San Francisco based producer Amplive has finally been granted permission by Radiohead to push out his hip hop remix of In Rainbows. The album, entitled ‘Rainydayz Remixes’ was completed in November of 2007 but suffered from a botched release due to legal troubles brought on by the band’s label.

It is now up for download, free in 192kbps MP3 format. I just started listening and so far, so good. The album features guest performances from Chali2na of Jurassic 5, Del the Funky Homosapien and more. Give it a listen and leave your thoughts in the comments, I’m curious to hear what you think.

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The guys over at Hypeful.com compiled a mix of all of the songs played during Rob’s going away party before whatever the fuck that thing was tears the head off the Statue of Liberty. You can check out the mostly indie track list and download the MP3s over here.

For not showing up at a drug counseling session that was part of his parole after getting arrested for having drugs without a prescription last year. The funniest part about this is not how stupid Trey is, its the fact that it was reported on TMZ.

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As soon as I finished my post last night about the Duo show, I some how stumbled across Marco Benevento’s new solo album. The group on the album features Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazzy Odyssey) on bass and both Matt Chamberlain (Tori Amos) and Andrew Barr (The Slip) on drums. I’ve only given the album one or two listens and haven’t put it up to the real test (the drive and listen) but so far it sounds incredible. Marco really has a talent of using his keys as his voice, his interludes are stunningly vocal. The album strives and succeeds to be a fun albeit loungey jazz piece, with some of that distorted, signature Duo sound thrown in.

Marco really tears it up on the piano, organs, clavs and even his speak and spell. It’s available right now in on iTunes in DRM free, plus format and goes on sale in stores February 12th. I highly recommend it.

Headed out to the TLA on South Street this past weekend, (mind you it has been renamed ‘The Fillmore’ which I will never, ever accept) to see three great bands: MJ Project, Grimace Federation and The Benevento/Russo Duo. Just to get it off my chest, when I hear ‘Fillmore’ the only thing that comes to mind is Bill Graham’s magical auditorium that was home to the greatest bands of the 1960’s.

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