Video from Super Chron Flight Brothers album, Cape Verde, produced by Bond. The album is out now on Backwoodz Studioz and features guest spots from Vordul of Cannibal Ox, Superb, Masai Bey, Bigg Jus and more.

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Video from Jeff Spec’s latest album Sneakerboxxx, available on itunes / band camp. Directed by Ben Hamilton.

Sole’s first book, The Pyre, (a collaboration with Ravi Zupa) is now available for pre-order (ships August 17). Check out the video trailer featuring audio, text, & visual samples of the project.

The Pyre:

“The Pyre” is a collaboration between Tim Holland & Ravi Zupa. It is a seventy-two page illustrated epic poem with an accompanying full length “audiobook/album.” Holland & Zupa evoke the confusion, violence, hope, and voice of twelve thousand years spent digging in the mud.

Ravi Zupa is Denver’s rare resident poet-painter, sculptor, film artist, activist & intellectual. Through his refusal to commit to one discipline Ravi has built himself a broad tool box to draw from. Though his main focus and skill resides in drawing and painting, he is best known for his complex and stylistically varied music video work for several international bands including Sole, Why?, Themselves and Genghis Tron.

Indie hip-hop pioneer Tim Holland, founder and ex member of anticon, is the embodiment of DIY anti-establishment experimental hip-hop. Over the course of fifteen years he has released 15+ albums under the monickers of sole, sole & the skyrider band, & mansbestfriend. His radical approach to hip-hop songwriting has earned him countless accolades and a worldwide cult following.

The visual inspirations for “The Pyre” come from the persuasive art of propaganda as it appears throughout history and in all geographical areas. It is a series of original drawings by Zupa that give added dimension to the text using familiar styles from the German Renaissance, Japanese Block art, Religious Iconography from Europe, Asia and pre-Columbian South America, & 20th century revolutionary propaganda.

Holland’s far reaching story of civilization is told in the language of ancient myth. Drawing on influences as diverse as Keats, Villon, Debord, Byron & The Epic of Gilgamesh. The poem touches on everything from work, time, human interaction, invention, “progress,” & ethics. The result is a melting pot of past/present/future motifs, expressing the timeless theme; “the only craft we have perfected is the ungentle one.”

The album is a cross between an audiobook, a herzog soundtrack, & an instrumental album. Featuring 20-plus songs recorded using analog 8-track & Computer. Continuing in the vein of the critically acclaimed mansbestfriend series, the would-be instrumental sections merge with the narrative and draw the listener into the beautiful and chaotic world that is “the pyre.”

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New track from Max Prime and Planit’s upcoming project, Candy and Coombs.

New Pip Skid video from his Skid Row album (Foultone Records / Marathon of Dope). Directed by Mike Maryniuk.

Video from Pigeon Hole’s (Dusty & Marmalade from Sweatshop Union) album Age Like Astronauts, out now on URBNET. Video directed by Stuey Kubrick.

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New video from E Times Two’s third full-length album (it’s been 8 years since their last), Resurgence. Produced by Mascaria. Scratches by LA Jae. Video Directed by Kris Kaitanjian. The album is out now on iTunes and drops in physical form July 30.

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Limited time free download from Forgetful Jones (fka Patty C) of Side Road Records. Featuring Kaboom, Cam the Wizzard, Def 3, and Kay The Aquanaut. With production from Factor, DJ Moves, The Gaff and more!

Download: http://iamforgetfuljones.bandcamp.com/album/awake-the-giant-ep

CDs also available for $5, email freakofthenight@gmail.com

Promo video from Friday Night’s new album, Saturday Night, which drops this August! Pre-order now and get Tha Grimm Teachaz’ long awaited unreleased 1993 album There’s a Situation on the Homefront as an exclusive pre-order only bonus.

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New video from N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) featuring vocals by Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeah), Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Fatlip (The Pharcyde). The video features all original artwork by Calma (aka Stephan Doitschinoff), was produced by Terence Teh and directed by Lorna T & Studio Giblets.

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