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What's up, fooz?”

That’s how this one kicks off. Just two homies setting the tone for a drive through memories you didn’t even know you had. It’s not just about the cars; it’s about the culture that still hums through cracked speakers and the llow-end subs your uncle never replaced because “they still slap.”

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Episode 3 isn’t just a playlist, it’s a resurrection. A love letter to the modern soul heads and R&B revivalists carrying that brown-eyed-soul torch into a new generation. They’re here to prove the oldies never died.

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SET 1:

“Light of My Life” – Ben Pinani
It opens on sunlight. The kind that hits chrome. Pinani, a white soul singer out of New York, drops into that timeless Motown-meets-downtown groove. The hosts break it down like a homie talk under a summer sky, “he’s singing about his chick, fool… must be a beautiful chick.” Soul, sincerity, no autotune needed.

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“Lonely Girl” – Bobby Oroza
Straight from Helsinki, Finland, and somehow sounding like East L.A. in the ’70s. Oroza might be Nordic by birth, but his spirit is pure Chicano record-crate romanticism. Signed to Big Crown Records, his falsetto slides between heartbreak and cool composure.
They call him “timeless.” They’re right. If “Light of My Life” was about the girl you have, “Lonely Girl” is for the one who got away.

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“Maybe It’s Time” – The Bashtones ft. Baby Bash
Then comes the homie anthem. Baby Bash reinvents himself, crafting an entire band for this new-old sound. “Maybe It’s Time” rides that perfect line, half-serenade, half-swagger. Pick her up in your hot rod, fool. Play this one loud. If oldies are back, the Bashtones are holding the steering wheel.

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SET 2:

The garage doors roll up. The beer hisses open. The foo's start reminiscing.

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“I Don’t Wanna Wait” – Kelly Finnigan
L.A.’s own Kelly Finnigan, son of a legend, student of the Monophonics, comes in with that patient pain. The hosts call it therapy; they’re not wrong. This is waiting room music for broken hearts that never check out. Play this one when she says, “I’ll be ready in ten.”

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2. “Don’t Tell Me” – Joey Quiñones
East L.A. native, The Sinseers’ frontman, the voice of the new wave. The story behind it? He wrote it for James Hunter, but ended up keeping it. Lucky for us.
This is backyard-beer heartbreak. The soundtrack to the boys talking love and loss like it’s a boxing match they both lost.

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3. “Reasons” – El Michels Affair ft. Bobby Oroza
It ends poetic, Leon Michels, producer for Wu-Tang, and Oroza return to seal the mood.
A bridge between generations: hip-hop’s grit and soul’s warmth, played on analog strings.
It’s the kind of track that makes silence feel expensive.

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Oldies never died, foo. They just got re-engineered. From Bay Area garages to Brooklyn basements, from Finland’s frost to L.A.’s lowriders—the soul remains intact.

So light one up. Call your ruca. And let Inspire by Sound remind you, the past still slaps.

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