Core News — “Illyus Brown and Ivan Hall Barrientos, the Glasgow house music duo behind Shout and Scream, make their Essential Mix debut. With tracks from Gil Scott-Heron, Butch and Solomon.” Check out other Essential mixes in my archive and subscribe to the ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus, listen to the September edition of David Byrne's monthly playlist, "Conscious Dance," which features Gil Scott-Heron, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Sly & The Family Stone, Prince and more. Continue reading… more info

Altsounds — Directed by: Chris Cunningham The post Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Visual Remix) appeared first on AltSounds. more info

Guardian Music — Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Stevie Wonder – Bruce W Talamon photographed them all. His images, collected in a new book, capture an era before publicists controlled their stars“Nobody will ever understand what fun we had,” says Bruce ... more info

Guardian Music — As the founder of the Last Poets, Nuriddin, who has died aged 73, was a hero to everyone from Tupac Shakur to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis Jalal Mansur Nuriddin – sometimes known as “the grandfather of rap” – who has died ag... more info

DrownedInSound — A year into the return of winter in America, the words of Scott-Heron have proven to be hauntingly relevant more info

Sweeping The Nation — Sit down, David Hepworth. The year of the first Glastonbury Festival, of Jim Morrison's death, The Concert for Bangladesh, the Montreux Casino fire that inspired Smoke On The Water and... Dave & Ansell Collins - Double BarrelNiney The Observer - ... more info

Stereogum — Richard Russell is the man behind XL Recordings, and he's also a prolific producer in his own right. Russell worked with Gil Scott-Heron on I'm New Here, Bobby Womack on The Bravest Man In The Universe, and Damon Albarn on Everyday Robots. And now he... more info

Stereogum — The xx are, after a fashion, Drake and Rihanna collaborators. After all, "Take Care," the best of Drake and Rihanna's collaborations, was built on a sample of one of Jamie xx's Gil Scott-Heron remixes. And now, as Pitchfork points out, the xx have tr... more info

Stereogum — Malcolm London is a quadruple threat poet/activist/educator/musician from Chicago. Many people pad their resume with titles, but very few come with an endorsement from fellow multi-slash philosopher, author, and professor Cornel West as “the Gil Sc... more info