COLORS
BLACK PUMAS
SONWRITER: BLACK PUMAS
HOW: LIVE IN KUTX STUDIO 1A
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: BLACK PUMAS
LABEL: ATO RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 2019

Black Pumas is an American psychedelic soul band based in Austin, Texas, led by singer Eric Burton and guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada. The group received its first Grammy Award nomination in 2020 for Best New Artist at the 62nd awards.
The duo formed in 2017 and released their debut album, Black Pumas, on June 21, 2019. They performed at South by Southwest in 2019 and won a best new band trophy at the 2019 Austin Music Awards. On November 20, 2019, they were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Quesada was a member of Latin funk band Grupo Fantasma when it won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album for the 2010 album El Existential, and when it was previously nominated for the same award in 2008 for Sonidos Gold.
Through a mutual friend, Quesada connected with Burton, who had been a singer-songwriter in Austin since busking his way from Los Angeles in 2015. Quesada felt that Burton's vocals were a match for the retro-funk- and R&B-flavored tracks Quesada had been working on, and the two joined forces in 2018 as Black Pumas. Working out their material both in the studio and on-stage during a weekly residency at Austin's C-Boys Heart & Soul Bar, they signed a deal with ATO Records and released a pair of singles, "Black Moon Rising" and "Fire", in early 2019. Their acclaimed debut LP followed in June of that year and helped to earn the duo a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.
The duo's self-titled debut album was called "perfectly realized" by The Guardian, while Headliner Magazine called it "a polished, timeless-sounding debut album," noting Burton's "electric, soaring vocals," adding that the band sound "impossibly good live," while Pitchfork described the band's sound as "acutely cinematic", and Rolling Stone complimented frontman Eric Burton's "tireless, charismatic energy".
In May 2020, Black Pumas featured on the cover of Headliner Magazine: "Burton the showman surges with a humming energy, leaping about the stage (and often into the delighted crowd) whilst effortlessly filling the venue with his electric, soaring vocals, while a mellow Quesada leaves him to it as he holds the groove down."
Black Pumas performed "Colors" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! following their network TV debut on CBS This Morning along with a taping on season 45 of Austin City Limits. The band's single "Colors" later reached number one on AAA radio.
In 2020, the band performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and embarked on tours of North America and Europe including festival additions at Coachella and Newport Folk Festival. In their hometown of Austin, Texas, Black Pumas became the first band to sell out four consecutive shows at Stubbs, one of the city's live venues, and on May 7, 2020, mayor Steve Adler proclaimed the date as Black Pumas Day.
I woke up to the morning sky first
Baby blue just like we rehearsed
When I get up off this ground
I shake leaves back down to the brown brown brown till I’m clean
Then I walked where I’d be shaded by the trees by a meadow of green
For about a mile I’m headed to town town town in style
With all my favorite colors
All my favorite colors
My sisters and my brothers see them like no other
All my favorite colors

It’s good day to be a good day for me a good day to see my favorite colors
My sisters and my brothers they see them like no other
All my favorite colors
Now take me to the otherside
Where the baby blues birds fly
In grey clouds, or white walls, or blue skies we gon’ fly feel alright
Now we gon’ woo woo woo ya
They sound like woo woo woo ya
The least I can say I anticipate a homecome parade as we renegade in the morning
All my favorite colors
All my favorite colors

My sisters and my brothers see them like no other
All my favorite colors
It’s good day to be, a good day for me, a good day to see my favorite colors
My sisters and my brothers they see them like no other
All my favorite colors.

