The HighLife

F-R-E-E-S-T-Y-L-E

Officially the most BADASS animated - and arguably real-life progressive hip hop group: GORILLAZ.

Their new single music video, Stylo, features none other than BRUCE WILLIS! Can you get anymore badass than that!?

Cop their new album Plastic Beach (info under the video)

The Freshest Banana in top underground scenes and prime public events has taken it national! Coast to Shining Coast, Fresh Events has gone bi-coastal so keep up and dig in!

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In case you hadn't noticed, it's been ladies week all week on THL.  We hope you've enjoyed it, maybe even discovered something new.  So to close out the week, let's kick off the weekend with a couple of old school sets from one of my favorite DJs anywhere, DJ Sodie.  Here is a great Break mixset plus a solid mix of Drum and Bass from the multi-talented DJ, singer, pianist, and photographer, to get you jumping into Friday night.

Break -  Fragment31

DnB -  PendulumOwns2



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Three things.  First, if you've been following all week, we hope you dig!  Second, thanks to all the featured ladies for being so talented!  Third, Rock it out this weekend! We will!

The Naked Heroes & Bodega Girls 2/24 from Bodega Girls

Your local dance party purveyors Bodega Girls
with special guest The Naked Heroes (NYC)
Dance Party Tonight!!! (02.24.10)
@ Middlesex Lounge
Cambridge, MA

Bitter:Sweet with De-Phazz in between. All-purpose music.

Adam Gibbons (Uhuru Afrika) put me on to a really awesome website recently, called AwesomeTapesfromAfrica (ATfA).  Literally an awesome collection of tapes made and found all over Africa, and compiled on to one website for your listening pleasure.  On there I came across Snr. Eddie Donkor's Eye Banker, which the author describes as "Perfect Ghanaian highlife from a legendary guitarist-bandleader. This is the best highlife album in my life right now. Synths and brotherly advice about money, women and gossip. Exactly."  You'll find the whole album and more on ATfA, but you can get started with the first two tracks from the album here.  Enjoy.

 Snr Eddie Donkor - Eye Banker
Snr Eddie Donkor - Kwaku Anase

Nneka - Heartbeat

Courtesy of DJ/Producer Ryan Durkin (aka Captain Durk) by way of OnAFriday.com comes a hot blend of tracks to help take your mind off the cold weather for a bit.   Those that had the benefit of catching Do It Again (arguably the best Boston Sunday night dance party ever) before it closed are probably halfway through the download already... Umm, what are you waiting on?

Download: Ryan Durkin - Any Given Friday

The Roots -  How I Got over