Benny Sings feat. Mac DeMarco: Rolled Up

Benny Sings and Mac DeMarco’s duet “Rolled Up” rides along a piano-led instrumental. The two vocalists begin the track by wondering “why my life turned south.” Strings fall into place with falsetto provided by Benny Sings (aka Tim van Berkestijn) and the duo soon trades optimistic verses. “Finally see the sun through all of those clouds / holed up, locked out, shut in, held down,” …

Routine Clean Kit

Comprising 40 laundry tablets, one 16-ounce dish soap powder, one 19-ounce hand soap tablet and one 20-ounce multi-surface cleaner tablet, Blueland + Reformation’s Routine Clean Kit encourages ditching the toxic chemicals for natural formulas that are kinder to humans and the environment. Using mostly naturally derived ingredients (including citric acid and sodium carbonate) these potions will still do the trick and thoroughly clean clothes, plates …

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Jubilant jazz, tantalizing Yoruba Tech Soul, experimental music and a farewell to Eddie Van Halen

Eli Fola: Midnight Fall Nigeria-born, NYC-based artist Eli Fola champions Yoruba Tech Soul—a genre that fuses “traditional Nigerian sounds, electronic, jazz, house and classical music”—through his self-produced music, saxophone performances, DJ sets and beyond. Most recently, he dropped Soundscape To Freedom, a five-track EP that comprises “soundscapes for a Black person living in America,” he explains. A groovy, hypnotic single, “Midnight Fall” embodies all of the …