MAKE THEM WHEELS ROLL

SAFIA
SONGWRITERS: BEN WOOLNE-KIRKHAM; MICHEAL BELL & HARRY SAYERS
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: MAKE THEM WHEELS ROLL
LABEL: PARLOPHONE
GENRE: DANCE
YEAR: 2016

"Make Them Wheels Roll" is a song by Australian electronic music group Safia. It was released as the second single from their debut studio album, Internal(2016).
The song premiered on Triple J on 4 March 2016. Ben Woolner said the song is about "How you're encouraged to be part of society to keep things going." He added, "it's definitely up there with one of the favourite tracks we've done." The song was released on 4 March 2016.
SAFIA is an Australian electronica, indie pop band formed in Canberra. They met at Radford College. They won the Groovin' the Moo competition in 2012 and were featured on Peking Duk's ARIA top 10 single, "Take Me Over".
The band says the name comes from a song they wrote called "Sapphire", but it does not mean anything. The band have since found out that safia means serenity in Arabic.
When it comes to the band's influences, they claim to have a very broad range of styles and genres but list artists like Purity Ring, Major Lazer, Feed Me, Chet Faker, Disclosure and James Blake.
In 2014, lead singer Ben Woolner appeared as feature artist on the Indian Summer single 'Aged Care' under the pseudonym 'Benjamin Joseph'. The band opened for Twenty One Pilots during their 2017 Emotional Roadshow Tour Pacific Leg which started in Wellington, New Zealand.
On 30 June 2016, the band announced the title of its debut album, Internal, which was released on 9 September 2016 and peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts.
On 13 October 2017, Safia released "Cellophane Rainbow".
In 2018, they released "Freakin' Out", which was the first track they wrote after their album "Internal".
Things that you thought you’d be
Shake mediocrity, you know
Burbs or the streets
Doesn’t matter where the crows don’t eat
Where the crows don’t feast
On the hungry and the weak

Click click, pen to the track
After this babe you can’t go back, you know
‘Cause if you ain’t all that
Might as well have you’re bags by the door to go
Because you’re on your own
Because you’re on your own

(And they say)
Put me back together
Fix my broken mind
Make them wheels roll
Oh, lord
Make them wheels roll

Back to the grind
Conform or redesign, you know
No place for a cog that thinks all on their own
Just flesh and bone
Oh just flesh and bone

Put me back together
Fix my broken mind
Make them wheels roll
Oh lord
Make them wheels roll
(And they say)
Put me.

    CARS IN SPACECa

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COSTAL FEVER
SONGWRITERS: Fran Keaney; Joe Russo; Tom Russo; Marcel Tussie & Joe White
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: CARS IN SPACE
LABEL: IVY LEAGUE RECORDS
GENRE: INDIE
YEAR: 2020

According to Metacritic, The French Press has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 4 reviews, indicating that it has received "universal acclaim" from critics. One favorable review of the EP was written by Pitchfork Media's Stuart Berman, who gave it an 8.1/10 rating, writing that the French Press "shines just as bright as their last EP [Talk Tight], but the songs cast darker shadows." In a more mixed review, Landon MacDonald of PopMatters gave the EP a 5 out of 10 rating, writing that "Ultimately, this record is for indie rock fans alone and can’t stretch past the borders of the genre."
Robert Christgau gave Talk Tight an A grade, writing that "If you like the [guitar] effect—and why not, it's beautiful—you'll gravitate to it on sound alone. But what I'm loving at least as much is lyrics that suit the bright white male culture the sound implies." He also compared the band's sound to that of the Go-Betweens, a comparison that has also been made by critics like Stephen Deusner. The band has also been aligned with Melbourne's dolewave scene. 
[Verse 1]
You trace your hands around the wheel
Your face, it shines in the flicker of the film

[Pre-Chorus]
It sounds like rain, I hear the beating in my heart
You want it simple, how hard you make it

[Chorus]
Could have been stumbling on the ancient stone
Four feet wandering in the eve before we
Turn inside, turn inside
Turn inside

[Post-Chorus]
Buzzing overhead
Banging on and on and on

[Verse 2]
Come around, come around, through the cold, in the warmth
Of the car, I'm the raven, I'm the keeper of your secrets

[Pre-Chorus]
It sounds like rain, I hear the beating in my heart
You want it simple, how hard you make it
[Chorus]
Could have been stumbling on the ancient stone
Four feet wandering in the even before we
Turn inside, turn inside
Turn inside

[Post-Chorus]
Buzzing overhead
Banging on and on and on

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
At the intersection, waiting on the corner
Bottom of the freeway, before it opens up
At the intersection, waiting on the corner
Bottom of the freeway, before it opens up.


