From humble origins in Detroit, raised on a healthy diet of Motown, Jazz and early Hip Hop – Terrel Wallace (aka Tall Black Guy) has become a standard bearer for the current hip hop beats scene. Through a steady stream of productions filled with incredibly clever sample flips and deft production chops, he has won fans across the world, including Gilles Peterson who included him on one of his Brownswood Bubblers albums, Lefto, Anthony Valadez and countless others.
With the tangible beginnings of worldwide recognition, Tall Black Guy has established himself …

Check out this 18 year old producer from near Bristol making some waves!
Synthetic Epiphany lists a broad taste in music that has resulted in him producing tracks from a plethora of different genres. Artists like Burial, Skream and Digital Mystikz influence him into the dark, atmospheric side of Dubstep and Garage, but playing a variety of instruments such as the guitar and piano, and listening to a fair bit of classical and ambient music he mentions really gave him the love of melody. Good Lad!
Recent collabs with the CoMa, and a …

Bowers & Wilkins, the British loudspeaker manufacturer and innovator responsible for creating award-winning products such as the Zeppelin Air iPod dock, is proud to announce the launch of the P3 headphones – the latest compelling addition to a growing mobile hi-fi headphone category that already includes the P5 on-ear headphonesand C5 in-ear headphones.

The P3 headphones maintain Bowers & Wilkins’ dedication to sound perfection. Designed, engineered and tuned by the same engineers responsible for the highly-acclaimed P5 headphones, Zeppelin Air and the celebrated 800 Series Diamond speakers found in Abbey Road Studios. With a choice of two colours and a compact foldable design, the P3s …

Looking forward to the Lovebox Festival 15th-17th June 2012, especially the Friday Lineup, Check it out below…

B Traits
Ben UFO
Blondes
Boy Better Know
Breakage
Club Popozuda
Crystal Castles
Dauwd
Digital Soundboy Carnival
Dismatle
Floripa
Hessle Audio
Hot Chip
Lapalux
Madeon
Magnetic Man
Marcus Nasty
Ms Dynamite
N-Type
NYC Downlow
P Money
Paper Tiger
Pearson Sound
Plastician
Redlight
Rinse 106.8FM
Roska
Rusko
Shy Fx
Skream
Stamina MC
Sub Focus
The 2 Bears
The Heatwave
Toddla T Sound
Trim
Youngman
Zinc

To celebrate the brand’s endless dedication to music, culture and live performance, Hennessy International is giving Facebook fans a chance to perform at the Blues Passions festival 2012, and take their music from online to onstage.
Since 1994, Hennessy has supported the Blues Passions festival in the heart of Hennessy’s hometown Cognac, France. Now, Hennessy fans can submit a video entry of their own music performance to the Chase the Music. Own the Stage. tab on the Hennessy International Facebook page for a chance to take their music to the Blues …

Born in Catanzaro, Italy where he lives and works. Claudio describes himself as an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist and freelance journalist among others. Active for many years in the international underground art scene, he has collaborated with many magazines of contemporary art, literary and comics, both in printed media and on the web. I guess his work just stood out to me, have a look at his strange, funny and amusing images…
http://www.claudioparentela.net
http://www.facebook.com/people/Claudio-Parentela/771153450

Operation: Zombie Nation is the second LP from North London Hip Hop group DefDFires; a conceptual album set in London 2012, making devastating observations about a society on the brink of collapse.  Key Skills’ flawless production fuses elements of Grime, Dubstep, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass and Classical to create the perfect assault course for DefDFires to unleash their most controversial, forward-thinking accomplishment to date.
DefDFires’ commentary portrays the views of an outspoken, confused and frustrated generation; expressing the the insanity of modern life, whilst narrating a complete breakdown of order …