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"Forerunner Foray" is the glowing, interstellar new single from Seattle's Shabazz Palaces: straight from the center of the the Phasing Shift, the Palaceer's distinctive visionary flow and cosmically palatial production bridge past and future, bolstered by the ill Hustler's Convention sample and spectral guest vocals from Cat of SP's Black Constellation comrades THEESatisfaction... Read

sad slappy slop songs — Crater (@craterbabes) June 18, 2014 Here's a throbbing new jam from Seattle duo Crater, who, based on their excellent first pair of tracks, make big, romantically ominous (or maybe ominously romantic), industrial-leaning electro-pop. "Br...

Here's the long-awaited first track to be unveiled from Shabazz Palaces' lush, dizzyingly brilliant new full-length, Lese Majesty. Not necessarily the most representative track on the new record, "They Come in Gold" kicks off with the kind of diamond-hard beat and ominous flow that made Black Up the best album of 2011, but the comparison with the last record ends there. When taken out o

Black Up remains one of our favorite albums of the last decade, so it goes without saying that we're pretty psyched about this: riZe vadZimu riZe, the triumphant debut LP from Shabazz Palaces member Tendai Maraire, aka Chimurenga Renaissance, is out today on Brick Lane Records, and this is the beautiful complementary visual accompaniment for the album, filmed in Zimbabwe...

We're psyched to present the return of the great Shabazz Palaces to Dallas, along with their Seattle homies/collaborators THEESatisfaction, live at the Granada Theater on May 2. We have 5 pairs of tickets to give away for this one courtesy of the venue; to enter, just leave your name in the comments below or over on Facebook, and we'll pick the winners the week before the show...

New Goodrich & Gold-presented video from Seattle's Nacho Picasso, a rapper we were turned on to after seeing this post from our friend Weiss, and this subsequent shout from the great Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces / Digable Planets. "Dean Martin" + "Rat Race" appear on Nacho Picasso's Alive & Well-presented Black Narcissus mixtape...