Your Daily Song Fix

Check out this awesome funky band. They have a lot of great tunes.

Elikeh is a collective of like-minded roots musicians performing their own brand of African Roots music. The material is a combination of traditional rhythms from Togo and 70’s Afrofunk. They seem to be heavily influenced by the music of Fela Kuti which makes sense because Elikeh’s drummer toured with Femi Kuti, Fela’s son, for three years.

On Saturday, August 22nd, Elikeh will be hosting an Afrofunk Dance Party in DC. If you are in the Baltimore/DC/NOVA area, this show is pretty much mandatory. While “Selma To Soweto” seems like a relatively chill song, Afrobeat music is always very fun to see live and everyone will be dancing their asses off. If you come out to the show, be sure to say hello. Show details below.

AFROFUNK DANCE PARTY w/ ELIKEH & FORQUARTERS COLLECTIVE
Start Time: Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 10:00pm
End Time: Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 1:30am
Location: Velvet Lounge
Street: 915 U st .NW
City/Town: Washington City, DC
Questions? info@elikeh.com

This Spoon song was featured in the film Colverfield and performed live by Spoon on Saturday Night Live on October 6, 2007. I haven’t heard it in a while but a friend told me to check it out again today and I realized it would be a great song for YDSF. Enjoy!

Matthew Ward is a singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. His music is mostly mellow with folk and country influences. “Chinese Translation” is the sixth song off his 2006 album, Post-War. The album has some cool songs if you are into the mellow folk sound. Besides great songs, great appearances are made by Jim James, Neko Case, and Mike Mogis.

I guess this one is more “your daily artist fix.” I say this because I haven’t come across a Badly Drawn Boy song I absolutely love but they are all pretty damn good and it’s really good music to listen to. So far I have checked out the albums About A Boy, One Plus One Is One, and The Hour of Bewilderbeast with About A Boy being my favorite.

Art Blakey was one of the best Jazz drummers and band leaders of all time. He is known as one of the inventors of modern Bebop style drumming. Blakey started off playing piano and was playing professionally by his teens. Shortly after he dedicated himself to drums and was playing with Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, and other greats by the mid 1940’s.

The Outlaw Gang is a funk group I haven’t been able to get much information on. If you have never heard of them, this funky two-minute tune is definitely worth your time. If you know about the band, drop us a comment so we can share the info.

( @passionpit @tokertunes ) Passion Pit was formed in 2007 out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Sleepyhead” is one of the four songs off of their EP Chunk Of Change that were created for Michael Angelakos’s then-girlfriend as a Valentines gift.