The Music Tank

Longtime favorite producer of mine, Nottz, is getting ready to put out his first solo effort as an MC titled You Need This Music. On the first single Shine so Brite, Nottz pays hommage to J Dilla. The video also has some crazy visuals, check it out. You Need this Music coming soon.

Coming back with the throwback flavors is a feature on the Lost Boyz. The group composed of Mr. Cheeks (lead vocals), Freaky Tah (vocals), DJ Spigg Nice & Pretty Lou hails from the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York and were active right upon Freaky Tah’s tragic passing in 1999. During that span, they [...]

The remaining members of Pennywise announced that Ignite vocalist Zoli Teglas is now officially the new front man. Teglas, a longtime friend and tour mate, recently played a handful of So Cal shows with Pennywise, including the 2009 Smokeout Festival and a sold out Holiday Benefit concert for Amnesty International at Long Beach Arena.

Here is a dope-brand-new video form Kardinal Offishall whose building up to the release of his next album Mr. International. Directed by Chris G.

Foxy Shazam have released the first song off their upcoming Warner Bros. debut album entitled ” “Unstoppable.” The album is set to come out sometime in spring.
The track of the same name is available now at iTunes (who have a web based interface now by the way) . The track will also be featured during [...]

The White Stripes have announced the release of a new box set. “Under Great White Northern Lights” is set to be released on March 16th and will ncluded a DVD of a documentary bearing the same name, a DVD of the 10th anniversary show, double LP/CD of 16 live tracks, exclusive 7 inch vinyl, silkscreened [...]

Seems like “tagged commercial” rapper David Banner is hooking up with “underground extraordinaire” producer 9th Wonder for a soon to be released Mixtape project titled Death of a Pop Star. The mixtape should follow soon but until then you can’t test the waters with the track Slow Down right below also available for download.

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Well it looks like 2010 releases are on the right side of the track. One of the first album that is catching our attention is the return of the psychadelic animated group Gorillaz. The band will follow up 2005’s Demon Days with their third album Plastic Beach. As always, Gorillaz will surroung themselves with numerous [...]

The Bled has a brand new MySpace page with 2 new songs from their upcoming Rise Records release “Heat Fetish”.
The album will be available March 2nd but you can pre-order it on their MySpace.

OK Go’s new album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, drops next week on Jan 12th. In the meantime, the band is touring Europe:
01/11/2010 Norwich UEA [...]

The EP released alongside the Playstation 3 game God of War III, titled God of War: Blood & Metal, was announced to be released two weeks prior to the game, on March 2.
On it, you will find five previously unreleased songs from five Roadrunner artists that are exclusive to and recorded for this release. The [...]

A brand new video from Freeway + Jake One is out for their single Know What I Mean. The rapper and producer are hooking up for a full length LP titled Stimulus Package due out in February.

Here is the brand new video for the ill Mos Def song Supermagic off The Ecstatic.

Rivers Cuomo came out of tour bus accident in upstate New York with minor injuries on Saturday night while the band was going from Boston to Toronto.
Read more over at The Guardian:
Weezer were travelling to Boston after a concert in Toronto on Saturday night. At about 7:30am, the tour bus hit a patch of ice [...]

Somalia-bred/Toronto adoptee singer-songwriter K’naan just got a huge stint of publicity. His song Wavin Flag, off his critically acclaimed Troubadour album, has been selected as the official anthem of the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup. I figure that this will be huge for K’naan’s career. The song has been somewhat modified (as you can witness [...]