Goapele - live on Saturday, April 2nd. 9pm performance

Oakland songstress Goapele will be performing live at The Shrine on Saturday, April 2nd. She will be backed by the amazing band "Verzatile". Come experience some smooth, west coast soul in Goapele!

Doors open @ 8pm!

Performance @ 9pm.

Buy tickets - www.clubtix.net/theshrine

Goapele: Milk & Honey from goapele on Vimeo.

Goapele: Milk & Honey Interview from goapele on Vimeo.

Jaylib - Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)

From the Madlib Medicine Show #11: Low Budget High Fi Music here is a track from Madlib & J Dilla from their never-realized second album.

Jaylib was formed in 2002 as Madlib & Dilla recorded separately in Los Angeles and Detroit. Their one album, Champion Sound, was released in 2003. When J Dilla moved to Los Angeles, he, Madlib and J Rocc began doing shows together as Jaylib, performing together for the first time at the Madvillain record release party in April 2004.

Madlib and Dilla collaborated primarily through the exchange of beat tapes, occasionally reworking each others material, or chopping the same beat in a kind of recorded call-and-response.

Download MP3 Jaylib - Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)


Jaylib - Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme) by stonesthrow

Tabi Bonney’s Postcard From Abroad Mixtape

This is a really cool mixtape presented by LRG & Tabi Bonney. One funny thing about LRG & Tabi is that Tabi probably wouldn't be caught dead wearing LRG, but alas listen to the music.
Download: Tabi Bonney, Postcard From Abroad

Mistah F.A.B. - Boom Bap

Music video for Mistah Fab's "Boom Bap"
Directed by Aris Jerome

Murs – Varsity Blues 2 (Produced by Aesop Rock)

This is the best hip-hop song of 2011 (so far). It's produced by Aesop Rock, and is the first leak from Murs’ upcoming project Varsity Blues 2. The song is much darker than anything we've recently come to expect from Murs, and darker themes may seem to be his strong suit in the future. With leaks like this we can see that Murs is only getting better with time. This album serves as the sequel EP to his previous Varsity Blues project that dropped back in 2002.

Murs – Varsity Blues 2 (Produced by Aesop Rock) by Hypetrak

BILAL - live at The Shrine, on Saturday March 5th 8pm

Greetings family,

Philadelphia's own Bilal will be LIVE in concert at The Shrine on Saturday, March 5th. This is an early show, doors open @ 8pm...performance starts at 9pm.

Check out of the promo video by DJ 33 1/3rd:

BILAL PROMO VIDEO (The Shrine) from The Shrine on Vimeo.

BILAL brings his live band to the windy city for a classic and rare performance by the Soulquarian.

Buy early tickets @ discount admission before anyone else!
clubtix.net/theshrine

BILAL - SOMETIMES - Live In San Jose from DLLD on Vimeo.

jamiroquai - lifeline video

Jamiroquai - Amazing new video "Lifeline" Taken from the album, 'Rock Dust Light Star'.

Is there a BETTER live act going right now than these guys?

p.s.

special message from Jay Kay of Jamiroquai.

Gucci Mane's new tattoo

1/26/11 - Birthday Party for Joe & LO music by GREYBOY + Josh DeeP

We at The Shrine welcome you to the EXCLUSIVE Birthday Affair for LO & Joe Russo. This party will NOT stop, we guarantee! The DJ's are GREYBOY & Josh Deep!

2109 S. Wabash Chicago IL 60616 (Valet Available)
Red line to Cermak.

21+

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Kanye West creates an interesting watch

From the "We hope this is a hoax" files comes info on timepiece by TIRET made exclusively for Kanye West. The expensive piece of jewelry, which costed about $180,000, is 18k gold with over 8 karats of yellow, black, brown and white diamonds, which were cut and placed to form an image of Kanye West.

According to The Luxist it took Tiret over five months to create the dial itself.

Last month, R&B singer Usher commissioned Tiret to make a one-of-a-kind watch with his own image on it as well, at a price tag of around $250,000.

Talib Kweli live @ The Shrine on Friday, Feb. 4th, 2011

The BKMC Talib Kweli invades Chicago with a live performance @ The Shrine!

Buy your tickets now at www.clubtix.net/theshrine

Talib Kweli live @ The Shrine on Friday, Feb. 4th, 2011 *TEASER* from The Shrine on Vimeo.

Talib Kweli 'Hot Thing' Music video from Ali Batten on Vimeo.

Talib Kweli at Okay Africa from Mackler Studios on Vimeo.

Marsha Ambrosius - Far Away (VIDEO)

Official video for Far Away from Marsha Ambrosius debate solo album "Late Nights Early Mornings"