Sage has tapped Oregon’s Sapient to rework “Dead Man’s Float” from his latest LP Copper Gone. Sapient will be joining Sage on his OR shows this week.

From the Sage Francis Copper Gone album, available now.

It’s been four years since we’ve heard an album from Sage Francis, with 2010′s Li(f)e for indie rock imprint Epitaph. The album fused Sage’s heavy poetics with live instrumentation, including collaborations with members of Death Cab For Cutie and French composer Yann Tierson, among other standout moments. Between that and being an album with a [cont.]

From the album, Copper Gone, available now.

On this episode of Mista Montana and Menace’s UK based show, Conspiracy Worldwide Radio, they speak with Forbes’ senior editor Zack O’ Malley Greenburg about the secret Wu-Tang album, as well as segments with The Roots, Dice Raw, Sage Francis, Murs, Dillon Cooper, M-Eighty, Vanderslice, and more. Five hours.

When Sage Francis accepted to do this press conference, he didn’t realize he’d be asked the same few questions that flood his social media every day. Over 60 shows are booked for 2014 in support of “Copper Gone”, but it was astonishing for people to learn that the only reason he’s not playing certain territories [cont.]

From Sage Francis’ new album, Copper Gone, hitting June 3rd. This live version was recorded during SXSW 2014 at Daytrotter’s studio: “We knew what Sage Francis was going to do to us when he came by the studio in Austin a month ago. We knew he was going to destroy us. We just didn’t know [cont.]

Not sure how we missed this earlier in the month, but here is the first single from Sage Francis’ upcoming Copper Gone LP, which hits June 3rd, and will feature collaborations with Buck 65, Alias, Reanimator, and Cecil Otter. Preorder packages are up now at StrangeFamousRecords.Com.

“BLUE” is off of the SICK TO D(EAT)H mixtape, available now. Sage Francis’ upcoming album “Copper Gone” drops on June 3, 2014 via Strange Famous Records. “BLUE” was written and performed by Sage Francis. Music produced by Reanimator. Scratches by Buddy Peace. Video directed & edited by Jay Brown. “Among many things, this song and [cont.]

“BLUE” is the second leak from Sage Francis’ SICK TO D(EAT)H mixtape which drops on Dec 12 exclusively at StrangeFamousRecords.com. Beat produced by Reanimator. Scratches by Buddy Peace. Single artwork image by Trait Cross. You can read more about the mixtape in depth, here.

SICK TO D(EAT)H, the newest edition to Sage Francis’ Sick Of… mixtape series drops on Dec 12, 2013 exclusively at StrangeFamousRecords.com. The Epic Beard Men are back to help usher in this 75 minute compilation of rare recordings, remixes, demos and brand new songs. Sick to D(eat)h is available on MP3, CD and cassette. It [cont.]

Minnesota’s NO BIRD SING has signed to Strange Famous Records. “Don’t Think” (feat. SAGE FRANCIS) is the first single from their upcoming album Definition Sickness dropping on Nov 12. Pre-sale package deals available now at: tinyurl.com/DefinitionSickness

ZERO DEMO is a previously unheard version of “I Was Zero” off of Sage Francis’ LI(F)E album (www.tinyurl.com/SageLife.) As you’ll notice, it ended up being completely re-arranged and reworked by the time it was released in 2010. On this version you will hear the original beat that Buck 65 produced for it as well as [cont.]

Aupheus (UK, Strange Famous Records) provides his signature “doom-bap” touch on this mix of hip-hop songs released from ’85 to ’88. Some of these tracks are classics, others are more obscure, but all were all chosen by Aupheus due to their sparse production style which allowed him to layer additional soundscapes and give them a [cont.]

Sage Francis writes: As it is World AIDS Days and I have thought about these children every single day since being acquainted with them almost two years ago, I decided that I can no longer sit on this song. In January of 2011 I visited Durban, South Africa to help mentor and provide care for [cont.]

Sage Francis tells us “A gift from SFR to you. Thanks for all the support! This FREE 36 minute mix by UK producer Theory 77 features his remixes of Sage Francis, B. Dolan, Sleep and Metermaids songs. He also lays down a verse of his own amidst a sound collage that is peppered with turntablism, [cont.]

“HOUSE OF BEES VOL. 2″ drops June 12th Dummies.

Sage Francis writes: I didn’t have access to beats in 1989, so for this “Mother’s Day Rap” I used two tape decks to loop the open section of a De La Soul song. A segment of this old recording appears on my “Personal Journals” album and now that we’re celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of [cont.]

Heh, Sage re-records some new vocals for an old demo he released when he was a teenager. “Lost Loves” is a song that literally took 20 years to complete. The first half was recording in 1991 and the other half was recorded in 2011. Thanks to Sage Francis being a pack-rat since an early age, [cont.]

B. DOLAN’s “FILM THE POLICE” pays tribute to N.W.A.’s infamous “F*ck the Police,” serving as a call to action for the digitized media movement while responding to the recent explosion of police brutality all across the world. This free MP3, courtesy of STRANGE FAMOUS RECORDS, features a reconstruction of Dr. Dre’s original beat, brilliantly reanimated [cont.]