HEY LITTLE BABY
DOPE LEMON
SONGWRITER:
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: SMOOTH BIG CAT
LABEL: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT PTY LTD.
GENRE: INDIE
YEAR: 2019

Angus Stone(born 27 April 1986) is an Australian folk singer-songwriter and record producer-engineer. He is one half of the musical sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone, with whom he has released four studio albums. His debut solo album, Smoking Gun, was released in April 2009 under the pseudonym Lady of the Sunshine, and reached the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart. His second solo album, Broken Brights, was issued on 13 July 2012 and peaked at No. 2.
Angus Stone was born on 27 April 1986 and grew up in Sydney. His parents, John and Kim Stone, were both folk musicians. Stone's older sisters are Catherine (born ca. 1982) and Julia Stone (born 13 April 1984). Stone attended Newport Primary School and Barrenjoey High School. At primary school he joined the school band with his father teaching and his sisters accompanying. At family gatherings when the children performed, Stone played trombone, Catherine on saxophone and Julia on trumpet with Kim singing and John on keyboa d or guitar. At about the age of 14 years his parents separated and soon after he started writing pop songs. Stone joined a band in high school as lead singer playing both covers and original songs. The band performed at numerous local community events.
While on a holiday with his sister to South America, Stone showcased his musical side to Julia, "[Angus] was writing amazing songs... [he] had shown me how to play guitar in Bolivia, and those songs had gotten me through that year". By 2005 Stone was playing at open mic nights, sometimes Julia performed backing vocals – their first such gig, at the Coogee Bay Hotel, they performed "Tears". After playing split sets with each singing backing vocals to the other's material, in 2006, they formed a duo, Angus & Julia Stone.  In March that year the pair recorded their debut extended play, Chocolates and Cigarettes, which was released in August. Since then the group has released two EPs, two compilation albums and four studio albums.
[Refrain]
She said she don't like the rock & roll life
She says I drink too much, go to bed too late
She said I got no time for her anymore (Ahh)
Sit around too long, strumming my guitar
Telling her things I've never told her before
Guess it's just all I know, baby girl

[Verse 1]
Let's go on holidays
Ohhh, let's forget all the things we say
Maybe get an old, old car
Drive around the winding road
By the blue, blue sea
We can start life in an old library
Read some books
Just you and me, just you and me
Talking about where we gonna eat for supper time
Super feeling fine
Ohhh, sweet, sweet, sweetie love of mine

[Refrain]
Let's ride away on a wagon to the sunshine
(Baby, little baby, everything goin' be alright)
With the smoke in my hand, and her feeling fine
(Baby, little baby, everything goin' be alright)
Ohh, leave this, leave this whole world behind
(Baby, little baby, everything goin' be alright)
It all sounds pretty peachy to me, it sounds pretty fine
(Baby, little baby, everything goin' be alright)
[Verse 2]
Ohhh, you can live in a dream
Or you can live here, right now
Ohhh, I'm gonna sleep and I'm, I'm gonna dream away
Hello, how's your day?
Seems it's just the way the world's spinning 'round
If you get caught in the storm
Sometimes you don't make it home
We can pretend for a little while
Sing, goin' on

[Refrain]
She tell me she don't like the rock & roll lifestyle anymore
Ohhh she says I stay up too late
Ohhh strumming my guitar for the world
Telling her things, telling her things I never told her before
Ohhh, everything goin' be alright, baby girl
Hmmmmm, I just wanna see you
Hmm, smiling, girl
Hmmmmm, I just wanna see you
Hmm, sitting upon the hill

[Outro]
Baby, little baby
Everything goin' be alright
Baby, little baby
Everything goin' be alright
Baby, little baby
Everything goin' be alright
Baby, little baby.