For those of you out there looking for something a bit different than the rock-heavy festivals this summer, look no further than the hip-hop-centric Rock The Bells series. Now in its ninth year, the traveling tour is currently scheduled to hit three cities – with multi-night stands at the NOS Events Center in San Bernadino, Calif. (8/18 – 19), the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif. (8/25 – 26) and the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey (9/1 -2). This year’s fest will hosted by RZA and will feature a diverse selection of old and new school ...

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Sugoisounds, Bahwee, Depakote, oOoOO Song: TeV95 - Color Coded Pistols [download here ] What's so good? With technology nowadays, everyone is creative. To a certain extent, everyone is an artist. And that’s cool. But not everyone is willing to hustle. Say hello to a hustler. TeV95 is a Miami-bred, Brooklyn-based creative director and producer who prides himself on independent talent. He currently runs 95Labs , a multimedia production company based in New York City, but is better known for his concept albums, Crime Loops , a collage of beats, edits, and loops that explores sampling ...

Foi divulgada a programação completa do 16º Cultura Inglesa Festival, que acontece nas cidades de São Paulo, Sorocaba, Campinas, Santos  e São José dos Campos. O Festival tem como grande atração os shows internacionais de We Have Band, The Horrors e Franz Ferdinand no Parque Independência em São Paulo, e terá também dança, teatro (infantil [...]

We were saddened to hear that Adam Yauch , one third of the Beastie Boys and one of hip-hop's most influential voices, passed due to cancer. PHOTOS: Adam Yauch (MCA) Of The Beastie Boys Dies At 47  Sharing in our grief was the Twitter community, who instantly sent tweets showing their respect. Here are some of the most memorable tweets from our favorite celebrities since we broke the tragic news. Rev Run gave a heartfelt response:  Qustlove, from The Roots, kept to straight to the point.    Ex-A Tribe Called Quest member Q-Tip showed his respects.   Actor and director Eli Roth ...

Thursday night, industry professionals and tastemakers were beckoned to Brooklyn to The Breeding Ground NYC where up and coming R&B; singer Sid Sriram held a live recording session of a five-song EP that will be released this summer. With drinks furnished by TYKU and folks like RCA's Dana Jeter and Sony Music & Crooked Engine's Amanda Berkowitz mixing it up with representatives from Hypebeast, and New York Magazine , the tiny loft was brimming with excitement for the Berkeley senior - who is set to graduate this spring! - and Sid's five-man band aided in his domination of the set. Pulling from his Indian classical music foundation, Sid's unique brand of R&B; is one that is insightful and endearing, simultaneously; his musical influences range from Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway to Radiohead and Coldplay; Kanye West and Andre 3000 to Bon Iver - all elements fused together to create the Sriram sound. Belting out songs like " Talk To Me ", "Fugitive ...

Whether you were at the festival itself, or you were glued to your computer screen, this past weekend was all about the first weekend of Coachella, which featured one amazing performance after another, for three jam-packed days. Gotye held the flag up high for Australia (though pulled the live stream last minute), and impressed, but what else impressed us? Here's a look back at our top SIX Coachella moments for 2012: 6. Bon Iver "Wolves" Singalong opening for Radiohead In his first performance at Coachella under the Bon Iver pseudonym, Justin Vernon delivered one of the most awe-inspiring sets ...

It takes a lot to impress me when it comes to pushing musical boundaries and artistic interpretations these days. Just received this video recently and wanted to share it with you. Just over 9 minutes in length, a group of 20 musicians play live snippets of 38 songs from a vast variety of genres going back 100 years in one take. The band is called Dancefloor Diplomacy and they are calling this unique style "collage music". Here is the video: Here is the list of all the songs sampled in the performance: Aphex Twin - ”Jynweythek Ylow” Blur - ”Song 2″ Britney ...

The Month's Goings-On In Dancehall and Reggae... NEWS VYBZ KARTEL has been out of the news for a while but this month the Werl Boss took to the headlines again, though it's mixed news for him. He was granted bail for $3million Jamaican, but that was for only one of his murder charges. He still awaits bail on the second. SNOOP DOGG & DIPLO are to collaborate on a new all-reggae album, a first for Snoop. Diplo (the producer behind Major Lazer's massive Pon de Floor) worked with Snoop in 2010 on the track That Tree. There's ...

The rise of Rizzle Kicks in the UK has been phenomenal, the band managing to become bona fide pop stars playing gigs to sold-out screaming crowds of girls (and boys). But if you think their quick-fire delivery would be better suited to some old school hip-hop vibes rather than hanging round with Olly Murs and sampling the likes of Ed Sheeran and Jessie J then this new track will push your buttons. For non-album track  Nasty sounds more in homage to Public Enemy ( it's actually Nas )  than anything that might fancy its chances at being top of the pops ...

South By Southwest is part music festival, part conference, and all party. Whereas initially it may have been an opportunity for unknown acts to get noticed by decision and taste makers, many more major artists have begun descending on the live music capitol of the world to sell their wares to the industry elite. Ten years ago the White Stripes played to a somewhat unenthusiastic crowd outdoors , this year Jack White packed an entire venue full, with thousands of rabid fans (including me)  standing outside on the street desperately listening through a window. With legends like Bruce Springsteen bringing out ...

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad will release their first electric studio album in six years, titled In These Times, on April 10 via Controlled Substance Sound Labs. The album contains 12 tracks mixed by Atlanta-based producer Billy Hume (Nas, STS9, Ludacris, Josh Ritter), and dubbed by the band’s l...

Our correspondents clocked the best of the action at the start of this year's SXSW ; now, more bleary-eyed, they note the highlights of the rest of the festival Listen now to our special SXSW podcast Jack White is worth waiting for … The queue outside told the whole story – two hours before Jack White was due on stage, the Stage On Sixth was already reduced to a one-in-one-out policy. We waited 90 minutes before sneaking inside to catch a double set – the first with White's all-female backing band, the second involving a "band of dudes", as one crowd member ...

A slow start to the day combined with massive St. Patty's day crowds kept us from covering as much ground as we had other days. We stumbled into the Rachel Ray party at Stubbs just in time to see the TV star singing a cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" with Train. Yeah, quite the musical highlight as you'll see below. Next, somehow we walked right into the MOG Party at the Mohawk just before The Roots' only SXSW appearance. The best band in late night played a loose 75 minute set which ran from "Here ...

The final evening of SXSW always seems like the end of a hike; it's almost over and everyone is walking around like a zombie, present company not excluded. The six block walk to the Moody Theatre (where Austin City Limits) was relatively painful and slow, but worth it; VEVO presenting Sleigh Bells and Nas (performing his breakthrough Illmatic in full). I reviewed Sleigh Bell's sophomore album a while back ; while I wasn't overly impressed, the new songs work extremely well live, with frontwoman Alexis Krauss throws herself around on stage, while Derek Miller and lookalike Jason Boyer ...

The Roots have announced the lineup for their fifth annual Philly music throwdown, the Roots Picnic, Okayplayer reports. The Roots will once again headline and also play backing band for the mighty De La Soul at this year's fest, set for June 2 and 3 at Festival Pier at Penn's Landing. The bill also boasts Kid Cudi, a DJ set by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, both Major Lazer and Diplo solo, Wale, Vincent">St. Vincent, Danny Brown, tUnE-yArDs, Shabazz Palaces, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, and more. Two-day passes go on sale to the general public tomorrow and are ...