We don’t usually post about live music videos, but everyone has been anticipating The National’s new album High Violet, which comes out May 11th. They debuted their first track Terrible Love the other night on Fallon, and we have to share! Enjoy.

Here is the first single from Drake’s anticipated Thank Me Later album dropping later in the year. Boi-1da produced it and, he created a Frankenstein. Not only is it alive, it’s a monster. Drake has one thing in the bag that a lot of artists are scared to do: listen to an artist, learn, re-create into his own style. A bit of Cudder influence and Big Sean influence in here. I am still skeptical about your music Mr. Graham, please make me a believer. In the words of Hova, “Boi-1da you are a foool for this one. ”

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If you don’t know about Mayer Hawthorne, we suggest you learn and listen as soon as possible. Since the middle of last year or so the man has dropped soulfully styled music that many have taken an interest to in a good way. His debut album A Strange Arrangement is available now. LISTEN UP!

Featuring Mos Def & Bobby Womack alongside a cameo from Bruce Willis. Off the Gorillaz new album Plastic Beach dropping March 8th (US). Enjoy the video after the break:

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Franco/American band, Hold Your Horses!, offers a brief overview of art history as band members playfully reconstruct famous paintings in an off the wall lyrical interpretation all their own.

Produced by L’Ogre. Amazingly done, watch it after the break:

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Remember the first time you saw breakers doing death defying acrobatics in a battle while a DJ scratched? How about the first time you saw an amazing MC freestyle session? Ever get your hands on a “blackbook” with masterful graffiti artwork front to back done by the kids in the neighborhood?

Well, that is the culture we cherish and are out to enrich and preserve at “Self Help Graphics” every Friday night. “Hard N Da Paint”(HNDP) is a Hip Hop workshop dedicated to not only fostering emerging artists, but also documenting and broadcasting our culture on-line. Every week as special guest artists and musicians perform at HNDP our community documents itself with TV production. Not only does our community hone raw Hip Hop talent here, we also capture, edit and syndicate our sessions for the world to share. HIP HOP IS FREE – we are all ages – FREE – always have been always will be!

…but 25k from pepsi would help us SO much :) our shopping list will not pay a single perons salary – 100% of the monies will be invested into production gear for “HARD N DA PAINT!” VOTE HERE!!! - Self Help Graphics

Let us go ahead and say what you are thinking… Big Sean has brought back the Late Registration/Roses Kanye-flow. Let us also say that he was the originator of the Drake Forever flow and the YME Bedrock flow.  Big Sean and Mr. Hudson have made a beautiful track that should be titled No Way Out, because there is never a way out of heartbreak. The flow is transmitted over gloomy circumstances and is met with beautifully luminous sounds of the choir.

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Here are some new tracks by Radiohead front man, Thom Yorke. He played these new songs at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in the UK. Enjoy!!!

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Inspired by the multifarious wonders of the California coast, we sought to create music as true and familiar as the places we have passed though and the experiences we have shared over the past year. A partnership that originally consisted of closet recordings has turned into a more tangible, yet no less intimate form. We cannot wait to begin what we hope to be a long and lasting journey with you all, to share our music with you, and to show ourselves to you as we truly are. Strange Birds.

Free full album download and sample song after the jump…

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No signs of the Kanye West on this new music video for the Coldest Winter of “808s & Heartbreak”. The video was directed by the highly acclaimed Nabil Elderkin and it’s a visually satisfying feature that displays the emotion Kanye exudes on the track.

“It’s pretty minimalistic. It’s slow and very visual. I just wanted to catch the vibe of the song and not get too literal. Because the lyrics are very close to Kanye and go much deeper than the video goes, obviously hearing the song you know it’s very emotional.” -Elderkin