This year, there’s no need to look for baskets of candy because N.O.R.E. just unleashed the best gift of all: Free music. Hitting live mixtapes at noon today, N.O.R.E.’s Crack On Steroids mixtape features twenty-five trunk rattling tracks. Add to that, the hosting skills of DJ Green Lantern, as well as appearances from Cassie, Raekwon, Game, RZA and more, and you have what may be the hottest tape of the month. Click past the jump to stream, download, and enjoy Crack On Steroids . UTG is constantly on the prowl for the latest ...

Ladies, brace yourselves, heartthrob  Adam Levine is back on the prowl! According to PEOPLE magazine, the Maroon 5 rocker and his 26-year-old girlfriend, Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna, have called it quits.  DETAILS: Adam Levine & Wiz Khalifa Working Together On Maroon 5's New Album Anne released a statement about their relationship:  "Adam and I have decided to separate in an amicable and supportive manner. We still love and respect each other as friends. I wish him all the best." The 33-year-old judge on The Voice first met the model in 2010 at a Sports Illustrated release party in ...

Meow! Lil’ Kim is on the prowl in a seductive new promo photo shot by Mike Antonio. The sex kitten shows off her curves as she glides across the floor in a black catsuit and high-heeled boots. After debuting her singles “If You Love Me” and “Keys to the City” with Young Jeezy, Kim will [...]

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SXSW – Friday, March 16 Ominous tones suffuse the corner of Red River and Sixth this afternoon. At the no-longer-named Emo’s Annex, the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival is in full swing. The guttural primal screams, pounding bass and speed guitar licks complemented the nearby Green Zone with its motto of “Free Range Against The Machine.” For the first time in a couple years, I had an old-fashioned SXSW day, bouncing from venue to venue without encountering any lines. Not that they didn’t exist, my plans for the day just seemed to avoid the queues. It is surely ...

Andy Ash’s continued rise in producer land has taken another step as he joins the On The Prowl team for his next release. There’s pumping disco and smooth deep disco on offer alongside a remix from Deep Space Orchestra. You may also want to check out the new On The Prowl tees that Jacques Renault [...]

Before moving to LA, you spent some time in New York; is it safe to assume that’s how you met the On The Prowl guys? How did joining the label come about? I was in and out of NY for a few summers before I moved there after school. It was kind of a [...]

Looks like Madonna isn’t the only one jonesin’ for your love lately. “Whine Up” chanteuse Kat DeLuna is back on the prowl with her newly leaked club banga: “Give Me Your Love (Under The Strobe Lights).” The 24 year old Dominican-born songstress hasn’t exactly had much luck achieving lift-off ever since her second studio album [...]

With a new album on the horizon, The Dirty Three’s Warren Ellis talks to DOUG WALLEN about growing up in Ballarat, the limitations of being a three-piece band and the importance of starting their first album in seven years with a bang. Photos by ANNABEL MEHRAN . By now we know what to expect from Dirty Three. Or do we? The band’s first album since 2005’s Cinder jars us out of any perceived comfort zone right from the opening discord of ‘Furnace Skies’. This is Dirty Three on the prowl, hungry and ferocious. If that was all Toward ...

REVIEW OF THE TWILIGHT SAD : GRAND OLE OPRY, GLASGOW : THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY The latest stop on the year long adventure was the Grand Ole Opry, the largest country and western club in the UK. It's a fantastic but very rarely used venue for gigs in Glasgow and located in a part of the city over in the south-west which in places hasn't changed since the 60s or 70s. There's no better illustration of this than our rendezvous for the pre-gig drinks...a pub called The Old Toll Bar...a pub for which the word traditional may very ...

In the lead-up to triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown on Australia Day, eventual list topper Gotye revealed how he’d like to see Godley & Creme-inspired album track ‘State of The Art’ make the cut. It didn’t, of course, but we can now reveal how close it actually came thanks to a list of the Hottest 100 also-rans (picks 101-200) published by triple j today. Included among the selections of the “second” Hottest 100 are hotly tipped tracks by Oh Mercy (‘Stay Please Stay’), The Middle East (‘Land Of The Bloody Unknown’), Cut Copy (‘Need You Now’), Loon Lake ...

Instrumentation hangs delicately on every one of Emma Russack’s words – and so do we. Following an EP under the name Lola Flash, this first album radiates quiet composure and preternatural wisdom. Making subtle use of her voice’s earthy tones, Russack has created a record about finding herself (figuratively and literally) in Melbourne after a year in South America and time in Wollongong before that. Yet it’s not a site-specific portrait, despite the title ‘Colombia’ and an image of the titular swimming spot “littered with eskies” in ‘Reservoir’. More so it’s a rumination on the invisible bonds ...

February Radiohead, “Bloom (Jamie xx Rework Part 3)” [Young Turks] Locked Groove, “Rooted” [Hotflush] Todd Terje, “Inspector Norse” [Smalltown Supersound] Boddika & Joy Orbison, “Swims (Mix 2)” [SWAMP81] Machinedrum, “No Respect” [LuckyMe] Sei A, “Flux (Martyn’s Electromagnetic Mix)” [Turbo] Arttu, “Upwards” [Philpot] Worthy, “Worthy” [Dirtybird] Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka, “Deaf Siren” [50WEAPONS] Junior Boys, “You’ll Improve Me (Caribou remix)” [Domino] January B-Tracks, “Specialize” [Supply] Soundstream, “Just Around” [Sound Stream] EQD, “Equalized #005 B” [Equalized] Epithet, “Blue Note” [On The Prowl] Nina Kraviz, “Show Me Your Time” [Rekids] Julio Bashmore, “Well Wishers” [FutureBoogie]  Maria Minerva, “Gloria” [100% Silk] L-Vis 1990 ...

Hezekiah Jones has been on my list of favorite artists for a couple years and consistently puts out fun, catchy albums that I find myself going back to on a regular basis. If you’ve been on the prowl for a new folk album, I highly recommend checking out their latest release, Have You Seen Our [...]

photos and review by Ben Mobley Always on the prowl for new music, I download my regular (and favorite) monthly indie-rock sampler. Within the collection of some 120 tracks, there was this one song, with its mantra-like speak-singing, ethereal piano lines, and a slightly Bartok-ian riff. I was immediately struck by the overall sound and Read more...