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Last year, blues-rock revivalists the Black Keys teamed with left-field hip-hop producer Danger Mouse for the sorely overlooked Attack & Release .

The Jigga Man is not the only MC with the skills to spit well into his golden years.

December 3, 2009, NEW YORK, NY a ' Universal Motown Records proudly announces that its brightest new stars of 2009a 'Kid Cudi, Drake, and Melanie Fionaa 'have collectively earned six Grammy nominations, while hip-hop legend Q-Tip and R&B icon Stevie Wonder have respectively picked up their sixth and seventy-fourth career nominations.

The Abstract takes to the silver screen in Holy Rollers premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Photo by Gerry Visco / www.flickr.com/photos/gerryvisco/ Don't hang the DJ. If your night sucks, it's probably your own damn fault.

All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear.

Grammy-winner Norah Jones releases her fourth album studio The Fall today. Seven years ago, aged 22, Jones burst onto the music scene with her multi-award winning debut album Come Away With Me.

Attention Deficit Review Posted by Michael Melchor on 11.10.2009 A long-awaited debut full of creativity and mediocrity at the same time.

This curiously monikered electro-pop wunderkind makes intelligent dance music influenced by cerebral New York disco types like Talking Heads and LCD Soundsystem Penguin Prison ... his music boasts a lovely bubbly sound and richly detailed quality Hometown: New York.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble , Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Quintet, Madlib at the Echoplex The eight brothers of Chicago's Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are a very big, very ba-a-a-d gang of horns boasting a fine lineage, having been personally tutored from age 3 by their father, Phil Cochran , who played with Sun Ra 's legendary Arkestra.

Black Keys Black Friday Benefit. The Black Keys will star at a benefit for Community Support Services from 6 to 10 p.m. Nov.

In the Field... 10.30.2009 The Cutting Edge of 'Kamaal the Abstract' Q-Tip's Return to Grace by John Murph This decade, many a rap and R&B artist, from Missy Elliott to Mya, have seen their albums stalled or put on permanent hold.

Los Angeles producers Presto and Avatar have joined forces to create Wayward Saints , a collaboration that reverse engineers DJ Shadow, St.

Pretty big one for you today: this is the first track out the traps from the new collaborative project between The Black Keys and about a million rappers including Q-Tip, RZA, Raekwon, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris and loads more.

Past guests have included Q-Tip, Questlove, DJ Premier and Raekwon, and the series has been praised by XXL and The Village Voice as one of the best things to happen to New York hip-hop in years.

THE NEW YORK VAULTS: 33 RPM. When, in the opening moments of this unapologetically loud record, Too Tall Paul Vezelis sings about "rock and roll records that you never forget," he's telling you his memory goes back to 1974 and Sweet's Desolation Boulevard .

RobertGlasper's music education came in the church. He was something of a latecomer to both jazz and hip-hop, which makes him more willing to try to advance both.

It was the surprise guest, though, that stole the show from them all. "We got the Queen in the house," Common told the crowd that gathered for the last stop of the Hennessy Artistry 2009 Series.

Hip-hop artist/producer Q-Tip has premiered a new video on YouTube for "Life Is Better," a smooth, funky-jazz duet featuring Norah Jones .

Country Rosanne Cash, "The List" . Immediately upon graduating high school, Rosanne Cash hit the road with her father.