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De La Soul releases J Dilla mixtape for download

Earlier this month I reviewed "Dilla Plugged In", a warm bare-bones affair that acted as the first sample of the pairing between the legendary De La Soul and fallen hero J Dilla. Now we have more than a sample, as the Long Island trio has released Smell the D.A.I.S.Y. The entire mixtape, which runs 11 tracks, sprinkles reworked De La lyrics over unreleased Dilla beats and has one feature from frequent Method Man collaborator Redman. You can download the tape now for free through BitTorrent and cop the Dilla documentary Still Shining along with it.

Along with Smell the D.A.I.S.Y., De La Soul have two new albums planned for 2014 entitled You're Welcome and Premium Soul on the Rocks, which will be produced by DJ Premier and Pete Rock.

Tracklist:
1. "Let the King Ascend
2. Who ft. Redman
3. Dilla Plugged In
4. "Goes the Word"
5. "Vocabulary Spills"
6. "The Pitch"
7. "Taking the Train"
8. "Leave Your Cares Behind"
9. "O'Shut Up"
10. "No More No Less"
11. "Marvin Jaye"







More Johnny Cash albums of unreleased material could be on the way

Yesterday, Out Among the Stars, the latest posthumous release from Johnny Cash dropped via Columbia. But apparently another collection of unreleased material from the Man in Black maybe just around the corner.

According to Cash's son John Carter Cash "There are a few things that are in the works right now – probably four or five albums if we wanted to release everything," he speculated in an interview with the Guardian. Cash went on to say that there maybe "three or four"more albums worth of material his father recorded during the storied "American Recording" sessions with go-to producer Rick Rubin. 

In that same piece, Rubin backed Cash's claims. "We released the work we had been planning to release along with John [Carter Cash] and the idea of the Unearthed boxset of outtakes was his idea," Rubin affirmed. He went on to add, "We will probably put out additional Unearthed material recorded since the last Unearthed box, in keeping with John’s wishes."  With so much of Cash's work still coming down the pipeline, the Man in Black is becoming the country equivalent of 2Pac.

Until a new collection of Cash tunes surfaces, there's Out Among the Stars to enjoy along with the terrific video for album cut "She Used to Love Me A Lot".

Kate Bush adds more dates to first tour in 35 years

Last Friday, the Guardian reported that noted British pop-perfectionist Kate Bush was embarking on her first tour since 1979. And now, before Bush has even played a note of a single show, she's expanded the tour. Pitchfork notes her Hammersmith Odeon residency "Before the Dawn" has expanded from "15 to 22 shows" and now includes gigs on "on September 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30, and October 1, as well as the originally announced dates on August 26, 27, 29, and 30, as well as on September 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17,
 and 19."

If you can't make it to any of those shows, you can always enjoy the video for Bush's classic 1985 track "Running Up That Hill". 

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Kendrick Lamar appearing on Amazing Spiderman 2 soundtrack

Less than a week after making a ferocious appearance on the Divergent soundtrack, it's been announced that "King" Kendrick Lamar is set to appear on the upcoming Amazing Spiderman 2 soundtrack. Out April 22, the soundtrack will also include appearances from: the omnipresent Pharrell, Smiths-guitarist Johnny Marr, alt-country rocker Phosphorescent, and R&B star Alicia Keys. Keys is teaming up with the aforementioned Lamar on the cut "It's On Again", which was created specifically for the film and produced by Pharrell. 

Composer Hans Zimmer, who co-wrote "It's On Again", brought together the appropriately named "Magnificent Six" for the film, which includes: Pharrell, Marr, Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Incubus' guitarist Mike Einziger, Junkie XL, Andrew Kawczynski, and Steve Mazzaro. The high-profile album will feature new songs from Pharrell, along with Phosphorescent's "Song for Zula" from last year's standout Muchacho LP. 

Check out the film trailer and Phosphorescent's swooning orchestral piece "Song for Zula" below.

"Song for Zula"

Iggy Pop and New Order play "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

It's safe to say without much hyperbole that "Love Will Tear Us Apart", Joy Divison's first chart hit remains not only the band's most well-number known number, but one of the most beautifully pained efforts of the 80s. Curtis' bellowing voice on the song is one of fear and wonder, knowing the warmth love affords but also the brutal cold it can bring.

Last night at Carnegie Hall during a benefit for Tibet House, Curtis' former bandmates (who famously reformed as New Order) trotted out the iconic number, with help from punk-rock luminary Iggy Pop. Considering Curtis' own admiration for Pop (whose The Idiot album he listened to not long before tragically committing suicide), the move was one of pure wonder. Pop's performance on-stage suggests he's very aware of the magic as he struts and flails around the stage, calling to mind the way Curtis himself used to chew up a stage. By the end, the entire crowd is applauding and it's easy to understand why. Joy Division's own shelf-life wasn't long, but their impact certainly is.

 

See the video for Johnny Cash's "She Used to Love Me A Lot"

March 25, Columbia/Legacy records will release Johnny Cash's Out Among the Starts, a "compilation" album that gathers together lost works from Cash recorded during the early 80s. To promote the work, a stark video for "She Used to Love Me A Lot", directed by The Road's John Hillcoat has been released.

In the black-and-white clip, Hillcoat captures uncompromising scenes of America, where individuals toil away in obscure poverty and the line between prison and the outside world is impossibly blurred. Scattered amongst the frayed images are: pictures of Cash's burnt-out lake house, the cave where he attempted suicide, and the room he last recorded in. "I'm in need of something, something you ain't got," Cash sings with his freight-train voice. Whatever that missing element was, the Man in Black never stopped chasing it.

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