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Weekly Drop: The Week Earl Sweatshirt Performed A New Track With The RZA

Earl Sweatshirt is keeping us hyped for his new record, the full version of Andre 3000's and Beyonce's cover of 'Back To Black' was released and Benga remixes Wiley.

After performing at Coachella for back-to-back weekends, Earl Sweatshirt finally showed some love to the East Coast by performing a new track with RZA at MayFest in New York. Tyler tweeted Earl's forthcoming album was full of "rappy rap shit", now we get what he means.

Savages Premiered A New Track On The Radio

On paper Savages should be a pain in the arse. Humourless artrock kids from France are hardly our cup of tea. But every time they release a new track we're so bowled over by theor power and passion that we can forgive them all the simultaneous poetry readings in the world. A couple of weeks back they put out their immediately iconic cover art for Silence Yourself. Then, over the weekend, they premiered new track “No Face” on Mary Anne Hobbs BBC 6 Music show. Head over to Hype Machine to take a listen.

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Beyonce & Andre 3000’s “Back To Black” Cover Has Been Released

After two snippets, the full version of Beyonce and Andre 3000’s cover of “Back To Black” has been released. It’s interesting to try and guess what scene Baz Luhrmann will use the track for and my bets are on some kind of chopped and screwed mental breakdown where Leonardo DiCaprio has to throw his head into a sink full of water just to think straight. Anyway, there’s no point in telling you where the track premiered, because they’ve tagged it over the track about forty times, so go ahead and take a listen above.

We’re A Little Bit Closer To Unraveling The Boards Of Canada Mystery

But, we’re not completely there yet. Over the weekend the band aired a 90-second commercial on Cartoon Network that offered up another set of secret codes. We’re not entirely sure what the deal is surrounding the new record, but Motherboard have published a pretty lengthy, indepth report which you can check out here.

Iggy Azalea Put Out A New Track

At the end of last week Iggy Azalea put out the second single from her upcoming debut album. The track, which is titled “Bounce”, is a pure twerk-a-holic anthem, as she rides to the mantra of “Shake it, make it, break it, bounce!”

Benga Remixed Wiley’s New Track

Benga brings so much heat on his remix of Wiley’s “Lights On” that we’re currently sitting in the office praying for a slither of sunshine so we have an excuse to get out and blare this throughout inner city suburban parks. Take a listen over at FACT.