Free Mixtape Roundup: Indie version

Free mix from yvynyl.  "Maybe these are a set of summer tunes for yr vacation roadtrips, or perhaps just yr backyard BBQs. Slow down and feel ‘em."  Tracklist below.  Head on over to their site to read the post and grab the
mix.

1. Hooray for Earth - True Loves
2. Nurses - Fever Dreams
3. Hotel Mexico - Dear Les Friends
4. Twin Sister - Bad Street
5. R E A L M A G I C - No Things Left
6. Yung Life - Renegade
7. STONER SHOWERS - 4EVER AND 4EVER
8. Magnetic Poetry - Follow Me
9. Ela Orleans - Myriads
10. Youth Lagoon - July
11. BIGCOLOUR - Playing Puzzles
12. Bodies of Water - Open Rhythms
13. Sea Oleena - Southbound
14. Pure X - Twisted Mirror
15. Yourself and The Air - Trampolines
16. Fungi Girls - Velvet Days
17. Chains of Love - Black Hearts
18. Beige - Folds
19. Slowdance - Spell
20. Timber Timbre - Creep on Creepin On

Friends With Both Arms also has a free mix that you can grab here.

 
Summer of FWBA Tracklist

• Vision- Mountain Man
• Beautiful Gurrls- Ricky Eat Acid
• In a Dream- Grandpa Was a Lion
• Alien Observer- Grouper
• Breakers- Gem Club
• Doubt- Wye Oak
• Harsh Realm- Widowspeak
• Smiling Dog- Pina Chulada
• Bottom of the World- Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton
• Goshen- Beirut
• Colour Me Badd- Land of Talk
• How Can U Luv Me- Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• I Get Nervous- Lower Dens
• Lovers Carvings- Bibio
• Sunday Morning- Gardens & Villa
• Dosh Remix- Roma Di Luna
• Modern Normal- Memoryhouse

This people, is the fucking goldmine of free music.  Top notch blogs with exquisite taste do all of the work for you...and me.  It's pretty glorious if I do say so myself.  Four great blogs just hand out awesome music and don't even expect you to buy them dinner. It's all part of Think or Smile's July Free music collection.  Head over there and check them out.    

This the latest mix from Gorilla vs. Bear. It is a sampler of the artists who will be playing their first ever, Gorilla vs. Bear music Festival, in Dallas on July 23rd.

Tracklist:
01 Preteen Zenith :: Extraction
02 White Denim :: Drug
03 Grimes :: Vanessa
04 Shabazz Palaces :: an echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
05 Sleep ∞ Over :: La Rose
06 Pure X :: Dry Ice
07 White Denim :: Street Joy
08 Sunset :: Moonlight
09 Dreamed :: Izumi
10 Grimes :: Devon
11 Shabazz Palaces :: Swerve…the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)
12 Sleep ∞ Over :: Casual Diamond
13 Radiohead :: Reckoner (Julianna Barwick remix)
14 Washed Out :: Eyes Be Closed (Grimes remix)
15 Julianna Barwick :: The Magic Place

Grab the mix from their site here.

Fair warning though, if you do download these, you may find some of them on upcoming Stereofat mixes. This is like giving you the raw uncut material. I like to filter through this stuff and pick and choose my favorite songs for mixes.

Eye Candy

Last Donut of the Night from Tuomas Vauhkonen on Vimeo.
Part of the Stone's throw music video contest a previous entry was posted as part of this Eye Candy. Man this one for, "Light Works," from the same competition is amazing as well. Such a sucker for that style. I am really glad that a lot of design and animation is going back to that look.  Always loved this song too.

J Dilla - Lightworks from James Works on Vimeo.


Peanut Butter Wolf and Michael Rapaport shopping in Amoeba records. This little video is done in part to promote the A Tribe Called Quest documentary, "Beats Rhymes and Life," that Rapaport directed and PB Wolf served as the music supervisor on. I will be checking this out in Berkeley tonight. Check out the official site to see if it's playing near you.

Co$$ - Pot Ash from 2dopeboyz.com on Vimeo.
Produced by Exile.  Exile always gets a listen from me.

J Period & Black Thought Present "The Live Mixtape" illadelph edition @ the 2010 MANIFESTO Festival (OFFICIAL) from themanifesto.ca on Vimeo.
Black Thought always makes my list of top emcess. Watch him get down with J. Period on their "Live Mixtape tour." More info at Nah Right.

