Kraftwerk, MGMT, Klaxons, Fleet Foxes, Massive Attack, Seasick Steve and Bat For Lashes will play Bestival this year.

Last week marked the third anniversary of space-rap visionary J Dilla's death, and his influence over younger beatmakers like Kanye West and Black Milk probably looms larger now than it ever has. So it makes sense for Rapster Records, the company responsible for those compilations of sampled material from Daft Punk and Massive Attack records, to...

Protected: Massive Samples collects some of the samples and covers Massive Attack used over the years. It's out 2/17 via Rapster, who also did Protected, the Daft Punk samples collection. You can listen to samples of Protected's samples here. Keep watch for the MA's eventually forthcoming "LP5." And its new samples.

-- On February 17, Rapster Records, the company that brought us the stuff-Daft-punk-sampled compilation Discovered, will release Protected, a compilation of stuff that Massive Attack has sampled. Somehow it's not all old Horace Andy reggae songs; rather, it features tracks from Al Green, James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Rufus & Chaka Khan, and ...

An article about musicians protesting the use of their tunes to torture prisoners begins with "March Of The Pigs" "blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate" at the U.S. Military detention center in Iraq where it "hit Prisoner No. 200343 like a sonic bludgeon." This would reportedly continue for "days, then weeks, then months." The prisoner, C...