Gallant – “Crimes” (Lyric Video)

July 9, 2019 JUKEBOXDC Staff Current, Local, Music, R&B No Comments  

Today, GRAMMY® Award-nominated, critically acclaimed singer and songwriter Gallant shares his new single “Crimes.” Get it HERE via Mind of a Genius / Warner Records.

Zane Lowe exclusively premiered the Stint-produced song as his latest “World Record” on Apple Music’s Beats 1. Lowe praised Gallant for “deliberately finding his voice” and “trying new things” while describing “Crimes” as “soulful” and “pure.”

“Crimes” spotlights the nuances of Gallant’s signature soulful alternative R&B style with cinematic production and another show-stopping vocal performance. It arrives on the heels of “Sharpest Edges.” The music video for the latter recently premiered on VMan. The song also attracted widespread acclaim from Billboard to Complex and Consequence of Sound. The New York Times wrote, “The pleasurable payoff is in the music, harking back to the 1980s era of Michael Jackson’s vocal harmonies and Prince’s synthesizers, all sweet, glassy smoothness.”

Gallant joins Chance the Rapper, Estelle, James Fauntleroy and more as a musical contributor to Steven Universe The Movie—the musical version of the Cartoon Network show due in the fall.

Later this year, Gallant returns with the follow-up album to 2016’s universally acclaimed full-length debut, Ology.

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Ari Lennox, Ty Dolla $ign, Omen & Dreezy – “Got Me” (& More)

June 13, 2019 JUKEBOXDC Staff Current, East, Hip-Hop/Rap, Local, Music, R&B, Southern No Comments  

Dreamville recently liberated a couple of new singles presumed to be taken from the forthcoming compilation Revenge of the Dreamers 3 — and one of them features none other than D.C.’s own Ari Lennox.

Check out the Shea Butter Baby alongside Ty Dolla $ign, Omen and Dreezy on the track “Got Me”; you can also enjoy another cut titled “Down Bad,” which features J. Cole, J.I.D, Bas, EarthGang and Young Nudy.

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Amerie Drops Double EP ‘4AM Mulholland’ / ‘After 4AM’

October 20, 2018 JUKEBOXDC Staff Local, Music, R&B No Comments  

Ah, Amerie. Like Mya, the hometown songstress has remaining timeless in beauty and talent…and now she returns with a new double EP titled 4AM Mulholland / After 4AM, her first drop since 2016’s Drive (2009’s In Love In War is her last album).

Said Amerie to Billboard about the double release:

You recorded these projects while pregnant.
Everything on the album was recorded from when I didn’t know I was pregnant to eight, nine months [along]. “Not a Love Song” and “The Wall” were around then. I was doing little sexy rolls on those tracks. [Laughs] I record, engineer and do my own vocals and rough mixes. It was really creatively freeing.

How did the idea of a double album come about in 4AM Mulholland and After 4AM?
I love my projects to be very sonically cohesive. As I was recording, I wasn’t trying to limit myself in any way, I was feeling very, very creative — I had just came off of writing a new story and I wanted to go full-out into the recording process. I didn’t want the album to be a smorgasbord of sound, it needs to have a vibe and that’s why there’s two projects.

I’m hearing a lot of darker and moodier vibes from you on this project.
The funny thing to me, I’ve always felt like my music is dark — even when no one else thinks that. Like with “Why Don’t We Fall in Love,” I got on the video with the director and he’s like, “OK, I’m thinking summertime, you on a beach,” and I go, “OK, this is cool, but actually my initial thought was black, red and a highway.” No one else seems to feel that.

Stream below.

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Check Out Ari Lennox’s “Whipped Cream” Acoustic Video

August 30, 2018 JUKEBOXDC Staff Local, Music, R&B No Comments  

“‘Whipped Cream’ is my little baby that expresses how I feel about an ex that I’m still not over. He’s the same n***a that I talked about in PHO,” says Ari.

“Whipped Cream” is the latest release from the Washington D.C. native who dropped her debut EP, PHO, in late 2016. PHO showcased Lennox’s immense talent while highlighting her position as the only female and sole vocalist of her crew. The young talent has described her music as “modern, relaxed, turned up soul… reminiscent of the beautiful music from the ‘70s” while labeling her voice, “imperfect, but pretty.”

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