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Essentials: “Ride For My City (Feat. Penthouse Penthouse, Goodnight Cody, and Promnite)” – Great Dane

To soundtrack your (hopefully) lazy Sunday, LA-based producer Great Dane linked up with a crop of Team Supreme homies for a laid-back hip hop cut, “Ride For My City.” [continued]
EP Review: “The Passion Project” – Lido and Santell

After several teasers, we’ve finally been treated to producer Lido‘s collaboration with vocalist Santell, The Passion Project. The five-track EP harkens back to the days of pure bump n’ grind R&B from the 90s; as the kids say, this is the epitome of baby-making music. Santell’s voice is a unique kind of sexy, somehow surpassing [continued]
Essentials: “WaFfLe (Feat. Fatman Scoop)” – DJWS

WALK IN. FUCK SHIT UP. LEAVE. That’s Fatman Scoop‘s chant in his collab with DJWS, “WaFfLe.” Scoop’s boisterous voice amps up the power behind DJWS’s dark, speaker rattling house beat, building to a hypeman’s roar throughout the course of the track. This one’s likely to be a party-starter anthem as we close out 2015 – [continued]
Album Review: “VEGA INTL. Night School” – Neon Indian

Four years later, VEGA INTL. Night School finds itself at the intersection of dreamy pop and funk, and slyly struts right down the middle. [continued]
Essentials: “Jersey (R3LL Remix)” – Future & Drake

This is shaping up to be quite the week for Drake-related content: we’ve got the “Hotline Bling” video, the brewing D.R.A.M. beef, and now Jersey Club mastermind R3LL‘s scorching remix of Drizzy’s collab with Future, “Jersey.” The What A Time To Be Alive cut gets a heady dose of double-time percussion, with Future’s vocals chopped intermittently [continued]
Essentials: “Cha Cha (Falcons Remix)” – D.R.A.M.

What do Drake and D.R.A.M. have in common? They both like to cha-cha. The Virginia-born rapper lamented over Drizzy’s recent “Hotline Bling” video, claiming that the hip hop star “jacked” the beat from his own “Cha Cha” video. Regardless of thievery, D.R.A.M. is probably two-stepping away his blues today, because Falcons just dropped a steamy remix of “Cha [continued]
Dillon Francis and Skrillex Drop Their “Bun Up The Dance” Video

Dillon Francis and Skrillex (or as I like to affectionately refer to them, Skrillon/Dillex) made my Monday tolerable with their “Bun Up The Dance” music video, featuring some pretty incredible dancing. [continued]
PREMIERE: “Kiss Me Thru The Phone (Emes Remix)” – Soulja Boy feat. Sammie

Emes flips Soulja Boy’s throwback hit into a sexy slow jam to bump through your iPhone speakers. [continued]
NEWS: Condé Nast Acquires Pitchfork

Multi-national media publisher conglomerate Condé Nast has acquired Pitchfork for an undisclosed sum. Highly regarded among music lovers for both their strong editorial voice in music coverage, as well as their festivals in Chicago and Paris, Pitchfork Media will be the first stand-alone music publication for Condé Nast. Condé Nast’s chief digital officer Fred Santarpia, who led the acquisition process, expressed enthusiasm [continued]
EP Review: “Taking Flight” – Ryan Hemsworth and Lucas

Last summer, an artist named Lucas released a haunting remix of Ryan Hemsworth‘s melancholic “One For Me.” When I first heard it, I had to drop everything I was doing and listen – it literally stopped me in my tracks. Lucas had somehow found a way to make this song even more impassioned and stunningly aching in a [continued]