Ruste Juxx & Kyo Itachi "Universal Sean" ft. Rock & Stuck B | Official Tribute Video

Brooklyn's Ruste Juxx presents "Universal Sean", his dedication and tribute to Sean Price. Music produced by Kyo Itachi, written by Ruste Juxx.



Look out for Juxx’s upcoming album, ‘Meteorite,’ which will be available on Shinigamie Records in 2016.

To help support Sean Price's family moving forward, donations can be made here: http://crowdrise.com/seanp

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10 Best Music Books of 2014

By: Rolling Stone

From the stage to the page: The year's best biographies, rock crit, photo essays and more

In 2014, the rock star tell-all autobiography train rolled on with Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, Carlos Santana, Mick Fleetwood, George Clinton, Paul Stanley and Billy Idol among others all getting their turn. But some of the years best books were the stories you didn't already know, including a great alternate history from Greil Marcus and a closer look at a post-punk pioneer

10 'The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution: The Photography of Jim Marshall,' by Joel Selvin



Jim Marshall, one of rock & roll's greatest photographers, was at counter-culture ground zero in San Francisco in the mid-to-late Sixties. This gorgeous oversized book documents the era through iconic images — the Beatles at Candlestick Park in '66, the Grateful Dead at a mobbed street fair in '68, Hendrix torching his guitar at Monterey Pop. Just as illuminating are verité shots of street life, hippies and straights rubbing wary shoulders as the Age of Aquarius, for a magic moment, dawned over them all. By Will Hermes

9'Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars' by Neil Young



Neil Young is a man of obsessions. Over the years he's fixated on everything from toy trains to digital audio quality, but the one constant has been classic automobiles — which meant many fans groaned when they learned his new book would focus on the many cars he's owned over the years. Thankfully, their fears were unfounded. The car angle is merely a clever framing device for Young to tell his life story in a more linear fashion than his scattershot 2013 memoir Waging Heavy Peace. Along the way we learn about the making of After The Goldrush ("I had just purchased a pound of Panama Red"), his regrets over his mistreatment of the members of Crazy Horse and Buffalo Springfield ("I was mostly juvenile and had no patience") and a crazy morning last year when his electric car LinkVolt broke down in Manhattan on his way to film a bit with Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert, almost stalling out in the Lincoln Tunnel ("It was not a good day for us"). People wanting a straight account of Young's life will still be better served by reading Jimmy McDonough's definitive biography Shakey, but Special Deluxe is an enjoyable trip into the singer's endlessly fascinating mind. By Andy Greene

8 'Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir,' by George Clinton with Ben Greenman



As funk's bravest cosmonaut, George Clinton spent the acid-fried Seventies in a world of Doo Doo Chasers and Thumpasorus Peoples and Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloops. But his look back on the methods to his madness are as clear-headed as a textbook, reading less like a gauntlet of antics (and there are antics — including a donkey taking a "regal shit" on the steps of London's Albert Memorial) and more like a great piece of rock criticism with himself at the center. He's a fan first, with omnivorous taste, and can break down theories with zeal, whether its meetings with fellow boundary pushers ("Listening to Sly Stone was like taking a master class in brilliant nonsense") or talking about how keyboardist Bernie Worrell used Bach-esque counterpoint. By Christopher R. Weingarten

7 'Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.,' by Viv Albertine



If Viv Albertine's memoir had only focused on the broadest outlines of her life — her six years as the guitarist in influential post-punk band the Slits, her return after a decades-long absence — this would have been fascinating enough. But Albertine's approach is far closer, pushing past candor into the uncomfortably honest. Some of this memoir involves talk of romantic liaisons in the heady days of London's late-Seventies punk scene, but there's also a harrowing account of her struggle with cancer and grapplings with suburban isolation decades later. A fully realized portrait of its author. By Tobias Carroll

6 'Songs Only You Know: A Memoir,' by Sean Madigan Hoen



"My bandmates saw me at my most inspired, screaming every pain I had access to," Sean Madigan Hoen writes in his gritty, gripping punk-rock memoir, "though I had told them next to nothing of where I'd come from." Hoen, it turns out, had plenty to scream about — a father addicted to crack, a sister consumed by depression, his own feelings of alienation, helplessness, adolescent angst; if his former band, Detroit art-core self-immolators Thoughts of Ionesco, was his young-adult self's cathartic outlet, Songs Only You Know is his older, wiser reevaluation, no less vein-bulgingly visceral but infinitely more nuanced and poetic. It's funny at times, always brutally honest; a half-healed bruise, tender and multi-colored. Few books convey the fever-pitch intensity of youth with such vividness and so little glamorization, or as deeply explore the heartbreaking complexity of family — both those we're born into and the ones we choose. By Brandon Geist

