New York-born MC Guru has died at age 43 after a battle with cancer, according to a number of media reports.
Guru, whose real name was Keith Elam, had been in a coma since March.
The rapper was best known for his Gang Starr partnership with DJ Premier in the 1990s and 2000s. In recent years Guru had been touring and collaborating with producer Solar.
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So here is the full video that all the media outlets are bitching about. I’m not sure what the the big deal is. Just a bunch of chicks in lingerie making out and fighting.

The lineup for the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been unveiled. Pitchfork calls it “a doozy”. Judging by the headliners, those aren’t quite the words I would use to describe it. I have fond memories of past Coachellas and am not nearly as hip as I once was, so what do I know? Sunday sounds fun…

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Friday, April 16th: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, deadmau5, Public Image Limited, the Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray and more…

Saturday, April 17th: Muse, Faith No More, Tiesto, MGMT, David Guetta, the Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2ManyDJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip

Sunday, April 18th: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke ????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Full details available at Coachella.com

One of my favorite mixologists. If you don’t want to hear the intro the music starts about 7 minutes into it. -SAB

D-Pain’s album release party kicks off tonight, October 23 at Club Anita’s in Escondido. The doors open at 9:00pm with $3 U-Call-It’s until 11. Domi Young will be performing as well as DJ sets from Escondido’s Dr. Parks and Brian E.

Info line is available at 760.933.theD (8433)

D’s debut album, The Awakening, is available now on iTunes. You can also preview some tracks on his MySpace page: myspace.com/thedpain.

Swasted.com will be there in full force, buy us a drink!

The video for “App 4 Dat” is also available on YouTube.

North Park Awesome Fast kicks off in a few hours so I’ll be heading down to take part in tonight’s festivities. Check out the full schedule here, its pretty massive. The shows for tonight are at Soda Bar and Radio Room with Tiltwheel ending the night at Radio Room and Underground Railroad to Candyland closing things out at Soda Bar.