West's been busy claiming self-defense, but in the meantime, a number of producers -- A-Trak, Diplo, and Stretch Armstrong, among others -- have been contributing their Graduation knob turnings to Plain Pat & DJ Benz's Sky High imeem remix project. As Benz puts it: This Kanye West remix project came...

When we gave you a live-in-France video clip of "Brother Sport" back in April we called the (excellent) song "full-on springtime tropicalia," though it'd been recorded in October. The fact of the matter: The Merriweather Post Pavilion closer's full-on early winter tropicalia, too, because the track'...

PopCandy lets us know that David's booked a cover band for each night this week, starting tonight with Purple Reign (Prince) and then on to the Cold Hard Cash (as in Johnny), Mr. Brownstone (Dr. Pepper's favorite band), Super Diamond (i.e. Neil), and concluding Friday with James Brown authorities th...

Chromeo have always been one part keyboards, one part funk, and a smattering of non-threatening, occasionally comedic sexual undertones. Until "Momma's Boy" happened. At the Woodies they promised new material more along those Daryl Hall-approved lines, but first, there will be remixes. Treading the ...

London and Manchester outfit We Have Band call themselves a "disco-rock trio," which is probably a fair if bare-boned descriptor. They don't have an album, or really even an EP to their name -- just a handful of singles being tossed about as the WHB Sampler, including a demo and a song ("Hear It In ...

"Cut for cut, track for track ... It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back." Even the most basic statements of fact come from Chuck D as poetry, with the right rhythm, at the perfect pitch. It's why It Takes A Nation... is a stone cold classic, and it's why last night Public Enemy's set lit up ...

Courtney Love, one of rock's great OG bloggers, posted another brilliant (not brilliant) open letter on MySpace. In it she accuses fellow blogger/musician Ryan Adams of using ,000 of Frances Bean Cobain's money to fund his 2003 album Rock n Roll, "one of the worst records i can think of in rock and ...

You know, tough thing about Jesus Christ poses: they're just not that easy to keep up for too long. Those who remain righteous do not get rich, but do get deified; those whose arms sag get vilified, get paid, and hopefully let themselves get forgotten. I think most of us gave up hoping Chris Cornell...

Clinic switch it up in the W.I.Z.-directed video for "Tomorrow." It's shadowy like the other Do It! clips, but this time they leave the Hawaiian shirts and lava lamps at home. The star's a girl of a hard-to-pin-down age, not the face-masked band of a hard-to-pin-down age. Lit like a Rembrandt, she's...

Chromeo's the Montreal/New York electro duo of childhood friends P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) and Dave I (David Macklovitch). Gemayel handles keyboards/synths and talk box. Maclovitch, the other vocals and guitar. The Deluxe Edition of their 2007 album Fancy Footwork, aka Fancier Footwork, came out a c...