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NOT 97 is a home for discovering new music from talented, under-the-radar artists around the world. This is not a podcast. This is not a radio show. This is NOT 97.
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Monday Mar 26, 2018
Monday Mar 26, 2018
This is season three's premiere, featuring one of Not 97's strongest roster of artists ever. With Ian Servantes at the table—Highsnobiety's current Social Media Editor, a former writer for Complex Media, and an illustrious freelance—we discuss a wide range of sounds coming from London to Toronto, Illinois, Japan, and more.
The season kicks off heavy with "Everglade," an enchanting new delivery from Collard, a young londoner with a knee-weakening falsetto. We introduce Floyd Fuji, an exciting new solo project from Philly's Kyle Thornton, and discuss his unique brand of futuristic funk.
Midwesterner Mowgli floats through intricate flows on the sinister single "Dance With The Devil." And we break down Adult Mom's "Full Screen," a playful, pointed track about porn, gender norms, and much more.
01 "Everglade" by Collard
02 "Sour Candy" by Melt
03 "4AM" by Tobi
04 "Drama" by Floyd Fuji
05 "Dance With The Devil" by Mowgli
06 "Full Screen" by Adult Mom
07 "Know Ya" by Drelli ft Moise
08 "Run" by Dansu
Monday Feb 12, 2018
Monday Feb 12, 2018
This is season two's bonus episode — one like we've never done before. Today's episode features an entire EP of covers recorded by LA-based singer/songwriter C.S. Armstrong. Across a low key but illustrious career Armstrong has developed a sound that is ruthlessly soulful, one that calls back to decades past while charging forward and defying boundaries.
This is an EP of covers, composed of timeless songs recorded by Armstrong with the intention of being placed in major motion pictures. For reaons unknown many of these songs never received soundtrack placement, however Armstrong's rendition of Bobby Bland's "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" is currently in Taraji P. Henson's latest film Proud Mary.
Joining the table for today's episode is a NOT97 alum, our first ever recurring guest, Amsterdam's own Van Common. Since August, the Dutch artist has been traveling around America and was gracious enough to book end his trip with appereances on the show — from season one's bonus episode to now.
01 "Five to One" originally by The Doors
02 "Not At All (interlude)" by C.S. Armstrong
03 "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" Originally by Bobby "Blue" Bland
04 "With a Little Help From My Friends" Originally by The Beatles
05 "Tainted Love Originally" by Gloria Jones
06 "I Need You" by C.S. Armstrong
Album available: https://soundcloud.com/lifeofarmstrong/sets/covers-ep
Art by Michael Brennan
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Monday Jan 29, 2018
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Season Two comes full circle with our final guest, Brooklyn's own Faith Harding aka Novelty Daughter, whose song "U Want What I Want" was featured on this season's debut episode. Faith introduces the off-kilter pop stylings of Ryan Powers, as well as Suzi Analogue, an ambitious electronic producer and DJ with a wholly unique sound landing in the lineage of footwork djs & experiemental instrumental hip-hop.
We discuss Loma—a newly-formed power trio from artists behind Shearwater and Cross Record—and their enchanting three-part harmonies on the single "Black Willow." Fresh-faced London four-piece Sorry offers a raw nod to grunge in their contagious track "Lies." And Portland duo Nurses delivers a warped psych balad with "In The Mirror."
We also play the title track from Faith's alluring & wonderfully daring 2017 record Inertia.
Art by Michael Brennan
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Monday Jan 15, 2018
Monday Jan 15, 2018
Art by Michael Brennan
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Charlie Adelman is the ideal guest for Not 97. He has years of experience working in digital marketing and management at the major label level, and currently handles product management for Crush Music. But really that’s the least of it, because he lives a floor above Only NY, the home of this show.
On today’s episode Charlie introduces “Ready Yet,” a contagious creeper of a single from LA’s Sasha Sloan.
Duendita—a soulful, Queens-bred singer/songwriter—flaunts versatility on the hopefully offering “Pray.”
We explore Melbourne’s rock scene with the four-piece Neighbourhood Youth and their sunny new single “Lately.”
And uncover underground UK lyricists like ManikMC and Verbz.
01 “Pray” by Duendita
02 “Ready Yet” by Sasha Sloan
03 “Trophy Daughter” by Sur Back
04 “Lately” by Neighbourhood Youth
05 “Rains Clear” by ManikMC
06 “Next To Me” by Marlene
07 “Slumflowers” by Verbz
08 “Let Her Be” by Starcrawler
Playlist available: https://soundcloud.com/not97/sets/not97-season-two-episode-eight
Art by Michael Brennan
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Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Full disclosure: today's episode is sad, but beautifully so. With writer, social media editor, and radio dj @raewitte at the table we introduce a round of weighty songs powered by lost love, sacrifice, self-pity, and redemption.
