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Animal Collective Announce New Album

By ⋅ May 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Following last week’s unexpected release of “Honeycomb” and “Gotham”, Baltimore four-piece Animal Collective have announced, via a video on their website, that there will indeed be a brand new album this September through Domino. The album, which is a followup to 2009′s fantastic Merriweather Post Pavilion, will be titled Centipede Hz, and the band offers more hints about the tracklisting in the video. Listen to the two new songs below, or pre-order the Honeycomb/Gotham 7”  here. Stay tuned for more info on the album.

UPDATE: The album will be released September 3rd in UK/Europe and September 4th in North America. The words and phrases in the video have also been confirmed to be the tracklisting, which you can view below.

Centipede Hz Tracklist:

01 Moonjock
02 Today’s Supernatural
03 Rosie Oh
04 Applesauce
05 Wide Eyed
06 Father Time
07 New Town Burnout
08 Monkey Riches
09 Mercury Man
10 Pulleys
11 Amanita

Stream: Ab-Soul – Control System

By ⋅ May 13, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Ab-Soul‘s Control System is now available for purchase on iTunes via Top Dawg Entertainment, but you can stream the entire album below for free. For his new release, Ab-Soul teamed up with a slew of top-notch rappers including Danny Brown, BJ the Chicago Kid, and his fellow Black Hippy members Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and ScHoolboy Q. Heavily recommended tracks include “Terrorist Threat”, “ILLuminate”, and “Double Standard”.

Control System was described by Kendrick as one of the most important releases in the entire Black Hippy momvement. “May 11th, Control System, Ab-Soul. Once you get that piece, you’ll really understand this TDE thing. Then, you might be fortunate to get the Black Hippy that everything’s talking about. That’s our prized possession, that’s our baby. We have fun with that, and I don’t know. Once you throw the music out, people start putting the numbers behind it. We want that to be organic… We got music, though. A lot of music.”

PURCHASE CONTROL SYSTEM ON ITUNES

Listen: Azealia Banks – “Jumanji”

By ⋅ May 11, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Considering all the drama that’s been surrounding her, Azealia Banks has made it quite clear that she has an attitude and a personality, but when it comes to music, Banks has everything down pat. Her latest track is “Jumanji”, a song that will appear on her next mixtape. Over some steel drum production that seems to draw influence from Jamie xx, Azealia proves yet again that she has the talent to back up her attitude. I mean, it’s kind of hard to hate when she’s killing everything she actually appears on.

Stream: mewithoutYou – Ten Stories

By ⋅ May 10, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Ten Stories, the new release from mewithoutYou, is currently being streamed in it’s entirety on Spotify. The post-hardcore band experiments with spoken-word lyrics and various different genres to produce music that is definitely worth listening to if you haven’t heard it already. Vocalist, Aaron Weiss, provides an experience that can not be found in any other band, thus creating mewithoutYou’s signature sound.

Ten Stories Tracklisting:
01) February 1878
02) Grist For The Malady Mill
03) East Enders Wives
04) Cardiff Giant
05) Elephant In The Dock
06) Aubergine
07) Fox’s Dream Of The Log Flume
08) Nine Stories
09) Fiji Mermaid
10) Bear’s Vision Of St. Agnes
11) All Circles

[via TheNeedleDrop]

Listen: Ab-Soul – “ILLuminate (feat. Kendrick Lamar)”

By ⋅ May 9, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

“I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z / Now I feel like I’m runnin’ laps around Jay-Z / Nas ain’t seen nothing this nasty / B.I.G. and Pac got it coming when I pass too / You got the mic, I ain’t the one you wanna pass to.” – Ab-Soul

In just three days, Black Hippy and Top Dawg Entertainment member Ab-Soul will be releasing his new album, Control System. In preparation, Soul posted up “ILLuminate”, his joint track with long-time friend and fellow TDE collaborator Kendrick Lamar, who will also be releasing a new album of his own, Good Kid in a Mad City, later this year. Over some smooth Skhye Hutch production, Ab-Soul spits two insane verses before giving Kendrick a turn as well. It’s ridiculous how much quality these guys are bringing to the game and “ILLuminate” certainly meets these high expectations. Control System is out May 11th.

Listen: Passion Pit – “Take A Walk”

By ⋅ May 7, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

To call Passion Pit‘s forthcoming album Gossamer a highly anticipated release wouldn’t even be doing it justice. Fans of the band’s infectious electropop sound have all been eagerly awaiting new music from Michael Angelakos and company since the release of Manners in 2009. And finally, after quite a number of delays and false rumors, we have new music from the indie darlings. Below, you can listen to the first single, “Take A Walk”. Surprisingly, the song doesn’t feature the falsetto singing we’ve come to expect from Passion Pit, but the song is still insanely infectious and fun. Gossamer will be released on July 24th via Columbia.

Listen: Animal Collective – “Honeycomb” & “Gotham”

By ⋅ May 7, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

On June 26th, Animal Collective will officially release their new single “Honeycomb” / “Gotham” through Domino Records. Just today, the psychedelic four-piece announced their intentions to release the new two-song 7-inch and with it, a free stream of both songs, which you can check out below. If things go according to plan, we should expect to see a new full-length release later this year.

Watch The Weeknd and Drake Perform in LA

By ⋅ May 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

“That OVO and that XO is everything you believe in, I know.”

The Weeknd brought out his OVOXO mentor Drake last night while performing at LA’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery. After finishing his first verse on Take Care‘s “Crew Love”, Abel turned to the side and as the crowd suddenly realized what was happening, Drake appeared to finish the song. The two then went on to play Thursday‘s “The Zone”. You can watch a fan-shot, iPhone littered recording of the performance below.

Listen: Meek Mill – “Amen (feat. Drake & Jeremih)”

By ⋅ May 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The latest from Maybach Music’s Meek Mill (how’s that for alliteration?) features the dream chaser on a beat that sounds quite different from his usual gritty bangers. To change things up a bit, Meek teamed up with Young Angel and the smooth crooner Jeremih over some church-inspired piano notes to show his versatility as an artist. Amen. Dreamchasers 2 is out May 7th.

MP3: Meek Mill – “Amen (feat. Drake & Jeremih)”

Listen: The Gaslight Anthem – “45″

By ⋅ May 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

On July 24th, New Jersey rockers the Gaslight Anthem will be unveiling their fourth album and first since joining Mercury Records, Handwritten. And with it, the band plans on reverting back to their punkier roots, despite all the acclaim that followed the more mature, more mellow American Slang that saw its release back in 2010.

Our first taste arrives with the stunning “45″, which was recorded early in the Handwritten sessions. Frontman Brian Fallon revealed to RollingStone, ”This song felt to us like we still had something to say in this long line of rock & roll tradition. It made the path clear as to what we should do next. Sometimes you just have to leave things behind . . . turn the record over.” I, for one, am certainly not complaining.

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