Altsounds — After nearly 14 years, the long-awaited *Death Row Records* album by one-time *Dr. Dre* protégé *Sam Sneed* is finally being released. *WIDEawake Entertainment Group Inc.*, the company who purchased the Death Row Records catalog, is rel... more info

Culture Bully — Music video for the title track from Blue Scholars' recent Coffee and Snow 2 EP, directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi. more info

Topix — Whatever a listener's spiritual bent , surely only a zombie would have been unmoved by the transcendent singing of the Tallis Scholars on Sunday afternoon in the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center . more info

All About Jazz — Coverups, intellectual property: More than 70 academics, mostly legal scholars, are urging President Barack Obama to open a proposed international intellectual-property agreement to public review before signing it. The likely route for that is bring... more info

KEXP Seattle — One of the reasons Seattle hip hop continues to thrive is its diversity. Amid the brainy culturalism of Blue Scholars, the hardcore reality of Fatal Luciano, the wild energy of Spaceman, and many other unique artists on the scene is the socially awar... more info

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