Baloo can scat

Watch the whole thing.

Flying Lotus Interview - Cosmogramma

Last week, Clash Magazine interviewed Flying Lotus about his upcoming release Cosmogramma, coming out on May 4th. Cool to hear about Flylo's musical motivations, check it out here.

The Elevated Ruffians - Watch Your Step Ft. Oh No + Magnificent Soul EP

The Elevated Ruffians are a collaboration of artists from ElevatedSOUL, a three piece production crew from Los Angeles, and the Magnificent Ruffians, a 2 MC and DJ crew from SoCal. I recently downloaded their album, "The Magnificent Soul" and definitely dig it, especially this track featuring Oh No. Using a variety of soul and Motown samples, this album caught my attention at first listen. Production is tight, raps are good....what else could you want? Oh.... and props to Kyle for showing me this one, never would have heard of it otherwise.

The Magnificent Soul EP is available for download here, either donate or download it for free...Enjoy!

Sleigh Bells

This group is fairly new. If you already know them awesome, if not check them out. Heres two their tracks titles "Ring Ring" and "Beach Girls"...

Rusko!

Here's a little change up from all the new rap and hip hop, the second single off of Rusko's upcoming album "OMG" is now out and its called "Hold On" Ft. Amber Coffman. I've heard Rusko is taking it down a notch with the wobble but we'll see on May 4th when "OMG" drops. I know its a pretty gay name.

Africa Must Wake Up ft. K'naan....New Nas and Damian Marley!!

Another new track that is absolute FIRE!!!!.....Track has a super mellow vibe, and Nas' verses are real good. Really loving this combo. Download the track here.

Madlib - Medicine Show #5: History of the Loop Digga 1990-2000

Madlib's upcoming release Medicine Show #5 comes out this May. All tracks were originally made in the 90's and were for cassette. I don't know how he does it, but Madlib continues to release fyah beatz.

Madlib - Static Invazion

Madlib - Episode XVI

New jj - CEO Birthday

New jj song teases on the vocal melody of Jeremih's "Birthday Sex"

jj - CEO Birthday

Portugal. The Man

These guys were super fun to watch at Coachella. They've been around for a while but I am just starting to get into them. People from Alaska just tend to be a bit cooler than us lower 48ers. This video is from a blog called 'They Shoot Music Don't They" - Have a looksee. Its fairly similar to Blogotheque.

Schools Out

Classes are over. Just gotta knock out a few finals. This is a pretty feel good song from Delorean called simple graces. It seems appropriate.

Ghostwridah tribute to MC Guru

As you probably already know MC Guru of Gangstarr pasted a few days ago. I have been waiting to hear some sick tribute tracks over some his old tracks. This was the first one I came across and it is fire!!!....Never heard of Ghostwridah in my life but he can spit, and kills the Gangstarr track Skillz.....R.I.P. MC Guru

Drankenstein

Here's a new mix by Bird Peterson inspired by his love for dirty south rap and trance synth. So here it is 15 of his favorite dirty south songs and 15 of his favorite trans synth songs, and its called "Drankenstein." check out the link below.

Bird Peterson- Drankenstein Mix

Toro Y Moi

Getting ready for the Toro Y Moi show this Saturday .... pre-sale is sold-out but I assume more tickets will be sold at the door.

It's good to hear an experimental side of Toro Y Moi, and i'm psyched to see what he ends up playing Saturday...

how deep does the rabbit hole go

Sticking to the hiphop oriented direction the blog has been going lately i found a good electro-hiphop hybrid track called "look alice" by delorean. cool video but if you want to get straight to the music skip to 2:00 to get down to business.

DaVinci-Ben Video

First off, thanks to Noise Nuggets for introducing me to DaVinci. He is for sure my favorite rapper out right now, the dude is so raw and real, plus his beats are amazing......Heres the video for one of my favorite tracks off his album The Day The Turf Stood Still.....If you haven't yet, DOWNLOAD IT!!!!

DaVinci - "Ben" (Music Video) from Sweetbreads Creative Collective on Vimeo.

XXL Freshmen Freddie Gibbs

I know it's a day late, but here's the "Personal OG" Freestyle Freddie Gibbs did for all the smokers on 4/20 and of course Beau's B-day.

call me lazy bones

New Little Brother Video

Here's the new Little Brother video for Curtain Call. Not much to say besides every song these dudes put out i seem to like.....

Welcome to the fam Grant...Craig...Bret!

Yesturday was a big day in Noise Nuggets headquarters as new member Grant...Craig...Bret officially joined the Noise Nugz team. Welcome to the family Grant...Craig...Bret, your a big guy and you do big things.

Memoryhouse

I recently discovered Memoryhouse, a chill-wave duo from Canada. Their E.P The Years has been playing on my speakers all day and after being on a recent hip-hop binge, it was good to listen to some semi-acoustic music again. A rising band, Memoryhouse's E.P features a perfect blend of acoustic/electric instruments backed by floaty, calming lyrics.

