NPR Tiny Desk Concert: T-Pain

T-Pain without Auto-Tune, BenZel with Juicy J and Cashmere Cat, Glass Candy's Halloween and more in the music we Tweeted this week

With hits like “Bartender” and “Buy You a Drank,” T-Pain has wooed fans with his trademark Auto-Tune crooning. But at a recent Tiny Desk Concert at NPR (a series that hosts intimate, often stripped down, performances at Bob Boilen’s desk), the Grammy Award-winning artist surprised many by singing with just a pianist. No Auto-Tune, no effects—just his own voice, and his ballad version of “Buy …

Clash DJ Mix: Wolf + Lamb

T-Pain without Auto-Tune, BenZel with Juicy J and Cashmere Cat, Glass Candy's Halloween and more in the music we Tweeted this week

In their recent one-hour mix for London’s Clash Music, Brooklyn-based duo Wolf + Lamb (producers Zev Le Wolfe and Gadi Mizrahi) delivers an enticing bite-sized sample of the sound that has made them famous over the years. Their seemingly innate talent for layering seriously hedonistic undertones with blithely funky beats has led the pair to become a highly sought-after dance floor companion. But for the …

BenZel: Four (feat. Juicy J + Cashmere Cat)

T-Pain without Auto-Tune, BenZel with Juicy J and Cashmere Cat, Glass Candy's Halloween and more in the music we Tweeted this week

When BenZel jumped on the scene in 2012 with their production for Jessie Ware’s Brownstone cover (and ultimately her last album), fans were surprised to see she’d tapped a previously unheard of talent, but even more stunned to read they were teenagers. Whether Osaka-born Umi Takahashi and Yoko Watanabe’s bio is an absolute truth, one thing is certain: they sure know how to make a …