What the hell is a SKYWAY?

Why, it’s the new project of Kyle Wyss (aka Chromatic Flights) of Blind Man’s Colour; a collaboration with rapper Rufat.

Kyle writes:

i found a rapper from the same home town via a mutual friend. we’re called SKYWAY after a big bridge in our hometown of st petersburg florida. we’re working on an album right now where I produce music, he raps on them and then i sing hooks occasionally. he wanted to remix jimmy dove so we made this

The two have taken the BMC original “Jimmy Dove” and have truly pulled off a true ‘genre-hop’, the result is quite euphoric. If only those Florida kids would hurry up with the full album.

Chromatic Flights onethirtybpm Records
Rufat Myspace

MP3: Blind Man’s Colour – “Jimmy Dove (SKYWAY Remix)”

Can’t wait a couple more days? Gorillaz have teamed up with MTV to release an album sampler that has about 20-40 second samples of each song mixed into each other. You can offiicially download it here. Or you can directly download it here: LINK

One thing that can’t be denied, the band has done a great job keeping fans excited for this album. While waiting for an album to be released is usually excruciating, Gorillaz have kept this fun.

Through his hip-hop alter ego Raaaaaaaandy, comedian Aziz Ansari and TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek are getting ready to release a mixtape, in case you haven’t already heard. Ansari has recently posted a link to the song “AAAAAAAANGRY” which calls out a whole slew of MCs, all of whom Ansari’s character claims were supposed to contribute verses to the mixtape. Among others, Eminem, DOOM, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Drake have to face Raaaaaaaandy’s wrath. Fortunately, Ansari has uploaded the track for streaming or downloading on his tumblr blog. Hear it to experience the hilarity for yourself. You can even catch RZA contributing his opinion at the very end of the track.

Roky Erickson, former singer of the 13th Floor Elevators, is due to release his first album in thirteen years, entitled True Love Will Cast Out All Evil, in April.

He collaborated with Texas indie rockers Okkervil River for the project, and their singer Will Sheff took up the producing mantel.

You can hear “Goodbye Sweet Dreams” from the album here:

MP3: Roky Erickson with Okkervil River – “Goodbye Sweet Dreams”

The album is out on Anti- on April 20th. UK fans will have to wait until June 7th when Chemikal Underground will release it.

The full track list is as follows:

01. Devotional Number One
02. Ain’t Blues Too Sad
03. Goodbye Sweet Dreams
04. Be and Bring Me Home
05. Bring Back The Past
06. Please Judge
07. John Lawman
08. True Love Cast Out All Evil
09. Forever
10. Think of as One
11. Birds’d Crash
12. God Is Everywhere

A few weeks ago Canadian power-pop super-group The New Pornographers announced the details of their upcoming album Together via the Matablog.

The album will be out on May 4th via Matador. You can preorder it now from the Matador webstore.

The track list can be viewed below, and you can download or stream “Your Hands (Together)” at the bottom of the page.

Together:

1. Moves
2. The Crash Years
3. Your Hands (Together)
4. Silver Jenny Dollar
5. Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk
6. My Shepherd
7. If You Can’t See My Mirrors
8. Up In The Dark
9. Valkyrie In The Roller Disco
10. A Bite Out Of My Bed
11. Daughters Of Sorrow
12. We End Up Together

MP3: The New Pornographers – “Your Hands (Together)”

It’s been a long wait for Broken Social Scene fans, but the band is finally coming back with its next LP, Forgiveness Rock Record, due on May 3 (Europe) and May 4 (North America) via City Slang/Cooperative Music and Arts & Crafts Records, respectively. The picture posted above is the cover art.

The new Broken Social Scene song “World Sick” is a veritable seven-minute epic. Download the song by entering your email address in the embedded widget:

By the way, Broken Social Scene will be playing shows in North America and Europe in the coming months. Check ‘em out:

03-14 Elkton, FL – Harvest of Hope
03-18 Austin, TX – Stubb’s BBQ
03-19 Austin, TX – The Parish
05-01 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
05-03 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre
05-07 New York, NY – Webster Hall
05-13 London, England – Brixton Academy *
05-14 Minehead, England – All Tomorrow’s Parties
05-17 London, England – Heaven
05-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
05-19 Cologne, Germany – Burgerhaus Stollwerck
05-21 Paris, France – La Maroquinerie
05-23 Linz, Austria – LinzFest
05-24 Berlin, Germany – Kesselhaus
05-27 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Festival
05-29 George, WA – Sasquatch
06-19 Toronto, Ontario – Toronto Island *#

* with Pavement
# with Band of Horses

Erykah Badu’s forthcoming fifth studio LP, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), is due at the end of March, a sequel to 2008’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). With production assistance from Madlib, J Dilla, James Poyser and Georgia Anne Muldrow, amongst others, the album promises to be one of the most accomplished urban releases of 2010.

Just a few hours ago, Badu leaked the first single from the new record, “Window Seat”, via her Twitter account. It’s a sparkling piece of late night, loungin’ neo-soul, filled with bongo and sultry vocal. You can download the song for free here.

New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) is slated for release on 30 March 2010 on Universal Motown.

Drive-By Truckers premiered “This Fucking Job”, the first track from their upcoming album The Big To-Do, on Stereogum about two weeks ago and yesterday they made another track available as a free download on their official website. While “This Fucking Job” was written by main songwriter Patterson Hood, “Birthday Boy” is written by singer/guitarist Mike Cooley. The Big To-Do will be released on March 16 through ATO Records.

To download the “Birthday Boy” go to their official website (note: to download the track you must enter your e-mail into the widget at the top of the page, and by doing so you’re subscribing to their maillist).

We still have a little under two weeks before Yeasayer drops their much-anticipated next album, Odd Blood. In the meantime, record label Secretly Canadian has released the song “O.N.E.” as a second single on the band’s website (run over there to snag the free download, stat).

The physical release of “O.N.E.” is expected on March 23. Odd Blood will be available on February 8 in the U.K. (via Mute) and February 9 in North America (via Secretly Canadian).

Justice, they of the religious iconography and hipster T-shirts, fronted the world with their startlingly danceable dirty French house debut, † (or Cross), in 2007. It looks like there’s new material on the way in 2010, with a new single just posted on GorillavsBear called “Beginning Of The End”. There’s no vocal part, some computerised brass, and after a few listens it’s already proving to be pretty obnoxiously catchy. Stream it here.