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New music from Little Dragon, Sampha, Kelis, Isaiah Rashad, Com Truise and more. Listen and subscribe!

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New shit! This weeks list is active.

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Melanie Martinez - "Dollhouse" - Last time we saw Melanie Martinez, she was unceremoniously being booted off of Team Adam on The Voice. Some things are for the best, and Martinez wasn't really built for the kind of pop stardom that The Voice encourages. What she was built for is to deliver gems just like "Dollhouse," an eerie, haunting tune about the hidden aspects of the "perfect" family. I'm not sure if she's speaking from personal experience, but the lyrics are deftly woven within a slow-burner backdrop that BANGS once the chorus hits. I fully expected her to churn out dope music given the venue, and if this in any indication, we might just be looking at a new "indie" star.

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The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly), a playlist by Jason Norcross on Spotify

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This weeks playlist is active! I seem to have went kind of chill this week. New songs from Kelela, Bel Heir, Jhene Aiko f. Kendrick Lamar, Sweater Beats, Stwo, Justin Bieber, Night Terrors of 1927 and more. Listen and subscribe!

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The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly)

The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly), a playlist by Jason Norcross on Spotify

The new playlist is up. Big playlist this week as their was a lot of great new music to be had.

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The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly)

The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly), a playlist by Jason Norcross on Spotify

The new playlist is ACTIVE. New music from Freeze-Tag, Gent Mason, Diplo, Kaytranada, Ryan Hemsworth, Iamsu, and more.

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Kingdom Crumbs - "Pick Both Sides of My Brain" Seattle new-school faves Kingdom Crumbs deliver the new video off their self-titled LP from 2012. Hazy, yet clear and beautiful at the same time, the LP was in my top albums of 2012 (and it might be my 2nd favorite rap album outta Seattle). This video reflects that hazy yet beautiful asthetic. I strongly urge you to check the album out (it's on Spotify as well).

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Mayer Hawthorne & The County covers Lorde "Royals" as part of VEVO's Unexpected Covers. Mayer Hawthorne can't lose right now. Already a STRONG contender for album of the year with his Where Does This Door Go LP, he swings thru to nail a cover of Lorde's hit "Royals." Very sick.

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The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly)

The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly), a playlist by Jason Norcross on Spotify

This week's playlist is active. New music from Cut Copy, The Game, The Flavr Blue, Cults, Ta-ku and more. Plus, some really dope tracks you might have missed from the likes of Quadron, Major Lazer and others. Please subscribe if you're feeling what you're hearing.

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Iamsu "Hipster Girls" - Easily the best song off his Kilt 2 mixtaple, Yung Su delivers some visuals for "Hipster Girls." A smooth sample looped up by Trackedemicks provides the background as Su flips that refrain about Instagram made popular by Trinidad James into a sort of cautionary tale for the ladies in the social media game. Tumblr even gets love in the hook. The video isn't a masterpiece, but make sure you check out both Kilt mixtapes which are very good.

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The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly)

The Week's Best on Spotify (Updated Weekly), a playlist by Jason Norcross on Spotify

BWIP is back y'all. I think it's been a year since I posted on my blog and I'm just realizing how much I missed it. I need a little creative outlet to offset working in a cubicle 40 hours a week, so expect the quality I used to provide (just maybe not AS frequently). To start it off, here is my Week's Best on Spotify playlist. I update WEEKLY, and the playlist features either brand new music that week on Spotify or music released within the last year that may have been slept on. Subscribe and enjoy!

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The Soundmen feat. All Dom Wrong "Funny Feeling" I'm very excited that my long-time friends the Soundmen have started releasing original material. Their new single on Dither Down Records features The Glass frontman Dominique Keegan, but I'll let them describe it in their own words:

"We've been hard at work on our solo material and are proud to release our first single. The song "Funny Feeling" is a genre bending, nostalgic trip down memory lane; laced with the bright synths and signature bounce of what listeners have come to expect from Soundmen productions. The track features the woozy vocals of The Glass (Plant Music) front-man Dominique Keegan, also known as All Dom Wrong and is the perfect track to take listeners into the spring. The single EP will be released on iTunes this May and will feature a variety of remixes from buzzing french producer MR KS, Harlem's own $1 Bin, Denote records' Villanova and the soaring sounds of Panic City."

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Catcall "The World Is Ours" Aussie pop maven Catcall delivers this visual for her the new single from her forthcoming The Warmest Place.  The album has probably been the one I've been most anticipating for the last year or so. I fell in love with her music after hearing "Swimming Pool" and then again when she released "Satellites."  The video has her borrowing concepts from all the great 80's flicks (Carrie, Friday The 13th, Revenge of the Nerds, Halloween III (???)). Her album is going to be pop greatness. Pick it up on May 4th.

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Flatbush Zombies "S.C.O.S.A." You already know. FBZ's back with another off the wall banger. Erick Arc Elliott drops an aggro synth slapper that Meechy Darko and Juice get zany over. My favorite part of the video is Erick going nuts on his Roland synth. If you are wondering what the title stands for, there's a little bit of it going on towards the end. See if you can decipher the meaning. I can't wait til these guys drop an official project.

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Mister Lies "False Astronomy" One word: beautiful. Although the video itself is truthfully little more than a cranked-up Windows Media Player graphic, combined with Mister Lies airy, ethereal, haunting, sunny-yet-sad instrumental it becomes something unto itself. Breathy vox keys, pianos, drums and some light synths combine with Joni Mitchell's filtered vocals to create the perfect soundtrack to a night drive, or maybe even a dream.

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The Big Pink "Give It Up" My favorite song off of this year's Future This gets treated with a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic, drugged-out video featuring hazy visuals, lots of shots of the guys, and breasts. Nothing amazing but what I love so much about this song is how The Big Pink created a track that is definitely rooted in electro-pop, but branches heavily into hip-hop. The chopped sample is evidence of that, and even the female vocals at the end sound like they could have been ripped from a 90's one hit wonder.