In the last few days, the music world has lost two innovators, Chuck Brown and Donna Summer , of pneumonia and cancer respectively. Still, each performer continued making music until the day they unfortunately passed. I had the opportunity to speak to a friend of mine, Raymond Rawles, who had seen Chuck Brown perform nearly a thousand times in his life about the loss of the "godfather of go-go" himself. With Chuck Brown passing, what came to mind when you had heard? When I first heard, I was like "oh my god, we lost another legend." We lost the godfather of ...

Black Thought (2:27) and Lotek join the Australian hip hop group on the latest single off their sixth studio album, Drinking From The Sun, hitting stores stateside on May 29th. DOWNLOAD: Hoods">Hilltop Hoods – Living In Bunkers f. Black Thought & Lotek PREVIOUS: Hoods">Hilltop Hoods – Speaking In Tongues f. Chali 2na

Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater Artist: 360, Lux">Adrian Lux (SWE), Andrew W.K One-Man-Party Tour (USA), Beni, Big Scary, Bluejuice, City and Colour (CAN), Digitalism (GER), The Getaway Plan, Gold Fields, Hermitude, Hoods">Hilltop Hoods, Kaiser Chiefs (UK), Kimbra, The Maccabees (UK), Matt Corby, Muscles, Mutemath (USA), Naysayer & Gilsun, Parkway Drive, Public Enemy (USA), Purple [...]

The only issue I have with Groovin' The Moo is having to get up real early on a Saturday morning to drive up the coast from Sydney. For the third year in a row I'm doing it hungover. One day I'll learn! After going through customs style interrogation getting in the gate, I took up prime position in front of the main stages to catch the end of San Cisco 's set. Their inoffensive, preppy pop tunes grew a large crowd who were ready to dance and sing along. Two piece Big Scary were up next with a ...

Hoods">Hilltop Hoods have extended their mid-year Australian tour to fit in two new shows.

Artist: Hoods">Hilltop Hoods Album: The Good Life In The Sun Released: 2012 Style: Hip Hop Format: MP3 320Kbps Size: 45 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Drinking From The Sun (Suffa Remix) 02 – Living In Bunkers Feat. Black Thought & Lotek (Suffa Remix) 03 – Speaking In Tongues Feat. Chali 2na (Suffa Remix) 04 – Interlude 1 – Briggs 05 – Rattling The Keys To [...]

Artist: Cool Runnings Album: Cool Runnings Released: 2012 Style: Reggae Format: MP3 251Kbps Size: 98 Mb Tracklist: 01 – We Must Go Home 02 – Playhouse 03 – Children Of Zion 04 – Give Me Some Interest 05 – Robin Hoods Of The Ghetto 06 – Lawman (Live) 07 – You Cant Pay Me 08 – Is This For Real 09 – Permanent Diet 10 – There You Go 11 [...]

Triple J’s Hottest 100 is one of the most anticipated countdowns of each year. It tends to have something for everyone – representing the year in music. 2011’s Hottest 100 was, of course, no exception and features a variety of songs from a vast range of genres and artists/bands. The annual two disc CD release, Triple J’s Hottest 100 Vol. 19 is a 41 track compilation, featuring a selection of the songs that made the top 100 – and a stellar compilation at that. The variety of songs on these two discs is really commendable – you get a ...

The Adelaide hip-hop is and always has been a solid hive of activity; from MCs including Dialect and Simplex to the international juggernauts that are Blackwood’s Hoods">Hilltop Hoods , Adelaide has a lot of show off in terms of producers and live performers. Tonight, The Gov was packed out for one of the most enduring and frankly, fun, live hip-hop acts we’ve produced in the Funkoars . ‘Enthusiastic’ would be only one way to describe the crowd tonight; there was equal amounts of violence going on tonight as there was chaos for the acts on the bill which admittedly ...

Local tributes have flowed for rapper, activist and film-maker Adam “MCA” Yauch, who died over the weekend. Yauch, who visited Australia with the Beastie Boys seven times – from their first tour with Helmet in 1994 for Ill Communication in 1992 for Check Your Head to their most recent trip in 2007 for Good Vibrations – passed away from cancer at his home in New York on Saturday (May 4). He was 47. In the hours following his death, Twitter and Facebook overflowed with tributes from all sectors of Australia’s music community – from the world’s biggest popstar Gotye to media ...

Neighborhood venues to host more than 80 performances citywide

In Dr. Dog’s new video for “Lonesome,” the band members play vagrants who are kidnapped and forced into black hostage hoods, and then somebody throws food at them. It’s weird. Watch it below. Dr. Dog’s new album Be The Void is out now on Anti. Buy it at eMusic.

This week, the Internet will mostly be setting itself on fire arguing about how similar Delta Goodrem’s new single Sitting On Top Of The World and Fire">Arcade Fire’s Rebellion (Lies) are. Snoop Dogg has designed pages of his new book to be smoked with “your finest”. UK electro-punks Does It Offend You, Yeah? are going on hiatus for “the foreseeable future”. Hoods">Hilltop Hoods’ MC Suffa (Matt Lambert) proposed on the weekend to his high school sweetheart, Carlie Pisters. Grimes has launch her own jew ...

The Australian hip hop group enlists Chali for the second single off their sixth studio album, Drinking From The Sun, hitting stores stateside on May 29th. DOWNLOAD: Hoods">Hilltop Hoods – Speaking In Tongues f. Chali 2na PREVIOUS: Hoods">Hilltop Hoods – Classic Example f. Pharoahe Monch

Filed under: News , Interview , Video Chris Epting Sand-colored military vehicles, manned by what appeared to be armed soldiers, were lined up in front of Hollywood's Key Club yesterday afternoon (April 24) - all part of an elaborate tour announcement put together in honor of the Metal Hammer-sponsored summer tour dubbed, Trespass America. The 24-city trek will feature headliners Five Finger Death Punch and Killswitch Engage , along with Trivium , Emmure , God Forbid , Pop Evil , and Battlecross . As the event got underway, 'hostages' whose heads were covered in hoods were marched to the stage by the 'soldiers'. One by one, as their ...