Music from Hip Hop legends Gang Starr, London's HÆLOS, and Post Punk enigmas Squid lead us into the Top-5 of my favorite new songs of 2019!

Brooklyn musician/producer Quantic checks-in at #16 on my Favorite-30 of 2019, while Portishead's debut Trip-Hop LP masterpiece turns 25!

We're off to Amsterdam for #20 in my Favorite-30 of 2019 from Dutch duo Weval and a big album from The Rolling Stones turns 50-year-old!

Today we’re off to the Netherlands for a great new track from Weval! They’re the duo of Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers. They got together in Amsterdam back in 2010 and released three EP’s out ahead of their full-length debut album in 2016. Each musician had different areas of expertise before they began working together. Albers’ background was in trip hop, while Coolen was more into house-music. “The Weight” is their second full-length LP, out now on Kompakt Records.

It can't possibly be that time again, but it is. Thanksgiving is just over a week away. Turkeys are being purchased and if they're big enough some may even be set in the refrigerator for thawing by day's end. Meals are being orchestrated, dessert-ideas mulled, guest-lists pored-over, and travel plans made. For many of us it's the beginning of a furious six-week sprint to the end of the year and that means stress is probably on your list of unwelcome guests about to pay a vis

Hello and welcome to another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! I'm your host Kristen Eck. Following a cold windy day of swirling snow here in the Boston area on Friday, Mother Nature finally relented a bit on Saturday. It was still chilly, but the wind had calmed to a breeze, the sun was out, and then I found this outside near my car... Nothing makes me quite as happy after a long Winter than the sight of the first Crocus, followed soon after by the Daffodils. Seeing life sp