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The Belly of the Beat from Gasface on Vimeo.

Great film about an LES staple. Catch the story about John Frusciante from RHCP, classic!

Congrats to the Foreign Exchange Team!

The Foreign Exchange's Grammy nomination video from The Foreign Exchange on Vimeo.

Phonte & Nicolay released one of the best albums of this decade (that is somehow absent from all these lists popping up) and then flipped the script dropping Leave It All Behind late last year featuring no rhymes, just Tay singing that sweet soul.

While the Grammy voters are not known for their love of talented musicians or good music, somehow the FE guys got nominated this year and if ever there were some guys that deserve this kind of honor they are it. Catch up on the history thanks to this video they just dropped and then grab some of their music!

Guess I Got My Swagga Back

Words don't even capture this jam. Gnarly. Grimey. Heavy. That's a start. Many thanks to Astronomar for hipping me to this! I advise turning it up.

Fresh Espresso "Big or Small" Video!!!!!!!!!

I was in Seattle for the show the night before this. Actually I did my interview with Smoov that night too. Whatever... this video has already made the rounds on the SEA Hop blogs but it's too fresh not to get a post here too!

OFS Bitches.

Fela Kuti Sees Vinyl Availibe in US!

All I got to say is it's about time! While it's likely most people are vaguely familiar with at least the name, Fela Kuti is far from the widely known musician he should be.



Luckily I had a teacher who took this to heart and dedicated a couple weeks to Nigeria and Fela - the last class I took in college too! This gave me a much deeper interest in and desire for the music he made and put anything by the man at the top of my vinyl buying wish list. Little did I know his albums in the US were imports only.

That is until now. Knitting Factory Records will be reissuing all of his albums in the coming years as deluxe digipak's on CD and on vinyl as well. This is great news and will hopefully, along with the current broadway production about his life, help generate a revived interest in the man and his music.

Read the full story here. Via Fact Magazine.

New Dam Funk Mixtape

I had the pleasure to sit down with this man back in September. He is making some truly awesome music for the new generation to get funky with! If you haven't been peeping his Toeachizown EP series or the full length that just dropped you might want to get on it. In case you need some convincing here is a new mixtape he just released for free with Clae - apparently a super fresh shoe company!

Peep the tracklist and then check out the mix!

Download it here.

Album Covers in Action

I never did post this when it first premiered on the net, but it's so fresh that it still deserves some play. Jay-Z teams with Rhapsody to recreate his album covers in honor of the release of his latest effort, Blueprint 3 which you can catch my thoughts on over at the home base!