It's Always Gonna Come Back Around

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Shabazz Palaces "Are You...Can You...Were You? (Felt)" from Black Up (2011, Sub Pop). New video for my favorite Shabazz cut by the homey Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes.

Felt

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Shabazz Palaces "Are you... Can you... Were you? (Felt)" – my favorite cut from Black Up, the long-awaited new album, out today on Sub Pop. Release shows this Thursday and Friday at Neumo's.

[ photo: Seattle Center, last Friday night ]

Swallowed By Light

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Vans x Seattle promo video by Kahlil Joseph and Luke Meier.
Full credits after the jump.

Special Analog Set

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Shabazz Palaces "4 Shadows" from Shabazz Palaces (2010)

The snare in that song is an entire world unto itself and combined with the other things going on I find the production mind-blowing, especially when I listen to it in the Jeep.

Sub Pop recording artists Shabazz Palaces and Thee Satisfaction perform live at Neumos in Seattle TONIGHT.
See also:
Shabazz Palaces interviews Thee Satisfaction
Thee Satisfaction interviews Shabazz Palaces

Artwork by Dumb Eyes

SP>SP

. Shabazz Palaces. Photo by Kelly O

Big news this morning that Sub Pop has signed Shabazz Palaces. Here's a celebratory five-song mix for your listening pleasures:


Congrats to all involved! Get info at Sub Pop and cultivated obscurity at shabazzpalaces.com

Digable

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Shabazz Palaces, the new project fronted by Ishmael Butler, is performing its unique brand of dubstep-influenced, deconstructed hip-hop tonight at Neumo's (Seattle). The group recently released two albums concurrently – Of Light and the self-titled Shabazz Palaces, and I recommend scooping both of them up from your local record store, from emusic, or directly from shabazzpalaces.com.

For more info check out Larry Mizell Jr.'s feature on Shabazz in this week's issue of The Stranger.

The video above was inspired by Charles Burnett's underground classic Killer of Sheep: