Fatty Gets A Stylist – Are You Ready

November 14, 2012 Listen
Fatty Gets A Stylist – Are You Ready

Fatty Gets A Stylist – Are You Ready from Peter Ireland on Vimeo. This is your new getting dressed song, your new come look how fucking awesome I look song,  your new there’s no way I’m not getting laid tonight song, your new on your way to work song, your new my boss can yell [...]

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Macklemore x Ryan Lewis – The Heist World Tour Part 1

November 13, 2012 Look
Macklemore x Ryan Lewis – The Heist World Tour Part 1

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis converted a small local following, a fiery passion for truth and self-expression, and a whole lot of heart and hustle into the number two album in the country. A year ago, no one would have thought that the number two album would be a hip-hop album with a song that adamantly [...]

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Alchemist – Yacht Rock (feat. Oh No, Blu, Action Bronson & More)

November 12, 2012 Listen
Alchemist – Yacht Rock (feat. Oh No, Blu, Action Bronson & More)

Alchemist pulled the O.G. card and then proceeded to take 1st through 6th pick in this week’s game of MC/real life dodgeball on “Yacht Rock”. In other words, this project amounts to a very professional “fuck outta here”. Six beats twisted into two tracks featuring Oh No, Blu, Action Bronson, Roc Marciano, Big Twins and [...]

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Andrea Gibson x Robyn Aasmundstad – Maybe I Need You

November 11, 2012 Learn
Andrea Gibson x Robyn Aasmundstad – Maybe I Need You

“I kept seeing your hand wave goodbye like a windshield wiper in a flooding car in the last real moment I believed the hurricane would let me out alive” Sometimes criticized as sensationalist — a stereotypical slam poet pulling on too many heart strings — Andrea Gibson is, beyond reasonable doubt, a masterful artist of [...]

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Big Boi – Lines (ft. A$AP Rocky & Phantogram)

November 10, 2012 Featured
Big Boi – Lines (ft. A$AP Rocky & Phantogram)

Phantogram finally gets the blessing they deserve: a truly dope MC. Big Boi x Phantogram x a little bit (which is all we can handle) of A$AP Rocky. Take off the earbuds, hook this up to your car stereo if you have to, let this one knock.   Related Posts:Azad Right x Phantogram – Old [...]

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Audible Doctor – Doctorin’ (Full Album Stream)

November 9, 2012 Listen
Audible Doctor – Doctorin’ (Full Album Stream)

Audible Doctor and his Brown Bag All Stars crew has steadily been building a name for themselves amongst the underground hip-hop circuit for the past few years. BBAS takes a sound rooted in east coast boom-bap and augments it with some midwest soul for a final product distantly reminiscent of Dilated Peoples and The Boom [...]

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Lake Street Dive – Bad Self Portraits (Live Video)

November 5, 2012 Look

We watched Lake Street Dive play a show at Rockwood Music Hall in newly re-electrified Lower Manhattan last night.  This Brooklyn-based quartet burned through a massive 18-song set to a jam-packed house, playing everything from unreleased songs like “Bad Self Portraits” (from their forthcoming new record) to fan favorites like their slow, soulful cover of [...]

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AlunaGeorge – Your Love, Your Drums (Video)

November 3, 2012 Look
AlunaGeorge – Your Love, Your Drums (Video)

UK ethereal pop/R&B duo, AlunaGeorge (which is, in fact, the most logical band name in the history of ever considering that the group is composed of a dude named George and a chick named Aluna) first gained recognition in mid-2012 with their solid, but definitely still freshman, first EP You Know You Like It. The [...]

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Twin Shadow – Golden Light (KCRW Live Studio Session)

November 2, 2012 Listen
Twin Shadow – Golden Light (KCRW Live Studio Session)

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) took to the microphones inside KCRW’s studio in Santa Monica, California, to put some breath behind his new single “Golden Light” off his new LP Confess The studio session mutes some of the more electro-pop vibes that push me away from most of his catalog — this track is [...]

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Listen: Earl Sweatshirt’s New Track “Chum”

November 1, 2012 Listen
Listen: Earl Sweatshirt’s New Track “Chum”

“I hope i lose you as a fan if you only fuck with me because i rapped about raping girls when i was 15.” – Earl Sweatshirt Earl Sweatshirt is definitely growing, and we at TNC are really amped about it.  Check out “Chum” below, the introspective first taste of the once-missing Odd Future standout’s [...]

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