Exclusive Stream: Jack Johnson, G Love, More Celebrate 'This Warm December'

'This Warm December, A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 2'

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Jack Johnson, Rogue Wave, G Love and the rest of the Brushfire Records family came together for This Warm December - A Brushfire Holiday Volume 2, a new collection of holiday-themed music. Proceeds from the set, which features originals by Johnson, Matt Costa, Money Mark and Neil Halstead and classics covered by Rogue Wave and Zee Avi, will go to Little Kids Rock, Silverlake Conservatory and other charities benefiting music education for children. The compilation will hit stores on November 15th, but you can stream the album in full here today.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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