Yeah Yeah Yeahs Working On New Music, Says Karen O
Things have been relatively quiet on the Yeah Yeah Yeah front following the release (and subsequent promotional push) of March 2009’s very good It’s Blitz. But that could change sometime soon according to frontwoman Karen O. She told U.K. newspaper The Sun that she and the rest of the band have been working on new material after taking some time off to focus on their respective side gigs. That’s about all she said about the new songs, though she did reveal that her psycho opera, Stop the Virgens, will likely be brought to London for some shows. Hmm, I know I can’t be alone in wishing that she and the rest of the YYYs would just focus on LP4. [NME]
Five Reasons You Need To Take Das Racist Seriously - Prefix Mag, September 13, 2011
For real folks, how couldn’t we be fans of the guys of Das Racist? They have only gotten better over the years, they’re not only all about throwing down and being outrageous, and they work with some of our favorite artists from across the genre-sphere. They have also paved a way for themselves more or less on their own with a pair of successful and free albums…err, mixtapes.
With all of that in mind, we would be pretty hard-pressed to not have a strong interest in their proper debut,Relax, which drops Sept. 13. If nothing else, we’re excited to find out just how they can transition from the land of free projects to putting out a tangible product. That move has been (critically) deadly to some artists who have thrived in the land of mixtapes — Wale, B.o.B, etc… — but we’re confident Das Racist can handle it. And here are five reasons we think so.
The Guild - The Calling (Xaphoon Jones ReWork)
The Guild - The Calling (Xaphoon Jones ReWork)(Download)
Last song of the night, and it’s from the other half of Chiddy Bang, the DJ himself, Xaphoon Jones. A nice laid back song to put your mind to ease for the night. Enjoy.
Taka Yasuawa (strings)
Sean Mair (cuts)
Alex Sugiura (bass)
Yuri Rybak (piano)
Find The Reason (feat. Thurmon Green)
Rioux - “Find The Reason (feat. Thurmon Green)”
Tear Mixtape for Prefix Magazine
have a listen, it’s pretty good
Listen to T.I. and Pharrell's "Hear Ye, Hear Ye"
prefixmag.comKind of short, but pretty good. Now we know what they were working on!
20kUnderDC Review: Com Truise "In Decay"
New 20kUnderDC review up on Prefix. This time it’s the retrofuturist producer Com Truise:
The music Seth Haley creates under the moniker Com Truise can best be understood as a series of variations on the same theme. Not to undersell the producer’s talent, but hearing just one track—any track—is all you need to get a handle on what he’s trying to accomplish. In Decay— the new collection of unreleased and demo tracks out on Ghostly International— shows that Haley arrived at his cohesive synth-heavy sound early in his career and perfected it though endlessly reworking the same basic components over and over… [Read the rest over at Prefix]
