Secondhand Sureshots!

Stones Throw is proud to announce Dublab's Secondhand Sureshots. This is a multimedia film, vinyl, producing and printing project with producers Daedelus, J.Rocc, Nobody and Ras G. This DVD/CD will be released worldwide in 2010, and Stones Throw's got the deluxe super set available now...

dublab presents...SECONDHAND SURESHOTS (preview) from dublab on Vimeo.

+ Stones Throw was nice enough to pass on a little taste to get you in the groove!

J Rocc - Secondhand Sureshots

Enjoy!

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New Hawthorne

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...my heroe!

Mayer Hawthorne

on a brighter side ... I know my last post was kind of depressing (at least for me it was)

Mayer's the shit. You need to peep this cat.

Mayer Hawthorne w/ The Roots - Just Aint Gonna Work Out, live NYC from Stones Throw on Vimeo.

+ join me at Red 7 in Austin - Oct 10th to hear him live!
get your tickets here! they're only 8 bucks! no reason why you should miss something like that!

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Ethiopium

Oh No! has a brand new album out called Dr.No's Ethiopium and it's one onf the most soulful hip-hop(for lack of a better term) I've heard recently. No matter what you're into, this release will sure get you moving!




check Stones Throw for more info!

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New Madlib

The Madlib/Strong Arm Steady collaboration album Stoney Jackson came together in a flurry of creative energy over recent months. Prompted by Madlib’s stalwart DJ J.Rocc, who supplied SAS with 14 new Madlib beats CD, this album’s conception and delivery bear resemblance to the trajectory took by 2003’s Jaylib with J Dilla and 2004’s Madvillain with DOOM.

The SAS had previously rapped over Madlib’s music on their mixtape/album Deep Hearted and on the Talib Kweli/Madlib album Liberation.

The Stoney Jackson album unfolds over sixteen tracks and is a brisk, exciting hip hop record. Krondon and Phil The Agony supply the majority of the vocals with the third SAS member Mitchy Slick; guest appearances include Talib Kweli, Guilty Simpson, Little Brother’s Phonte, Planet Asia and a host of underground Los Angeles’s emerging rap talent.

Stoney Jackson represents Madlib’s return to the hip-hop fold and sets the scene for the OJ Simpson collaboration he’s finishing with Guilty Simpson.





*via StonesThrow


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Summer Suite

Summer Suite is a 40-minute jazz fusion piece produced and arranged by Madlib, under the name The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble. This suite is a single track comprised of four major sections and several different themes, altogether feeling similar to, more more cohesive, than one of Madlib's jazz mixtapes. “Electro-acoustic space jazz” itself is a fitting description.

The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble, a faceless and nameless collective in Madlib's self-created world of jazz groups, was debuted on the album Yesterdays Universe (2007). The compilation marked the end of Madlib's first series of jazz records, the Yesterdays New Quintet cycle (2000-2007), and the beginning of a new era, an evolved sound, and many new names: The Last Electro, Jackson Conti, Young Jazz Rebels, Jahari Masaba Unit, Kamala Walker and the Soul Tribe.

Summer Suite was originally created in 2007 and given a limited release in CD-R form for buyers of Yesterdays Universe in 2007. The Last Electro's long-delayed album Miles Away is still planned for release.

Fall Suite will be released near the end of this summer.

buy HERE straight from StonesThrow Records!

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Dam Funk Interview

Alright, another Stones Throw artist that deserves mad respect. This guys is bringing back the funk James Brown/Rick James style ... but dipped in new millenium pixie dust.

CLASS IS IN SESSION! PAY ATTENTION.

Known as Los Angeles' "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," dãm-funk represents the citizens of the Funkmosphere.Headquartered in the Culver City section of L.A., dãm (pronounced: 'Dame' as in Damon) spent the last few years cultivating a musical renaissance rooted in the early-'80s styles known as Boogie, Modern Soul and Electro-Funk.





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New Doomage!

GHOSTFACE + DOOM + oH nO!



New Track Produced by Stones Throw 'Oh Non'
Ghostface & Doom - CTW
Ghostface & Doom - CTW Remix



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Volta Overload

So. It turns out that the Grammy's are somewhat legit after all. I know this is a little late but The Mars Volta won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance on their song "Wax Simulacra". I am a huge volta fan but I realize they are a hate or love kind of band. Whatever your choice is you can't say they aren't doing something unique. They are very left wing kind of people and that's what I like so much. Anyway, they WON! against people like Disturbed and Tommy Lee. (I know, I know WTF I said to myself too) I'm really glad to see a bunch of spics like me onstage at such a big event. BIG UP TO ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE ACTS OF TODAYS MUSIC - THE MARS VOLTA!

The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra

Now - with that being said. The guitarist/leader of the band released a record on Stones Throw which in my opinion is one of the most accesible records this cat has put out to date. And the vinyl looks beautiful, Come on!





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Stones Throw kicks off Dilla Month

As a 1st post I couldn’t find anything better then a Madlib album. In case you don’t know who madlib is please run over to Stones Throw real quick.

Maldib has been making some of the finest hip-hop ever! His style is unique in the sense that … well? Nothing like it has been made before! His Beat Konducta series has been a bunch of instrumental tracks with his signature mind-bending samples all over it making it almost like a movie but in audio. It’s a whole trip!

And today he (& J Rocc) released Beat Konducta Vol. 5 -6 a tribute to J Dilla. Which in my opinion is some of the most unwordly mystical hip-hop ever released. Pay a tribute to the man an run over & get it now!

Madlib - For My Mans (Prelude)

*edit* NPR did a spot on him please take a listen. -It's dilla month.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100628822