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Wild Nothing - Shadows

The Wild Nothing is a one man pop band with that one man being Jack Tatum. Jack seems to dream up an ambient like softness with a gentle pop. He has a new album coming out later this summer called Nocturne and the first song released is titled Shadow. Check out the track and stay tuned for the album.

Blu & Exile To Release Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them

 In December of 2011 Blu & Exile posted a steam to their follow up to Below The Heavens. It was a highly anticipated album that fans got a taste of early. Now these guys are finally ready to officially drop Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them, fully remastered with new tracks and some guest features. The new album will be released September 4th.

To tie us over until September the duo are dropping an EP on July 24th titled Maybe One Day. Pre Order the EP Here




One of my favourites by Blu and Exile from the modern classic Below the Heavens the track The World Is..
  Blu & Exile - The World Is by hwrd_bryn

Phantogram Has A Mouthful Of Diamonds

Phantogram is a duo from the states and they play mostly indie style pop music. With only one studio album out and a few EPs these guys are gaining a lot of attention. It also helps that they have toured with pretty much everyone in the 'indie pop world'.

I'm really liking this track from '09 titled Mouthful of Diamonds.

There's No Leaving Now

    The Tallest Man On Earth has finally released his 3rd studio album There's No Leaving Now today on Dead Oceans. I have been counting down the days for this one and I am definitely not disappointed.
The single1904 holds the same consistent energy heard off of his previous albums while songs like the title track There's No Leaving Now have a new softness. This shows a clear evolution not just in song structure but in a new diversity of instruments, bringing woodwinds and pianos into the mix. Easily one of the best folk albums of 2012. Worth the purchase and the download.


  The Tallest Man On Earth - "1904" by Rolling Stone Magazin

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis At Rifflandia!

One of the many acts headlining Rifflandia this year that I am stoked for is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The rapper and producer duo from Seattle. Making big waves this year by being on the cover of XXL's Freshman Issue and Unsigned Hype in The Source. With live performances like this I'm really excicted to see these guys live on a festival stage!

P.O.S Announces New Album We Don't Even Live Here

P.O.S has announced the details of his next album! Well maybe just a few details... It will be titled We Don't Even Live Here and be released on Rhymesayers September 18th.

Apparently this album was recorded with Andrew Dawson a Grammy award winning producer who has worked with the likes of Kanye West, Jay Z, Kid Cudi and Fun.

P.O.S joins Brother Ali and Aesop Rock in releasing albums on Rhymesayers this year.

Meanwhile check out the single Drumroll from his last release Never Better (2009) 

  P.O.S. - Drumroll by roverthsub

Tune-Yards (Merrill Garbus Is Amazing)

Merrill Garbus (vocals, drums, ukulele all looped) and Nate Brenner (bass) are Tune-Yards (or tUne-YaRdS) and they released their second album Whokill last year on 4AD Records. The single Bizness is a new favorite of mine as well as the lip syncing elementary school kids in the awesome video.



Also check out this amazing video of the duo performing Real Live Flesh

 
 Another killer track by Tune-yards is Gangsta
  Tune-Yards - Gangsta by The Recommender

The A Team By Ed Sheeran

A sweet gem of song by 21 year old English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran. His album + was released last year in the UK and since then he has blown up.

The A Team By Ed Sheeran

  The A-Team by Ed Sheeran 

Childish Gambino And Beck

Childish Gambino pulls in the big feature for his new Mixtape. Beck drops a verse for this definitely unexpected collabo. 

Head over to foreverchildish.com/mixtape to download

  Silk Pillow (prod. Beck & Childish Gambino) - Childish Gambino by Forever Childish2 

Donald Glover also got some custom artwork for the mixtape by Sam Spratt

Ben Howard - Old Pine

Here is a song and an artist I am really diggin' lately. Ben Howard (UK) released Every Kingdom in September of last year and I am ashamed to say I just heard of this amazing album recently. Every song off of this album carries its own weight. No filler. Old Pine is one of my favorites and has some awesome guitar playing, as does the entire album.
 

