will open on January 29 with Hook performing songs from throughout his career. Hook recently published a salacious book about the legendarily hedonist...
In director Marcus Söderlund's video for British group the xx's skeletal love jam "VCR", a pretty young couple tenderly and carefully break into a roo...
MP3/Stream:> Gil Scott-Heron: "New York Is Killing Me" [ft. Mos Def] Last month, we hit you with Nas' gritty, end-times take on Gil Scott-Heron's BNM'...
MP3:> Gil Scott-Heron: "New York Is Killing Me" [ft. Nas] In February, spoken word poet and rap ancestor Gil Scott-Heron released the grizzled return-...
Chris Cunningham is the visionary director behind our favorite music video of the 1990s, Aphex Twin's wonderfully absurd "Come to Daddy" (among many o...
Jamie Smith fromThe xxhas undertaken the unenviable task of remixing every track from one of the strongest comeback albums of the year—Gil Scott-Heron...
xx photo on front page by Natalie Kardos We're New Here, the remix version of Gil Scott-Heron's 2010 LP I'm New Here put together by the xx's Jamie Sm...
the tracklist as well ... . The album will be released digitally and on CD and vinyl, as well as in a box set that will include the album on pink viny...
cited you as a strong influence on a lot of minimalist music that's coming out of England now. Do you pay attention to trends like that? JS: Yeah, def...
You may know Jamie xx from his actual band The xx, or you may be aware of him through some other means, like the ton of remixing work and whatnot that...
in a recent interview with Vulture, he explains how the project was so much more than riding the buzz wave created by a grizzled, troubled genius's fi...
Here's the nuttiest streaming story yet:We're New Here,Jamie xxand Gil Scott-Heron's collaborative album, is streaming in full right now. The catch? Y...
The video for "I'll Take Care of U", a steel-drum-inflected tune from the xx producer Jamie Smith's Gil Scott-Heron remix LP We're New Here, follows a...
here to hear it. There are also a ton of other new albums streaming online right now; we've got some of them listed below. -- Julianna Barwick's album...
This year could be a big one for Jamie Smith (aka Jamie xx) the producer of the xx, as next month he puts out aGil Scott-Heronremix album (We're New H...
. you will be truly missed by all." - @RoughTradeShops "Fuck '@iamdiddy: RIP Gil Scot-Heron'" - Jack from Friendly Fires "To Gil Scott-Heron. We Almos...
Gil Scott-Heron passed away in NYC earlier today. The soulful spoken-word artist, best known for 1970′s "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," experi...
Revolutionary poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, best known for his 1970 work "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died May 27th at a New York City...
The influential artist died in New York on Friday at the age of 62...Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and musician largely credited as being one of the forefat...
Via NPR: Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credite...
that was unique to him," Russell wrote on his Tumblr blog. Caius Pawson, head of Young Turks (first a London club night, now a sub-label of XL) and ma...
Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on song...
Poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron died yesterday following a sudden illness. Scott-Heron is most associated with "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...
When news broke of the passing of Gil Scott-Heron last night (May 27), artists such as Eminem, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Diddy immediately took to Twitter to...
Photo by Mischa Richter A memoir by the late Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday, will be issued January 16 by the publishing house Canongate, as Wire r...
The memoir of influential musician Gil Scott-Heron will be published on Jan. 16, 2012, The Wire reports. The posthumous text is titled "The Last Holid...
Canongate will publish the late street poet and hip-hop progenitor Gil Scott-Heron's memoir, titled The Last Holiday, on Martin Luther King Day (Jan. ...
Last week, My Morning Jacket played MSG and in the midst of their epic sprawl of a live show, the band unwrapped covers of Gil Scott-Heron's "The Bott...
When Gil Scott-Heron passed away last May, musicians and fans alike paid tribute by raving about his live performances and classic albums. For the man...
