Today at Coachella Prince covered Radiohead’s “Creep” before closing the set with The Beatles’ “Come Together” in front of the 60,000 attendees. It has yet to show up on YouTube, but keep your eyes open. See the video below:
Jason Pierce of Spiritualized
Wired Magazine’s interview with Jason Pierce of Spirtualized and Spacemen 3.
Video: Coachella 2008
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The Raconteurs
ENTER TO WIN! Russian Circles Release Show, Hosted by ALARM Magazine
The secret is out- Chicago’s Russian Circles will be gracing the cover of ALARM #31 (coming in June). We’re stoked and you should be too! The heavy instrumental rockers will release their second LP, Station May, 6 on Suicide Squeeze.
To celebrate Station’s release ALARM is hosting the band’s hometown record release show Saturday, May 10 at The Subterranean in Chicago, with Tight Phantomz and Call Me Lighting.
Mike Ladd: Sci-Fi Hip Hop Futurist
In the world of Mike Ladd, reality is far stranger than fiction. The Boston-bred MC/producer/spoken-word poet is the merry prankster of underground hip-hop, a sonic jester gleefully melding dystopian imagery with lo-fi hardcore, dub, and retro soul to create party music for the year 2032. His lofty concepts have documented the simultaneous death and rebirth of hip-hop in his operatic Infesticons and Majesticons projects.
Into Television: Reformating the Way We Watch
Recently, Sony Television Distribution teamed up with MySpace to unveil a novel little venture called the “Minisode Network.” A broadband video channel, the Minisode Network features five-to-seven-minute cut-down versions of classic TV shows like “Starsky and Hutch,” “Who’s The Boss?,” and “The Facts of Life.”
The Roots Picnic
Someone in The Roots crew has their thinking cap on tight. The roster for the upcoming Roots Picnic on June 7th, in Philadelphia, boast an impressive and eclectic selection of urban artist. Acts range from the gospel antics of Gnarls Barkley to the retro soul deity known as Sharon Jones. Imagine DJ’s Esperanza and Diplo playing along side Deerhoof and Santogold, ambling along the non sequitur of hip hop’s future. All of a sudden summer can’t come fast enough. As for The Roots…
Al Green Lays It Down With New Album, Headlines NOLA Jazz Fest
The legend of the late night love making standard, Al Green, is due to release a new album entitled Lay It Down (Blue Note) on May 27th. At the ripe age of 62, Green has been consistant in releasing new material every few years, but this time he’s enlisted the help of some younger talent to freshen up his game. Lay It Down features an updated soul sound complements of collaborators ?uestlove of the Roots, John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Anthony Hamilton.
Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR
Dave Thompson is trying to seduce you. And it’s not with restless nymphomaniacs or yielding flesh; it’s with something a lot more potent—nostalgia.
In Black and White and Blue, he laments, “in the stags as much as the real world, it is the relationship between two people that flavors the sex that follows…in latter movies [the lovers] are simply objects on the end of their genitalia.”