THE COOL KIDS RELEASE NEW MIXTAPE GONE FISHING TODAY FOR FREE!

18 ALL NEW STUDIO TRACKS PRODUCED BY DON CANNON & THE COOL KIDS

Because summer’s almost here and wouldn’t be complete without the mixtape to rival all mixtapes, Chicago’s favorite duo of MCs, The Cool Kids, are releasing an album’s worth of new tracks on Gone Fishing (Cake Recordings) for free today! Gone Fishing includes 18 all new, unreleased studio tracks produced by The Cool Kids and mixed by legendary ATL DJ, producer and Gangsta Grillz host, Don Cannon. The mixtape, the official prelude to the upcoming LP, When Fish Ride Bicycles, features appearances from Ryan Leslie, GLC, Ludacris, Bun B and newcomers Tennille and Jahda. A limited run of hard copy CDs with art will be pressed and sold exclusively at specialty retail outlets with the purchase of a Cool Kid’s limited edition t-shirt or fitted cap.

DOWNLOAD THE FREE MIXTAPE, GONE FISHING, NOW! www.coolxkids.com

GONE FISHING TRACKLISTING

1. Introduction to Ice Fishing
2. Hammer Brothers
3. Champions
4. Gold Links
5. Cinnamon
6. Premium Blends
7. Step Back
8. Jump Rope feat. Tennille
9. The Last Stretch feat. Jahda
10. The Art of Noise (interlude)
11. The Light Company
12. Popcorn
13. Wise Words by GLC -Told by GLC
14. Pennies (the updated rosters) Remix feat. Ludacris & Bun B
15. Broadcasting Live
16. Takin’ a Break
17. Tune Up
18. Weekend Girls feat. Ryan Leslie
19. Summer Vacations
20. Words of Wisdom by GLC - Told by GLC
21. Knocked Down

The four track EP is the first new material of 2009 for the band and includes the lead track ‘Run You Down’, the title track ‘Luna”, the epic ‘Molten Minds’ and the closer ‘Monument’. After disbanding to family homes over Christmas they set about writing and recording new ideas on their return to ‘Traps HQ’, and under the watchful eye of lead guitarist and producer (chief knob twiddler) James Minhas these fruitful home recordings grew legs and a plan was hatched for a free release to re-launch their label Speech Fewapy Records. The idea behind the release is that it is totally free for anyone interested in getting hold of a copy.

To Download the “Luna” EP for FREE! - All four tracks, the video for “Run You Down” & Album Artwork:
http://www.the-traps.com/luna/

The Traps MySpace Page:
http://www.myspace.com/thetrapsofficial

NEW ALBUM FROM THE LATE HIP-HOP LEGEND J DILLA.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY DILLA’S MOM MS. YANCEY AKA “MA DUKES” ON NATURE SOUNDS FOR JUNE.

By now most everyone is familiar with the story of musical legend J Dilla. The quiet, prolific producer collaborated with everyone from Eryka Badu to Common to Janet Jackson to Prince. Dilla was just beginning to capitalize on his cult status when he sadly passed at age 32 due to Lupus-related complications. Jay Stay Paid is a 25 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. While mostly instrumental, “J$P” also offers a few guests vocals from artists that Dilla worked with or admired including Black Thought of The Roots, MF DOOM, and M.O.P.

Curtailing any notion of jumping on some sort of Dilla bangwagon, Jay Stay Paid was executive produced by Dilla’s mother Maureen Yancey (aka Ma Dukes) along with the musical supervision of Dilla’s only real musical idol, Pete Rock. “It wasn’t rushed and it wasn’t haphazard,” explains Ms Yancey. “This album combines what he did in the beginning of his career, what he did in some of our early hospital stays, which was very deep, and some stuff pulled from old floppy disks & DATs. Its mind blowing…this is like the missing links to Dilla’s legacy.”

The format of the album plays like a radio show with Pete Rock as the program director. With regards to Pete’s involvement, Ms. Yancey gets very excited, “Dilla wanted to pattern himself behind Pete. His dream was to become as close as possible to what Pete stood for. Pete meant everything to him. Dilla would have just been flabbergasted! ” Pete’s sentiments were the same toward Dilla, “Dude was amazing. He just kinda came outta nowhere and the more you heard his beats the better they got. He may not be here with us, but it’s all good we’re going to keep his music alive and well.”

In the late 80s, Dilla founded the seminal rap group Slum Village and put Detroit hip-hop on the map, while the 90’s saw him playing a major role in the production team The Ummah with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad doing extensive work on Tribe Called Quest’s last two albums.

Jay Stay Paid will be released on June 2nd on Nature Sounds.

CHUCK ANDERSON: Wandering Off Into Space

Check out the new book of works from Chuck Anderson before you find it on the coffee table of that girl you don’t like that is always skeezing it up at Sushirama and used to try and get with your friend Kyle, only because he grew out a kneckbeard and buys all of his skinny jeans from Urban Outshitters.   Ugh, I hate that bitch…

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A few years ago some brave kids from Bowie, Maryland left on a journey to LA to follow their dreams. One a quirky character slash imaginative director, the other a talented photographer and filmmaker. I met these guys some time ago when stumbling upon the quality of their local form of expression, their band Zella Mayzell (also imaginative) and would bump into them from time to time at the usual social breeding ground for kids with ambition. House parties in Silver Lake. Sure they built up some cred filming low to mid budjet music videos for some hitters like Copeland, The Hush Sound, even Gym Class Heros, But they started like many of us who have settled on our goals and wrote them off as fantasy. Now they are about to release their biggest project yet. A film titled ‘The Mother of Invention’ check out the trailer and support them.

The Mother of Invention - TRAILER from Joseph M. Petrick on Vimeo.

The Black Keys are said to be teaming up with Z.Z. Top later this year for some writing and recording.  The two were introduced by mutual friend and music pioneer, Rick Rubin.