staff picks - brent d

[ Def Jam Records U.S.A. / CD ]

Release Date: Monday, 12 December, 2011

Having previously released twelve projects, The Roots have become one of the best known and most respected hip-hop acts in the business, winning four Grammys. The legendary crew has returned with their latest musical creation, entitled 'Undun'.

'Undun' marks the first conceptually-based album from The Roots and quickly reaffirms the creativity of the outfit...

[ Asylum / Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Thursday, 12 January, 2012

M :- Contains violence and horror.

Region B -- PAL -- 103 minutes -- Norwegian

The government says there's nothing to worry about - it's just a problem with bears making trouble in the mountains and forests of Norway. But local hunters don't believe it and neither do a trio of college students who want to find out the truth. Armed with a video camera,...

[ Island Records U.K. / CD ]

Release Date: Friday, 7 October, 2011

Ever since his 1996 debut 'Endtroducing', DJ Shadow has always walked the fine line between listener expectation and his own inventiveness. But the title of this, his fourth album, encourages his listener to judge the contents within based on what it IS and not what it could be. Shadow has been reasonably outspoken in interviews regarding the internet's "devaluation...

[ Big Dada Recordings / CD ]

Release Date: Monday, 17 October, 2011

"Now aged 39, South London rapper Roots Manuva may well be the elder statesman of British hip-hop, but his eighth studio album, 4everevolution, shows he can still summarize the state of the nation more succinctly in one line that most MCs half his age manage over the course of an entire album.

"Cost of life so cheap round here/but the cost of living ain't...

[ Shock Records / CD ]

Release Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009

The passing of four years and a different name should be enough clues that Spinnerette is a far cry from Brody Dalle's previous band the Distillers, but the extent of just how different this self-titled debut is still might shock longtime fans. Indeed, the Distillers' swan song 'Coral Fang' was polished compared to melees like 'Sing Sing Death House', but Spinnerette's...

[ Abacus / Paperback ]

Release Date: Thursday, 5 May, 2011

Call yourself a man? You do? Do you even know what a real man is? Are you a six-foot-one Adonis who...