While the two skilful spitters shared the stage, they covered Kanye West and Jay Z’s track Otis from Hova and Yezzus’ 2011 collaborative album Watch The Throne. Now the rehearsal of recording of the cover has made its way online for your listening pleasure.

We’ve also included the riggy digg as well so you can compare the two and decide who does more justice to legendary Otis Redding.

During the same gig Haze performed her new single No Bueno, which is expected to be officially released soon. The single is from Haze’s debut album Dirty Gold due out later this year.

Listen: Angel Haze & Iggy Azealia – Otis (Jay-Z & Kanye West cover)

Watch: Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis

(via Rap-Up)

Whether you’re in an esoteric acid jazz outfit, a bedroom recording army, a post-hardcore group or anything in between, you’re eligible to enter. Melbourne Prize 2013 will be open to all musical sensibilities. Individuals or groups can put their hand up, or for that matter be nominated.

Those who apply will be considered to take out one of the four key categories. The main prize is a cheeky $60,000 awarded on behalf of The Vera Moore Foundation, The Tallis Foundation and the Melbourne Prize Trust. To qualify for this, the website states that your musical efforts must have made “an outstanding contribution to Australian music and has enriched cultural and public life”.

The next big prize would be the Outstanding Musicians Award, offering $30,000 to artists whose recent work is “representing an outstanding example of creativity and skill”. The winner will be handed a $2,500 credit to fly with QANTAS on top of that. After that, there will be a $13,000 Development Award, which is made up of $7,000 cash and a $6,000 Yamaha Music Australia grant, and finally the Civic Choice Award for 2013, offering up a cool $4000.

Once the panel of music industry figures and artists, including previous prize winners David Jones and Paul Grabowsky, have decided the shortlist, finalists will be announced Wednesday, 4th September. This will be followed by a showcase of these artists at Federation Square running from Friday, 8th November to Friday, 22nd November. The winners will be announced Tuesday, 19th November.

Head over to the website now to enter, or nominate someone you think is worthy. Remember…Gotta be in it to win it!

The new tracks are taken from the duo’s upcoming EP, also titled The Quack, due out Friday, 14th June. The EP will have plenty of impressive guests pitching in, including Action Bronson, Blood Diamonds, and D Mac, and will be released via the Skrillex owned label OWSLA.

Flume and Emoh offered up a few words on each track, giving an insight as to the intent of their latest output:

“The Quack is everything we love about this project. Create the strangest sound possible & turn it into an infectious rhythm. It’s a stomper with character, not your everyday 808 banger. It’s raw and real!

“High You Are was an experiment. We wanted to take the concept of groove based house & push it to the extreme. Something that could hold its own, against the biggest ‘EDM’ hit, without compromising the feel & soul. The power to make people move, not just fist pump.”

What So Not is currently on tour. You can check out the remaining dates below.

Listen: What So Not – The Quack

http://m.soundcloud.com/whatsonot/sets/the-quack-ep-club-dubs

Listen: What So Not – High You Are

http://m.soundcloud.com/whatsonot/high-you-are-wsn-club-dub

Friday, 24th May
Electric Circus, Adelaide

Saturday, 25th May
The Grand Hotel, Wollongong

Friday, 31st May
Speakeasy, Perth

Saturday, 1st June
Mona Vale Hotel, Mona Vale

Thursday, 6th June
Eureka Hotel, Geelong

Friday, 7th June
Star Bar, Bendigo

Saturday, 8th June
Goldfinch, Auckland NZ

Sunday, 9th June
Elsewhere, Gold Coast

Friday, 14th June
Can’t Say, Melbourne

Saturday, 15th June
Chinese Laundry, Sydney

Saturday, 22nd June
Playground, Sunshine Coast

Friday, 28th June
Oh Hello, Brisbane

Saturday, 29th June
Coopers Alehouse, Wallaroo

Saturday, 6th July
Flinders Social, Townsville

The Canadian progressive house DJ – or Joel Zimmerman to his ma – has given us snippets of his work with Kill The Noise under the name Killthemau5, dropping 3 clips over the last 3 days. Deadmau5 manages to combine his signature sound with Kill The Noise’s glitchy basslines pretty effortlessly, making for some pretty compelling teasing. There’s no definitive release date for the duo’s work but we’ll be keeping an eager ear out.

As for his work with celebrity tattooist and wife-to-be Kat Von D, there was a demo of a track called Satellite on the SoundCloud page but it appears to have been removed, so you’ll just have to take our word that it features a fairly down-tempo turn for Deadmau5 and some surprisingly non-grating vocals from Von D.

Beats Per Minute are reporting that a source sent them the photo below, which seems to contradict a few of the things we know about Yeezus already. For starters, there’s no sign of an appearance from 2 Chainz, who’s been flapping his yap about guesting on the album to anyone who will listen. There’s no credited appearances by other rumoured collaborators Azealia Banks, Skrillex or Daft Punk either. Track 7, Perfect, could be the much-discussed Perfect Bitch than K.Wizzle wrote for his lady, Kim Kardashian, and the rumoured I Am A God might be just called God.

Is this the real deal? Can the latest Yeezy album possibly live up to the hype? Will the Kanyaby be born and ignite the apocalypse before Yeezus can even be released? Guess we’ll find out come June.