Free Mixtape roundup: Hip Hop

Free, Ghostface, Funk, that's a nice little three word combo. I haven't given this my undivided attention yet, but it sounds like something that I would be into. Go to Max Tannone's site for the download link. A little about the project from the man himself, below.

"Released in July 2011, Ghostfunk pairs one of my favorite hip-hop artists, Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah, with vintage African funk, high-life, and psychedelic rock music. Artwork by Joe Dichiara."

Ghostfunk by Max Tannone

Wu-Tang Fugazi mashup. About the project: "Wugazi is a labor of love by Cecil Otter & Swiss Andy. Cecil Otter is an emcee & producer, and one of the founding members of Doomtree. He has contributed to over a dozen records. His most recent full-length, Rebel Yellow, was re-released by Sage Francis for Strange Famous Records. Swiss Andy is a musician & producer residing in Minneapolis. He has been a contributor to several bands including The Millionth Word, Field Guide and The Swiss Army. He is currently working on a remix of Rebel Yellow." Go to their site to grab the songs.
Sleep Rules Everything Around Me by WUGAZI

Adam Warrock who previously blessed any nerds who wanted to hear rapping about X-Factor with his free mixtape posted about here. Is back with more free-ness. This time he is rapping about the New Warriors. I will probably pass on this, I barely remember these dudes, but maybe one of you is a huge...checks wiki..Hindsight Lad fan...really? That is one of the worst names I have ever heard. *pours tea for Strong Guy
action figure* Grab the mix here.

The theme today seems to be Asians and Wu-Tang, sort of correlated, I heard we drafted them in the racial draft. Model Minority recently dropped their gigantor 22 track mixtape entitled, "Tiger Sons." I am sure pretty much everyone knows what the title references but if you are out of the loop you can check out the article here. I am not sure if I have ever heard a Model Minority track, so really I have no formed opinion on them. I assume they are overtly political, I doubt they are clubby, and I am guessing that out of 22 tracks they should have at least one good one, but I could be totally wrong. So with that sparkling recommendation you can grab the mixtape at their site here.

Update: Here is a video for one of the songs off of the mix. It won't really get the party started but I support all asians with beards.

Not free but this project from Prometheus Brown (Geologic from Blue Scholars) and Bambu from Native Guns just came out.  About the project via Angry Asian Man, The two Filipino American emcees recently joined forces during a week-long visit to Hawaii to create an album -- "laced with beats by local Hawaiian producers and rounded out by some of LA and Seattle's most talented beatsmiths" -- that pays homage to the islands."  Go to the Blue Scholars site to buy, sample it below.


I am grabbing a bunch of free indie mixtapes for an upcoming post as well, so be on the lookout for that if hip hop isn't your thing.

Summertime

       
Looking for something to bump at your next BBQ?

Mick Boogie and DJ Jazzy Jeff are back again with the free Summertime Pt. 2 mix. Download it here: Summertime2

And in case you missed it the first time, here is the first Summertime

Eye Candy

Looks That Kill - HD from Yuki 7 on Vimeo.
Kevin Dart and Elizabeth Ito's new book/DVD, "Looks that Kill," has a new promo video and it looks pretty good. It stars 1960's spy girl Yuki 7, and her secret agent colleagues, the Gadget Girls. I have been a fan of Kevin Dart's art from some of his earlier work, I think these may have been the first pieces I saw from him. Which then led to me doing a little research and finding his awesome fake movie posters, like this one. Check out more of his work at his site.



Dayam that's a line up.  Pete Rock and Smif-N-Wessun with Styles P and Sean Price.  Part of Nahright's "One Shot video series."


Posted this before but here is Bon Iver's video for his single, "Calgary" again. Another reminder that he will be playing the Greek theater on Thursday September 22nd. Grab tickets here.


Gracie- Untitled from andrew balasia on Vimeo.
Very summery video from Gracie. Way more about them at Friends With Both Arms, one of the sites I regularly seek "inspiration" from. Seriously check out her site, she has great taste and finds all sorts of indie goodness. Take for example the video below as well, that her and her organization, Invisible Children produced as part of their "Silver Series."


SILVER SERIES // JEREMY MESSERSMITH "A Boy, A Girl, And A Graveyard" from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
Jeremy Messersmith was previously featured on this Indie Mix.


Fashawn produced by J. Cole.  Nothing wrong in that description.


The latest Lonely Island video.

Yes Homo Pop Princess Mix 6

Kiersten Holine has excellent taste in music. Her cover of the Beach Boy's, "God Only Knows" is the second track on this new mix. Above she covers another one of Stereofat's favorites, The Morning Benders. What? You also like Andrew Bird and Fleet Foxes??!! *Fumbles for ring pop to propose.*  Check out her website here.

