{"id":2067275,"date":"2025-10-03T18:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2067275"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:57:16","slug":"new-music-friday-roll-out-glimmer-myka-9-blu-big-dese-mike-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-roll-out-glimmer-myka-9-blu-big-dese-mike-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music | Friday Roll Out: Glimmer, Myka 9 &#038; Blu, Big Dese &#038; Mike Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>To say <strong>Big Dese<\/strong> is prolific just might be an understatement. He and producer <strong>Mike Martinez<\/strong> have released ten projects together in just two years and <strong>No Respect 2<\/strong> comes right off the heels of the first one, released this past January. This album runs in familiar circles, held down with direct Boom Bap beats, combined with a variety of jazz and R&amp;B samples. Big Dese does make the most of it, and here he sounds like he\u2019s having fun, utilizing that Dangerfield imagery to get his points across. You can probably hear it best on \u201cBrush It Off,\u201d with music side stepping like an Abbott &amp; Costello backdrop with Dese\u2019s loose-confused lyricism. It\u2019s pretty clever. On \u201cHit The Road,\u201d it doesn\u2019t seem Dese is taking things too seriously, but here actually brushing off the ones who he knows can\u2019t stand next to him. Boastful but entertaining. He\u2019s at his best though on \u201cJust Passin By\u201d with its ethereal backdrop and Dese\u2019s introspective lyricism as he sees everything around him with eyes wide open. It\u2019s 2025 and he shares EVERYTHING; every nuance, every emotion we\u2019re all feeling right now. The Dese &amp; Martinez combination is magic. We have to give them both their respect.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve always said the same thing time and time again and I\u2019m not afraid to admit it. I\u2019m not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary but I never felt competent enough to be able to dissect anything by Freestyle Fellowship alum <strong>Myka 9<\/strong>, but GOTDAMN(!), paired up this time around on <strong>God Takes Care Of Babies &amp; Fools<\/strong> (Nature Sounds) with another L.A. emcee in <strong>Blu<\/strong>, no. I\u2019m definitely NOT qualified. The duo just released the album, produced by Mono En Stereo, and the underlaid sound is huge, a match made for the verbose emcees. The enthralling \u201cPark Bench\u201d opens with Blu\u2019s rhymes over this freewheeling beat, and he makes the most of it with imagery of homelessness, directly naming off political failures before Myka 9 catches the message, jumps right in and embellishes over it as well. It\u2019s juxtaposed cleverly. The trippy \u201cFree\u201d floats around led by its poppy bassline with the music more like a Schoolhouse Rock Jam performed by Sly Stone. And again, Blu &amp; Myka spit so quickly it\u2019d difficult to try and capture everything they say. Honestly, even if they moved in slow motion I\u2019d get an F in their class. Do they school you? Without a doubt. Yeah, they\u2019re the real B-boys.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3235559759\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenewcolorblu.bandcamp.com\/album\/god-takes-care-of-babies-fools\">God Takes Care Of Babies &amp; Fools by Myka 9 &amp; Blu<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>GLIMMER \u2013 <em>GET WEAK<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Debut albums don\u2019t always have to be tricky, they can sometimes be straight and to the point without a moment\u2019s hesitation. That seems to be the way for New York\u2019s <strong>Glimmer<\/strong>, with its debut full-length offering <strong><em>Get Weak<\/em><\/strong>. The band, made up of Jeff Moore (vocals, guitar), Jaye Moore (drums), Johnny Nicholls (guitar), and Kevin Dobbins (bass), stir up quite a racket here and sometimes expose the limitations of a genre but never succumbing to it.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just call it what it is though; an indie rock band that gets loud utilizing a couple of sub-genres to get its point across. From the looks of the band itself, it\u2019s evolved from a project by two individuals into a full on quartet over time, and now, at this moment, a cohesive unit of musicians. The band plays within the realm of the Shoegaze genre with \u201cTo Believe,\u201d as guitars \u2013 novel as they are \u2013 swirl around melodies but full of crunch and heavy riffing. It\u2019s not all about the genre though as Glimmer pulls together those moments of sustained notes but with enough bite and melody to allow the band\u2019s own identity to flourish. Ok, I\u2019m in, you\u2019re in. But it\u2019s \u201cDissolve\u201d that seals the deal, storming right out of the with those same loud guitars that just wash all over the track, soapy, smothering &amp; covering everything in their way although its Jeff Moore\u2019s vocals that make me take notice. It\u2019s more so the initial delivery as the song begins he hits those same notes with the rest of the band.<\/p>\n<p>Now all of this isn\u2019t to say the band isn\u2019t afraid of delivering a direct and to the point pop song. \u201cThis Good,\u201d seems to pull from a number of different sources but no, I\u2019m not going to do that. Comparisons are cheap and I at least have $5 bucks in my pocket. Sure, this could have been a hit with the big machines behind the band; jangling guitars that shift away suddenly with a dynamic change that\u2019s explosively charged. The band allows the song to ride it out and I dig the juxtaposition of Moore\u2019s lyrics taking the bad and flipping the script. There aren\u2019t any surprises in the structure of the song itself but it is a head-nodder. \u201cSlow Saturday\u201d is where that jangly pop gazes down and the combination is pretty alluring. Again, the band plays a bit with dynamics and sustaining those notes in washes of guitars but the rhythm, the melody, and the song\u2019s catchiness won\u2019t let you down. Yeah, definitely in. Glimmer is a rock band though, and it can ROCK. \u201cBeen Down\u201d expressly shares that as drummer Jaye Moore leads the way and the band follows. While the song is a wonderous rocker, it\u2019s still pretty airy.<\/p>\n<p>While Glimmer isn\u2019t going to change the world, it won\u2019t die a slow and lonely death. The band has a lot of good things within <em>Get Weak<\/em>, with powerful guitar interplay and melodies which are fruitful at just about every turn. With its first album, the band has found an identifiable sound all its own.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2766486699\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/glimmerisaband.bandcamp.com\/album\/get-weak\">Get Weak by Glimmer<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ghettoblastermagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say Big Dese is prolific just might be an understatement. He and producer Mike Martinez have released ten projects together in just two years and No Respect 2 comes right off the heels of the first one, released this past January. 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