Shabazz Palaces has dropped a new song, titled "Woke Up In A Dream," which features Lil Tracy. Those who have studied their rap family trees will know Tracy is the son of Ishmael Butler, a.k.a. the ...

Shabazz Palaces are releasing two new albums next week (7/14) via Sub Pop, Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star and Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines. The group are calling the albums “extra-spatial twins, ...

Hearing the upcoming Shabazz Palaces album, Lese Majesty, in the Pacific Science Center’s Laser Dome over the weekend, we concluded upon first listen that it is the future of hiphop. There was no need ...

Shabazz Palaces played Neumos on Jan. 8.The moment Shabazz Palaces and partner Baba Maraire chugged onstage like a pair of slow-moving train gears, Neumos filled with what Don DeLillo might’ve called ...

First of all, how much can one write about Central District experimental hiphop group Shabazz Palaces? Not nearly enough, para mi. Readers of this blog might remember these Shabazz-related posts, all ...

“People will speak in definite terms about the different places we get our influences from—like they’ll mention artists or a certain type of genre, but it’ll always be some shit we never heard! We don ...

Broadcasting live from the land of legal weed and sliding into the frame like a giant Pacific octopus, here comes Lese Majesty, the third album from Seattle's Shabazz Palaces. It's definitely hip-hop, ...

The earthlings of Detroit are in for a treat Thursday, in the form of experimental hip-hop group Shabazz Palaces. Fresh off the release of two sci-fi concept albums, the Seattle duo is bringing their ...