{"id":18710,"date":"2013-09-27T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=18710"},"modified":"2013-09-27T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T21:56:06","slug":"for-your-friday-afternoon-watch-the-robert-glasper-experiment-cover-smells-like-teen-spirit-on-kexp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-09\/for-your-friday-afternoon-watch-the-robert-glasper-experiment-cover-smells-like-teen-spirit-on-kexp\/","title":{"rendered":"For Your Friday Afternoon: Watch The Robert Glasper Experiment Cover “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for KEXP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let’s say it’s Friday<\/strong>. Let’s say it’s mid-afternoon. And let’s say you’re wanting something musical to enhance your post-lunch catatonia as you prepare to prepare for the weekend and semi-mindlessly push the balls into other people’s courts to ruin\/make their weekends. And let’s say the perfect soundtrack is a song performed by the The Robert Glasper Experiment<\/strong><\/a>, which attempts to bridge the gaps between electronica, indie, rap, soul, pop and jazz music (emphasis on the latter).\u00a0 No small feat, but said and done.<\/p>\n

Check out the band below via KEXP<\/strong> covering Smells Like Teen Spirit<\/strong><\/em>, and making it entirely their own.\u00a0 After check out I Can’t Help It<\/strong><\/em> and All Matter<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>.\u00a0 Clearly our virulent vocoder-hate is abating.\u00a0 Somewhat.<\/p>\n

The band will soon release their new album Black Radio 2<\/strong><\/em> (the cleverly-named follow-up to the prior Black Radio<\/strong><\/em>), which you can pre-order HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The impressive list of guest vocalists on the new album includes, amongst others, Macy Gray<\/strong>, C<\/strong>ommon<\/strong>,\u00a0Jill Scott<\/strong>,\u00a0Anthony Hamilton<\/strong>, Faith Evans<\/strong>, Norah Jones<\/strong>, Snoop Dogg<\/strong>, Lupe Fiasco<\/strong>, and Emeli Sand\u00e9.\u00a0 <\/strong>Bravo!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n