Raphael Saadiq also toured across Europe last summer and made a stop at the Stockholm Jazz Festival for a high energy, soulful performance.  Here’s a 30 min soundboard recording of his set for your listening pleasure.

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Santigold toured across Europe last summer and made a stop at Arvikafestivalen.  Despite the name of the festival being difficult to pronounce, she put on a hell of a show backed by her band.  Here’s 30 minutes of her set, enjoy.

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Black Thought has been considered by many to be among the best emcees of all time, but after his incredible ‘freestyles’ on the Shade 45 Dilla tribute recently, many hip-hop heads bowed down and gave him the crown as THE greatest.  Even Q-Tip was at a loss for words when it came his time to grab the mic.  While this has been floating around the net for a bit, here’s our exclusive mix of the session, with some of the levels raised (including bass) and mastered properly.  I edited out Tony Toca (sorry pal) and everything flows perfectly.  Enjoy raw emceeing at its finest over Dilla beats.

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BluRoc held their label showcase at The Gramercy earlier this week, which featured their roster of artists including Curren$y, Ski Beatz, The London Souls and more.  BluRoc is the vision of Dame Dash and the creativity thats been going on at DD172 (aka The Dojo).  Ski Beatz performed with a small band (featuring Brady Watts on bass and Daru Jones on drums) and brought out a few guests from his upcoming 24 Hour Karate School project including Tabi Bonney, Rugz D Bewler and Stalley.  While the set was very brief, Stalley stole the show with his song “S.T.A.LL.E.Y.” that Ski produced.  24H Karate School drops March 30th.

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In celebration of his upcoming album release on April 27th, B.o.B held a live concert exclusively for the Internet, which he streamed to the world on his ustream channel lat night.  As many as 6,000 fans tuned in to watch the live show and Bobby Ray did not disappoint the large web crowd.  He ran through cuts with his DJ to start things off, then brought out his band, The Eastsiders, and the energy really picked up.  He even played songs from his latest mixtape, “May 25th”, for the first time live and everything sounded fantastic.  Check out the archived video stream of the show below and download the full audio rip while you’re at it.

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One of the best shows I attended last year was Tanya Morgan @ SOB’s backed by the live band featuring members of The Cypher, led by Daru Jones on drums (he’s a beast if you’re sleeping).  Hearing cuts from Brooklynatti get the live band treatment was truly special and there’s no musicians for the job than the band assembled.  Tanya Morgan really stepped into their own last year and earned a slot in our Top 10 of 2009.  Here’s our exclusive live audio of “Alleye Need”, “On Our Way” and “So Damn Down” live from the SOB’s show.

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