Celebration: Rolling On

Bright and exciting from start to finish, “Rolling On” will be the opening track of Celebration’s forthcoming Wounded Healer album. A chugging bass line, peppy organ work and singer Katrina Ford’s dynamic vocals drive the song forward with joy and fervor. The LP will be the Baltimore trio’s fifth and, from the early teases, vibrance seems to be a through-line.

DJ Shadow Feat. Nas: Systematic

Two very big names in music have just released their first-ever collaboration. DJ Shadow and Nas joined forces for “Systematic,” which embraces funky boom-bap, squelchy sounds and an old-school vibe but still sounds decidedly new. Nas, as always, delivers atop the ebbing and flowing beat. The track will appear on the “Silicon Valley” soundtrack, and hopefully the rapper’s upcoming record which is rumored to be …

Exit Kid: It’s Cool

It’s hard to escape the charm cast by claymation, the stop-motion animation process that artist Joe Baughman uses to great effect in the music video for “It’s Cool.” Baughmam constructs an otherworldly, whimsical dimension for the grungy but buoyant song by Exit Kid, a band fronted by Emre Türkmen of Years & Years and drummer Dylan Bell. The song will appear on Exit Kid’s debut …