With the second single from their forthcoming album, An Evening with Silk Sonic, Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars prove that not only are they fans of Motown, they've also done their homework.
Here the clipped guitars and tight drumming of the original Strokes' song are exploded into the kind of Replacements-y thrust of Touché Amoré's finest moments.
Rewind to 1962 where a 20-year-old Barbra Streisand, at the dawn of her spectacular career, takes a solid but unassuming love ballad and displays all the potential of the human voice in three minutes.
It's the sound of a block party, a summer celebration with a groove you can't help but move to and lyrics that insist this party will be going on all night.
The South Carolina-born blues-folk singer possesses a remarkable grasp of the sounds and stories that make up the South. In "Magnolia Blues," she's joined by Margo Price and Kyshona.