Keiichi Tanaami & Pete Fowler: Super Furry Animals Cover Art

Back in the day, when musicians pressed up vinyl, artists could put incredible detail into their album art because the record cases were so large. But as the medium of distribution became smaller(CD's & tapes) detail was lost. Nowadays all we have are mp3's with tiny thumbnails for covers and you can barely make out a Jimi Hendrix album's artwork. The point is, I'm glad to see a band putting trippy detail into their cover art once more.

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Eminem: 3 A.M.

Another Relapse leak, Eminem has a really interesting flow on this track which makes sense since he said he chose beats to challenge himself rhythmically. Good beat too, I'm looking forward to the album May 15th.

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Señor Kaos: Wordplay Remix

New song from Señor Kaos featuring Wale and Curren$y. It's a remix of Wordplay, exactly like the original only with the addition of Señor Kaos. You can find the original song here or download the remix below.

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Nike Presents Onward By James Jarvis

This is a tight video, nothing more, nothing less. Don't let the minute and four seconds of silence fool you like it almost did me, the music will kick in and things will get very super cool. James Jarvis is a famed illustrator and the co-founder of Amos Novelties through which he helped start the designer toy market.

The Sneaker Mirror

The Sneaker Mirror reproduces pixels via a live webcam feed using images of over 100 iconic sneaker models which in essence reflects a viewers image on a projection screen and recreates the pixels using the aforementioned kicks. Check it out!

Source: Hypebeast

Eminem: Relapse Cover Art

This is the cover art for Eminem's upcoming album, Relapse. Personally I think it looks pretty cool, and the little prescription from Dr. Dre in the bottom left corner is a nice touch. Look for Relapse in stores May 15th.

Skyzoo: Freshfest feat. Wale

Now that I think about it I should have made Skyzoo a choice in the poll for best up-and-coming emcee but what can you do. Skyzoo is drawing a lot of comparisons to Jay-Z these days, I'm not sure if I agree but he is dope. Couple that with Wale and you got a damn good song.



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Iri5: Ghosts In The Machine

The Notorious B.I.G. once said "I let my tape rock 'til my tape pop" and that's exactly what Iri5's new project is all about. For "Ghosts in the Machine" Iri5 took the tape from popped cassettes and used it to create portraits of famous and iconic musicians. Jimi Hendrix is pictured above, but if you didn't know that do me a favor and slap yourself.

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"TACIT"

From Matt Watkins: "Lucy and I made a short film which follows us gathering urban detritus and it's re-installation at the "Outsiders" show at Walsall Art gallery last December. We made the music using a 'borrowed' piano modified with found nuts, bolts and erasers and combined with a circuit bent broken radio. I hope you enjoy watching it"

Q-Tip: Gettin' Up (5 Minute Manic of Mix)

The Abstract just dropped this little gem as a free download for all of us out in Internet Land. Peep the video above to hear it in full or hit the link below to get it for yourself.

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People Are Strange

Allow me to send another dope video your way. This one is an unofficial music video for the famous song, People Are Strange, by The Doors. It features some dude flipping through a sketch book's pages, each of which have pictures that correspond to a part of the song. It's pretty tight, especially in fullscreen so you can see all the details.

Stop Motion With Wolf And Pig

Let's face it, stop motion makes everything look cool.

Easy Star All-Stars: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Dub Band

From the guys who brought you Dub Side Of The Moon comes Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Dub Band

Light Paint

For those who don't know light painting is the art of changing the exposure and shutter speed on a camera to allow the artist to then "paint" on the photo by lighting some objects or parts of the photo longer and/or brighter than others. It's pretty tight, and if you're a fan of it this is the site for you.

Above: AIG Easter Egg Hunt

I just thought these looked tight, I guess the political message is cool too. The detail on these stencils is ridiculous.

Method Man & Redman: A-Yo Video

The video for A-Yo. It's Method Man and Redman, and they couldn't make a bad song trying.

U-N-I: Hollywood Hiatus Video

This is the newest video release from U-N-I. It's straight off their highly anticipated upcoming album, A Love Supreme. To me, this video meshes perfectly with U-N-I's style.

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Dark Streets, A Lifetime Of Funkiness

Del definitely deserves the title 'Tha Funkee Homosapien' more than anyone else and I'm glad that someone finally put together a compilation like this. Dark Streets, A Lifetime Of Funkiness isn't a 'best of' cd or anything its more of a sampler of Del's work through the years. If your already a fan of Del you might have some of these songs already but if you've never listened to the Deltron before this is a good taste.

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Rhymefest: The Manual (Free Download)

Rhymefest has dropped his new free mixtape title The Manual. It's produced by Scram Jones and its dope. The songs include Supersonic (Chucky Cheese) among others but most of the songs are much better than Supersonic. Not that Supersonic was bad its just all the other tracks are better.

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Eminem: We Made You (Video)

Eminem is back and he brought his sense of humor and a flow. In this video Eminem lampoons the money-loving bimbos of Hollywood. It's good to see this side of Slim again, I think it bodes well for the two albums he plans to put out this year.

