Hailing from Huntsville- one of the major hip-hop powerhouses of the South and beyond - Alabama boys G-Side and crew hooked up with Yours Truly at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago to lay down a slick acapella version of unreleased track "Relaxin'." Though it reportedly will not appear on their upcoming LP Island , you can peep a studio version down below. Download: G-Side - Relaxin' (Feat. G-Mane) Buy: Download The ONE...COHESIVE over at [...]
Here's another rad performance filmed at the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival. Animal Collective drop a bonkers and as-of-yet untitled new jam centered around layers of electronic loops and Avey Tare's beastly vocal performance, along with Merriweather Post Pavilion highlight "Brothersport"- watch the crowd lose their collective shit during the epic build of the latter. Awesome.
Watch James Blake and band lay down a slick live arrangement of his killer single "CMYK" at the Pitchfork Music Festival up above. I didn't really expect that this could be pulled off with this line-up, but there you have it. You can stream or download the studio version below. Download: James Blake - CMYK Buy: Download the CMYK EP over at Bleep .
Gang Gang Dance just released one of the best records of the year with Eye Contact and are now the most recent band to perform on their label's ongoing live series, "4AD Sessions". Stream "Chinese High" up above and click here to stream their beast of a set in full. Download: Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla Buy: Order Eye Contact from Beggars Group USA .
Peep this hazy and hypnotic new video for Matthewdavid 's "Noche y Dia / San Raphael", taken from his debut LP for Flying Lotus ' Brainfeeder imprint Outmind .
Total , SebastiAn 's overdue debut LP, is due on May 30th via Ed Banger .
Lil Wayne and director Hype Williams go into a dream within a dream within a... etc. Their anesthetic of choice? We can only assume syrup. "We need to go deeper."
Perhaps the last bit of sweet, claustrophobic guitar crunch we'll get to hear from Women , watch the Calgary band burn through "Can't You See", "Drag Open", and "Eyesore" in this impressive live recording of them playing in some abandoned, appropriately ghostly warehouse. RIP? ( via P4k TV )
Here's a video for "Excuses", a cut from the forthcoming Bibio album, Mind Bokeh . And if this album sampler is any further indication, the follow-up to 2009's excellent Ambivalence Avenue should be one of the best and most eclectic of 2011. Pre-order the record, which comes out March 28th, over at Bleep .
Stunning. James Blake 's self-titled debut record comes out Feb. 7th. Buy it .
The Dismemberment Plan - one of my favorite bands ever - laid down two of their classics last night on Jimmy Fallon. Check out "The City" and "What Do You Want Me to Say?" below, respectively.
Kanye West debuted his film Runaway tonight, which features a number of songs from his upcoming record, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . Watch the full 35 minute film above, via Vevo .
Here's the video for James Blake 's stunning cover of Feist 's "Limit to Your Love".
Pablo Díaz-Reixa, El Guincho himself, does his best Carl Sagan impersonation while introducing the video for Pop Negro standout "Bombay". Full of strange, mesmerizing, and off-putting images of all sorts, a recurring theme of "breasts" ensures that this is NSFW. (via) Download: El Guincho - Bombay Buy: Order Pop Negro from Beggars Group USA in a myriad of formats.

Head over to Animal Collective's website to watch the video for "Bluish" from the monumental Merriweather Post Pavilion . Buy: Get MPP from Domino Records as CD, LP, or download.

I may have linked to the great video for Big Boi 's "Shutterbug" on my Facebook and Twitter feeds earlier, but it got taken down from YouTube. Anything involving this much talk box on top of The Tron Suit Dancers, towering walls of Dixie cups, a Dungeon Fam cameo, The Most Valuable Puppet Band, and a Technicolor Cadillac is puuuure party and certainly bears repeating, so peep the World Star Hip Hop exclusive right there. Download: Big Boi - Shutterbug [...]
New Flying Lotus ... like post- Cosmogramma new. The internet may be ruining the human race , but I can't complain too much about musical instant gratification. Download: Flying Lotus - Dance of the Pseudo Nymph Buy: Get Cosmogramma from Bleep or Insound .
Lil B got you stuck off the realness. At least he should. This guy's in The Pack ?? Via Youtube he explains how the internet is ruining the human race and assures you that nuclear bombs and nuclear war probably ≠ winning. FADER calls it "the most relevant rap song of our present plugged-in epoch". Probably right. Download: Lil B - Real Life (Pictureplane's True Reality Re-Edit) Buy: Lil B's music is available on iTunes, check the links on his website .

Steven Ellison, better known as Los Angeles beat wizard Flying Lotus , has created one of the best records in 2010 with the unbelievably dense, jazz-inspired, prog-electronics of Cosmogramma . This weekend at L.A.'s Echoplex he brought this latest opus to life with his appropriately Coltrane-referencing live band Infinity - which actually features Ravi Coltrane, his cousin and son of John and Alice Coltrane - and even played some brand new material (!!!!). Some high quality footage has cropped up on YouTube and it's impressive to say the least. Check [...]