This was a nice Marvel-only week of pulls. We got a nice crop of Spider books, a new volume of Ghost-Spider Gwen Stacy starting, more solid issue of Black Widow/Hawkeye and Ultimate Black Panther, and I got pick up couple trades I've been lacking: "Fear Itself", and Fabian Nicieza's run on 2021's "Juggernaut: Can't Be Stopped". But after just seeing the cover of this book, I predicted (successfully) that this book would be my pick of the week:
Comic Book of The Week:
The Spectacular Spider-Men #3
Weisman / Ramos
All I need to do is see the Humberto Ramos-drawn covers every month and I immediately know I'm going to at least enjoy the visuals of The Spectacular Spider-men. But thankfully, Greg Weisman seems to always come through on this book. Cleverly titled "Meantime..." Issue 3 throws us into the story without any clue of what's going on. But we get parellel panels of Peter and Miles' recent past and present as we try to decipher whats' going. The story leads us straight to the end of issue #2 as we find out the supervillains behind the Spider-mens' curious past and dream-like happy present.
Weisman's storytelling is still top-notch and you can…
As a producer you need patience, you can’t always rush things so you need to allow time for the magic to happen. This can take a bit of time, or you may have to come back to something if it’s not quite there. You know when it’s right though!
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Nostalgia
Kaleidoscopic • Lush Lo-Fi • Keys Driven • Night Sky Beats—South London producer and musician Frith, presents Mind Blossom - a 13 track album displaying his creative output of over two years. It draws on influences as wide as @J Dilla to Ludovico Einaudi. A blend of piano beats based production that spans @lofi chill, ambient, electronic, jazz and Hip Hop. Hypnotic head-nodding rhythms from this brilliant debut on Mello Music.
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DJ Premier
This has been an excellent time to experience new music. There's something about tuning for Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal algorithms "just right" to deliver new quality songs to your feeds. I've been curating hundreds of playlists across multiple platforms and I've reached the point where these A.I. systems know my musical tastes pretty well. And since there are a lot of like-minded listeners who reach out and ask me for what i'm listening at the moment, I've decided to do a monthly list of the 6 - 12 new artists who are in heavy rotation on a daily basis. Plus, there's so many artist and songs rotating through me, I'd like to catalog them in a place I can retrieve them.
So here my artist list for May 2024 :
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Samara Cyn
Samara first came onto my radar when she showed up on my #foryou TikTok page with her "Green Eyes Freestyle " on the 245hiphop account. Hearing her southern drawl over Erykah Badu's "It's Too Late" groove was something special. And everything about her seems to be specials and ready crossover and make an impact in 2024. Her single "Moving Day " has been in heavy rotation for…
FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.
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