Old news is good news:
- Speech Debelle’s debut album earns UK Mercury Music Prize nomination (billboard.com)
- DJ Shiftee wins DMC US DJ finals (amoeba.com)
- Jay-Z replaces Beastie Boys at All Points West, marking first U.S. festival appearance (rollingstone.com)
- Blue Sky Black Death working on new material (myspace.com)
- Madlib and Guilty Simpson prep O.J. Simpson (stonesthrow.com)
- RZA compiles second Wu-Tang philosophy book, The Tao of Wu (allhiphop.com)
- Vibe’s collapse elicits class lawsuit from subscriber (foliomag.com)
- Legal Pirate Bay site on the rocks? (cnet.com)
Mission:’s Everything but the Album (divshare.com), Kenn Starr’s It’s Still Real (freshselects.net), J. Rawls’ Hotel Beats Vol. 1 (beatlife.net), B. Dolan’s House of Bees Vol. 1 (urb.com), Beatnick & K-Salaam’s Where The Streets Have No Name (illroots.com), Omni’s I Am Omni EP (www.iamomni.com)
