[Video] Schoolboy Q Announces "#OXYMORON" Release Date

The collective of Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, and now SZA and Isaiah Rashad, have established themselves atop the overall music landscape as the team to beat. Top Dawg Entertainment, TDE for short, has grown the larger group on the strength of Lamar's breakthrough album, Good Kid m.a.a.d. City, released late last year. With a steady run of solid features and loosie single since his 2011 critically-acclaimed release, Habits and Contradictions, Schoolboy Q's proper album debut, Oxymoron has been one of the most anticipated projects on the horizon for some time now. Today, Q announced the arrival date for the project in a video with his daughter, Joy. The project drops officially on February 27, at which point TDE may very well have a full-nelson on the rap game. Check out the cute video of Q and Joy below making the announcement and keep it locked to RH for continuing coverage.

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Diplo Releases "A Very Decent Christmas"

Diplo is a man that seems to never cease working. Whether it be producing for other artists, working on his own music, playing live shows or whatever else, the Godfather of EDM never seems to stop moving. Today, he released a project of dance music Christmas songs, perfect to get Grandma moving after the family dinner. Diplo curated this Mad Decent family compilation album titled A Very Decent Christmas. The project does remixes of past classics, as well as bringing the thumping of Moobahton to the holidays in their own unique ways. Check out the project below and get your holidays turned up.

A Very Decent Christmas:

01 Gent & Jawns: "Turn Up Ye Merry Gentlemen"
02 Diplo: "Frosty Bounce" [ft. Angger Dimas and Nicky Da B]
03 Vjuan Allure: "Rude-Off 2013"
04 DJ Snake: "Bird Machine" [ft. Alesia] (Jingle Bells version)
05 Juyen Sebulba: "SuperJam (Deck the Halls)"
06 Astronomar: "Back to the Beat" (Jingle Bells version)
07 Kennedy Jones: "Came to Party on the Rooftop"
08 Mitch Murder : "Don't Let Me Spend Christmas Alone" [ft. Santell]


Autre Ne Veut & Fennesz: "Alive"

Brooklyn independent label Mexican Summer has been celebrating its five year anniversary in style, having already thrown a festival in honor of the milestone, the label will release a limited-release book titled Mexican Summer: Five Years, which features a collection of never before seen stories and pictures detailing the label's rise along with a 10" album of their artists. Included on the album is this gem from Autre Ne Veut & Fennesz, titled "Alive". It's a shimmering production piece with always inspired vocals from Pitchfork performer Ne Veut. Check out the track below and pick up a copy of the book/album for yourself here.

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[Album] Best Coast: "Fade Away"

California soul rockers Best Coast are back with their latest release, Fade Away, which hit Soundcloud today as a full album stream. The seemingly always happy duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno keep the upbeat pace on their latest release. Earlier this Fall they put out the lead single from the project,"I Don't Know How". Check out the full album, available below here:


[Album] Jay Dot Rain: "Memoirs of a Young Dreamer"

23-year-old Jay Dot Rain, who received a RubyHornet First Glance, has been making waves from the south for a minute now. Having garnered nods from the likes of Complex and DJBooth, the Alabama product keeps a steady hustle, constantly looking to up his game. Alabama is better known for football and pickup trucks than hip-hop music, but Jay Dot makes hip-hop heads from east to west take notice with a variety of flows that line up with the steady production from frequent collaborator BlockBeattaz, who produced the whole project. Memoirs of a Dreamer is certainly worth a listen. Check out the project below and keep it posted to RH for more on Jay Dot Rain soon.


[Album Stream] Pusha-T: "My Name Is My Name"

Pusha-T's My Name Is My Name has been widely talked about as one of the most anticipated hip-hop releases of 2013 and even sent Kanye into a ranting spiral at the listening party a couple of weeks ago. A stream recently became available. See what Kanye made such a fuss about below:

My Name Is My Name from Pusha T on Myspace.


[Album] Ghost Wave: "Ages"

for the New Zealand band. The album was recorded in the band's hometown of Auckland, New Zealand and harks back to an earlier day of more jam-infused rock music. Last week we posted the video for "Country Rider" one of the lead singles off of "Ages" check it out below as well as the full album, which is available for digital download here.

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[Album] The Procussions: "5 Sparrows for 2 Cents" Instrumentals

Hip-Hop heads rejoice! Today, several years after the cult-classic 5 Sparrows for 2 Cents by The Procussions was released, the group has decided to compile all the instrumentals from the album and give them to the fans who have been tirelessly requesting it. The single “Little People” is available for free download, but to get the whole thing you'll need to support the artists and cop it for 10 bones.