Bliss N Eso Play With Lana Del Rey's Video Games

Australian Hip Hop artist Bliss N Eso drop a new track to celebrate hitting 400k fans on their Facebook page. The flip Lana Del Rey's Video Games and make it their own. The Australian Hip Hop scene is really blowing up lately and it's cool to see these guys get the attention the deserve.

Beck Releases A New Track About Hating People

 Like Insane Clown Posse and Tom Jones, Beck releases a one-off single on Jack White's Third Man Records. The new track is called I Just Started Hating Some People Today. At first the song doesn't quite sound like him. An old Folksy and Country tune but it picks up fast and starts to sound very Beck. He even offers up two awesomely weird endings. The Country twang is nice and definitely feels like it has Jack White all over it.

  Beck -Just Started Hating Some People Today by zonnora

Jay Z & Kanye West Release No Church In The Wild Video

Jay Z and Kanye West release the the new video for No Church In The Wild. Directed by Romain Gavras (M.I.A's Born Free and Bad Girls) the video is an epic riot scene of apocalyptic proportions.
Check out the craziness below!

Bobby Womack and Lana Del Rey

Another odd pairing as of late is Lana Del Rey and legend Bobby Womack. Teaming up for a track on the 68 year old's new album The Bravest Man In The Universe due out on XL June 11th. The track is a really cool spaced out sound that seems like it's begging for a Jamie XX like remix.


The track is called Dayglo Reflection by Bobby Womack featuring Lana Del Rey..

Preview of Azealia Banks New EP 1991

After a couple of push backs and a management change, Azealia Banks releases the details for the new EP. 1991 will feature her hit 212 as well as three new tracks.  Listen below for a one minute preview of each song. Sounds dance-tastic! I still got 212 on repeat from last week.
 
1. 1991
2. Van Vogue
3. 212
4. Liquorice

Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)

Lupe Fiasco is back at it again with his first single of of his fourth studio album Food and Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album. The new single is called Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free.) The new track samples Pete Rock and CL Smooth's classic T.R.O.Y. and at first Pete Rock seemed to have beef with the rework but he updated his Twitter to say him and Lupe spoke and are cool. Lupe defends reworking the classic track...

"All the credit goes to my partner and manager Chill, he just felt like it was time to bring back a joint, Go back and take one of the iconic records of Hip Hop and put a new spin on it and put it back out there" 

  Lupe Fiasco – Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free) (HIPHOPYT.WORDPRESS.COM) by HipHopYT

What do you think? Paying respect? or jacking beats?

Ron Burgundy Is Back And This Time... He's On Top

Two new teaser trailers are out for Anchorman 2! So stoked for this even though it is not out for another 9 months
  

Azealia Banks Has Arrived

Not entirely sure what to think of Azealia Banks. This twenty year old rapper/singer from Harlem certainly has a new style that could very well be the future of female of Hip Hop. For now, this is just the beginning of Azealia Banks. The song was released at the end of 2011 but it definitely getting some attention on the old interweb.

Her debut album 1991 will hit the web on May 29th and the stores on June 12th.

Against Me Singer Comes Out As Transgender

Tom Gabel, the lead singer of Against Me! has done an interview with RS and revealed himself to be Transgendered. Tom will soon begin living as a woman and eventually take the name of Laura Jane Grace.  Since the news broke on Friday the band has seen support from fellow rockers Gaslight Anthem and GLAAD. President of GLAAD Herndon Graddick told RS...  

"Tom is displaying extraordinary courage by coming out as transgender after already establishing herself as a rock star. For many of the band's fans, this may be the first time they're actually thinking about transgender people and the bravery it sometimes takes in order to be true to yourself. We've seen nothing but support from Tom's fanbase online, and we hope her story will help countless transgender youth who have not had someone like her to relate to before."