Blondie makes some appearances on the mix and I am partuclarly fond of her French version of, "Sunday Girl."  Some comments from the youtube page by native French speakers said that they could not understand one word of the song.  I am not a French speaker so it all just sounds like pretty noises to me, but what's your prognosis Dr. Tres Quais? Can you pick up what she is putting down?

Blondie- Sunday Girl (French version)

Sharon Van Etten is all kinds of awesome. She has a heavy presence on the blogs I frequent and rightfully so. She crafts such pretty alluring music it's hard to not be drawn in by her voice.

NPR Music said, "Her songs are heartfelt without being overly earnest; her poetry is plainspoken but not overt, and her elegant voice is wrapped in enough rasp and sorrow to keep from sounding too pure or confident."

Word. Sample her song, "Love More" below. Yellow Ostrich does a bad ass cover of this that will be on an upcoming Indie mix as well.

Sharon Van Etten- Love More


Download the mix here or hit the jump for a couple more samples and the full tracklist.

Upcoming Shows

July

David Bazan will be at The Independent in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 13th. Tickets are $15 and you can get them here.

David Bazan - Please Baby Please - 3 of 11 from RaisingHeller on Vimeo.

Slum Village or what remains of them will be at the New Parish in Oakland. The show is on Friday, July 22nd. Tickets are $23.09 total and you can get them here. I saw Elzhi awhile back when he came through with Black Milk, he puts on a good show, really clear on the mic, which unfortunately can not be expected from all hip hop artists.

Elzhi - Halftime Official video from GerardVictor.com on Vimeo.

Foreign Exchange will be at The New Parish on Tuesday, July 26th. Tickets are $28.37 total and you can get them here. I like Little Brother (when I say Little Brother I mean Phonte, Pooh, AND 9th, LB minus 9th is not the same) better than Foreign Exchange. I am not as into the R&B style they have going on. A little too much crooning, not enough rapping for my taste.

The Foreign Exchange - Maybe She'll Dream Of Me (Official Music Video directed by Matt Koza) from The Foreign Exchange on Vimeo.

Kurt Vile

Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore and Kurt Vile give you options on Tuesday, July 26th. Hip hop or Indie? Moore and Vile will be at The Great American Music Hall. Tickets are $26, available here.

"Freeway" by Kurt Vile from Olive on Vimeo.

The Cool Kids are also having a show at The New Parish on Thursday, July 28th. Tickets range from $20-25. Get them here. I saw these guys when they were part of the openers for Q-Tip a couple years back. Definitely worth checking out. They got that bass that will knock a filling loose. Love their throwback style.

August

Adele will be coming back to The Greek theater to make up for her previously canceled show. She arrives on Sunday, August 14th. Tickets are $45 for general admission, $65 for reserved seating...I don't think I have been to a concert at The Greek that was anything but general admission. Tickets are still available here.

ADELE - Rolling In The Deep - In Studio from DUKOFF on Vimeo.

Reggie Watts who is both a comedian and singer will be at the Independent in San Francisco on Wednesday, August 17th. Tickets are $20, get them here. We saw him as the opener for Conan O'Brien when he came through on his, "Banned From TV" tour. He also made a video appearance during Donald Glover's opening set at the Childish Gambino show. Funny guy with funny friends.

REGGIE WATTS: IMPROVISED DECONSTRUCTION from Ronen V on Vimeo.

Bilal, that crazy ass dude from Detroit will be at The New Parish on Monday, August 29th. Tickets are $20-25 and can be found here. Whenever I hear his name I just think of that Black Milk line, "So Detroit like I'm Bilal."

September

Fleet Foxes are playing the Greek theater in Berkeley on Saturday September 10th. Tickets are $39.50 plus service charges and can be found here.

Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean from Fleet Foxes on Vimeo.

Bon Iver will be at the Greek as well on Thursday, September 22nd. Tickets are $39.50 plus service charges, grab them here.

TV On The Radio will be at the Fox theater in Oakland. I like the Fox a lot more than the Greek. Much more intimate, the Greek is awesome, it's just so big. Anyway, they will be here on Tuesday, September 27th. $35 plus charges. Get yo tickets here.

Braids who I am a big fan of will be at The Bottom of The Hill in San Francisco. Their show is on Tuesday, September 27th, the same night as the TV On The Radio show. Tickets are $10 and you can get them here.

Braids - Plath Heart from blair neal on Vimeo.