DJ Drama’s new album, Quality Street Music, hits the stores on October 2, 2012 (preorder at Itunes). Including 15 tracks with artist appearances by 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, Drake, Tyler, the Creator, Kevin Hart, ScHoolboy Q and more. You can stream the entire project by following the link below (props to spin.com).Wiz Khalifa links up with The Weeknd to drop another joint off his upcoming O.N.I.F.C. album, dropping on December 4, 2012. Stream "Remember You" below.Frank Ocean drops another record via his Tumblr page tonight. Frank spends the whole record rapping on this track, which is called “Blue Whale”. Stream it below. His debut album Channel Orange is in stores now (available on Itunes).Here we have the music video of the opening track from Ruste Juxx & The Arcitype’s 15-track album V.I.C. The video is directed by Hi-Lite Reel Boston. V.I.C. was released today and is avilable on Itunes.Here are the official visuals of "9000 Watts" by French Montana and his Coke Boys. The track is taken off French Montana's latest Coke Boys 3 mixtape. The bass-heavy track is produced by Lex Luger.Stream the entire 12 Bit Blues album by Canadian DJ Kid Koala below. The 12-track effort was just released three days ago. Kid Koala used a very old SP-1200 sampler, turntables and a multitrack recorder to record the album.Filmed during a nighttime excursion, the visuals find the Chef acting as a dangerous American hitman abroad – picking off targets under the cover of darkness. Keep an eye out for many more unreleased gems from LRG dropping in the near future.P!Jay, swedish emcee Prop Dylan and Hamburg-City resident DJ 12FingerDan are dropping the music video for their latest collabo track “That Ain’t HipHop”. Watch the dope boombap release below.
Following the reggae tribute albums of Dub Side of the Moon (2003), Radiodread (2006) and Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band (2009) comes the reggae adaptation of the greatest selling record of all time – Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
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Buzzin Music has 3 [...]The song was previewed at the Rock the Bells festival earlier this year. Now J. Cole drops the song as his offical new single. Listen and download "I'm A Fool" below. Talib Kweli releases a new single titled “Congregation” featuring Black thought and Ab-Soul- The track is taken from his latest Mixtape Attack the Block. Stream “Congregation” below!Blaq Poet has a new album in the pipeline. The new project, EveryBodyKilla, is dropping on September 25, 2012 featuring Ruste Juxx, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Reef the Lost Cauze, Sha Stimuli, Punchline, Nutso, Ty Nitty and more. Stream and download the same name single “E.B.K.” below!Let’s welcome the weekend with some soul! BamaLoveSoul offers you this Jill Scott sample set, including 16 soul classics with artist appearances from Roy Ayers, The Escorts, Barry White, Mannheim Steamroller and many more. Listen to a 3-track collection below and download the entire project here.Freqnik & WDRE from NYC have compiled a dope B-Boy remix of LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knoch You Out" classic from 1990. Stream and download the funky remix below!Here is another release from The Jazz Jousters who return with their fourth collection of Hip Hop Jazz instrumentals from their Lab Off sessions that pay homage to some of their favorite Jazz legends. The Jousters group took it upon themselves to tackle the “Some Other Time” instrumental by the famous pianist, Bill Evans.
Here is a full album stream of G.O.O.D. Music‘s long awaited label compilation Cruel Summer. We have 12 tracks including appearances from the G.O.O.D. Music crew members Kanye West, Pusha T, Big Sean, Common, Kid Cudi, D’Banj, John Legend, CyHi Da Prynce and Teyana Taylor.Hip-Hop duo Hy-Definition (SoulChef and K.Wiz) present their latest project The Voices. The EP pays homage to five distinguished artists who have inspired Hy-Definition’s sound: Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, David Ruffin, Michael Jackson and Selena. Stream the entire project here:Redefinition Records releases another free joint for your listening pleasure. Listen to Raw Poetic’s “Easy Way Out” (prod. by K-Def) below. As always, we have nothing but quality here. Anything Redef drops is dope! The Full EP of “Easy Way Out” is available now.To give fans one more treat before the release of their eighth studio album, Music @ The Speed of Life (Itunes), Mint Condition are sharing new track “Girl Of My Life,” a collaboration with the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff. The track is streaming in full via SoundCloud – listen below!The Jazz Jousters are releasing another issue off their Lab Off Sessions series. This time the 7 man crew visit the Miles Davis archive and attempt to work with the massive “Blue In Green” taken off of the 1959 album, Kind Of Blue.Live from Rock the Bells 2012 Murs & Fashawn perform “Just Begun” off their upcoming album ‘This Generation,’ out September 25, 2012 on Duck Down Music (pre-order the album here). The video was shot and edited by Guy Blelloch. Additional footage is served by Justin Fleischer.
The second wave of punk rock was much grittier, hardcore, thrash and from the working class streets of the UK, not fashion shops and art colleges. From 1980 to 1984 the UK was full of punk rock groups. They dressed almost identically with outrageous and dirty spiked hair, leather bike jacket, tight ripped drainpipe jeans [...]By 1979 The Sex Pistols had split, Sid Vicious was dead and the punk euphoria of 1976/77 had dissipated into mainstream fashion and commercial pop-driven ‘New Wave’. A two-headed beast rose from the ashes. On the one hand, what became known as ‘post-punk’ included musicians formerly associated with the likes of the Sex Pistols & [...]