New songs from The Streets

New material from The Streets has surfaced at his MySpace page, bundled into minute-long clips compiled into one track titled, appropriately, “the new album deep.” What does it sound like? Well, listen for yourself, but seems to range from sentimental schmaltz with sweeping guitars to silly circus beats with bleeps and bleats to disco funk, but all thankfully anchored by Mr. Skinner’s engaging everyman personality. He says the album’s “biggest” song is tentatively called “Everything is Borrowed.” “I know the title sounds like a Kaiser Chiefs song but I promise it will be better than that.” Can’t be that hard to be better than the fucking Kaiser Chiefs, now, can it?
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Dilla’s brother

It’s been a few years since the untimely passing of producer extraordinaire J Dilla, but thanks to the wealth of beats he created in his lifetime, fans have been treated to a few posthumous albums. Enter Illa J, Dilla’s younger brother, who’s set to release an album on Delicious Vinyl in the near future. Illa raps over a bevy of unreleased Dilla beats, many from the days of The Pharcyde’s Labcabincalifornia, and sounds awfully similar to Dilla in both cadence and tone. There will never be another Dilla, but his music keeps on keeping it on.