Already heavily featured on Myspace and YouTube (with top honors for "Most Viewed Today" and "Most Linked Today"), Guru feat. Slum Village's "Cuz I'm Jazzy" music video premiered online earlier this week and has been blowing up ever since. Check it below. "Cuz I'm Jazzy"

Like their music, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings have shot a retro-school video for the instant classic "100 Days 100 Nights." It was directed by Adam Elias on a limited budget, including not much more than $50 for a vintage TV camera from eBay. "100 Days 100 Nights"

Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory of the glam duo Goldfrapp announced that their new album Seventh Tree will find its way to stores February 25, 2008 via the Mute record label. Mute commented, "it shimmers and shines with the warmth of a hazy summer, an electric whirlpool of sound over which Alison's glistening voice soars. A sensual counterpoint to the glitterball glamour of Supernature , Seventh Tree is gilded in the...

Olu Dara's son, Nas , has decided to call his next album Ni**er , claiming he'd wanted to name his last one Hip Hop Is Dead the racial slur, but "the climate wasn't right." Perhaps it's unclear as to what "climate" could ever be right, but Nas believes it's an appropriate reaction to the public debate regarding Barack Obama and the latest hate crime: a noose around the neck of Tupac's statue in Atlanta. Assemblyman Hakeem...

Giant Step's favorite Def Jam poet Saul Williams must have seen the colors in Radiohead's In Rainbows and is upping his Trent Reznor produced album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! for a free download at 192kbps MP3 this Halloween. $5 will afford you the 320kbps or the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) version, once you've decided it's worth your hard earned cash. Tracklist 1. Black History Month 2. Convict...

The Miami Winter Music Conference will be taking place March 25-29 of next year, which means fun in the sun with the best dance music is just around the corner. Details on Giant Step's annual Sunset Soiree are TBA, though last year it ran for 3 nights, with talent including Gilles Peterson, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Benji B, Rainer Truby, Jazzanova, Ame, DJ Moni, Taylor McFerrin, and Turntables on the Hudson - so you know the deal!

Just over 10 months ago, music industry legend of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun passed away after falling into a coma at a Rolling Stones concert last October. Giant Step's very own Mehmet Dede will be paying homage to the great Ertegun this Thursday (10/25) from 2-4PM EST on East Village Radio . As part of a two hour special along with a 30 minute excerpt from a Memorial Tribute to Ahmet, Mehmet's 90 minute...

Simian Mobile Disco reshot their "Hustler" video. New "Hustler" The elements at play include attractive girls and fatty food. The food masticating gets messier...

Today YouTube is featuring a video by the playful Chilean outfit Los Mono . Entitled "Promesas" (which translates to Promises), the music video is simply of a funky dancer with a morphing, animated head doin' his/her thing down an endless hallway. Its 4 star user rating means it must be pretty darn good, right? See for yourself. (Although if you're signed up for the Giant Step newsletter, you were already in the know yesterday :) "Promesas"

Kenna's sophomore album Make Sure They See My Face drops today on Star Track/Interscope Records . It features sure-fire singles "Say Goodbye To Love," "Baptized In Blacklight," and "Out of Control (State of Emotion)" - all powerpop-filled tracks destined for chart success, or at least certain to do loops in your head. During the time of the Ethiopian-American's 2003 debut New Sacred Cow , which was co-produced by Chad Hugo of The...