Slum Village

Attention eBay-ers, prepare to get busy. J.Dilla‘s record collection has been returned from the record store to the Yancey family and now is available to the entire world for purchase…

today in NYC * Big Terrific @ Cameo * Jenny Lin @ The Stone * Slum Village @ BB King’s * PROJECT Trio @ Joe’s Pub * Luciano Chessa @ The Stone * Dave Hill, Ira Glass in SoHo * Burlap To Cashmere @ Maxwell’s * Steve Winwood @ Beacon Theatre * The Mandingo Ambassadors @ Barbes * Employee of the Month @ UCB * Filligar, The Rassle @ Mercury Lounge * Ghoul, Nashgul, Occultist @ Saint Vitus * Sannhet, The Netherlands @ Union Pool * YOB, Cough, Mike Sheidt @ The Bell House * Brad, Happy Chichester @ Gramercy Theatre * Great Elk, Niall Connolly @ Mercury Lounge * Babasonicos, Contramano @ Highline Ballroom * The Donkeys, Catbirds, Cathy @ Knitting Factory * Meshuggah, Baroness, Decapitated @ Terminal 5 * Zambri, Caged Animals, AIMES @ Brooklyn Bowl * The Bronx, Two Gallants @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise * The Afghan Whigs, Joseph Arthur @ Bowery Ballroom * The Palimpsestic Series w/ Noah Garabedian @ Barbes * Magmana, Sam Jayne, Jake Zavracky @ The Rock Shop * The Polyphonic Spree, Sweet Lee Morrow @ Webster Hall * Ketamines, Xray Eyeballs, Quiet Loudly @ Death By Audio * Rocky Votolato, CALLmeKAT @ The Studio at Webster Hall * Statik Selektah & Termanology listening party @ Tammany Hall * Denzil Porter, Deena Jonez, R…

Pharoahe Monch @ Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010 (AUS) (more by BBG) Queens, NY-based MC Pharoahe Monah is set to play the Wicker Park-mainstay venue Double Door, on January 14th…

Evidence is prepping his second solo disc away from Dilated Peoples. Cats & Dogs will be released via Rhymesayers on 9/27. The LP will see him team with names like Slug of Atmosphere, Raekwon, Aloe Blacc (who plays NYC soon), Prodigy, Aesop Rock, Roc Marciano, and others, and features “To Be Continued…

Black Milk at SXSW (more by Samantha Marble) BrooklynVegan is proud to announce the release party for one of 2010’s most highly anticipated underground hip hop albums, Black Milk‘s Album of The Year…

and Chris La Putt “Hip-hop gets odd treatment at festivals like All Points West, where most of the lineup leans toward indie-rock. The rock acts, beyond the name-brand headliners, are current: darlings of the club and college circuit and the blogs that support it…

Sad news to report from the Detroit hip hop scene…. Titus (Baatin) Glover, the Detroit rapper who co-founded the much-acclaimed Slum Village, has died…

Talib Kweli + Hi-Tek = Reflection Eternal Rock The Bells 2009 is SUNDAY (7/19, tix still avail). Reflection Eternal is among those scheduled to play the NY date @ Jones Beach, and they are scheduled to make their NYC return on August 28th at BB King’s with three others on the Rock The Bells bill: the reunion of Slum Village (sans J…

Nas @ Rock The Bells 2008 in Jones Beach (more by villageslum.com) OK, so it’s not as much a big bang as last year (A Tribe Called Quest reunion) or the one before (Rage Against The Machine reunion), but Rock The Bells 2009 does have some interesting artists on the lineup…