New band of the day – Shabazz Palaces (No 1,025)

This rap veteran is bringing hip-hop to Sub Pop with an album of dark Odd Future-istic anthemsHometown: Seattle.The lineup: Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler (music, vocals).The background: Shabazz Palaces, the first hip-hop act to sign to Sub Pop, are a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigmatic mind belonging to ... who? Well, Shabazz Palaces are, or possibly just is, Palaceer Lazaro, the name currently being used to disguise the fact further that he was once – and technically speaking remai...

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