Rock The Bells: Rage Against The Machine, Wu-Tang, Nas, Public Enemy, and more

The Rock The Bells tour, which describes itself as "a world-class hip hop platform", is set to be a huge event. With three shows (July 28 at Randall's Island in New York, Aug. 11 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, Calif., and Aug. 18 at the McCovey Cove Parking Lot in San Francisco) to feature Rage Against The Machine, and Wu-Tang Clan and Nas to headline the whole tour, this is a must-see for hip hop fans.

Cypress Hill, the Roots, Public Enemy, Sage Francis, Mos Def, APMD, Jedi Mind Tricks and Immortal Technique will also play the whole tour, while MF Doom, FELT, Hieroglyphics, Living Legends, Blackalicious, the Coup, Murs, Brother Ali, Cage, Mr. Lif, Grouch & Eligh, Hangar 18, Bluepring and Lucky I AM will perform at select shows. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, March 31.

New Releases For Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Hitting your local record store today, and worth checking out (click on the art to pick up at Amazon):

Bloc Party - Weekend In The City

Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block

John Waters - A Date With John Waters

Keller Williams - Dream (I'm expecting a promo of this one soon, so I should post a review by the end of this week)

Kool Keith - Ultra-Octa-Doom

Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder

Public Enemy - Fight The Power: Greatest Hits Live - One of my favorite rap groups ever. Politically minded hip hop rules.

8-Bit Operators - The Music of Kraftwerk - I don't know. Nintendos hacked to make Kraftwerk songs? I'd rather listen to Kraftwerk.