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Stones Throw recently announced that Yesterdays New Quintet will disband after its July 17, 2007 release of Yesterdays Universe . Comprised of members Malik, Joe, Ahmad, Monk & Otis aka Madlib , the group will merely be reconfigured into 10 other acts – all of whom will be produced by Madlib in the months to come. Otis Jackson Jr. will be a busy cat this year with the album, a Jewelz EP (out in June), and the records of all the YNQ...

Often criticized for relying on famous guests to complete his albums, James Lavelle of UNKLE has once again gathered together several of his distinguished musician friends for the group’s third LP War Stories (out July 24th on Lavelle’s Surrender All label). Along with James’ studio partner Richard File , half of the 14 tracks feature other artists, including Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age), Gavin Clark (Clayhill), Ian Astbury (The...

Jarvis Cocker is in the process of putting together a week long festival of his fantasies. This is akin to the hypothetical question: which bands would you want to have play your perfect birthday party? While most will never actually experience the exact lineup they'd wished for, those who are in the UK in the middle of next month may encounter an event far greater than they could have imagined themselves. The Meltdown festival begins with metal rockers Motorhead ,...

Lupe Fiasco entered the studio this week to commence the recording of his follow-up to Food & Liquor , The Cool (tentatively scheduled for an Oct. 31 release date on 1st & 15th / Atlantic ). His original dream to collaborate with Pink Floyd on a track for the forthcoming full-length has yet to be realized; Fiasco admitted to Billboard.com at Coachella , "Nothing has developed yet. But...

Kate Tunstall, better known as KT Tunstall, announced the title of her new album, Drastic Fantastic, which will come out on Virgin in September. Of Drastic , which will again be produced by Steve Osborne , Tunstall told Billboard.com , “The second album sort of feels like the next half of a book rather than a totally different book. I'm really excited about that because the first album was made in the middle of the country, so I'm now...

The Giant Step NYC Street Team is always looking for dedicated music fans to help promote artists and events in and around New York City. In addition to extra cash in your pocket for working at great events and parties, you will get FREE Music, T-Shirts, Bags, Stickers, and all those other goodies. This is a great networking opportunity. All inquiries please respond to street@giantstep.net with "Street...

There’s no doubt that artwork plays an integral role in our adoration for music. Whether its flyers, 12” sleeve-art, CD liner design, T-shirts, posters, digital release jpegs or music videos, someone took the time to contextualize and create a visual association to enhance our sensory experience. Ed Banger Records’ art director SO ME has been doing an exceptional job at doing just that. Through caricaturizing and simplifying each producer on the label’s roster, SO ME...

Gutted you couldn’t afford tickets? Or get time off of work, or for whatever reason just couldn’t make it to Indio Field for the weekend? No worries. Coachella’s streaming a handful of performances live from the festival, including Noisettes, Rufus Wainwright, Sonic Youth, Bjork, Arcade Fire, Kaiser Chiefs, CSS and Klaxons. The current listing is below with more acts to come (hopefully). And the...

Located just south of Astor Place in New York City, the aficionado's heaven Other Music has been a long standing pillar of the new cool, the esoteric, and the difficult to obtain. And just recently, on its 12th year of operation, it launched a shiny online store-front grounded in its original ethos: "tracking down great music and making it available to passionate music fans." With all of their aptly titled genres ported to the web and thousands of releases already uploaded (as...