Recommended Music

“You’ll live to dance another day, it’s just now you’ll have to dance, for the two of us”

Find More Information: Official Frank Turner Site, Frank Turner on MySpace, Wikipedia, “Long Live the Queen” at This Song Rules

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If you think of hip–hop producers, every legend is going to name a legend of their own starting up, and I’m going to bet James Yancy, a.k.a. Jay Dee, a.k.a. J Dilla, will be dropped a number of times. Seeing something a while back about the evolution of hip–hop, I think it was Busta that said it best, “You go out there and ask any hip–hop producer in the game who their favorite producer is, and they’re gonna tell you J Dilla. He was a producer’s producer.” That was the first time I ever heard Dilla referenced like that, but it definitely wouldn’t be my last.

Find More Information: Stones Throw Records, The Fader, Wikipedia: Donuts, Wikipedia: J Dilla

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Part two of Nine Inch Nails’s Year Zero Project comes as a remix album, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D.

Find More Information: Official NIN Band Site, Remix NIN, Year Zero Site, Amazon, iTunes

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So I’ve recently had a revival of listening to the ever prodigious Nine Inch Nails, and decided to back-track a bit to the last two albums Trent Reznor released before leaving both Interscope Records and the standard infrastructure for the music industry behind.

Find More Information: Official NIN Band Site, Wikipedia, Amazon, iTunes

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With the Punches’ debut EP, Keep It Going, is a solid first showing in what should prove to be a very bright future for the group from New York. While the Pop/Punk genre seemed to be on the outs in recent times, With the Punches throws some stakes into the ground to make sure things aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

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The Prodigy’s latest album is just really fun to listen to.  Liam Howlett returns with Keith Flint and Maxim Reality (both of which hadn’t appeared since 1997’s The Fat of the Land), giving a head-bob inducing raver album that we (or at least, I) always wanted to hear from the group.

Find More Information: Wikipedia, Invaders Must Die microsite, Amazon

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Viva La Hova is a mash–up compilation of tracks by Jay–Z and Coldplay.  Created by DJ Mick Boogie and Terry Urban, this mix had amazing support (and production work) by both artists and a host of guest producers to create a surprisingly good final album that even made a small mark at the Grammy’s with Coldplay’s performance with Jay–Z.

Find More Information: Viva La Hova Site, Video of Lost, Part 1, The Source Magazine Review

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Mogwai and Kronos Quartet perform music by Clint Mansell in this instrumental soundtrack.  The final piece, Together We Will Live Forever is a simple and brilliant piano composition with amazing emotional impact.

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