They've brought us sets from The Bronx, GZA and Silversun Pickups, but sadly Coaster festival has announced that it won't be returning this year.

Welsh rabble-rousers Future Of The Left have confirmed an appearance at Northside Festival in Brooklyn, NY on June 17th. Billed as NYC's largest and most accessible discovery festival, Northside boasts a draw of over 80,000 fans over its week long schedule and Future Of The Left will join such notable artists this year such as Beach Fossils, GZA, Of Montreal, Wise Blood and Screaming Females.

Featuring GZA, Niki & the Dove, Questlove, Of Montreal, Dam Funk, and more.

Bonnaroo has a finalized daily schedule for its 2012 festival, and has added some notable acts like GZA and Sharon Jones to the completed bill. http://www.hitfix.com

The schedule for Manchester, Tennessee's sweatiest four days has been announced. This year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival , which takes place from June 7-10, will include performances from Radiohead, Bon Iver, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, Feist, Vincent">St. Vincent, the Shins, tUnE-yArDs, Bad Brains, Skrillex, Ludacris and literally hundreds more. (New additions to the lineup include GZA performing Liquid Swords , Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and Pelican.) The entire festival itinerary can be found here . As far as scheduling conflicts go: If you're looking to see Feist AND Ludacris (you are, right?), Flying Lotus and ...

The schedule for next month’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has just been posted on the event’s website as well as a handful of additions to the bill. Of particular note, Phish will close out the fest on Sunday night, June 10, with a four hour slot that will include two full sets. Also, HT faves The Word, Umphrey’s McGee and Dumpstaphunk are among the acts scoring late night slots. The event’s traditional Superjam will take place on Saturday night, though the participants have yet to be announced. As far as the additions, we’re proud ...

GZA, Sharon Jones, Pelican, and more added to the fold.

From Azealia Banks and T.I. all the way back to Soulja Boy versus Ice-T and GZA, we examine what qualifies up and coming artists to go to battle with veteran emcees.

GZA at MHOW earlier this month (more by Erik Erikson) As mentioned, GZA who just played MHOW with Bad Brains, will return to the Brooklyn venue on June 14 to play Liquid Swords in full, backed by Grupo Fantasma. That...

photos by Erik Erikson "While Bad Brains sound has shifted from hardcore and punk to dub and reggae, they still mix it up for the audience coming to see them. Opening with a pounding set of their signature aggressive sound,...

The latest episode of Pitchfork TV’s animated series Frames features the GZA (pictured) reminiscing about growing up with the RZA in Staten Island, having to spend two hours travelling to the Bronx just to see a DJ at a block party. It’s got some explanations of his lyrics in there but mostly you get to see 11-year-old GZA rocking out with 8-year-old RZA, which is a TV show I would watch every week.

Known as one of the web’s more popular independent music resources with expansive daily coverage on everything from hip-hop to experimental music, PITCHFORK TV adds another animated interview to it’s hilarious FRAMES series, this time featuring one of the original Clansman, GZA. In an episode directed and animated by Mack Williams, GZA reminisces on the [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

“GZA recalls early visits to the Bronx, block parties, and a young RZA getting in trouble”

Everyone loves Bill Murray. Clash uncovers some ten unlikely tales about the former Ghostbuster. 1. Not one to mince his words, Murray did film fans around the world a huge favour during the filming of Charlie’s Angels when he allegedly headbutted the Terminator franchise-ruining McG in the face. Murray later denied the accusation, stating rather more bluntly that McG “deserves to die” and that “he should be pierced with a lance”. Unsurprisingly, Murray didn’t return for the sequel. 2. Few people would dare to go toe-to-toe with Robert De Niro and, in fairness, Bill Murray is probably one ...

If all rappers told stories as good as GZA, then there would be a lot more interesting interviews with rappers on the internets. Also, if all interviews were made into cartoons like this? I would probably watch every single video interview ever made. Props to Pitchfork.