RIP GURU

Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have

Wicked hot debut from Hyperdub resident/West LDN gyal Ikonika.

Read all abaaaht it:

http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/2010/04/ikonika-contact-love-want-have/

Also here, where she takes down lazy/racist/sexist journos. YES.

http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/2010/04/she-said-she-said-ikonika/

Free! Hot! Sexy!

All you musos and good taste hounds have no doubt already swiped this most excellent freebie, but for those who have-not, feel free to mosey on down to Kill Rock Stars o-fficial site where you can bag this bountiful beast :





01 ELLIOTT SMITH "Angeles" from Either/Or
02 THE THERMALS "Now We Can See" from Now We Can See
03 GOSSIP "Standing In the Way of Control" from Standing In The Way of Control
04 THAO "When We Swam" from Know Better Learn Faster
05 SLEATER KINNEY "Oh!" from One Beat
06 PANTHER "Love Is Sold" from Entropy
07 UNWOUND "Corpse Pose" from Repetition
08 THE PAPER CHASE "What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning) from Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1)
09 XIU XIU "Dear God, I Hate Myself" from Dear God, I Hate Myself
10 DEERHOOF "Believe E.S.P." from Friend Opportunity
11 QUASI "Repulsion" from American Gong
12 MARNIE STERN "Transformer" from This Is It...
13 STEREO TOTAL "I Love You, Ono" from My Melody
14 LILIPUT "Ain't You" from Liliput
15 BIKINI KILL "New Radio " from New Radio
16 BRATMOBILE "Die" from The Real Janelle
17 COMET GAIN "Kids In The Club" from Realistes
18 THE SHAKY HANDS "Allison and the Ancient Eyes" from Let It Die
19 THE DECEMBERISTS "16 Military Wives" from Picaresque
20 HORSE FEATHERS "Curs In The Weeds" from House With No Home
21 JEFF HANSON "Hiding Behind the Moon" from Son

Who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked

I am STOOPIDLY excited about Psalm One's upcoming Woman At Work EP, which comes out via Rhymesayers. Death Of The Frequent Flyer was/is bangarang, and I've been bouncing slowly to 'Open For Business' (download for freezer here) like nobodies business. Also check her guest spot on Canibus's Melatonin Magik, billed as The Goddess. She is.

EDIT: Psalm's peeps have informed me that Women At Work is a hello project, preceding a fuller release in 2011. So we're getting that more and more and more.

comicwatch

Good news: The Runaways are coming to screen. Marvel, please do not botch this.

Sadfaceanxious news: The Rucka/Williams Batwoman run is at a precipice! Rucka has announced he's leaving DC (shocker?!), which leaves our dyke heroine hanging in the balance. The Question too, though it's Ms Kane that I'm more worried about. The writing has slipped somewhat in the last three issues, and I'm not feeling Jock's art a.t a.l.l.

Woe that the Rucka/Williams partnership has dissolved and double woe that this lush, lush run is kinda over.

Free Doomtree Mix

Not just free music, but DOPE free music. A mighty mix of foine cuts from the Doomtree crew, stitched together with love by this random dude I sorta know who sends me weird emails about Spiderman and independent hip hop. If yr unacquainted with this Minnesota clique, chomp down on this and expand those lobes.


1 - Legend Recognize Legend - Lazerbeak
2 - Stand Up [Let’s Get Murdered] - P.O.S.
3 - Suicide Jimmy Snuffa - Hand Over First
4 - Bullpen - Dessa
5 - We’re Working Hard - Paper Tiger
6 - Slow Burn - Sims & Mike Mictlan
7 - 1999 - Cecil Otter
8 - Game Over [Go Big Or Go Home Boy] - Mike Mictlan
9 - Half-Cocked Concepts - P.O.S.
10 - Like You Mean It - Sims
11 - Jaded - Cecil Otter, Dessa & P.O.S.
12 - No Homeowners - Doomtree

Sure to be heavy

Nas & Damian Marley collab album - May 18th.


1. As We Enter
2. Tribal War (feat. K’Naan)
3. Strong Will Continue
4. Leaders
5. Wisdom
6. Count Your Blessings
7. Dispear
8. The Promised Land (feat. Dennis Brown)
9. In His Own Words
10. Nah Mean
11. Friends
12. My Generation (feat. Lil Wayne and Joss Stone)
13. Africa Must Wake Up (feat. K’Naan)

This week's Free Music Friday @ Wears The Trousers

...is basically dope and you need to get on it, quick style. Nina Persson, Romy, Scream Club AND a special FMF guest spot hosted by the awesome Peggy Sue. RAD RAD RAD.


http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/sect/free-music-friday/

Lowkey - Obama Nation

Paul White free download/news

I interviewed supremo LDN DJ Paul White yesterday. Dude is a master of soundscaping and beat-birthing. Here's a free download to celebrate his upcoming sophomore outing Paul White And The Purple Brain which drops in June through Now-Again Records, the Stones Throw sister label. S'gonna be big I tell ya, BIG.

http://nowagainrecords.com/up/AncientTreasure.mp3