JANELLE MONAE - (COME ALIVE "WAR OF THE ROSES")

First I'd like to say that this is like the cutest human-being on earth, now that I got that out the way I present to you a new song by Janelle Monae "Come Alive". Everyone is saying that this sounds like The Violent Femmes "Blister In The Sun"...and it does a little. But at the end of the day Janelle Monae is herself. This song had to grow on me, almost did not make the site. But upon the 2nd listen I really got into it. I really cannot wait to see the finished product of her debut album, many directions it could go working with Sean Combs. A song that might of been slept on was/is Nerd Girl by Chester French featuring Janelle Monae. Both Janelle Monae & Chester French are very hit-or-miss with me, but this song they HIT!

DOWNLOAD: Janelle Monae – Come Alive (The War of the Roses)

DOWNLOAD: Chester French - Nerd Girl (featuring Janelle Monae)

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DIGGIN' CHICAGO! - WINDY CITY CRATES (Pt. 1 of....)

It's no secret that tons of amazing music has been made in Chicago. The Windy City has produced some of the greatest Blues, R & B and Soul, Funk and Disco records of all time. With that in mind, each week I'll post a lost gem recorded right here in Chi-town. But for the first post, I thought I'd go a little left field and drop a little Latin (!?) flavor, Chicago style ... Los Aristocratas de Chicago (The Chicago Aristocrats) were a Mexican band formed in the mid-70s in Chicago. The band's excellent taste in formal wear is matched musically with a tasty (saboroso!) cover of Ray Baretto's 'Cocinando'. Lovin' the powder blue tuxedos, fellas!

LISTEN: LOS ARISTOCRATAS DE CHICAGO - COCINANDO

Tough Jazz One!

Tough Jazz One - Sound Tracks Real & Imagined (A Mix by 'Cosmic' Clark)

I was thinkin' about jazz and the movies (And a mix made a while back) and most of my favorite films have killer sound tracks. A great sound track can lift a seemingly banal scene or film into the stratosphere and inject it with emotion, context and meaning. Jazz, at it's best (or uh, cosmic), can create films inside your imagination, literally 'taking you on a trip'. Sometimes you gotta' go deep...

Buddy Collette opens with 'My Funny Valentine', from a rare LP recorded in Italy with the Basso/Valdambrini Quintet. (Sublime flute work by Collette.) Next up is the Clarke-Bolland Big Band with 'Un Graso de Areia', featuring Sahib Shihab. (What's the latin phrase for "chase scene"?) Remo Usai follows with 'Tema de Boca de Ouro', the theme to the classic Brazilian fillm BOCA DE OURO by Nelson Rodrirues. Sinister and dark to match the film. Mario Schiano takes us back to Italy and the vanguard for 'Supra Monte'. More Brazilian obscurities follow, one via Nigeria. Afrocult's 'Tema de Deusa Negra' is the title track to the the film DEUSA NEGRA. The film featured an all Brazilian cast, but was directed by Nigerian director, Ola Balogun. Afrocult is made up of members of Fela Kuti's band and Monomono! Deep, spirtitual Afro jazz. Next is Tribo Masahi's 'Walk By Jungle' Trippy. Beatnicks in Rio de Janeiro?! The mix closes with some funky fusion from Argentina (Chivo Barraro's 'Mi Amigo Tarzan') and brings it back home to Chicago with The Awakening's 'Kera's Dance'. ENJOY.

Tough Jazz One - 'Cosmic' Clark

Welcome To The Shrine

Greetings and salutations, positive people! Whether you have stumbled onto this page by chance, direction, or fate, you are definitely in the right place. The Shrine is finally here; Chicago's most innovative nightlife destination and live entertainment venue, geared towards the open-minded music lover, and the uncommon dance floor dynamo alike. Within just the past few weeks, The Shrine has already seen, heard, and created countless monumental moments in the history of Chicago's music scene, and there is so much more to come. Stay tuned to The Shrine's official website and blog site for information and in-depth coverage of special events and features, and be sure to add The Shrine to your personal networks on Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Going. Thanks to those that have already come out to repeatedly fill the venue with smiles and good vibes while sweating to a massive groove; and to those that have not yet felt the total experience that is The Shrine, we hope to see you very soon!

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