Kanye West – Yeezus (Unconfirmed):

1. Awake With The Dark
2. New Slaves (Feat. Frank Ocean)
3. Lightning
4. Onsite (Feat. Travi$ Scott)
5. God (Interlude)
6. Chained (Feat. Jay Electronica, James Blake & Lonne Chia)
7. Perfect
8. Boxed Out (Feat. Chief Keef, RZA & Ma$e)
9. Black Skinhead
10. The Follower
11. Hyper Critical (Feat. Tyler, The Creator)
12. In The Heavens (Feat. John Legend)
13. Demon

The singer made a post on the band’s official page, stating that the break is only temporary:

“While Disturbed’s hiatus is in effect (and none of us truly know how long that will last), myself, Dan, Mike, and John will continue to update you on the goings on/projects from the Disturbed family. This hiatus has nothing to do with the projects each member of Disturbed is currently involved with. It has to do with stopping the assembly line type of machine the Disturbed leviathan had become, giving ourselves and the fans time away from it so that we can eventually reunite, with new inspiration and appreciation from both the band side, and the fan side. When we eventually reunite, and we will, it will be an event, and one that will have greater meaning for all of us.”

He also urged fans to support their side projects in the meantime, like his band Device, guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren’s Fight or Flight, and bassist John Moyer’s supergroup Adrenaline Mob:

“Bitterness at our individual projects is really quite misplaced. So please support Device, Fight Or Flight, and Adrenaline Mob as they are fruit born of this hiatus; we’re counting on all of you. We will continue to keep you all as involved as possible and update you as things progress.”

This isn’t the first time Draiman has confirmed that there’s light at the end of the Distubred hiatus tunnel. Our money’s on Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah working some of his magic and convincing the Chicagoans to head our way for the 2014 festival.

The broadcast was done through NPR, who filmed the guys playing in front of a sold-out crowd, performing brand new material as well as tapping into their back catalogue for some fan favourites, including No One Knows, Little Sister, and Feel Good Hit Of The Summer.

…Like Clockwork is the first new album from Queens in six years, and tour expectations are high with their last Australian visit at Soundwave 2011. The band are almost ruled out for a Soundwave 2014 appearance, with promoter AJ Maddah tweeting that they “had zero chance”. A run of Australian tour dates after our festival season seem to be more likely after triple j mag reporter revealed their tentative plans.

…Like Clockwork is expected to drop in Australia on Friday, 31st May.

Set List

Keep Your Eyes Peeled
You Think I Aint Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
Sick, Sick, Sick
First It Giveth
No One Knows
My God Is the Sun
I Sat By the Ocean
The Vampyre of Time and Memory
I Never Came
Kalopsia
If I Had a Tail
Turnin On the Screw
Burn the Witch
Make it Wit Chu
Smooth Sailing
Little Sister
I Think I Lost My Headache
Go With the Flow
I Appear Missing
…Like Clockwork
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
A Song for the Dead

“I don’t know what the fuss is about, you know what I mean?” the former Oasis and current Beady Eye frontman told Sony’s MU streaming service. “It’s like fuck off, give me a fucking break.” Ah, we’re glad he clarified that he was making a disparaging remark about the French duo – that was confusing. I mean, why would you keep releasing Beady Eye albums if you could secretly write killer electro-disco singles?

40-year-old King Liam didn’t stop there, having a crack at Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter‘s trademark helmets. “I am not going to have people wear disguises,” he said. “Take your fucking helmet off. Let’s see what you look like sans helmet, whatever you’re called.” You hear that, Daft Punk? Off. Now. Liam has spoken.

You know, it just occurred to us that reporting on this crapola is just like feeding a troll. Beady Eye’s sophomore album BE is due out 14th June and Gallagher has threatened to quit the music business if it doesn’t do well, so vote with your wallets, kids.

(via The Independent)

But don’t stress, Impalians – Parker is excited about other ways of getting music out there, with the singer telling Uncut:

“There’s something narrow-minded about thinking an album is the only way you can put out music, especially in the world we’re in at the moment. Anything is possible. There’s so many people doing interesting things with the internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.”

“It’s 2013 and you can make music anywhere. We’ve got laptops. I just recently caved in and bought an iPhone and I’ve been downloading all these musical apps and I can control my recording programme from my iPhone pad and that’s fucking blowing me away. There are so many possibilities, my brain is overloading on them all. I just need to wait, think about things a bit more. Then I’ll know what to do next.”

Phew. We look forward to both the future musical offerings from Mr Parker’s overloaded brain and the contributions from new bass player Cam Avery. Avery, better known as Pond‘s drummer, replaces Allbrook so he can spend more time being the frontman of, uh, Pond. We hear that’s just how they roll in Western Australia.

Photos: Tame Impala – Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane 8/05/2013

The show for tomorrow, Saturday, 25th May at the same venue is still scheduled to go ahead as planned. The venue has since tweeted about the update, encouraging people to rebook for tomorrow’s event and have given details about how to do so. Full refunds are available to those unable to make the change.

At age 69, it’s completely understandable that health issues may have arisen during the tour. Music Feeds wishes Bobby a speedy recovery. Read the full statement below and stay tuned for updates.

“We have just been advised due to health reasons, and as a precaution, Bobby Womack will not be performing tonight at 9pm.

We encourage all fans who are able to attend tomorrow’s performance to visitwww.sydneyoperahouse.com and book again. We sincerely regret any inconvenience caused”

Due to health reasons, Bobby Womack will not be performing at 9pm tonight. All tickets for tonight will be automatically refunded (1/2)

— Sydney Opera House (@SydOperaHouse) May 24, 2013

We encourage those able 2 attend tmrw’s show 2 visit bit.ly/164wMou & book again. We sincerely regret any inconvenience caused

— Sydney Opera House (@SydOperaHouse) May 24, 2013

Bobby Womack – Australian Tour Dates

Tuesday, 21st May
Hamer Hall, Melbourne

Friday, 24th May – CANCELLED
Vivid LIVE – Sydney Opera House

Saturday, 25th May
Vivid LIVE – Sydney Opera House