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Click here to view the embedded video. Brooklyn's Parquet Courts shared this video for Borrowed Time filmed at a sold-out show at Death By Audio. Stream: Light Up Gold here . WEST COAST TOUR DATES: Tue. Jan. 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo Wed. Jan. 16 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern Fri. Jan. 18 - Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar Sat. Jan. 19 - Seattle, WA @ Cairo Sun. Jan. 20 - Olympia, WA [...]

From the press release: Producers Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith, and Ruth & Stephen Hendel are pleased to announce that Grammy Award-winning recording artist Michelle Williams, of Destiny's Child fame, will join the national tour of the hit Award-winning Broadway musical Fela! beginning when the multi-city engagement kicks off at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC on January 29 and travels to Detroit, Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami, Schenectady, Memphis, Dallas, Cleveland, and Los Angeles (full tour schedule is listed below). Williams will play the role of Sandra Isadore, activist and [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Above is documentary Noisey made of   Black Lips touring Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, and more. In an interesting turn of events the Black Lips have agreed to play in America this year.  So check them out at SXSW and more. UPCOMING BLACK LIPS SHOWS: Mar 13-17   Austin, TX    SXSW Mar 18    San Francisco, CA    Great American Music Hall Mar 19    Felton, CA    Don Quixote’s International Music Hall Mar 20    Santa Barbara, CA    SoHo [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. The folks behind the Nelsonville Music Festival announced more bands for the fest's 2013 incarnation taking place May 30 - June 2. Calexico , a band I've been pining to see in Ohio for quite some time, will join the previously announced headliners Wilco and John Prine , plus Reigning Sound , Cotton Jones , Nick Tolford and more. Weekend passes for the fest are on sale now, and if you order this week, [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Noisey has Action Bronson react to you-tube comments about his video the Symbol . Bronson mentions that he is better looking than Rick Ross, an elite gymnast and just a general lover of all humans..

Earth People, D an the Automator's (Handsome Boy Modeling School, Deltron 3030, Gorillaz) new project Pillowfight with Canadian Singer Emily Wells is the business if you mess with soulful pop musics. The new song Used To Think is especially good because the singer is talking shit and going in on a former lover. ( consequenceofsound ) The Pillowfight Album drops digitally and on CD on 1/22/13 and Vinyl is due on 2/26/13 via Bulk Recordings. It features the help of Kid Koala [...]

This is a great snapshot of the 30-day fall tour Phil Cogley ( The Saturday Giant ) went on a few months ago. Admittedly, as the 17-minute clip came to an end, I was hoping to find out that this was just a trailer for a much longer film. Sadly, it's not. But it's an entertaining video and one that flies by. I had the chance to ask Phil about the tour and the documentary. Check it out over at ColumbusCalling.com .

Not to overload you guys with death news , but the Dispatch Printing Company (parent company of the Columbus Dispatch) announced today that after this month it will cease publication of The Other Paper , which it acquired in the sale of American Community Newspapers back in 2011. Four more issues, then that's it. Here's the full release Columbus, Ohio (January 4, 2013) – The Dispatch Printing Company announced today that it will cease publication of The Other Paper at the end of the current month. The [...]

NME listed Parquet Courts as one of the 60 Most Exciting New Bands of 2013 . Pitchfork referenced both Wire and Yo La Tengo when describing Parquet Courts' sound. The Columbus Alive made this show it's Staff Pick of the week and says the "post-punk combo that taps common record nerd sweet spots — Mission of Burma, Devo, Sonic Youth, any band with a motorik pulse — with uncommon grace." Cover is $5. Connections, Psychedelic Horseshit, and WV White round out [...]

• Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving

Cassidy - R.A.I.D. (Meek Mill Diss) Cassidy dropped a 10 minutes diss to Meek Mill over various instrumentals.  These two Philly rappers have been going back and forth since Meek clowned Cassidy's Condom Style PSA . Meek Mill response to Meek's diss was dismissive . . Meek Mill is the higher profile artist and has a stronger infrastructure because he is in MMG. What Cassidy has going for him is that he is respected in Philly as a battle emcee so he has a chance [...]

• Cassidy - R.A.I.D. (Meek Mill Diss)

Click here to view the embedded video. King Vada's "Preludes to A Murder" EP. It comes out 1/5/13. There is a listening party tonight @ Milk Bar in Columbus. Shot by: Ngockhanh Ngo Directed by: King Vada + Ngockhanh Ngo Edited+Effects by: Walter Nini (for @ENDOCOLOR)

Click here to view the embedded video. Wu-Tang Clan's 10th Official member Cappadonna renaissance continues. Last year he got down with his Wu-Tang comrades on RZA’s “The Man With The Iron Fists” OST on the Wu-Tang Clan reunion track “Six Directions Of Boxing” and with his appearance on the Wu-Tang Clan & D-Block project "Wu-Block”. Above is "Pull Your Life Together" off his upcoming album forthcoming double-CD, 'Eyrth, Wynd & Fyre,' which will be released on 2-26-2013 on RBC Records. I really like that Cappadonna mentions that he [...]

( swingstateofmind ) Brooklyn-based label Captured Tracks is partnering with Flying Nun to reissue the late 702s New Zealand label's back catalog which includes bands like the Clean , The Chills , The Tall Dwarfs , The Verlaines , The Bats , Obviously, Flying Nun has had a huge influence on the majority of Columbus, Ohio's Siltbreeze bands. Below is "Swimming Pool" which is off of an upcoming Toy Love Anthology that will be the first release from this partnership on [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Kendrick Lamar   had my album of the the year hear on donewaiting. Here is a video for "Backseat Freestyle" which Lamar and Jerome D, Dave Free directed.

If you don't get bored of scrolling down this list you can also watch random videos from Ohio artists . 40. Ghetto Brothers - Power Fuerza Ghetto Brothers is a record created in 1971 by a South Bronx gang that turned into a band. This long desired record that was reissued this year. You know the Hip Hop story that turns the Warriors into Wild Style? Something like that. [...]

Kill Hannah & Dot Dot Dot House of Blues Chicago December 22, 2012 Kill Hannah hosted their annual party with Dot Dot Dot at the HOB Chicago along with returning members guitarist Jonny Radtke, who has been involved with Filter for a few years and drummer Elias Mallin, who's been touring with Kesha. Ke$ha? Yeah, that's it. Kill Hannah Dot Dot Dot [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. P.Blackk & Fabrashay A ride around Columbus and rap at various spots.. Personally,  I love the scene where they rap in front of the graffiti in the bathroom of Carabar. This is off  the P.Blackk & J. Rawls album "Contemporary Nostalgia" which drops tonight (Dec 30th) on P.Blackk's bandcamp.

Click here to view the embedded video. Patrick Carney tells Tony Hawk a story about stalking Akron, Ohio hero's Devo as a teenager.

Click here to view the embedded video. It was a good year for good rock books. Joe Oestreich of Watershed released Hitless Wonder , probably my fave of the year, and Mike Doughty released The Book of Drugs . Doughty has been a busy man, and I've found he's generally worth listening to, whether writing or releasing solo albums or mouthing off about the music industry . His new album The Flip is Another Honey [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Back in August we premiered the first video from Columbus ex-pat and Anyway Records alum Jenny Mae. The song was called "Ho Bitch," off the album Don't Wait Up for Me . (The track is far more lovely than the title implies.) As mentioned previously, Mae played one of her first sets in ages over the weekend at Anyway Records' 20th Anniversary show at Ace of Cups, and Surly Shirley was kind enough to capture some video of her performing [...]