"Straight from the slums of the Shaolin, it's... THEM!" Well, it's a few of them, at least. Last week we got out first taste of Only Built For Cuban Linx 2, Raekwon's eagerly anticipated sequel to his immortal street classic OB4CL, with the Ghostface-assisted "Criminology 2". While "Criminology 2" fit Rae's description of what we could expect fr...

Every bit the people's music as much as punk or hip-hop, raï has been flourishing for decades, even after post-colonial Marxist governments pushed it underground. Sublime Frequencies' vinyl-only compilation celebrates some of the best raï from Algeria's darker cultural years.read more

What better subject for Black Cab Sessions than Jens Lekman, the whimsical, melodic Swede whose "Black Cab", found on 2005's Oh You're So Silent Jens, still ranks as one of his best songs. Lekman leaves behind the the Left Banke- and Belle and Sebastian-derived orchestration of the original version to play his "Black Cab Sessions" "Black Cab" on...

Photo by Kathryn YuI guess they both, um, do things in a really grandiose fashion?A whole lot of very lucky British Kings of Leon fans attending the Tennessee band's December tour stops will get themselves an earful of at least one fine band for the price of two, as Anthony Gonzalez's sublime M83 will open each and every date on KoL's December U...

Van Halen, The Eagles, Linkin Park and Sublime have been confirmed for the fourth installment of the Guitar Hero video game