The Spotlight Radio

S3E5: Rage Against the Machine & Denzel Curry

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 5 of the Spotlight Radio where your hosts, Aaron and Sarah Mae spotlight records we love! This week we started off our program with a BANG(!!!) as Aaron brought Rage Against the Machine’s 1996 record, Evil Empire to the studio. Rage Against the Machine is a left-wing, progressive that has been described as a variety of genres--from rap rock, alternative metal and nu metal. We discuss the content of lead singer Zach de la Rocha’s radical lyrics on immigration, the US government and its prevailing relevance in 2020. In the second half of our program, we kept up the momentum by spinning Denzel Curry’s ZUU. The album was released in late May of 2019 and was mentioned in our “Top 10 Albums of 2019” bonus episode.  Aaron and Sarah Mae gush over Denzel Curry’s energy and flow on this album, a tribute to his hometown of Miami, Florida. Thank you for listening! We We hope you’ll join us for our LIVE program next week from 6pm-7:30pm at WGMURADIO.com. Instagram & Twitter: @ultradog2004 This weeks playlist: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/s3e5-the-spotlight/pl.u-JPAZD0Vtl0z5vR

S3E3: The Kilig Special

Welcome back to Season 3, Episode 3 of the Spotlight Radio! We are so excited to share "The Kilig Special," a program we've put together in anticipation for Valentine's Day. For those of you that don't know, 'kilig' is a Tagalog word that's used to describe the butterflies you feel around someone you like very much or the excitement you might feel when you talk about love! (Ex. Wow, this song gives me so much kilig!)  There's not much for us to say this week except that these songs were chosen with great care and each one of them caries special meanings for the both of us. We hope you enjoy this mix as much as we do! :^) And don't forget to tell someone you care about that you love them.  Thank you always for tuning into our show! Catch our livestream every Monday from 6pm-7:30pm EST @ wgmuradio.com  Instagram/Twitter: @ultradog2004

S3E2: Pharrell Williams and NxWorries

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 2 of the Spotlight Radio where your hosts, Aaron and Sarah Mae spotlight records they love. :^) This week, we started off our main program with the tracks from Pharrell Williams, The Neptunes and N.E.R.D. Aaron describes his love for Pharrell Williams as well as the undeniable influence he’s had on the current music industry. For the second half of the program, Sarah Mae highlighted ‘Yes Lawd!’ a 2015 rap and neo-soul album from NxWorries, a duo consisting of Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge. Aaron and Sarah Mae rave about the album’s production provided by Knxwledge. Thanks for listening! We hope you’ll join us for our LIVE program next week from 6pm-7:30pm at WGMURADIO.com, we’ll be playing a special program in anticipation of Valentine’s Day. ❤️

S3E1: Solange Week

Welcome back to The Spotlight 2020 where Sarah Mae and Aaron spotlight their favorite records and tunes :) We are excited to start of the decade with one our favorite artists in the entire world and that is Solange Knowles. This past episode we both chose to play both of Solange's most recent studio albums. Sarah Mae dove into 'A Seat at the Table' and played songs like "Don't Touch My Hair" and "Cranes in the Sky". She talked a lot about Solange's influences for this record. Aaron talked about her most recent 2019 record "When I Get Home" and talked about how similar yet vastly different this record is compared to her previous one. We hope you enjoy this episode and make sure to listen to this weeks playlist: Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/s3e1-the-spotlight/pl.u-mJy833JuYvr1Kx Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/dizon.sarah/playlist/2Oy1D1ZpyIFGrvO4CyG5Sz?si=0rRNMTRWRr-ztIK7Qq_fVQ Join us live next week, February 3rd from 6-7:30pm ET at wgmuradio.com! And don't forget you can find us on Instagram and Twitter @ultradog2004

OFFSEASON: Top 10 Albums of 2019

Welcome to the offseason of The Spotlight Radio!  In this bonus episode we aren't in our typical studio but we still wanted to give you all some content during the winter time! 2019 was full of great albums and we wanted to highlight our top 10 albums of the year. This list is made up of albums that we both enjoyed together and is important to note that they aren't ranked in any sort of order. We hope you enjoy this special bonus episode and keep a look out for more special content coming later this offseason. Here are our top 10 albums of 2019: 1. Angels Pulse (Blood Orange) [track 'Dark & Handsome' (feat. Toro y Moi) is featured]  2. ZUU (Denzel Curry) [track 'SPEEDBOAT' is featured] 3. Bandana (Freddie Gibbs & Madlib) [track 'Palmolive' (feat. Pusha T & Killer Mike) is featured] 4. Titanic Rising (Weyes Blood) [track 'Something to Believe' is featured] 5. IGOR (feat. Tyler, the Creator) [track 'WHATS GOOD' is featured] 6. Beware of the Dogs (Stella Donnelly) [track 'Mosquito' is featured] 7. Schlagenheim (black midi) [track '953' is featured] 8. CHARLI (Charli XCX) [track 'Next Level Charli' is featured] 9. uknowhatimsayin¿ (Danny Brown) [track 'Best Life' is featured] 10. Flamboyant (Dorian Electra) [track 'Man to Man' is featured] Thank you all for joining us on this journey this past year and we can't wait to give you all so much more great content for 2020! Happy New Years!