The co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors dies at 74.

According to The Doors’ Facebook page, Manzarek died earlier today after a lengthy battle with bile cancer.

Manzarek is best known for his time with The Doors, a band he founded with Jim Morrison after a chance encounter in 1965. The Doors were one of the most controversial bands of the psychedelic era until Morrison’s death in 1971, with Manzarek’s signature sound provided by a Fender Rhodes piano and the Vox Continental combo organ.

After The Doors, Manzarek continued performing as a solo artist, with Nite City, and, beginning in 2002, with Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger. In lieu of flowers, his family is asking that donations be made to Standup 2 Cancer.

The first lady of Three Six Mafia returns.

It’s finally here, Gangsta Boo‘s It’s Game Involved has been hinted at for what seems like a decade but now it’s landed and what’s more it’s pretty darn good. Mostly produced by Drumma Boy, It’s Game Involved features a number of guest spots from Spaceghostpurrp‘s Raider Klan, which should give rap backpackers a wry grin. It’s no secret that Purrp’s crew have fetishized Triple Six since day one, so hearing them sharing tracks is pretty much a mach made in heaven.

Elsewhere there are guest spots from Bun B, Young Turk and Big K.R.I.T. but It’s Game Involved is about Gangsta Boo and it’s damn good to have her back.

Get your earplugs ready.

Last year’s full-length The Seer was a brilliant and succinct culmination of the Swans catalogue to date, and stood as one of the finest albums of 2013. It’s only right then that the album should get a proper tour, and Michael Gira’s boys are due to traipse through the US and Europe from now until the end of the summer.

For those Swans fans who want to see something a little different, Sacred Bones’ Pharmakon will be supporting the band on their Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio and Buffalo, New York dates bringing her particular brand of gruesome, overdriven noise to the party. [via Pitchfork]

05-20 Zagreb, Croatia – Pogon JEedinstvo
05-21 Parma, Italy – Campus Industry Music
05-22 Geneva, Switzerland – L’usinie
05-23 Schorndorf, Germany – Club Manufaktur
05-24 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Festival
05-25 Paris, France – La Grande Halle de la Villette
05-27 Frankfurt, Germany – Mousonturm
05-28 Berlin, Germany – Volksbühne
05-29 Dresden, Germany – Beatpol
05-30 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk
05-31 Porto, Portugal – Optimus Primavera Sound
06-13 Brooklyn, NY – Northside Music Festival (Warsaw)
06-14 Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater
06-16 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo
06-19 Calgary, Alberta- Sled Island Festival
06-22 Hlvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret Festival
06-23 Clisson, France – Hell Fest
07-18 Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe at Olde National Centre
07-19 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
07-20 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
07-22 Iowa City, IA – Blue Moose Tap House
07-23 Newport, KY – Southgate House
07-24 Columbus, OH – The Bluestone
07-25 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
07-26 Buffalo, NY – Tralf Music Hall
08-13 Edinburgh, Scotland – Liquid Room
08-14 Belfast, Northern Ireland – Limelight
08-15 Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
08-16 Cork, Ireland – Cyprus Avenue
08-18 Wales, England – Green Man Festival

Listen to what is likely the last teaser before The-Dream’s IV Play is finally released.

A week after the release of Kelly Rowland’s The-Dream-produced ‘Dirty Laundry’, the former Destiny’s Child member returns the favor by appearing on the R&B mastermind’s ‘Where Have You Been’.

Over one of The-Dream’s most powerful basslines, Mr. Nash and Ms. Rowland trade verses about a doomed relationship; stream the song below. IV Play is due out on May 28 via Def Jam and features guest spots by Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Pusha T, 2 Chainz, Big Sean, Fabolous, and Gary Clark Jr.

Collaborative effort Saab Stories is due out in early June.

Directed Jason Goldwatch, the video for ‘Strictly 4 My Jeeps’ finds the Queens Ghostface aficionado lifting weights, doing cartwheels, hanging out with rap-absurdist RiFF RaFF, and undertaking some impressive culinary challenges (all in the company of some BBW models).

The song, which first premiered back in February, is the first single from Saab Stories, which will be produced by FACT producer to watch Harry Fraud. As Bronson tweets, the album will be out in Early June “10000000% no matter what.”

Harry Fraud recently released his High Tide EP and his Adrift mixtape, both of which featured Action Bronson, and the pair collaborated on 2012 stand-out ‘Bird On A Wire’.

Haven’t heard of Nommos before? You’re in for a treat.

