BY TER STAFF

The best and brightest of this past week in music, as well as a throwback track! Hopefully you can bump these on the way to work to brighten up your Monday mornings.

Listen to Lana Del Rey’s newest songs, ‘Big Eyes’, which will appear in Tim Burton’s new film of the same nameon December 25th. Don’t let the Grammy‘s snub of her newest and crtically acclaimed album Ultraviolence stop you from enjoying the track and catching her on tour this summer.

J. Cole new album and its new track ‘Fire Squad’ are fire (pun intended of course). Listen to the song above, check out our review of 2014 Forest Hills Drive here and be sure to get the album when it hits shelves or on iTunes on December 9th.

Check out Overdoz’ (‘Don’t Wanna Be Your Girlfriend‘) new collaboration with Childish Gambino and King Chip (“Chip The Ripper”). The Patrick Paige (bassist for The Internet) produced track is available above for streaming.

Earlier this year, up-and-coming rapper/singer Raury gave us one of the best projects of 2014, his debut Indigo Child. This week we have one of his first major collaborations, this time with rapper Gucci Mane on his track ‘Dead People’. You may have not expected this collaboration but the song is not one to sleep on.

Chicago’s Taylor Bennett showed us what he has been doing since his graduation, as he recently gave fans his Freshman Year: 1st Semester EP. The EP features his tracks ‘Can’t Flop’, ‘Me & You’, ‘I’m Coming Down’ and ‘Family Gotta Eat’. Stream the entire project at Taylor’s Soundcloud and check out ‘Family Gotta Eat’ above.

THROWBACK

Last night we caught night 2 of Wilco’s 6-night stand at The Riviera in Chicago. Check out the classic track, ‘I Got You (At the End of the Century)’ from one of the pioneers and legends in alternative rock, below.