Live at the Astoria plays out as a greatest-hits collection, with a solid sampling from the group’s back catalogue. The recording is fairly crisp, with hardly any crowd interference (which you’ll either like or dislike depending on what you’re looking for in a live album). …
This new mixtape features 44 emcees over 34 handpicked beats. Thirty-four tracks of that raw, authentic, no-apologies hip-hop music for the purest; 100% EXCLUSIVE from the emcee to this project…
A fiery Learjet crash on Friday night in West Columbia, S.C., killed four people, while the two survivors, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and L.A. club staple DJ AM, were critically injured. …
Politics As Usual to be released Sept. 30 through ST Records/Nature Sound Records, will feature a “dream team” cast of platinum producers including DJ Premier, The Alchemist, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Hi-Tek, Havoc, Nottz, Buckwild, Easy Mo B, and cameos by Prodigy (of Mobb Deep), Bun B, Sheek Louch, Freeway and Lil Fame (of M.O.P.).
Madlib, one of this generation’s most prolific hip-hop producers, will be releasing a relatively Stones Throw-centric DJ mix on Sept. 30. While most previous releases have been all original material, Madlib has blended tracks by various Stone Throw confidantes with a variety of his own original Beat Konducta material. Noticeably absent from this [...]
Spirits in the Material World: A Reggae Tribute to The Police
Shanachie (2/19/08)
Reggae (Dub / Ska)
Tribute albums can go either way. On one end of the spectrum, you have releases like The Electro Industrial Tribute to Korn and the countless Cleopatra Records tribute albums, including ’80s Metal Tribute to Van Halen (a fustercluck featuring different [...]
The Fader presents Fader #51, The “Now” Issue—a look at the most relevant music on Earth RIGHT NOW, available on newsstands and iTunes
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Fader, the definitive voice of emerging music, releases its 51st [...]
GHOSTFACE KILLAH CHECKS INTO REHAB ON DEC. 4
Guests include Method Man, Raekwon, U-God and Masta Killa, as well as Beanie Sigel, Styles P and more…
“When you get a new Ghostface Killah album, the only reasonable reaction is to get lost in it,” said the New York Times of Ghost’s last full studio album, ’06’s instant [...]
LED ZEPPELIN, iTUNES TEAM UP FOR SPECIAL PREORDER OFFER, CONTEST
Last week, Apple announced that a special digital boxed set containing Led Zeppelin’s entire discography, The Complete Led Zeppelin, is now available for pre-order exclusively on the iTunes Store. The Complete Led Zeppelin is a 165-track collection of all 13 of the legendary group’s albums, including [...]
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Win a Dave Gahan gift package—including a 12-inch vinyl, a special CD/DVD pack of the new album, Hourglass, and a CD-single with EXCLUSIVE remixes—here on MachineGunFunk.com, in an EXCLUSIVE giveaway! For a chance to win, e-mail JF@machinegunfunk.com and put “Dave Gahan” in [...]