White Folks Get Crunk — PURPL PoP are back, this time with a remix to a classic we all know and most should love… Marvin Gaye – Lets Get it On (PURPL PoP Remix) m Grab the download over at the PURPL PoP blog. Simply sign up for their email list. Easy as pie. more info

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Guardian Music — This week there's nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide as we devote our podcast to the joys of Motown, commonly known as The Best Music Ever Written. Steve Levine, producer of the Beach Boys and Culture Club among others, is our guest and he demon... more info

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Star Online, Malaysia — NEW YORK (AP) — Two pictures were on the walls of the Switzerland studio where Maroon 5 recorded their latest album. One was of Marvin Gaye and the other of Tupac Shakur. more info

Guardian Music — The Slits frontwoman, she helped to reinvent women's role in musicThe singer Ari Up, who has died after an unspecified illness aged 48, was the idiosyncratic frontwoman of the Slits, the British punk band formed in 1976. With her bird's-nest hair, gu... more info

Guardian Music — (RCA)Barack Obama's "Yes we can" campaign didn't just inspire the US electorate. Six-time Grammy-winning soul singer John Legend and fellow Philadelphians the Roots are attempting preserve the mood of change with an album of soulful protest music fro... more info