Recently released on Memoryhouse's Blog is a new acoustic rendition of the song "Lately". Originally released on The Years, this song has become one of my new favorites. Listen to their song below, and follow links to Myspace/blog etc. for more info...

Memoryhouse - Lately (Troisieme)

Memoryhouse MySpace, Memoryhouse Blog, Memoryhouse Website

Almatic -Nas and Al Green

All your favorite Nas Illmatic flows remixed over new beats chuck-full-o Al Green samples with flows from AZ, Jadakiss, and Ludacris. The beats are real smooth, and verses are that straight classic Nas shit..........Real good Mixtape.

Almatic available here!

This Charming Documentary

at the risk of repeating myself: theophilus london is awesome. this is a short documentary about the making of his mixtape "this charming mixtape." peep it.

Dilla

A Tribute To J Dilla by The Soul Dojo on Mixcloud

Here's another J-dilla tribute mixtape check em out thought some of you would like it. So twist one up, kick back, and Enjoy.

Nas and Damain Marley

Here's the newest single off of the up and coming Distant Relatives by Nas and Damian Marley its called "The Promise Land."

The Game 400 Bars

I Had to post it shits pretty crazy, here's the Game spittin' 400 bars over Jay Electronica's " Exhibit C" Try and listen to all of it theres some good verses.

Theophilus London- Accept the New

Not much to say....this song is sick

Theophilus London - Accept The New

2Sure 2Shizzy Amemu

I'm not sure if this dude is joking or if he's serious but either way this is hilarious...

Florence + Machine - Dog Days (Breakage remix)

Florence has the pipes and Breakage has the beats. This is the result.

Upcoming Show: Toro Y Moi at Eye Level Art 4.24

For all my Charleston peeps, Toro Y Moi is coming April 24th (two weeks from this Saturday) to Eye Level Art. Tickets are $5 for students (pre-sale only), $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The show is definitely going to sell out so get your tickets soon. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased at Eye Level Art, 103 Spring St. from 10am-5pm, Monday - Friday. Hell ya!

Dream Cop - Beach City/Carol I Know

Dream Cop is comprised of a one man multi-instrumentalist by the name of Tommy Davidson. Don't know much about this dude but really like one of his tracks that was featured on Pitckfork's Forkcast the other day entitled "Beach City/Carol I Know". The track features samples from Beach Boy tunes "That's Not Me" and "Caroline, no".... I really like what this dude did with this....check it out

Dream Cop - Beach City/Carol I Know

Onra - High Hopes ft. Reggie B

Paris based producer Onra recently came out with the track "High Hopes", the single off of his upcoming release Long Distance which will come out May 24th. Dam-Funk meets Dilla... some of the finest new R&B i've heard

Onra - High Hopes ft. Reggie B

When You're Strange

My dad was and still is an avid Doors fan. I remember the first time he introduced me to Jim Morrison and company; I felt like I was being inducted into some secret society. The delicate process of taking out the rarely used Bang & Olufsen, slipping the vinyl "Strange Days" LP out of its mint sleeve, ever so delicately putting the needle down, and instantly falling down the rabbit hole into a heady concotion of sound.

To be honest, I don't love to listen The Doors---some of it's pretty cacophonous stuff. I do love Jim Morrison's poetry and the ideas behind the music though, something my dad and I talk about at length. I think I've talked to Ry about how we think we were born in the wrong generation, and maybe that's why I don't fully appreciate it. Whatever the case, this film opened limited release on April 9 and I'll be pretty amped to see it when it comes to town sometime in May.

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

Grab a shovel!

We Are The New Standard: Kutmah

Just got another email from Clement & Co, a media company promoting rising artists, about a DJ by the name of Kutmah. I love videos that bring you behind it all, even if you've never listened to the dudes music...

Errbody's gettin electronik

Block party frontman has left the band and has decided to go solo. Under the name of "Kele", he plans to release his new album The Boxer this summer June 22nd. Check out more info here...

i used to rock out with my parents to this one. great song- hayden will agree

Dr. Dog - New Album April 6 'Shame, Shame'

This track is called Shadow People. The last Dr. Dog video I posted was sung by the other lead vocalist, so the sound is quite different. All of the harmonies are real and they perform them just as good live. I am starting to become obsessed with these guys. Join me?

The Roots - Dilla Joints

The Roots recently reworked some of their favorite Dilla tracks and came up with this. Not much needed to be said here, this shits pretty feckign awesome...Download and stream all tracks at hypebeast.com....

Joker

I'm really liking this dubstep DJ "Joker ". He does some sick remix's....heres a good one called Do It (The Rat Pack remix).

Meeting of the Minds

Becks new project is calle "Record Club" him and an A-list of musician friends reproduce a classic album, releasing a new song every week or so. Best thing I've seen(and heard) in awhile.

Wolf Gang - back to back (active child remix)

Wolf Gang - Back To Back (Active Child Remix)

Reflection Eternal Ft. Estelle

New single by Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek. Check em' out!