Category: News

Where the Pacific collides with California and breaks at the foot of Americas smog capital/culture factory, Alexander Spit (government name Alexander Manzano) thrives in a creative haze…

The latest episode “Red Handed” of ABC’s “Once Upon A Time” features the track “Settling In” by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings.

Born in Oil City and raised in York Pennsylvania/ Richmond, Virginia; schooled outside a holy roller high school; baptized a Mormon; shipped off for an ill-advised one day stint in the US Navy Military Jazz Band…

A Long Island/Brooklyn native, J57 brings styles upon styles to his unique brand of production.

Premiering at SXSW 2012, here is the Official Film Trailer for Charles Bradley’s upcoming documentary, “Charles Bradley: Soul of America”

Members of the Dap-Kings were called upon for Mark Ronson’s collaboration with Erykah Badu and Zigaboo Modeliste’s track “A La Modeliste”.

So éS Skateboarding, as a brand, is soon to be no more, but that didn’t prevent them from releasing one last promo for amateur rider Jimmy…

It’s been a long and happy year for us at Defend. We just wanted to run down a few of the highlights of 2011 for your reading/viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Although this performance wasn’t featured in the broadcast, VH1 was great enough to put it up some bonus performances on their website!

Here’s a nice mini-documentary of Daptone Records’ history.

The new video for “The Automatic Process” by Home Video. Taken from the new album, The Automatic Process.