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Cassettes Won’t Listen – Freeze and Explode

Cassettes Won’t Listen is a one-man band from musician Jason Drake from the land of Jay-Z and Biggie– Brooklyn, New York and his music is awesome. A few months ago, Drake released music from a side project of his titled Dfalt. A few years ago, Cassettes Won’t Listen released Freeze and Explode. Listen & Download: … Read moreCassettes Won’t Listen – Freeze and Explode

Toro Y Moi

Chaz Bundick is just great. Here are some live recordings, remixes, mash-ups, b-sides and covers by/of/with Toro Y Moi that have been floating around the music blogoverse the last few months. He also has a new album, Underneath The Pine, due out February 22nd, 2011. Purchase: Toro Y Moi discography – Toro Y Moi Store, iTunes, Amazon Listen … Read moreToro Y Moi

Mew – Comforting Sounds

Here’s an oldie but goodie from Danish alternative rock band, Mew, from their 2003 album, Frengers. Purchase: Mew – Frengers (LP) – Amazon, iTunes Listen & Download: Mew – Comforting Sounds (320kbps) – http://usershare.net/0jhr3hgh56jj http://ftdstorage.com/jeremy/Mew/Frengers/Mew-Frengers-10-Comforting Sounds.mp3

Thank You and Goodbye – Dead Cities in Your Heart

Thank You and Goodbye is an indie/alternative band out of Orlando, Florida consisting of Chris Grieder and Emiliy Brown. I don’t know much about Emily, besides being really cute and having a nice voice– but Chris also skateboards, films and takes pictures and stuff. The music video, directed by Chris, for their song Dead Cities … Read moreThank You and Goodbye – Dead Cities in Your Heart

Mansions on the Moon – Diplo and DJ Benzi Present: Paradise Falls (Mixtape)

THE MANSIONS ON THE MOON MIXTAPE IS FINALLY HERE. COOL. STREAM AND DOWNLOAD LINK WITH EXTRAS BELOW. #INALLCAPS Listen & Download: Mansions on the Moon – Paradise Falls – http://mansionsonthemoon.com/paradisefalls

Mansions on The Moon – She Makes Me Feel (Feat. Richie Sosa) (Soundsmith Remix)

New MOTM… We didn’t even know they made this until it spread to the blogs! Canadian emcee Richie Sosa goes over the Soundsmith-produced remix of Mansions on the Moon’s indie hit, “She Makes Me Feel.” Ritchie of Soundsmith is responsible for producing for G-Unit, Fabolous, Young Jeezy and many more. – You Heard That New … Read moreMansions on The Moon – She Makes Me Feel (Feat. Richie Sosa) (Soundsmith Remix)

OK Go – End Love + This Too Shall Pass (Passion Pit Remix)

[pro-player]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw[/pro-player] Another highly conceptual music video from the now independent, OK Go for their song End Love from the album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. Directed by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther. Background information about techniques used in the video, via a quote from Jeff Lieberman is below: The fastest we go is 172,800x, … Read moreOK Go – End Love + This Too Shall Pass (Passion Pit Remix)

Mansions on the Moon – She Makes Me Feel (Video + .mp3)

Music video for She Makes Me Feel from Mansions on the Moon (Ben Hazlegrove, Ted Wendler and Lane Shaw) directed by Illusive Media. Mixtape mixed by DJ Benzi and Diplo coming soon. See mansionsonthemoon.com for updates. Add/check them out on Facebook and MySpace… oh, and Twitter too. Listen & Download: Mansions on the Moon – She Makes Me Feel – http://usershare.net/fdnpih08lik8 … Read moreMansions on the Moon – She Makes Me Feel (Video + .mp3)

Lupe Fiasco – Resurrection (Feat. Kenna) (Prod. Mike Shinoda) (video)

New piece we just officially added to the Illusive Media arsenal of work. Lupe Fiasco x Kenna x Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park) teamed up with Music for Relief and made this song for the earthquake victims of Haiti. Directed by Shomi Patwary &Robert Simmons with additional help from Jay McCord, Justin Partain and myself. … Read moreLupe Fiasco – Resurrection (Feat. Kenna) (Prod. Mike Shinoda) (video)

Body Language – At A Glance (Toro y Moi Remix) (.mp3)

The end of ’09 saw Brooklyn based Body Language (www.myspace.com/bodylanguage) on a string of successful dates across North America with Zero 7 and while they were out Neon Gold and RCRD LBL premiered two of the hottest dance remixes of the year! They are also working on an official remix for Neon Indian‘s Should’ve Taken Acid With You.. keep you posted on that one. Also, the … Read moreBody Language – At A Glance (Toro y Moi Remix) (.mp3)

Gorillaz – Stylo (Feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def) (.mp3)

New leakage from the Gorillaz upcoming album Plastic Beach, due out March 8th in Europe and March 9th in the US. Listen & Download: Gorillaz – Stylo (Feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def) – http://usershare.net/s2lxrg48v55a http://67.159.60.4:40000/d/3kebynm22eggfhgcvv4bllsw63ckbori467e7srl/audio.mp3