¡MAYDAY! - Shortcuts & Dead Ends

Sims - Scope Or Claw

Scope Or Claw will forever be one of my favorite songs. This whole album (Field Notes) hasn't been talked about enough...this shit is timeless and I'll continue to share it whenever I get the chance to do so. Do yourself a favor and buy the album here.

Astronautalis - Sike!

...well, Astronautalis pulled a Beyonce and surprised us with a majestic grip of new thangs. Yaas$s. Astronautalis dropped the Sike! EP, as well as a new video, and an upcoming tour schedule. For more information click this---> [astronautalis.com]. And if you're lucky enough to have him grace your space/state on a future tour date, I recommend you check that shit out...you can thank me later.

You can download and stream the EP here:

iTunes

Spotify

Soundcloud

Gayngs - No Sweat

Shout out to my hairdresser for putting me onto this recently...kept me mellow as fxck when I was traveling during the holidays. Couldn't even hear any of the hundreds of children running around like wild animals in the airport or crying on the plane. Speaking of crying, you should also check out their track Cry. Shit is so mellow it's solid.

Sunburn - Sweatshop Union

Tune in, drop in

Atmosphere - My Notes

Weaving through the concrete cracks that we cling to...

Alive Inside

This is an excerpt from a recently released documentary, "Alive Inside." This film beautiful captures the awakening of Alzheimer's patients through music. The neuroscience of music and the therapeutic aspects of sound are incredible human experiences. Music can break through the walls of disease and disability to reach people who have been considered unreachable. Familiar music triggers autobiographical memories in Alzheimer's patients and enhances their identity. When we listen to music, we form an emotional connection to it. The strength of our emotional connection determines how well we remember a specific song. Emotions, music, and memories are linked together in the music-memory and music-emotion hub of the brain. (Also known as the medial prefrontal cortex for all you technical people) This area of the brain is one of the last regions to deteriorate over the course of Alzheimer's disease. This explains why patients who suffer from rapidly increasing memory loss, can still recall familiar songs from their distant past. In other words, familiar music actually triggers a mental movie of memories and plays them over in your mind's eye. Music can mentally transport people to a different time and place and improve their quality of life.