Rae brings in a smooth, utterly sinister break up ballad by singer, songwriter, and producer Chaisley Lussier. We break down "Evergreen," Yebba's devastating and yet somehow hopeful ode to grief.
Young Brooklyn-based lyricist Rosehardt battles through self-doubt and depression on his powerful single "Bad Song," while up-and-coming hip-hop artist Ophelia Cache stakes claim to her due fortune on the no bullshit release "Money."
01 "Easy Raider" by Pomona Dream
02 "Talk" by Chaisley Lussier
03 "Alright With You" by C.S. Armstrong
04 "Evergreen" by Yebba
05 "Bad Song" by Rosehardt
06 "Am I Enough" by Nick Nery
07 "Money" by Ophelia Cache
08 "Squeeze Me" by Keir
Playlist Available: soundcloud.com/not97/sets/not97-season-two-episode-seven
Artwork by Anna Walant
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Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Music supervisor and licensing director Emilee Morgan stopped by the shop for today's episode, introducing nostalgic rock from the husband and wife duo behind Seattle's Smokey Brights, as well as a pop perfect track from Atlanta's The Shadowboxers.
We discuss a cathartic and contagious standout from Stella Donnelly's debut record "Thrush Metal," unearth a lost song from a shadowy North Carolina folk singer named Carl Pike, and play refreshing new singles from artists like Norway's Fieh and London's Bakar.
01 "Mechanical Bull" by Stella Donnelly
02 "Come to Terms" by Smokey Brights
03 "Tracks" by Will Fraker
04 "Fuck California" by Carl Pike
05 "Obsession" by Harriet Brown
06 "Hot Damn!" by The Shadowboxers
07 "Big Dreams" by Bakar
08 "Glu" by Fieh
Playlist Available: https://soundcloud.com/not97/sets/not97-season-two-episode-five
Artwork by Eric Ramirez
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Monday Nov 20, 2017
Monday Nov 20, 2017
The second run around the table hip hop takes over. We introduce a song about healthy eating from a prolific underground Atlanta rapper named Tha God Fahim, as well as a Neptunes-inspired track from Ohio's Vada Azeem, and some weighty, rasp-ridden bars from Dallas's Rikki Blu.
Monday Nov 06, 2017
Monday Nov 06, 2017
With Daniel Schultz—RCA Records' rap-focused A&R—at the shop for today's episode, hip hop comes to the forefront. We explore New York rap's vast spectrum of classic sounds from sharp-lipped Brooklyn lyricist Latasha Alcindor to the effortless flows and intricate stories of Gabe 'Nandez.
The tight and dynamic Vancouver five-piece Peach Pit offers "Alrighty Aphrodite" and a mesmerizing single from Denmark duo Smerz is played.
We dive into "Lost Inside You" by Uhmeer, a song co-producer by illustrious London DJ Eric Lau (previously featured on 2.2). Lau shared with us high praise for the furtive young artist: Uhmeer is "one of the most gifted young people I've met," he says.
01 "Plaques" by Gabe 'Nandez
02 "Revoke Thee" by Latasha Alcindor
03 "Lost Inside You" by Uhmeer
04 "$on of a Queen" by Melodownz
05 "CYCLES" by Tamara Renée
06 "Let It Play" by Lil Cobaine
07 "No Harm" by Smerz
08 "Alrighty Aphrodite" by Peach Pit
Playlist available: soundcloud.com/not97/sets/not-97-season-two-episode
Artwork by Irene Chin
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Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Stro Elliot — prolific producer, multi-instrumentalist and the newest member of The Legendary Roots Crew — shares the table for Season Two's second episode.
Digging deep into London's rich, ever-evolving music scene, we introduce Hak Baker's street-worn stories, the jazz sensibilities of producer Eric Lau, and Puma Blue: a shadowy, lovelorn young crooner.
Northampton's Mal Devisa plays a raw, menacing new track called "Crowd Pleaser," experimental psych-soul project Clark & The Community is discussed, as well as a grand, cinematic, fiddle-forward song by Dina Maccabee.
01 "Conundrum" by Hak Baker
02 "The Best Good (A Message From Coltrane)" by Eric Lau
03 "Want Me" by Puma Blue
04 "Walk That Walk" by Davie
05 "Crowd Pleaser" by Mal Devisa
06 "Solo On Sunday (Dahmers Boy)" by Clark & The Community
07 "Making Chit Chat With A Stranger At A Dinner Party" by Michael Seyer
08 "Push Me" by Dina Maccabee
Playlist available: soundcloud.com/not97/sets/not97-season-two-episode-two
Artwork by Wes Bechtler
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