5 'Dancing With Myself' by Billy Idol



In his self-penned memoir, Billy Idol fleshes out his charmed life with an even mix of thrilling tales of sex, drugs and rock & roll. The singer is refreshingly candid about his heavy heroin addiction in the Eighties, a regrettable Rolling Stone cover story interview when he got too drunk and yelled at the writer, an unrequited threesome that landed him in court on sexual deviancy charges and the harrowing motorcycle accident that stymied his acting career (he says he'd tried out for the T-1000 in Terminator 2 but lost the role due to a limp). He also recounts some of the weird stories behind some of his greatest hits — "Dancing With Myself" was inspired by a Tokyo disco where people stared at themselves in mirrors and "Rebel Yell" was named after a whiskey he drank once with the Rolling Stones. He also writes about his post-drugs fallout in such a heartfelt way that he almost makes a case for reconsidering Cyberpunk. By Kory Grow

4 'Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James,' by Rick James with David Ritz



Those looking simply for stories of sexual and pharmaceutical excess can re-read Mötley Crüe's The Dirt. In Glow, Rick James' posthumously published autobiography with author David Ritz, the funk pioneer surprisingly eschews repetitive freaky tales for a deeper look at an insane life. Sure, there are unflinching looks at the singer's crack binges and violent behavior — an already unbridled id made worse by the death of James' mother — but it's the lesser-known adventures that make this essential reading for those only familiar with James' dark side. A mob-connected dancer mom who smuggled James into the club as a child to see Miles Davis; a chance encounter with future members of the Band, who saved a teenage James from getting his ass kicked; a headache that prevented the musician from hanging out with people who would be murdered by the Manson Family that night. Any hack can make a lost weekend enthralling, James and Ritz can make the history of "Super Freak"'s four-note descending bass line as intriguing as a pipe-filled motel-room breakdown. By Jason Newman

3 'Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin,' by David Ritz



Back in 1999, David Ritz helped Aretha Franklin write her memoirs, sanitized enough to be allowed into an operating room. This year, he issued Respect, his uncensored 520-page biography of the Queen of Soul, and it's clearly the book he's been preparing to write his whole life. It's stuffed full with revealing interviews from Franklin's family, her musical collaborators and subjects of Ritz's other books, from Smokey Robinson to B.B. King. MVP interview: the saucy Etta James. ("Who wants to admit that you're praising the Lord at the 8 p.m. service and servicing some drop-dead gorgeous hunk of a singer an hour later?") Knowing the details of Franklin's complicated, sometimes painful life — starting with the two sons she had at ages 12 and 14 — helps deepen an appreciation of the pain and passion that fueled her music. By Gavin Edwards

2'Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,' By Rick Bragg



"He did not need a song to make him inappropriate. Jerry Lee Lewis had always been inappropriate, and being a little bit famous did not change it; you can paint a barn white a thousand times, but that won't make it a house." In this gripping biography, Pulitzer winner Rick Bragg tells the story of rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis with the full force of history, poetry and two years of exclusive interviews with the Killer himself. Bragg grounds his story in the texture and tradition of the South, but when he tells the epic tale of the creation of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," he captures Lewis's divine madness. Reading the saga of rock's piano pioneer, you will likely agree: "It was like any life, really, but with the dull parts taken out." G.E.

1 'The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs,' by Greil Marcus



Greil Marcus carved his stern visage into rock criticism's Mount Rushmore decades ago, but he won't rest on his laurels — and he won't let rock & roll either. And so he kicks off this ferociously cerebral and warmly empathetic super-listicle with a monster sentence that reels off lots of critically acclaimed musicians — it takes, like, five pages — and by the time you've gotten from the beginning (Chuck Berry) to the end (Jay Z), his intent is clear: Forget all of this. Rest assured the 10 songs he picks from there will surprise, and/or amuse, and/or enrage and undoubtedly challenge you: They span from Joy Division (as filtered through that goofy Ian Curtis biopic) to Phil Spector (as filtered through Amy Winehouse) to Etta James (as insufficiently filtered through Beyoncé) and beyond. Whether he's talking Buddy Holly or Cyndi Lauper, Robert Johnson or the Flamin' Groovies, Marcus writes with a philosopher's zeal and a superfan's joy, drawing connections between artists and eras and solar systems you'd never even imagined. It's revisionist history of the best and most necessary kind. By Rob Harvilla

The Franklys | What You Said | OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Fankly speaking, it works.

