Sage Ichats with UK’s Zane Lowe about the creation of his track, “The Best Of Times”, from the forthcoming Li(f)e LP, in stores this May.

Sage delivers another track from L(i)fe, dropping May 11th, produced by Amelie composer Yann Tiersen. Sage speaks on the track: Yann Tiersen is my favorite modern composer. Has been for years. In fact, Amélie (the film he did the soundtrack for) is one of the first movies my girlfriend and I watched together. There’s a [cont.]

Fresh off his appearance at SXSW Sage Francis hits us with a new track off his upcoming album LI(F)E. The new album hits stores May 11th. Sage Francis – “Slow Man’” (MP3)

With such an abundant amount of video surfacing from this week’s festival, we’ve decided to take some of the performances highlights and roll them all up into one post. Check back here regularly for updates over the next week. Pharoah Monch @ SXSW Duck Down Showcase from AB on Vimeo. Black Milk w/ AB & [cont.]

Taken from Dolan’s recently released Fallen House, Sunken City LP on Strange Famous Records. In other news, Sage Francis’s “L(i)fe” is up for pre-order now at his website, with several different preorder packages available.

As seen on StrangeFamous.Com: The new album Li(f)e by hip hop iconoclast Sage Francis is an impassioned and timely critique of cultural hypocrisy and organized religion. The record’s cover art has been created by renowned artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey who first gained notoriety with his “André the Giant” street art and later with his [cont.]

     “Irony is dead / It’s so motherfucking dead / I was there by it’s death bed / and the last words that he said / were whiiiiiite boooooy,” reads a lyric on Sage Francis’ new LP, Human The Death Dance. The irony that Sage speaks of is indeed dead, that being the fact that [cont.]

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. 2005 was poised as the year of underground Hip Hop. It was penciled in, and practically every indie rapper under the sun stood in the green room, anxiously clutching their crossover albums in one hand, backpack straps in the other. Years of “next rap explosion” were set to [cont.]

 The enigmatic Sage Francis returns, following his critically acclaimed solo debut album, Personal Journals, and its unofficial sequel that came in the form of Non-Prophets’ Hope, along with Joe Beats and DJ Mek. Now on punk label, Epitaph, Sage brings A Healthy Distrust, his official sophomore solo album. But which version of Sage do we [cont.]

HHS: What’s Up Sage? Sage: Hey Pizzo. HHS: Nice album, The Non-Prophets “Hope”. Sage: Yeah? Thanks…. HHS: That’s some fuckin’ hip-hop shit man!! You are all over the place; crazy with the classic throwback references…. Sage: Yeah, that’s the easiest kind of album for me to make. Heh… I guess I will make more later [cont.]

I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’ve been following Sage Francis’ career since the “Homegrown Demo” or “AOI” days. In fact, I got put onto Sage through some of the Non-Prophets stuff when it hit the 12-inch scene, and I dabbled in a few of the Sick Of… discs. But what really put [cont.]