Staff Picks and Good Shit for the Week of April 10

Friday is here, your weekend is near, get used to it. The image above is a sign of either the most amazing song in history being on the horizon, or that we're roughly two days away from the end of days. In honour of what might be the most iconic event of the 20th century, the Noisey staff has put together a list of all the music we've been blasting in the Noisey office.

I truly love everything about living an active lifestyle except for the part where you have to exert yourself physically. This means that I love wearing sweatpants and sneakers with arch support, drinking smoothies, and listening to music that gets me pumped up to do the first two things. And there's no better artist to play for your #GymFlow than Meek Mill, and there's no better song of his to flow to than the intro to his debut commercial album. Every morning I get ready to workout at my desk all day by going through my morning routine: stretching, drinking a glass of cold water, taking a shower, listening to this song, mainlining an energy drink, doing a rail of adderall off the top of my toilet, and sprinting to work.

Slava Pastuk, Noisey Canada Editor
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Earlier this week we premiered a track by The Holydrug Couple, who make the perfect music to sit and think about nothing to while maybe doing drugs, IDK. Regardless, if you need something to chill you out when you're stressed at work, then listen to every song that this band has ever released and think about life, maaaaan. Kayla Monetta, Social Producer
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"Feel like the intro / but better than it's ever been," Chance the Rapper raps on this song, presumably referring to his own "Good Ass Intro." That song kind of set the template for Save Money's alt-rap take on Chicago's legacy of skip-through-a-field-happy soul that goes back through Kanye to Curtis Mayfield. This is that for 2015, with a little help from electronic maestro Lido and indie Chicago's go-to vocal pinch hitter Eryn Allen Kane (and, of course, Chance the Rapper, one of the "army full of generals" that makes up Save Money). Maybe it's just Chance's line about retail reminding me of my own stint working at Banana Republic on Michigan Avenue, but this instantly puts me in a Chicago summer frame of mind. Catch me at the lakefront or on your rooftop or crushing an Old Style on your stoop—or better, yet, just meet me for tacos at Big Star. I'm calling Joey Purp right now, and we'll have a pitcher of margaritas waiting."Feel like the intro / but better than it's ever been," Chance the Rapper raps on this song, presumably referring to his own "Good Ass Intro." That song kind of set the template for Save Money's alt-rap take on Chicago's legacy of skip-through-a-field-happy soul that goes back through Kanye to Curtis Mayfield. This is that for 2015, with a little help from electronic maestro Lido and indie Chicago's go-to vocal pinch hitter Eryn Allen Kane (and, of course, Chance the Rapper, one of the "army full of generals" that makes up Save Money). Maybe it's just Chance's line about retail reminding me of my own stint working at Banana Republic on Michigan Avenue, but this instantly puts me in a Chicago summer frame of mind. Catch me at the lakefront or on your rooftop or crushing an Old Style on your stoop—or better, yet, just meet me for tacos at Big Star. I'm calling Joey Purp right now, and we'll have a pitcher of margaritas waiting.

Kyle Kramer, Editor
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I first interviewed Will Archer three years ago. Back then, the Newcastle-born, London-based producer was 21, painfully soft-spoken and excelled at creating soothing, laid-back soundscapes, full of snipped and stitched vocals as on "Bruised" and "Crown." Last year he cropped up on a collaboration with George Maple and a 10 track mixtape, but now he's signed to Weird World and is releasing a proper single—a double A-side—this coming May. Yay! One half of said single is above and it's twinkly, bassy, and ultimately very chill. Still kinda unquantifiable. Same as he ever was, I guess.

Kim Taylor Bennett, Style Editor
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Steely Dan is playing Coachella this weekend, which means the West Coast duo is on their way to somehow being cool again. Lucky for Noisey readers across the world, my pops got me hip to the Dan way back when, cruising on Sundermann family vacations through the mountains of Colorado, so you know this publication's love runs deep and true. Let's all just get stoned and listen to "Hey Nineteen."

Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
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