Hailing from all corners of the globe (well, Europe and North America) London based four piece The Franklys only emerged at the beginning of this year. Yet their naughty, contagious take on garage rock has already seen the quartet sell out the 100 Club before heading back out on the road for more.

Live, the band are a blur of lipstick, rock hard riffs and attitude, with The Franklys coming across as four female Holden Caulfields in the process.

New single ‘What You Said’ is out on Monday (October 13th) and comes accompanied with a video shot – rather incongruously – in the fields of Merry Olde England. It sorta works, though – check it out below.

Tricky ft. Tirzah | Sun Down

Sun Down' feat. Tirzah is taken from the new Tricky album 'Adrian Thaws' - Out Now!

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With his latest album Adrian Thaws, out now on his own False Idols imprint, Tricky unveils the striking music video for the single 'Sun Down', which features guest vocals from Tirzah. Actor Norman Reedus of the hit television show 'The Walking Dead' co-stars with Tricky, along with actress Mizuo Peck (Night At The Museum, A Case of You).

The music video, which Tricky directed himself, was shot in Brooklyn and features Reedus and Tricky playing fictionalized versions of themselves dealing with the ugly fallout of a domestic dispute.

The introduction to the video is soundtracked by the Young Fathers remix of Tricky's "Nicotine Love."

Video credits:

Director: Tricky / Adrian Thaws
Co-Starring: Norman Reedus, Mizuo Peck
Camera: Jay Sprogell, Lee Jaffe, Patrick Carroll, Jordan Levine
Production: Risa Knight, Lee Jaffe, Stephen Bolles
Production Assistant: Marrissa Williamson
Editing: Patrick Carroll, Mike Macalincag
Post Production: Jordan Levine, 11th Dimension Media

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Willow Smith Covers | EASY EASY | King Krule

Willow Smith has been pretty quiet in the music world since 2011′s “Whip My Hair” took the world by storm, but the 13-year-old has spent the past few years refining her taste, from sampling Radiohead to joining up-and-comer SZA on stage. Now, she’s released a cover of King Krule’s “Easy Easy” from his debut album 6 Feet Beneath The Moon and … it’s actually pretty damn good. Listen below and compare it to the original.



Original



In semi-related news, King Krule has announced a mixed-media display in collaboration with his brother Jack Marshall, who performs under the name Mistr Gone. The show will be called Inner City Ooz. Here’s the official announcement:

The exhibition will run 9/5-9/27 at London’s Display Gallery.

Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 Live Stream + Day One Review

*Pitchfork Music Festival runs this weekend, July 18 through 20. Though Union Park is sure to be full of music lovers, not everybody can make it out to the windy city.

If you're one of the unfortunate ones, worry not! The festival is streaming live via LiveOne’s CrowdSurfing® platform. Watch the stream over at Pitchfork.com starting at 3:35 pm Central Time.

Live streams of Pitchfork Music Festival will also take place at 1 p.m. Central Time on Saturday, and 1 p.m. Central Time on Sunday.

The stream is sponsored by Choose Chicago and Goose Island.

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by:Chicagoist

Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 Day One Review





The opening day of the 2014 edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival was a mostly quiet one. The weather was the loveliest it’s ever been and the crowd was in a mellow mood. While earlier acts had their moments, the music was still mostly in a muted mood throughout the earlier parts of the day. On one hand, this was terrific, since it allowed many attendees to ease into the weekend. We have lots of friends that come in from out of town, and while Fridays are usually marked by a rush to Union Field after work to see a particular act, the early afternoon this year was spent chatting and reconnecting instead of rushing. And that was lovely. So the earlier portion of the day say music providing a pleasant background rather than a focal point for much of the crowd. But there certainly were a few moments where attention was rapturously turned to the stage. — Jim Kopeny / Tankboy

“It begins,” Neneh Cherry solemnly purred as she took the stage Friday afternoon with RocketNumberNine. Starting the set with “Across the Water,” Cherry’s clear voice rang out across Union Park only accompanied by a stark drumbeat. Cherry played most of Blank Project, her excellent 2014 album, heating things up with the title track as she shook her curls and swayed in a denim jumpsuit along with the tribal percussion and light synths that beckoned your hips to shake. It’s hard to believe that this was Cherry’s first performance since 1992. She commanded the stage like the seasoned musician that she is, her powerful vocals matched by her playful exuberance. “I don’t’ know about you, but this feels really good,” she said. “It’s a thrill.” Cherry’s recent work stands on its own, but she delivered the audience another thrill in closing with a modified version of her erstwhile smash “Buffalo Stance.” — Jessica Mlinaric

