The Music Tank

88-Keys is putting the final touches to his upcoming debut solo album titled “The Death of Adam”. Meanwhile, the first single “Stay Up! (Viagra)” featuring Kanye West has been made available for download (see picture above).
You can check out snippets to the album, due out October 28th. The album will feature collaborations by Kanye West, [...]

While Kanye West is taking a break from his Glow in the Dark tour, he continues to put out videos to the critically acclaimed Graduation album he released a year ago.
You can see Kanye win the 100 m sprint in the video to “Champion”

Enjoy the amazing anime video for “Good Morning”

We just received a link to Q-Tip’s website via his mailing list. The site features the full screen video for the first single to his upcoming album “The Renaissance”.
Follow the link in the image below and check it out.

Since “Getting Up” is one of my favorite records of the summer, I’ve decided to bless you [...]

It seems like yet another multi-national company is striving on the artistry of up-and-coming musicians to boost their product image. Mountain Dew is introducing “Green Label Sound”, a label dedicated to put out free mp3 downloads of exclusive single tracks. So far, the artists that have teamed up with the Dew are lo-fi rockers Mike [...]

It seems that Mike Skinner aka The Streets is completing his fourth studio album called “Everything is Borrowed”. He recently made available the album cut “The Escapist” through his website. A shoe-string budget video was also shot to accompany the song.
Describing the album concept, Skinner goes on as followed: “It’s the sound of an inner [...]

The video for the remix of Everyone Nose has been released. As previously featured on TMT, the remix is in fact a group collaboration of CRS (Child Rebel Soldiers) consisting of Pharrell, Kanye & Lupe and that was rumoured to being formed sometime last year. No word is said as of a concrete project such [...]

Common was supposed to drop his eight studio album mid-July but didn’t get around completing it so his “Invincible summer” album, due out on Geffen Records, has been pushed back to a September 23rd release. Nothing points in the direction of an album name change as Common stated that he created the songs in a [...]

Acclaimed British MC Roots Manuva recently took part in T-Mobile’s Transmission show. He performed “Buff Nuff” alongside Santogold while she jumped into her own “Shuv It” track. You can see the performance below.

In other news, Roots Manuva sets himself for the imminent release of his fourth official studio album “Slime & Reason” as the video [...]

Tre Hardson just released a video for the song “AyYoMyMan” featuring Pharcyde co-member Fatlip. No word is yet to be said on an official Pharcyde project. The Pharcyder still have a few dates left on the Rock the Bells tour
Sat 8/2 - Miami, FL - Bicentennial Park
Sun 8/3 - New York, NY - Jones Beach Amphitheatre
Sat 8/9 - San Bernardino, [...]

Following in their 100th anniversary publicity campaign, Converse released the video for the already popular single “My Drive Thru” featuring Santogold, Julian Casablancas & N.E.R.D.
Check it out below

Is the state of Hip-Hop in the past few years been deceiving you? Do you long for when the “Undergound” was Mainstream and the backpack was an essential fashion accessory part of a lifestyle?
Skillz aka Mad Skillz (for the old school heads) seems quite moved by this as he just released his second official album [...]

A Kid named Cudi
A-Trak & Nick Catchdubs’ Fools Gold record label have been everywhere in the past year or so. So it’s no big surprise to find up-and-coming rapper/genre-blending artist Kid Cudi signed over there. After the proeminent release of Cudi’s “Day ‘N Nite” single and the bangin’ Crookers remix, Kid Cudi went on to [...]

What I like about the International Jazz Festival of Montreal is the diversity of acts you can catch that all use the jazz banner as a focal point to bring people ou of there seats and move a little.
This year is no different as multiple hip-hop artists are scheduled. On a list with Public Enemy, [...]

In the latest installment of Nike’s ‘Original Run’ mix series, A-Trak provides the goods with a 45 minute mix of his typical production of electro music fused with rap elements titled “Running Man”. You can buy the mix over at iTunes while still taking a listen to “Say Whoa” available free of charge by clicking [...]

It seems that more and more big time companies outside of the musical realm are trying to dig into the underground music scene to push forth their product. Much like Smirnoff did earlier this year, worldwide recognized shoe company and trendsetter Converse put together a collaboration of diverse musical artists comprising of The Strokes’ frontman [...]