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1) Would You Believe Me - Jon Lucien
2) White Christmas - The Drifters

3) Whussup world - Dudley Perkins

4) Stomp Box - The Qemists

5) Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Earlier on in the week I blogged Speech Debelle speaking on the take that incident where she drunkenly rapped one of their songs.

This is the video of the actual incident.

WTF Speech. Come on luv!

James Corden was only being honest too, this is a major par for you Speech.

A perfect way to start your weekend with TOTR and rare groove friday!

Benny Golson - I´m Always Dancing To The Music

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Someone get me a ticket PLEASE!

To see the entire list of bands playing at SXSW 2010 click here.

For those who are not familiar with the one they call Ghostpoet get familiar.

His alternative take on Hip Hop is a breath of fresh air to the UK scene. With his unique flow and experimental beats it’s not hard to see why we highly recommend him.

Ghostpoet recently featured on the Kweschu mixtape alongside the likes of The XX, DELS and The Invisible to name but a few. You can download that mixtape from Ghospoet’s myspace so do check it out.

Ghostpoet is also featuring on the TOTR compilation album which is being released next week.

To keep up to date with Ghostpoet follow him on Twitter  or add him on Myspace .

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian and American readers.

Eat, drink and be merry!

Rare Groove lovers STAND UP!!

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Speech Debelle, who won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize earlier this year for her album ‘Speech Therapy’, has sacked her record label, Big Dada.

To read the full story click here.

I also interviewed Speech back in the summer for Hot110, if you havent seen it please watch below.

TOTR recommendation Rox appeared on Jools Holland the other day. She performed our favourite ‘My baby left me’. If you are unaware of Rox please get to know, currently signed to Rough Trade  and with an album pending she is going to blow in 2010.

‘memba, I told you!!’

The Carhartt have hooked up with Vestax to bring us the Handy Trax USB Turntable. It has a tough plastic casing and the capability to operate at angles of up to 90 degrees. You can hook it up to your hi-fi system at home or you can connect your MP3 player to it with a mini line-in jack. You can even transform your vinyl into binary code via a newly integrated USB port.

The turntable will be released mid-December.