“Kala Djula” is from Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate’s forthcoming album Ali and Toumani, which will be released in February 2010. Their previous collaboration In the Heart of the Moon is one of our favorite albums of the decade. Ali Farka Toure...

Jay Electronica – Swagger Jackson’s Revenge Regardless who you vote for If the mind don’t grow, and the poverty lines don’t go But the dope keep coming, and the TV keeps flashing images of a sports car Then you’re bound for a coke war The meek get...

Rupture is off-the-grid tonight, still in Mexico, where this weekend he performed alongside Adrian Sherwood, Mungo’s Hi-Fi, and various local DJs and bands at the Mictlan Dub Festival. I’m holding things down tonight 7-8PM on Mudd Up! radio on WFMU...

Click here to view the embedded video. The beautiful piece of music accompanying that uncomfortable (grotesque, disturbing and great!) video art is “Hotel Freund” from a remarkable new album, Alphabet 1968 from Black To Comm, a project by...

  This weekend I’ll be performing at the 3-city Mictlan Dub Festival, alongside Adrian Sherwood, Mungo’s Hi-Fi, and various local DJs and bands in each city. Things kicked off last night with a screening of the Dub Echoes documentary followed by a Q&A...