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DJ, filmmaker, Big Audio Dynamite member Don Letts brings his impeccable taste to ‘Version Excursion‘ featuring 20 dub covers; his new memoir ‘There and Black Again‘ is fantastic.

Listen to new songs by Vic Mensa, Bill Callahan, Shades Apart, Sad13 (Phantom Planet cover), No Joy, Hovvdy, and more.

Listen to new songs by Courtney Barnett, Kali Uchis/Rico Nasty, Anderson Paak/JID/Noname, Popcaan/Drake, Bonny Light Horseman, Toots & The Maytals (ft. Ringo Starr & more), more.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new records from Pozi, The Radio Dept, bdrmm, Peel Dream Magazine, Holy Wave, plus a couple cover records from Prince Fatty, and more.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Last Poets, the NYC spoken word icons who many consider to have planted the seeds for hip hop. Dormant for some time, core members, Abiodun Oyowele and Umar Bin Hassan reactivated Last Poets in response to Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, and…