KEXP Seattle — Live from the Caffe Vita Bean Room during the 2010 Capitol Hill Block Party, Seattle’s preeminent hip hop duo Blue Scholars joined host Larry Mizell Jr. on KEXP’s Streets Sounds last Sunday night. DJ/producer Sabzi and MC Geologic brought four br... more info

All About Jazz — The hugely successful, high-powered and influential partnership between Yamaha in association with Jazzwise, PPL and the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group celebrated the fourth year of its Jazz Scholarship programme at the All Party Par... more info

Altsounds — Once again, Meanfiddler brings to the Capital's live scene two young and promising acts to keep an eye on. Scholars already played with Hundred Reasons, Canterbury, Tubelord, The Xcerts, Blakfish, The Maple State, Baddies and Dutch Uncles; Lights... more info

Guardian Music — Holy Trinity, St AndrewsThis was really two concerts rolled into one: a programme of 20th-century string orchestra masterpieces with a concert of 16th-century English choral music in the middle. Linking various strands of the East Neuk festival prog... more info

KEXP Seattle — These days KEXP plays quite a bit of rap and hip hop, of course during Street Sounds every week, but also mixed into pretty much all of the variety mix DJs’ sets. From Blue Scholars to Shabazz Palaces, Public Enemy to LL Cool J, most of the DJs he... more info

KEXP Seattle — Greetings Friends, Michele Myers here… producer of KEXP Documentaries.  This week we launched a new 10-part series “Hip-Hop: The New Seattle Sound.”  We picked 10 of our hottest local acts and are doing short radio stories on them. It was har... more info

Totally Fuzzy — swvccswvcc said... The System - You Are In My System b/w Now I Am Electric (12", 1982) [vinyl rip] Cheech & Chong - Born In East L.A. (7" single, 1985) [vinyl rip] Chunky A - Owwww! (cassingle, 1989) [cassette rip] http://swvccswvcc.blogspot.com ... more info

Guardian Music — (Gimell)One of the most influential choral recordings of our time was of Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories, sung with raw passion half a century ago by the Westminster Cathedral Choir under George Malcolm. Over their 30 years of recording, the Tallis ... more info

Chorus.fm — *Gentlemen and Scholars* (http://absolutepunk.net/gentlemenandscholars) are currently writing for the follow-up to 2009's The Fault. Submitted by G&SPatrick more info

Guardian Music — Tallis Scholars/Phillips(Gimell)As Peter Phillips points out in his sleeve notes to his choir's beautifully understated recording of one of the greatest achievements of Spanish Golden Age polyphony, the expressive intensity driving Victoria's music m... more info