Seattle avant-rap project Shabazz Palaces is the newest act on the Sub Pop Records roster. The mysterious crew is led by Palaceer Lazaro aka Ishmael "...
Palaceer Lazaro, the man at the center of the enigmatic Seattle avant-rap project Shabazz Palaces, is otherwise known as Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, o...
), but in the meantime it put out the above video for "Belhaven Meridian," a good intro to those not familiar with the charms of Shabazz Palaces. ... ...
Shabazz Palaces are the enigmatic Seattle avant-rap collective led by Digable Planets/Cherrywine member Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler. Last year, the gro...
the newer band. If you were a Sleater-Kinney fan, there's plenty about watching Wild Flag that'll make your heart sing, not the least of which is seei...
Shabazz Palaces' Sub Pop signing is finally going to yield real results: The Seattle label is releasing the new album from the hip-hoppers on May 31. ...
Here's one of the coolest instances of corporate synergy you're going to see this millenia: Shabazz Palaces, aka Ishmael Butler, stars in this video f...
Here's a news roundup of Shabazz Palaces: First off,Black Up,the group's debut LP, has been pushed back to July28. The new cover art is to your left.S...
This Saturday, April 16, is Record Store Day, and Sub Pop is using the occasion to give the world a taste of many of their new releases. One of Sub Po...
The Guardian's "How We Wrote" video series exists so that artists can talk about a song's creative genesis before performing that song. The latest ent...
Shabazz Palaces' new music video isn't for a particular song off of their album Black Up; it's for the entire album, or at least as much of it as they...
You're probably most familiar with Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White as the vocalists who appear throughout Shabazz Palaces' excellent 2011 LP B...
In director Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes's gorgeously photographed video for Shabazz Palaces' Black Up track "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)," a beau...
Tweet Just when you let other music into your mind, forgetting about Black Upand its album of the year quality,Shabazz Palaces come through with a gre...
releasing their Dross Glop 12″ series, which feature remixes of tracks from their 2011 album Gloss Drop. Dross Glop 1, out now, had remixes from the F...
Tweet On Feb. 21, Battles issue Dross Glop 2, a remix 12-inch of material from their recent Gloss Drop, that features remixes from Kode 9, The Alchemi...
compilation appropriately titled Dross Glop, out April 17 via Warp. The CD and digital release compile all of the tracks from the four-part 12" vinyl ...
Last month, futuristic R&B outfit THEESatisfaction put out their first single from their forthcoming Sub Pop debut, the chirping "QueenS." Today, they...
The Creators Project, Vice and Intel's global arts and technology initiative, has announced a festival in San Francisco. The event will take place on ...
like the other four editions of Roots Picnic, and like pretty much every other artist-curated festival, this lineupe is impossible strong. The Roots h...
For the fifth year in a row, the Roots are curating a music festival in their hometown of Philadelphia. As Okayplayer announces, this year's Roots Pic...
25 Photos » Vice & Intel's Creators Project -- you'll recall NYC incarnation from late last year -- made its way out to the Bay this weekend for a Wes...
Shabazz Palaces played S.O.B.'s in New York this weekend, and our photographer Ebru Yildiz was there. Check out a selection of shots after the jump, t...
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "+1", which offers footage of performances along with interviews of artists about the experien...
Haldar, better known as Lushlife, just dropped his Western Vinyl debut, Plateau Vision, on April 17. After an awesome first single featuring Styles P-...
new album from Philly rapper/producer Lushlife. When the track appeared in its original form, on Lushlife's No More Golden Days mixtape, it featured t...
Berkeley, CA's Greek Theatre on Saturday night. Part of the Spontaneous Curation Series, the evening featured a few rarer songs, including this year's...
For Under the Radar's current issue, The Protest Issue, the magazine pulled together a long list of artists to make personalized protest signs. James ...
Photo by Ebru Yildiz Shabazz Palaces will hit the road this month for a long world tour extending into the winter. For the first leg, they'll be joine...
Photo by David Belisle; Image by Leif Podhajsky This spring, Seattle rap experimentalists Shabazz Palaces will tour North America with Sub Pop labelma...
Animal Collective: "New Town Burnout" (Shabazz Palaces remix) (via SoundCloud) Here's another piece from the new EP of Animal Collective remixes, Monk...
Later this month, Animal Collective will release their new remix EP Monkey Been To Burn Town, and we've already posted Gang Gang Dance member Brian De...