Before gracing the stage at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, Stones Throw’s purveyor of Boogie Funk Dãm-Funk sat down with the good folks of Yours Truly. Check out the interview above.
Offered is the trailer for Yeah Yeah Yeah’s concert film Live In London which has been released on iTunes today. The Nick Wood-directed visual features 80-minute film with 16 songs from the trio’s December 1, 2009 show at the 02 Academy in Brixton.
Volpin Props presents an impressive video on the process of making a notorious Daft Punk helmet. Unfortunately, this project was a one-off and no orders for duplicates will be taken.
This video chronicles my odyssey with replicating the iconic gold Daft Punk helmet worn by Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo. Over the process, I took hundreds of pictures, mostly because my crummy digital camera I shoot with has a bum autofocus. What you see are the collection of all of these images, and a little hint of video as well.
The stars behind Converse’s 3 Artists. 1 Song- Bethany Cosentino, Rostam Batmanglij and Kid Cudi – recently sat down with good folks over at Suite903 and shed a little light on their eclectic “All Summer”-tune. They also comment on its excellent video that recently hit the net. See for yourself.
Nas pays a visit to the Tim Westwood show during his recent visit to London and both chop it up on a number of subject matters. Most notably, the upcoming album that Nas has underway. Stay tuned!
LRG presents a short but revealing glimpse behind the lenses during the shoot of Mayer Hawthorne’s latest video for his 70′s summer-influenced tune “Your Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’”. It looks like the work on this visual was as much fun as the result indicates. Mayer Hawthorne’s debut album, A Strange Arrangement is out now via Stones Throw.
It looks like this is going to be a hot summer for Pusha T. The rumor that The Clipse-member will sign to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label remains persistent. Frequent collaborator Pharrell Williams has now discussed the idea with MTV. Praising the enormous talents of Pusha and his brother Malice as well as their reputation within the industry, Skateboard P definitely approves this potential development. See for yourself above.
Hip Hop legend, Easy Mo Bee chops it up with the folks over at Boundless Radio in this latest clip. You hear him speaking on one of his great production works in the past. The video was shot by Kellen Dengler.
In this latest series of “WalkAbout NY,” Darryl “DMC” McDaniels invites Lee Hawkins on a tour through Hollis, Queens, the place where RUN DMC first started. As a youth growing up in Queens, he shows where they used to rap all day in an alleyway near his house where kids all the neighborhood kids came together. Check it out as DMC unveils how it all started.