
Yuck – RebirthRating 8
The Vek man goes in on Fun Adults’ recent (& great) “For Water” single embellishing up the percussion, shining up the vocal with some unique and dare we say mildly innovative layering and giving the overall track a glossier, more compact, can bounce to it if you like finish. The mix came about initially over a Twitter exchange between the two principal parties which is cool enough and has inspired us to throw our own remix request to Timbaland (@timbaland).
Rating 8
“Rich Girl” an oft-covered topic in popular song. Hall & Oates (naturally) commented that a rich girl can be capricious being able to “rely on the old man’s money” absolved her from responsibility for her actions (incl. ones of the heart). Gwen Stefani made it a point in her track w/ Ruff Ryders First Lady Eve to declare that no man’s financial assets would hold sway over her affections if she were one (a rich girl). (TOTEM) a new American R&B artist takes a bit different viewpoint, proclaiming in that the wealthy girl in his song’s question by virtue of having it (wealth) and knowing what to do with it, or how to use it, makes her that much more attractive and above the vagaries of your basic ham and egger sort of gal.
“Rich Girl” is a great song. There’s a spontaneous, visceral, immediacy-of-the-moment quality to the track that really enhances its believability and its power; you really believe (TOTEM) and you believe his “Rich Girl” character is real; like someone you know. It’s that emotional intimacy that makes “Rich Girl” particularly special. The comparison both melodically and thematically to Frank Ocean is an obvious one but whereas Frank is maybe a more cautious cooler narrator, (TOTEM) seems (within the context of each note, each vocal line) to crave, demand, want the listener’s attention and that pull and magnetism makes “Rich Girl” (for the listener) singularly rewarding.
(TOTEM) 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
The latest posse cut to capture the B3 imagination is Atlanta MC’s Que’s “Young Nigga” remix featuring Migos, Juicy J, and Bobby Ray. Spoiler alert: Juiceman raps about banana clips in this one too.
Que 
(Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.0
B3SCI in July = All FTSE all the time. No other artist, in any genre has captured as much of our attention or listening hours as much as the UK-based producer. Check out FTSE’s latest mix for London psych-pop outfit Cloud Control and their track “Dojo Rising”.
FTSE (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
