- Michael Jackson is reportedly purchasing a stake in the back catalogues of various artists including Bjork, Shakira, Eminem, and – featured on The Music Slut – Beck. Kind of interesting to see an influential black artist mooching off Beck, isn’t it? (I kid ’cause I love, Mr. Hansen.)
- A new Bad Brains album is on its way out next month, and Culture Bully gives a sneak preview of one hardcore metal track and one laid-back reggae track from the cd. The songs are such wacky opposites, they’re getting their own sitcom called “Brainsies” on NBC this Fall.
- This Mansbestfriend mp3 over at audiversity isn’t really up my alley, but they may have the greatest album cover I have ever seen.
- Se questo disco a un primo ascolto può non sorprendere troppo FREE ART BRUT SONG sono sicuro che l’estate davanti a noi gioverà a queste undici canzoni. (Polaroid)
- I don’t listen to much music that could be classified as “Boogie-Woogie,” mostly because I wasn’t born on a prairie in the 1930s, but Nine Bullets tosses us three tracks from Hillstomp that make us all wish we had been born on a prairie in the 1930s. And that’s including the Dust Bowl.
