It's always pretty exciting when one of the artists I post about actually drops by and leaves a comment on the site. Bassnectar was super-stoked that I posted his tune. Bigga Bush and Tim "Love" Lee were both chuffed that someone was still bangin' some of their old classics, etc... but here I have a first for you, as a couple of guys I have massive respect for actually hit me with some (relatively) exclusive, unreleased tunes! Big day, people. Big day... The Cutler are Steve Cobby of Downtempo legends (and Tonegents faves) Fila Brazilia and the mystery man ...

Vulture reported that Christopher Guest, the iconic comedic satirist who brought us the improv-based classics Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, is working on a new TV show with longtime collaborator Jim Piddock....

We love the convenience of Netflix Instant, but we don't always love the navigating through the countless movies on there to find something to watch. So we've compiled our list of recommended titles for you, whether you love classics, comedies, documentaries or just good ol' fashioned kung-fu.

During his recent stop through London for his Reebok Classics RealFlex Foot Locker Exclusive launch, HBTV had a chance to chop it up with Mike Posner at the Shoreditch House in East London. Shedding some light into his collaboration with Reebok Classics, Posner also offered some sentiments about his creative process in music and producing [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

Early Bothy Band, Kevin Burke, Paul Brady: it's all here in our nostalgic browse through Irish classics of the '70s and '80s.

When movies aren’t being watched at the Cannes Film Festival, they’re being purchased, and we’ve got news of a couple that have been picked up for North American distribution. First up is Pablo Larrain’s “No,” which has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Larrain’s most notable feature to date was probably his “Saturday Night Fever”-inspired serial killer flick “Tony Manero,” but thanks to having Gael Garcia Bernal in the lead role (and a strong Cannes reception) “No” may be about to eclipse his previous efforts. The film, which has been screening in Director’s ...

Top Of The Pops has announced its plans to return. Unfortunately not returning to television but instead coming in the form of a live production. The theatre production will tour around the UK starting from October 18th and onwards. Produced in association with Thriller Live’s Derek Nicol and Paul Walden the show will host a number of different singers and dancers tackling Top Of The Pops classics including T-Rex, Madonna and Blondie. With the audience being allowed to choose the finale song from a list of memorable moments. Alongside the production, vintage TOTP performances will be screened. [via FACT ]

by Logan K. Young At best, a compilation will always be a singles club, a subjective rounding up of solitary songs. At worst, it's just another solipsistic memento mori . This is a congenital issue, of course. No matter how choice the cuts, how thoughtful the sequencing, a compilation will forever be less... Read More

The Forum is packed to the brim, with a myriad of punters making themselves comfortable in every conceivable fashion, upstanding, sprawled on couches, positioned on stairs. It seems like Melbourne’s musical cognoscenti is out in force, with all manner of musos and fans of Brian Jonestown Massacre waiting next to each other in anticipation. The Raveonettes rouse the throng with “Beat City” featuring some uncomfortably loud feedback and a drum machine that drowns out the sound of live drums. The mood is set with the smoke machine in overdrive. Guitarist Sune Rose Wagner ’s between song banter is minimal ...

Fantastic news, everyone! Medieval gothic tomb sprites Dead Can Dance are back! The original worldbeat/goth 4AD flava etherealists have returned from their lengthy slumber and they’re bearing spoOoOoky beautiful gifts, in the form of their first album of new material in a sweet 16 years. So, that’s it. All you swoopy-haired Renaissance Festival minstrels armed with cardboard swords, cheesy harmonies, and sad 15th-century imagery can just CAN it. Because Dead Can Dance are the original purveyors of “hey, a Gregorian chant would sound cool with this swirling art rock,” and they can do it a hell of ...

This is big, geeky news. The Echno Nest is a database that provides recommendation information to services like Spotify and iheartradio, and Discogs is a big, healthy database of information from anal music geeks. Full story at GigaOM : The deal, which was announced Tuesday morning, gives The Echo Nest access to discography information about more than two million artists and 430,000 record labels. Many of these hail from the world of electronic music, but Discogs also lists rare and unreleased singles from stars like Kanye West and obscure remixes of classics from bands like Depeche Mode. Read and comment ...

Damn you writer’s block, stifling any attempt at a memorable introduction to get things under way. Another piece of paper screwed up and headed towards the bin...what’s that though...Grand Slam grunter Serena Williams has released a hip-hop track? And subsequently has shown true rapper heritage by getting annoyed at having it leaked online? You couldn’t make it up, and that, ladies and gentleman, is this month’s introduction written. Keep on with those volleys and chop-shots Serena. Wanna watch a mid 80s hip-hop documentary overseen by an impossibly-named, Dutch Jarvis Cocker-lookalike? Of course you do ...

Filed under: News , Interview Ethan Miller, Getty Images This July, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the legendary Ozzy Osbourne concert film Speak of the Devil on DVD in North America. This much-talked about show was filmed at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in California on June 12, 1982 as part of the delayed continuation of the Diary of a Madman tour following the tragic death of guitarist Randy Rhoads several months earlier. The concert includes the classics "Mr Crowley," "Over the Mountain," "Crazy Train," "Flying High Again," "Iron Man," "Paranoid," "Goodbye to Romance," and many more Osbourne-related staples. Speak of the Devil ...

November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012 Like any music fan, Rave was saddened to hear about the passing of Booker T & The M.G.’s iconic bassist Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn on May 13. A rock-solid Stax session man, it was his taut pulse that drove omnipresent classics like Green Onions, Sam & Dave’s Hold On, I’m Comin’ and Albert King’s Born Under A Bad Sign, while his interplay with fellow Stax dynamos Steve Cropper and the late Al Jackson Jr became one of pop music’s most distinctive sounds. May ...

Initially, Garbage ’s calling card was drummer Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana ’s Nevermind , among other grunge-era classics. In spite of that bankable association, the band wisely held grunge at arm’s length. After all, grunge was obsessed with the admittedly slippery ethic of authenticity. Garbage, by grunge’s standards, had none. Here was a group blatantly manufactured by Vig and guitarist Duke Erikson , journeymen who first played together professionally in 1975. The multiplatinum sales of 1995’s Garbage (and to a lesser extent, 1998’s Version 2.0 ) proved that the band’s sharp, dark hooks—plus Shirley Manson ...