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Bliss FM: Burn After Hearing

Bliss FM dropped their new song, Burn After Hearing, today and it's more than a little sick. If you haven't heard their mixtape, The Food, yet you're missing out. Those of you who have heard it though will be familiar with ATOM's dope beats and John Carmichael's ability to drop metaphors that the average joe and hip hop head alike can appreciate without having to water down his lyrics. Not to mention they both hail from the DMV which is always a plus in my book. Enjoy.

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Nat King Cole: Re Generations

I just got to sit down and listen to the new Nat King Cole album, Re Generations, all the way through for the first time today(until now I've basically been listening to the singles.) The album, as you may or may not already know, features classic and unreleased Nat King Cole songs remixed by artists like Nas, Just Blaze, Damian Marley, and Cut Chemist to name a few. On the whole, the album was good but not great, which isn't to say there aren't great songs on it(there definitely are) but a lot of the tracks feel like they're leaning on Nat to make them good. The Civil Grade: 7/10 (worth the download, but you might end up deleting a couple tracks)

I am really digging Hit That Jive Jack feat. Izza Kizza though. I just love the whole swinging vibe. Check it out:

Crooks & Castles Presents: Soon You'll Understand By Diz Gibran

The famous streetwear brand, Crooks and Castles, presents this new album by Diz Gibran titled Soon You'll Understand. The album is produced by Moonshine and is currently available to be streamed for free via imeem.

Ricky Jay Card Routine

This is my apology to the magic community for posting that abominable graffiti magic video(see my apology to the graffiti community below.) This is Ricky Jay doing some routine that looks like it could make you a lot of money in poker. Ricky Jay is generally considered the best card manipulator alive but most people recognize him from the episode of Mythbusters where they see if you can pierce human flesh by throwing a playing card at it, he was the guy throwing the playing cards. That was actually pretty tight, he threw a playing card through a newspaper from like 15 feet away and it went threw the paper and made a slit, then he threw another card through the same slit.

Reverse Graffiti

Here's the video that eventually led me to the graffiti magic video. I figured I should post a dope graffiti video as a sort of apology to the graffiti community for the previous video.

Florian Zimmerman: Graffiti Magic

Listen I really like both graffiti and magic, but someone needs to tell Florian Zimmerman that they don't mix. Those related videos on youtube will take you to some strange places. I somehow got to this from watching a reverse graffiti video on youtube and thought graffiti+magic would actually equal something cool, how wrong I was. It's kinda funny though in a "Who would ever pay to see this guy?" sorta way and he's also performing for a bunch of confused looking rich people some of whom appear to not know what graffiti or magic is. Plus, every trick he did sucked, except for the bike thing at the end, but other than that it was all terrible. Oh, and the music selection was terrible, he was clearly trying to chose something that everyone would like but he ended up with something no one would like(at least no one I know, though I'm sure that song is famous for a reason, I'm just not sure what it is.) Somebody needs to watch this and leave a comment so I can know I'm not crazy for thinking this guy is fucking shit, no worse than that, fucking shit...literally. Actually that might be better to watch, at least there's shock value, but I guess if it had the same music to it it'd be just as bad.

WiiSpray

Nothing is ever going to replace real graffiti as a culture or an art form, fortunately WiiSpray isn't trying to replace graffiti culture or art it's trying to add to both. Information about WiiSpray is scant but what I can tell you is that it will allow players to use their wiimotes as spray paint cans and create art. It will allow users to also collaborate regardless of being separated by time and/or space as well as save work to a server for everyone to view. The only other thing I know about it is that I want it to be out already. For more info and pictures visit their website.

MST3K: Manos And The Hands Of Fate

In the spirit of April Fools Day I give you MST3K: Manos: The Hands of Fate. Manos is quite possibly the worst movie ever made(it was made on a bet) and it's actually funny in its own right but it gets even funnier when Joel and his robot friends ridicule it. Also there is a short Chevorlet training film before the movie that is almost as bad. Quick side note: manos means hands in spanish so the title translates to Hands: The Hands of Fate

If you're not familiar with Mystery Science Theater 3000(a.k.a. MST3K) you should be, so let me explain(or read the wikipedia article on it). The plot is this; a janitor at some company does a good job cleaning up everything, but his bosses don't like him so they shoot him into space. Once in space they send him crappy movies(I'm talking really crappy movies, not Daredevil crappy, I mean Santa Claus Conquers the Martians crappy) and force him to watch them. The janitor, named Joel, has only one defense, a sense of humor, so he makes fun of the movies. Also he can't control when the movies start because he used those parts to build robot friends who also make fun of the movies. The last episode aired in 1999 so some of the pop culture references are old but they're still just as funny.

Reebok AF1 Technologyf

Some cool technology by Reebok for soccer fans out there. Then again A and F are conveniently the first letters of April Fools. I'm a fan of both cool technology and practical jokes though so, whether this is turns out to be a real or not, I'll be happy either way.

It's The Real: TMZ You In Hell

Considering that it's April 1st, I thought I'd throw some funny your way. More coming in a minute, but in the meantime enjoy this video from the folks at itsthereal.com and featuring Nick Cannon