SZA’s late afternoon set got lost in the fog that flooded her stage, or maybe it was the smoke coming from the crowd. Sipping whiskey, the St. Louis native repped her Midwest roots and the Top Dawg Entertainment family. Taking requests from the crowd, she crooned “Ur, “Hiiijack,” and closer “Sweet November” off of her recent release Z, while mixing in earlier EP tracks like “Ice.Moon.” SZA was captivating to watch up close, grooving to the bass in an oversized Leaders cut off, all curly hair and big smiles of charming naiveté. “She’s such a positive presence,” said a nearby fan. SZA’s luster was lost on the back of the crowd, where her unsure vocals weren’t strong enough to extend. I was hoping for a set of sizzling R&B but settled for SZA’s quiet simmer. — Jessica Mlinaric

Pitchfork isn’t usually the summer festival in Union Park where you expect to see a major dance party go down, especially one lead by an adorable elderly man leading the audience in synchronized hand moves. But if any festival offers up one of the founding fathers of electronic dance music and disco, the current and former club kids will shimmy their way to the dance floor (or field in this case) and boogie on down. Giorgio Moroder started out singing pop music in the ‘60s in Europe, but he first garnered International fame when he brought to the spotlight a backup singer known as Donna Summers singing “Love to Love You Baby,” a breathy but more danceable homage to Serge Gainsbourg’s “Je t’aime.” The iconic track that revolutionized disco (and helped conceive a good handful of kids in the 70s) opened Moroder’s DJ set at Pitchfork Festival Friday night.

Moroder’s set went on to be a nice mix of “best of,” spotlighting his long career as a producer and songwriter, along with some remixes of current pop cuts, proving that even at the age of 74 he still has a keen ear for finding that catchy hook. Case in point, he isolated the best part of summer earworm “Fancy,” showcasing the sugary, addictive Charli XCX parts before merging into a more pop friendly version of Junior Caldera’s EDM bass rattling banger “Lights Out (Go Crazy).” Once you have a solid knack for finding the sweet spots in pop music, you apparently don’t lose that skill over time.

As much fun as it was hearing Moroder rework artists that owe a good amount of gratitude to the foundation he created, the classics were what got the crowd really bouncing along. “Flashdance… What a Feeling” and Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” were met with cheers, while a good dose of Donna Summer delights (“Hot Stuff,” “On the Radio” “Bad Girls”) had a diverse crowd ranging from toddlers to couples who could clearly gain membership to AARP dancing steadily along. His latest work, the Adult Swim single “Giorgio’s Theme” meshed perfectly into “I Feel Love” and for a moment you could almost feel the disco ball shining down on the crowd. The only minor hiccups were a few technical glitches and Moroder not sure of his timing at the end, but it isn’t totally unexpected for a man who only started his live DJ career a few years past celebrating his 70th birthday. If you had the gumption to dive in and actually dance along, it was a spirited set that took a joyful crowd through a modern pop and electronic dance history lesson. Music that likely wouldn’t exist as it is today if not for Giorgio Moroder. — Lisa White

Beck, the once young weirdo rocker of the '90s, is aging gracefully, mellowing out in some instances but never losing his edge as evident by his headlining set Friday night. Sure, he isn’t diving into the crowd as much these days but you’ll still find him gyrating around the stage during danceable classics, which were the choice cuts of what was a setlist heavy on fan favorites. Opening with the crunchy guitar tones of “Devils Haircut” off his classic album Odelay immediately won over the audience. It’s such a great heavy wall of guitars with a retro sound, you can’t help but be on board immediately.

The pace kept at a fast clip moving right into the jangly “Black Tambourine,” but the slightly too quick pace was a bit noticeable with a sped up performance of “Gamma Ray.” After chatting about the lovely mild weather (“The Pitchfork Gods must be smiling down on us”) Beck caught his footing with the always sweet and endearing “Think I’m In Love,” which included a mildly twangy breakdown mid-song of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” a nice little partial cover he has been performing recently live and an obvious perfect pairing playing it right after Giorgio Moroder’s set.