Craig Leon will always be best known as a producer to the stars. The man has lent his technical knowledge to a host of high profile bands and artists, from the Ramones, The Talking Heads, Blondie and Suicide in the 1970s and 80s to his more recent classical work with Luciano Pavarotti, The London Symphony Orchestra and flautist James Galway. It is however, a lesser known album from 1981, released on John Fahey’s hallowed Takoma imprint that stands as his most unique contribution to music. An electronic record made at a time when the sounds were still in their infancy, Leon took the post-punk sound he helped to forge and stripped into a skeletal, pulsing hum replacing any sense of pop with off-key drones, reverberating rhythms and pulsating synthesizers.

Nommos will be re-issued by the Superior Viaduct label on June 25 and it’s beyond overdue. The album received a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ bootleg pressing not so long ago, but Superior Viaduct are pulling out all the stops to make sure theirs is the version to grab, with the edition remastered from the original analog tapes.

According to Julian Cope’s Head Heritage Nommos is the ”missing link between the proto-industrial rhythm and drone of Suicide and the whole minimalist drone / static / repetition method of Terry Riley and La Monte Young.” – we couldn’t agree more. [via Ad Hoc]

Who said being locked up meant that you couldn’t make tracks?

He might still be in jail for a recent parole violation, but Atlanta street rapper Young Scooter still has still managed to get the word out on new mixtape Street Lottery 2 by writing his fans a number of postcards. Here he confirms a release date of July 4 for the tape, and went on to shoutout a long list of crew, supporters and his fans who have supported him while incarcerated. Scooter also promises that the mixtape will contain features from Cam’Ron, Rick Ross, Future, Gucci Mane, Birdman and plenty more. You can take a look at the postcards below.

This isn’t all either, the ‘Columbia’ rapper managed to record brand new track ‘I Wonder’ with the use of a handy payphone. Produced by Gucci-affiliate Zaytoven, the track’s sparse, grimey energy is set off perfectly by Scooter’s lo-fi phone-recorded raps. It probably shouldn’t work at all, but somehow Scooter manages to rock that phone receiver like a boss. You can stream and download it here. [via Atrilli]

The long-awaited Jellyfish Mentality is due out on Friday.

First announced in November, the free album is the third effort from Jet Age of Tomorrow, following 2010 debut Voyager and 2011′s increasingly-psychedlic Journey To The 5th Echelon. The Odd Future-affiliated group is comprised of The Internet’s Matt Martians and Hal ‘Pyramid Vritra’ Williams.

As promised, the 21-track album features plenty of Odd Future members and associates, including Earl Sweatshirt, Hodgy Beats, Mike G, Domo Genesis, Vince Staples, and Casey Veggies. Kilo Kish, Mac Miller, Jesse Boykins III, and The Step-kids also appear, and interlude ‘Panic on Pluto’ is co-produced with SBTRKT.

Listen to menacing, two-part single ‘ON!’ below; the Jellyfish Mentality tracklist follows. [via Pitchfork]

01 Mushy
02 Special K (Wombats)
03 Warping Walls
04 Desert N’ The Dark (JAOT Dub) [ft. the Stepkids]
05 ON!
06 Juney Jones [ft. Mac Miller and Speak]
07 Panic on Pluto (interlude) [produced by SBTRKT and Matt Martians]
08 Not So Scary ft Kilo Kish
09 Love in Water
10 Lily Pads
11 A Place Where Lovers Go [ft. Jesse Boykins III]
12 Machines Machines (interlude)
13 One Take [ft Earl Sweatshirt and Casey Veggies]
14 SuperFINE
15 The Door’s Door
16 Asia [ft Mike G]
17 Squares
18 Wonderful World [ft. Domo Genesis and Vince Staples]
19 Naked [ft. Hodgy Beats]
20 Airport (interlude)
21 Telephones

London-based synth artist Mike Norris takes on the Tri Angle dreamer.

The title track of Holy Other’s debut Tri Angle LP, ‘Held’ is languid, bright, and prototypical of Holy Other’s spaced-out compositions. Tour-mate Fort Romeau has infused the track with a house beat that turned the gossamer original into something danceable. It is the polar opposite of Tim Hecker’s filter-heavy remix of the song, but just as enjoyable.

Stream the remix, or download the mastered, 16bit WAV, below. Holy Other is currently on tour with Mount Kimbie, and Held was one of FACT’s best-reviewed albums of 2012. [via Gorilla vs. Bear]