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This Music Monday we have videos of Kendrick Lamar's surprise performance with Reebok and of Jamie xx's new track "Loud Places" along with the low down on tomorrow's launch party for Stuart Cosgrove's new book Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul. Jamie xx ft Romy "Loud Place" - Music Video Following on from the announcement of his upcoming debut album In Colour we touched on last week Jamie xx has dropped the video for his most recent track "Loud Places". The xx's front woman Romy Madley-Croft takes centre stage in a video which see the rectangular motif featured heavily in the xx's recent releases transition into a reel of darkened scene as the duo skates through London. Check out the video below: Kendrick Lamar Reebok Surprise Performance - Video With Kendrick Lamar receiving his first number one debut on the US Billboard 200 with his critically acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly his star continues to rise. The week seen th...

The newest book to arrive in our literary arsenal is Detroit 67: That Year That Changed Soul by Scottish author and journalist Stuart Cosgrove. The author, Stuart Cosgrove's, career encompasses everything from being media editor of NME and the iconic The Face magazine to Head of Programmes at Channel 4. Detroit 67 is the story of Detroit in the year that changed everything. Twelve monthly chapters take you on a turbulent year long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967. Over a dramatic 12-month period, the Motor City was torn apart by personal, political and inter-racial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the breakup of The Supremes and damaging disputes at the heart of the most successful African-American music label ever. Set against a backdrop of urban riots, escalating war in Vietnam and police corruption, the book weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age, and the underground counterculture flourished. LSD...