Moving on, we got our first track off his latest album, Morning Phase with the downtempo “Blue Moon.” Personally I’m not partial to the more somber world of Beck. My favorite Beck album is Midnite Vultures so obviously when the phrase “we’re gonna play some stuff off the new album” was uttered, I politely waited for party Beck to return. It’s not that the new material isn’t good or pleasant, but in a festival setting I really just want to dance to the solid gold hits. Patience paid off, as Beck delivered “Loser” back-to-back with “Get Real Paid,” still bringing forth that funky odd side that makes Beck so delightful. After another round of cool down music, including the always hauntingly beautiful “Chemtrails” Beck capped off his set on a high note with “Sexx Laws,” the always smooth “Debra” and taking it back with “Where It’s At.” Beck delivered a set full of enough hits to more than make up for any downtime, proving that the lovable “loser” might have gotten a bit older and introspective but still knows how to have a damn good time. — Lisa White

So while the day may have started off slowly, it certainly built into a sonic boom by the end of the evening. We heard minor grumblings about insanely long lines to purchase beer tickets as we exited the park but what we didn’t hear was more telling: there were no sound issues or bleed between stages, an event that usually plagues the first day of the fest.

In our opinion, this was a true triumph for fest organizers. So we went out into the night exhausted by Beck’s set but in high spirits after a lovely day of pleasant music, wonderful weather and mellow crowds. It looks as if the weather will hold through today, but the music promises to be a little more invigorating—and we are more than ready to jump into that scene. — Jim Kopeny / Tankboy

Ruste Juxx | Off The Hinges ft. Rock of Heltah Skeltah | Official Music Video

Ruste Juxx & VStheBEST are out with their new video for "Off The Hinges" featuring Rock of Heltah Skeltah. The song is off their new album, 'Ready To Juxx,' available now.

iTunes: http://bit.ly/1iYCGx6

CD: http://amzn.to/1jjxt4a

Produced by VStheBEST

Video Director: John Sullivan for Red Iris Films

JACK WHITE | LAZARETTO

“When I say nothing, I say everything,” howls Jack White on “Lazaretto”, staking the declaration between verses he spits out a little like Dylan in “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. The idea is enforced when, after swelling with distortion and flying phalanges, the song launches into a psych bzzzz and detours yet again for a fiddle-sweeped closing leg, reminding us that White produced Loretta Lynn not long ago. Just don’t expect either version (this or the world-record-breaking RSD single) to wow the average kindergartner more than, say, the world’s largest sundae. Lazaretto, White’s second solo album, is out June 10th. –Michael Madden



The title track from Jack White's new album LAZARETTO out June 9/10.

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Dios Mio | Stories

​Dios Mio up their game on new single “Stories”, released on 30 June with a launch party to follow at London’s Old Blue Last on 4 July.

After the band introduced themselves with a couple of raw but highly promising demos last year, the London quartet are back with their full debut release this summer.

In a marked progression, Dios Mio benefit from warm, rounded production on “Stories”, which sees that their brand of grunge-tinged pop is effortlessly accentuated.

What’s more, built on a rigid rhythm section in which the drums and distorted bass allow for a brash intro, the melodic swells of guitar combined with Helena Coan’s delicate vocal means that “Stories” is perhaps a more diverse song than it might initially appear.

Jungle by Night | Attila

Jungle by Night consists of nine young lads from Amsterdam who use their musical upbringing, taste, backgrounds and unstoppable eagerness to produce a unique mix of Afrobeat, Ethiojazz, funk, dub and rock.

Enjoy there latest track!



Jungle by Night - Attila (from the forthcoming album The Hunt)

Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix | All is By My Side | clip

First Look At Andre Benjamin as Jimi Hendrix in 'All is By My Side' clip.



and some live footage of the late and great Jimi Hendrix at Madison Square Garden.

Best Of 2013: Street Part 1 & 2

To cap off the amazing year we've had, here's the real deal: 100-percent raw street skating for which there is no substitute. We had some amazing times this year filming Pereptual Motion, our ATV trip to the Northwest.



Part two of our Best Of 2013: Street montage focused on the amazing Transmission videos we dropped this year: Chad Tim Tim, Peter Raffin, and Youness Amrani's Marrakesh Express.

The White Mandingos | Warn A Brotha (Official Video)

"Warn A Brotha" chronicles the ups and downs faced by fictional emcee Tyrone White, frontman of the White Mandingos, who is played by none other than legendary rapper Murs. Tyrone's story is rich and nuanced, and you can enjoy the whole of it on The Ghetto's Tryna Kill Me (Fat Beats).



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Scarface | Hip Hop's Going to be White in 25 Years

Legendary Houston rapper Scarface opens up about his love of rock music, which he says came before he got into hip hop, and explained how it has influenced his music career. Scarface also shares his thought on the current state of hip hop, and where he believes it will be in 25 years.



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