Welcome to the world of real hip-hop, if you haven’t been here before. CunninLynguists are a trio who formed about 10 years ago, and since then they’ve been putting out albums of really high quality, and there’s no sign of slowing. Their seventh and eighth albums were released last year, and both are pretty damn [...]

Sorry for not posting for a while. I’ve been listening to a bunch of older stuff recently, mainly hip-hop, so expect more of this kind of stuff to come shortly. To start, here’s one of the more popular tracks off Soundbombing II, an album released by Rawkus Records in 1999. It features a really long [...]

I had one of the hardest decisions of my life to make last Saturday. My boys the Baltimore Ravens had their playoff game against the Colts, kickoff time 8:15. Simultaneously, RJD2 was in town, playing a show slated to start at 8. It was 7:00 and I already bought my ticket, so if I wanted [...]

I’m not going ’cause I’m an east-coaster, but I have to say, if I lived anywhere near California I would so go to this. Just for fun, here’s a quick list of people I would HAVE to see, granted I only know about 60-70% of the lineup:

The Very Best is a collaboration between Malawi’s Esau Mwamwaya and electronic duo Radioclit that was formed in 2008. Their sound is described as a unique mix between afropop, hip hop, electronic, and dance. The Very Best’s 2009 release, Warm Heart of Africa, involved contributions from M.I.A. and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. Here is the [...]

I realize I am putting this out really late. I always put this off until winter break, thinking I’ll have tons of time to listen to the albums, but always underestimate how much I actually need to listen to. But honestly, that isn’t a bad thing. I think we are living in a time where [...]

The Do-Over is a summertime party in L.A. founded by Aloe Blacc, Stones Throw behind-the-scenes architect Jamie Strong & Chris Haycock featuring a who’s who of mystery guests. The renown party now comes to life in the form of a Limited 10-inch record series featuring exclusive tracks from guests of the party. Each volume is [...]

Presented by Diplo’s Mad Decent label, Free Gucci is a 15-track remix CD of the recently re-jailed Gucci Mane. It features Flying Lotus, Memory Tapes, SALEM, and Brodinski among others, remixing tracks from Gucci’s “Cold War” mixtape series. As can be expected with any mixtape, there are some disappointments (in the Flying Lotus track especially), but as a whole it’s a must-have if you like any of the above musicians.

I don’t know anything about either of these bands, but that doesn’t matter. What does is that if you want some Justice D.A.N.C.E.-like electro-pop to fuel you, listen to this. For the record, I don’t even really like Justice, I just like that song. Pnau – Baby (Breakbot Remix) [via et musique pour tous]

The list itself is pretty uninteresting if you’ve been keeping up at all with popular blogs, but there are two things that make it something worth checking out: First, the artwork for each artist is simply awesome. Some very intricate stuff (from various artists), and 90% of the time it represents the musician very well [...]