Manny Pacquiao will allegedly fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. on March 13th in the biggest fight of this generation.  The fight has yet to be officially announced, though reports are rampant that everything is settled and that they are now just looking for a location for the fight (The rumors have been swirling for about a month or so…we first reported about this fight on the site a month ago HERE).

Via Ihiphop

The first single off of street-meets-dork rapper Jern Eye's sophomore effort, Get Down. Whatchu think? High energy enough for ya?

BUSSIGNY, Switzerland — A Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen's decision to ban minarets has extended a chimney above his company building into a minaret in protest.

"It was scandalous that the Swiss voted for the ban. Now we have the support of all the far-right parties across Europe. This is shameful," Guillaume Morand, who owns a chain of shoe stores, told AFP.

The businessman, who is not a Muslim, explained that the he had constructed the mock minaret at his building near western Switzerland's city of Lausanne in protest, and at the same time, to "send a message of peace."

More than 57 percent of voters upset opinion polls and defied their government by approving the right wing motion to ban minarets -- the turrets or towers on mosques from which Muslims are called to prayer.

Story & Photo via AFP

I've seen this floating around the FDL, and definitely wanted to post it so the Detroit market can get a taste of this dubstep/hip-hop madness. This is Bassnectar and Glitch Mob smoking magical crack on a hilltop overlooking Trench Town. Deerhoof joins in on the weirdness. OMG. Download the free album right here.

For all of you who can't stop shining your Negative Approach vinyl and attempting to guess John Brannon's phone number, we've got your Thursday night solution — a double dose of Suicide Machines. Yes, Jay Navarro is leaving his 12 kids at home and stitching up his Hellmouth to reclaim his throne on top of Detroit's skate punk (seriously still see that dude shredding the bowl in Berkley at the cool age of old). Benefiting the Green Scare Legal Defense, the Suicide Machines will be performing an all ages show at the Trumbullplex (9:30PM) followed by a midnight performance at the Old Miami. Which one will you break your nose at?

After a brief debate over how to properly convert Fahrenheit into Celsius, Nouvelle Vague’s Olivier Libaux begins describing the view from his hotel in Philadelphia. “For a French Guy, Philadelphia is a typical American city,” he laughs through his thick French accent. “We spent a day rehearsing in New York … and now we are getting ready to play our first show in Philadelphia.” Nouvelle Vague, as you might’ve guessed, is about as French as any one band could be. Their name itself means “new wave,” the perfect title for what they do — turn American new wave classics (New Order’s “Blue Monday;” the Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen In Love;” Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”) into barely-above-acoustic bossanova covers that truly take on a life of their own. Libaux, along with Nouvelle Vague founder Marc Collin, use a mixture of musicians and (mostly female) singers to bring their covers alive. The results are often simplified cuts of haunting beauty (Echo & the Bunnymen’s “Killing Moon”) or sexualized, cabaret-esque splendor (Dead Kennedys’ “Too Drunk To Fuck”). On their third release, the aptly titled 3, vocal cameos from Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore and The Specials’ Terry Hall result in surreal re-imaginations of the original recordings.

Frank151’s Detroit Demolition recently had the pleasure of speaking with Libaux about the pleasures of touring in America, the unlikely romance Libaux discovered on his first trip to the states and the group’s infallible passion for new wave classics that keeps them from composing (read: releasing) original material. This Thursday, Nouvelle Vague will be performing for their first time in the Detroit-area at the Crofoot (for tickets and information, click here). The Q&A is featured after the jump.

Brooklyn filmmaker Dana Bartle is working on a documentary about J Dilla's mother Maureen Yancey (AKA Ma Dukes) entitled Raise It Up For Ma Dukes.

As our readers know, in 2006 celebrated hip-hop producer J DIlla died from Lupus. Without health insurance, his mother Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey mortgaged her home and life savings to help save her beloved son. In 2008 she lost her home, and learned that her son's estate would be turned over to the government due to the overwhelming debt brought on by his disease. Today Ma Dukes is not only fighting for her son's estate, she is also fighting the same disease that took her son. Raise it up for Ma Dukes will explore this fight, and serve to inform the world of Ma Dukes' cause. Unfortunately, Raise It Up For Ma Dukes is not yet complete. The film is in need of funds to assure completion.

A couple of weeks back, Frank's New York Kings were a part of the annual Donuts Are Forever event in Brooklyn. The crew Raise It Up For Ma Dukes was there to shoot, and build a chapter in their quest to get their film made. Check out the website Raiseitupformadukes.com to learn how you can contribute to the completion of this film. See pictures taken at their shoot/Donuts Are Forever after the jump.

As Matthew Dear, Dear clicks and croons with the best of the indie upper class. As Audion, Dear devours your senses in blinding visuals and eruptive digi-beat insanity that shakes the disco ball as quickly as it provides the most chilling, fast-paced slasher movie soundtrack (usually what happens when you bring Audion's art director Will Calcutt and artist Eno Henze together). On Audion's upcoming North American tour dates, "Hecatomb" will be the flashing flavor of the night — an abstract, swirling strobe strip down that finds Audion at his musically most aggressive. A video of a "Hecatomb" performance in London as well as his North American stops after the jump.

Click here to read more...

GO TO POST