Public Enemy have announced that they'll celebrate their 25th anniversary as a rap act with a grand gesture. They'll release two new albums-- one this summer and the other in the fall-- using money raised from fundraising campaigns. "The statement with these albums ... [is] in the audacity of the release", Chuck D told Billboard . "Just like, 'What the hell?'" The records, titled Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp and The Evil Empire of Everything , are two halves of a larger conceptual piece. "One [deals] with the whole movement of people...and the other ...

Get a taste of Belleruche 's new sound at London's Scala on May 31st. The turntable soul group has gone a bit darker on new LP Rollerchain , which is out now on Tru Thoughts Records. Check out our exclusive mix from the band, and grab tickets to the show (which also features Py and KidKanevil ) here . Belleruche - Train Tracks: A tour mixtape by DJ Modest 1. Blue Train, John Coltrane 2. Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train, Louis Armstrong 3. Take the "A" Train, Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald 4. All Aboard, Muddy Waters 5. The Rock Island Line ...

Hace pocos días, el cantautor originario de Michigan, E.E.U.U., Mayer Hawthorne estrenó el videoclip de la canción “Henny & Gingerale”, bonus track de su último disco de estudio How Do You Do que fue publicado en octubre de 2011 a través de Universal Republic. Este nuevo video fue dirigido por Ross Harris y Henry DeMaio. [...]

Okay, I'm new here, so I don't exactly know the stance on who did it better in 90s grunge. However, one thing I do know is that I've never actually heard somebody make the sun rise until I heard Jeff Buckley's first and only full-length release, 1994's  Grace . While bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam  were giving "proper society" the finger, Jeff Buckley  was busy bringing poetry to the masses. Too bad not many people actually ever heard of him. Getting his start as a modern day troubadour, Buckley  melded rock, blues, jazz, and something ...

1.  Dope Body - "Lazy Slave" (The Baltimore-based 4-piece create a spastic and sludgy brand of post-punk that incorporates noisy guitar outbursts, crazed vocals and off-kilter groove-orientated rhythms for a unique sound like Henry Rollins fronting the Melvins on their sophomore album Natural History out now on Drag City.) http://www.dopebody.info/ Download: http://www.pitchperfectpr.com/mp3/LazySlave.mp3 2.  JBM - "Winter Ghosts" (Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jesse Marchant possesses a haunting and engaging voice not unlike Bon Iver and the wind-whipped, desolate sonics of his sophomore album Stray Ashes , out now on Western Vinyl, make for an album meant for ...

Six years ago, I fell in love with this odd-ball band as I watched them live on-stage surrounded by a bizarre array of instruments (or just dustbin lids), comprising of such a misfit of members including a father and son who all hailed from this 'magical place' called Eel Pie Island. Over the years, I've seen this band time and time again playing a variety of small venues before eventually headlining Offset and Dot to Dot festival to similar sized crowds. And a just a couple of years ago, I last witnessed them playing to a half empty venue ...

Swimming in a sea of reverb, LYYAR (lee-ar) is Luke De Zilva, Nick De Lorenzo, Henry Newton and Patrick Ewing, four friends from Sydney whose sound is dark, bold and brash. Nestled between the grooves of their 10’’ Ep, recorded at Vintage Sounds in Sydney and released through Speak N Spell Records, Outside Elsewhere shows a different angle of LYYAR; [...]

Iconic British shirting retailer Brutus is set to link up with a number of artists this year to illustrate unique takes on the brand’s staple Trimfit button-down. This first collaboration sees London-based artist Arran Gregory imposing his own signature style on the classic piece. Shot by skateboarding and lifestyle filmmaker Henry Edwards-Wood, the video shows [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

Legendary singer Tom Jones and Welsh comedian Rob Brydon have teamed up to create a spoof video. The skit, which features Brydon as a bumbling spiritual medium and Jones as an interrupting punter, makes fun of the singer and his many stories about Presley">Elvis Presley and other iconic artists such as Jim Morrison and Frank Sinatra, with Brydon supposedly summoning Elvis’s spirit to the room, in which he comments: “He’s got two messages, he says ‘stop the name dropping’ and ‘take something for that cough'”. This is not the first time the 'Gavin and Stacey' star has ...

If you can make it to San Francisco by Monday Jun 25 you can catch minimalist composer Philip Glass , Muppet-voiced indie harp player Joanna Newsom (pictured) and violinist Tim Fain performing together. The unlikely trio are performing as part of Glass’ Days And Nights Festival, a fundraiser for Big Sur’s Henry Miller Memorial Library.

Henry Saiz - Electronic Groove Podcast 302 "Henry Saiz is the creator of a style that is a combination of his love for all things electronic with a deep passion for art. His music, as well as his work as a sound designer for film and TV has always been marked as forward thinking in approach and groundbreaking upon delivery. Henry's sound refuses to fall into a singular category, he takes in influence on many different levels and incorporates this into his live and DJ sets by forging a perfect balance of Electronica, Disco, House and Techno. " D o w ...

On June 25th, Joanna Newsom will join Philip Glass at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California. The performance is part of the Days and Nights Festival and benefits Big Sur's Henry Miller Memorial Library. Violinist Tim Fain will join the duo to perform songs from both Glass' and Newsom's catalogs. [ thewarfieldtheatre.com ]

A warm Friday evening sees hoards of hipster kids piling into Brixton Academy for Mystery Jets’ headline show. The excitement is palpable. A swarm of twenty-somethings jostle for prime position, unknowingly sloshing their overpriced cider on unsuspecting passers-by. Such anticipation is not limited exclusively to fans, as singer Blaine Harrison states on the band’s website: “Brixton Academy is the show we have been waiting to play… As a band of London boys, the feeling of walking from the wings out onto that stage will be one of euphoria and we will do everything in us to make sure you ...

Jónsi's touring bass player makes nebulous experiments in sampling that hark back to musique concrete pioneer Pierre Henry.

The jacket worn by Bob Dylan on the cover of 'The Basement Tapes' is set to appear at auction. Never intended for official release, 'The Basement Tapes' remains one of Bob Dylan's most intoxicating offerings. A full collaboration between the rock bard and The Band, the recordings hark back to what Griel Marcus termed that other, weird America. A disparate series of recordings, the official release of 'The Basement Tapes' came equipped with an instantly recognisable cover. Dylan and The Band were joined by characters suggested by their songs, such as a dwarf, an Eskimo and a woman wearing ...