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Tag: Hidden Gems

Hidden Gem: The Porcharitas “The Clap”

Posted on December 19, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: The Porcharitas “The Clap”
Hidden Gem: The Porcharitas “The Clap”

Girl talk with some garage dirt in your eye: Sounds like female Ramones meets the Sounds with a dash of the Donnas. Follow Sammy Younan @ Girth Radio W • T • F

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Hidden Gem: Cannons “Spells”

Posted on December 12, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: Cannons “Spells”
Hidden Gem: Cannons “Spells”

Light the candles and put red bed sheets on your bed…invite your special lady over. This is not a booty call…this is the slow seduction; the deep interwiing of two lives building a new life: together. It’s magic: Follow Sammy Younan @ Girth Radio W • T • F

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Hidden Gem: Greyjoy “Complications”

Posted on November 14, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: Greyjoy “Complications”
Hidden Gem: Greyjoy “Complications”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Today’s Hidden Gem requires the clapper.

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Hidden Gem: Rufus Wainwright “Hallelujah”

Posted on November 7, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Hidden Gem: Rufus Wainwright “Hallelujah”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

On November 7, 2016 we lost Leonard Cohen.

The world is poorer when we lose poets (Unfathomably we lost Bowie and Cohen in one year; I feel defenseless). Rufus Wainwright is synonymous with Hallelujah (so many fantastic covers really but Rufus gives Hallelujah pathos, Leonard gives it weight because dude had weight, poets…yo). Yet rather than the traditional cover…this is Rufus’ Hallelujah with 1,500 singers. Woah. Choir! Choir! Choir! is a venerable Toronto institution. If you’re ever in town join em; that’s the way it works: show up and sing…lend your voice to the choir.

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Hidden Gem: Lilly Wood & The Prick & Robin Schulz “Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix)”

Posted on October 31, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Hidden Gem: Lilly Wood & The Prick & Robin Schulz “Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix)”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Finally!! We all have these beats…songs that are faint memories and we don’t have enough to google. (How amazing would google become if you could hum or sing a song and it would be like…oh! I know that one here ya go! Here’s to the brave future we all want to occupy!).

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Hidden Gem: Chet Faker “No Diggity”

Posted on October 24, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Hidden Gem: Chet Faker “No Diggity”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

No Diggity remains one of hip hop’s most popular jams. At Pacific Junction Hotel bar (home of Girth Radio!) it gets dropped on the jukebox often. Actually a bit too much. There’s so many ways to cover this tune and Chet Faker does a fine job.

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Hidden Gem: ROB “Funky Rob Way”

Posted on October 17, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: ROB “Funky Rob Way”
Hidden Gem: ROB “Funky Rob Way”

You’ll either be sold by the song’s description: “Crazy rare heavy afro funk from Ghana” or the drums which needlessly to say are…funky.

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Hidden Gem: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens “What Have You Done”

Posted on October 10, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Hidden Gem: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens “What Have You Done”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Documentaries ain’t known for their excellent soundtracks. When The Garden Was Eden an ESPN 30 for 30 is an outlier. Directed by Michael Rapaport who is quintessentially New York City much like Daptone Records this track was an ideal match for a documentary on the last championship the New York Knicks won. It remains to be been seen what Phil Jackson can do and who the Knicks will become.

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Hidden Gem: Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør “Never Ever”

Posted on October 3, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Hidden Gem: Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør “Never Ever”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Chair Dancing!!

The video description is amazing: ” thick slices of pop drenched in heavy keyboard-gravy, seasoned with 80’s soul and that signature Röyksopp-sound; it’s disco baked beyond recognition.” Done like dinner…let’s do this thing!

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Hidden Gem: Mano Le Tough “Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)”

Posted on September 26, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Hidden Gem: Mano Le Tough “Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

This sinister beat should be in a horror movie was my first thought when I first heard this Primative People remix. Or a sci-fi movie like John Carpenter doing Star Wars. Both?

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