ContactMusic — Rapper Q-Tip and The Roots star Ahmir 'Uestlove' Thompson have joined forces with jazz musician Marcus Miller to stage a Japan earthquake/tsunami benefit concert in New York. Jazz pianist Robert Glasper, trumpeter Sean Jones and singers Angelique.... more info

ContactMusic — The Roots star Ahmir 'Uestlove' Thompson has reached out to fans online in a desperate attempt to gain clearance for a sample by French jazz pianist Alain Goraguer. The critically-acclaimed drummer and producer turned to his 1. 5 million follow... more info

Nialler9 — This soulful tune from Booker T features a surprise vocal collaboration between Sharon Jones and The National’s Matt Berninger. The surprise comes from how easy Berninger fits into the groove alongside Sharon Jones. ‘Representing Memphis’ comes... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — The Greatest Story Never Told has finally been released and now Saigon is coming to London to tell that story! The New York native is a well respected rapper and has worked closely with Just Blaze and has featured on tracks with Jay-Z , Black Thought... more info

ContactMusic — Stevie Wonder, John Legend and The Roots are among the stars who will take to the stage this summer (10) for shows honouring soul legend Marvin Gaye. This year (11) marks the 40th anniversary of the 1971 release of Gaye's landmark album, What's Go... more info

Altsounds — The Cool Kids have released a new video for their new single "Bundle Up", released on Green Label Sound (http://www.greenlabelsound.com/). Conceived under the direction of BBGun, the video satirizes the traditional music video creating a pretty ou... more info

E! Online — It's not just Ashley Judd's family that's upset with her. Turns out, she's pissed off the rap community, too. After writing in her controversial new memoir about... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Two years ago, Community actor Donald Glover joined Twitter with the username @donglover -- which is Don Glover, but also dong lover, so everyone on the Internet laughed. Donald was on Jimmy Fallon last night (check out a video of him performing with... more info

XLR8R — The well-respected, hip-hop-centric website launched by The Roots' ?uestlove, OkayPlayer, recently expanded its musical reach a bit further, and launched a new sub-site, with help from XLR8R writer Jesse Serwer and photographer Martei Korlei, th... more info

KEXP Seattle — If you’re into music at all, you’ve heard (and probably made fun of) the universally reviled internet sensation Rebecca Black and her painfully awful single “Friday.” But even if your loathing has reached its boiling point, this may help simm... more info