Jay Smooth has got the lowdown on the new Stevie Wonder album, out now on iTunes...
"The actual "A Time to Love" CD doesn't hit stores until October 18th, but Motown quietly gave it a "digital release" on itunes last tuesday, presumably as a ploy to beat the Oct 1st deadline for Grammy eligibility. I got an advance copy right before my radio show on Saturday, and will now be able to tell my grandchildren about the time I world-premiered a Stevie Wonder album. (and on the same night that I interviewed the Skullsnaps!)" More here.
something special for fans of The Roots... from OSN... (tip of the hat to Different Kitchen)
The Roots “Should I” (featuring Project Pat)
"It’s widely known (amongst Prince fans) that Prince has only totally erased *one* song from existence in his nearly 30 years of studio recording. That song, “Wally,” was supposedly so “personal” that Prince began layering instrument upon instrument on top of it and essentially ruining what was reportedly a really good song on purpose. The next day, Prince rewrote the song with less personal lyrics and recorded it. It remains unreleased to this day.
It’s widely known (amongst Roots fans) that The Roots recorded a song with Project Pat for their Phrenology album, however, no one outside of their circle has heard this song…. until today. Speaking with ?uestlove over IM today, he sent me this track and told me that he almost “Wally’d” it. He was considering it for the upcoming Roots compilations “HomeGrown: The Survival Guide for Understanding The Roots Volumes One & Two” but uhhhh… changed his mind. He’s given me permission to throw it out to the world since it’d otherwise never see the light of day.
Also of note… this may be the last recorded appearance of Malik B as a member of The Roots."
ADDED: Simon Grigg is blogging from Bali...
"...It seems pretty much business as usual along Jalan Legian, but of course it’s not at all. The shops are busy, although the Bintang t-shirt wearing Ockers, who were the fairly obvious targets of this horror, are glaringly absent from the streets and there is a gloom and despondency upon the faces of many of the Balinese. I was in Bali a couple of weeks after the 2002 bomb and again in January and February 2003 and I know what this is going to do to this beautiful, peaceful and undeserving island in the years to come..."
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