After much hype, the Watch The Throne tour finally kicked off last weekend as Jay-Z and Kanye West rocked stages in Atlanta and Greensboro.  Luckily for us, a recording has already surfaced from the Greensboro show.  Here is the complete show for download (setlist is below).  Enjoy and be sure to get your tickets for when the show comes to your city.

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Kanye West took the stage at Festival Mawazine in Morocco a couple days ago to perform for over 100,000 fans in Rabat, the capital of Morocco.  Luckily for us, the concert was also broadcasted, so we’re treated to a full audio and video rip of the show.  The set was nearly identical to his Coachella performance, and after the jump you can stream or download the whole set.

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Kanye West closed out Coachella last night as the headlining act and put on a solid show.  I’d love to see him with his full band set up again, but he did not disappoint.  Here is a video download/stream below in case you missed it, as well as our re-mastered soundboard audio of the epic set.

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Lupe Fiasco performed alongside the Robert Glasper Experiment for 4 amazing shows at The Blue Note this weekend.  We were in the building for the final two shows and were treated to an impromptu cypher session between Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def and Kanye West.  The trio freestyled, spit new verses, classic verses and then Mos did fantastic renditions of Umi Says and Black Radio, all backed by the incredible Robert Glasper Experiment.  It was truly epic and the intimate venue made the performance even more special.  ATWL is proud to exclusively present the entire 30 minute cypher session.  More audio of Lupe’s set will be posted soon, so stay tuned for more treats.

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2010 was another great year for music and as the new year approaches, its time to look back at the best albums to come out in 2010.  As with last year, since the focus of this site is live music and we’re discussing studio albums, we will provide a new live song from each artist who made our list.

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Common hosted a benefit concert in Los Angeles this weekend with an all-star line up featuring tons of incredible special guests.  This was like an unofficial sequel to Dave Chappelle’s Block Party as the line-up of artists was boasted by Common, The Roots, De La Soul, Ludacris, Nas, Kanye West, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, MF Doom, Queen Latifah, Heavy D and more.  If that wasn’t good enough, a mixture of The Roots and Common’s band backed everyone throughout the night.  Our newest addition to the staff, AudioMuse, was in the building to record the event exclusively for ATWL.  You’ll be hearing a lot more from her in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, check out more than a dozen of our exclusive recordings from this incredible event, as well as some video footage from the evening.

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