RIP Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - Running

Rest in Peace, music has lost a true legend, you will be missed.

The Weeknd - The Morning

The Weeknd is a Toronto based R&B artist called Abel Tesfaye. His tune 'The Morning' is dripping with sex and excess, infact his whole debut album 'House of Balloons' exudes lust and millenial nocturnal living, sometimes sombre, sometimes winning, always louche. 

The Weeknd creates lush, emotionally charged tracks about love, drugs, sex, deciet and other explicitly erotic subject matter that's hypnotizing in it's high quality production and patient delivery. Abel sounds like a far more interesting Drake and is set to bring some self-assured sophistication to R&B, he's not quite humble yet not brash and ostentatious finding an accessible medium between being confident and crestfallen.
Props to 1DimensionalMan for the heads up on this one. 

The Line-Up & White Powder Gold

I went to this night back on the 29th April and the full review's just gone live on the Brighton Source site.

"New Night 'The Line-Up' aims to give recently signed bands the chance to build up some live gig experience, and in turn to give the crowd an opportunity to catch emerging talent before they blow up, so you can look back and say "I saw them before they were famous" - which always feels good. 

Tonight the emerging talent are London indie duo White Powder Gold. Jamie and Jermaine renounce the typical skinny jeans and mop bucket hair associated with landfill indie and their brand of music is similarly rebellious. Their performance is raw and unpolished and all the more visceral for it."