Any day housing a surprise new project from Oddisee is a good one, and today, we're getting that in the globetrotting rapper's seven-track body of work, Alwasta. The title of the project here roughly equates to "the plug" in English, (its origin is Arabic), and it is the inspiration behind the project. In the aforementioned culture, the "the plug" is a member of the community who uses their connections as a matter of social wealth, and, through this way of looking at society, Oddisee has channeled his artistic view into seven flawless tracks that touch on a wide range of issues. As he so often does, too, he makes every one of them sound absolutely great. In addition to the project we're sharing here, we've come across news that it's going to be a busy year for Oddisee, as he's about to embark on another tour (dates are below), release an instrumental album with his band, Good Company this May, and follow up his last album, The Good Fight, with another one slated to release this fall. You can check out our favorites from the aforementioned new project below, and you can download it all for free on Bandcamp now. Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates 3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE
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