
Chicago's North Cast Music Festival has revealed its 2013 preliminary lineup. The festival takes place between August 30th and September 1st in Union Park. The lineup includes Wu-Tang Clan performing 36 Chambers , Nas, Disco Biscuits, Afrojack, Gary Clark Jr., Purity Ring, AlunaGeorge, Just Blaze, Flatbush Zombies, and JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. Also playing are Big Gigantic, Lotus, Mac Miller, Laidback Luke, Datsik, Madeon, Paper Diamond, Skream, Claude VonStroke, Rebelution, Aloe Blacc, Capital Cities, El Ten Eleven, Cherub, Poolside, On An On, and more. GA and VIP tickets are [...]
Cougar writer Olivia offers his top ten albums for our Top albums of 2012 feature. Frank Ocean - 'Channel ORANGE' Without any doubt Frank Ocean is my artist of year. From releasing the beautiful LP 'Channel ORANGE' to shaking up the conservative and often homophobic world of hip hop by publishing an open letter on his Tumblr which suggested that [...] The post Cougar Microbes Writer Picks 2012: Olivia appeared first on Cougar Microbes .

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. [...]

July is a distant memory and hard to believe that we're half way through the year, August approaches and it's sure to be as high paced as the past few weeks this month has seen. We've had one of the biggest debut projects in recent memory receive high praise, we got reacquainted with familiar acts, and an emphatic return from one of the best lyricist in the game. As usual, in case you missed out we've got it all here for you including a playlist at the bottom, so catch up on and reminisce on the month that was. [...]
Summer is in full swing, and if you haven't melted yet, you're probably looking forward to getting hold of some of the surfeit of new music that's being released over the next month. In all honesty, July is shaping up as something of a strange month for music — lots of album releases, but not a whole heap of really, really exciting ones. But happily, we're here to help — we've sorted the wheat from the chaff, the diamonds from the rough, the sheep from the goats, and all that. And so after the jump we've selected what we reckon are [...]

All of the downloadable tracks from the past week in one single download for your listening pleasure! TRACKLIST: 1. “Someone Purer” / Someone Purer 2. “Bugeye Jim" / Billy Bragg & Wilco 3. “Daughters” / Nas 4. “Obedear" / Purity Ring 5. “Black Tongue (Mastodon Cover)” / Feist 6. "A Commotion (Feist Cover)" / [...]

What a week. Since Monday, the mp3 world has seen the glorious return of a bona fide classic band, the first single off one of the biggest MCs in the world’s forthcoming album, a heartfelt lament by a Big Apple rap legend, an angelic monolith from one of the UK’s favorite pop princesses, and much more. To find out what and whom we’re talking about, look no further. The Beach Boys – “That’s Why God Made the Radio” The first single off the Beach Boys’ reunion [...]