Sucka Free CJ remixes The xx

Check out the song, the instrumental and hook are sampled from the xx.

Find more of his music, here.

Sounds like: wednesday morning.

Lupe Fiasco's Enemy of the State mixtape

Since the release of The Cool, Lupe Fiasco has just been building up hype for his next masterpiece, L.A.S.E.R.S which is still due this year. Well, I guess somewhere during this time, he decided to release a mixtape and I just got around to listen to it now. It's insane. For a mixtape it's nothing short of great. 

Check out the included song and you can always download it somewhere, here's a link to 2DopeBoyz, go ahead download it. The included song's also called "Yoga Flame."
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Kanye West's Monster, Featuring Jay-Z & Justin Vernon

After a short hype generated by "Power" Kanye pushes more music to the scene with "Monster." 

This one features Jay-Z, Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver), Rick Ross (ew), and Nicki Minaj. It's a pretty balanced song, not the best or the worst song from the album for sure. The others are cool, I'm not sure what Justin's doing on this song. And Nicki Minaj is definitely annoying and so is Rick Ross. So basically, I just dig the song only because of Kanye and Jay. 

Download it from Stereogum
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Local vs Global

I can't seem to grasp the idea behind local bands only. Something about them just being limited in sound doesn't appeal to me. I often see blogs, sites, and artist groups which are only "local" in the sense that they're similar sounding and are in the same geographical area.
This isn't 1968, you're not limited by distance if you're creating music. If you're looking to collaborate, or even just broadcast your music. With the internet being the primary way for most people to communicate, your music doesn't need anything but a bit of a push for it to go ahead and be stream globally within seconds. 
And so this is what puzzles me why I ought to look for only local bands, I do like some local bands but I'd want to stay random in the sense that I don't need to be grounded with one location. And of course, if you're a reader, you can see the genres are also not the same, I'm a fan of a few umbrellas. 
Also, being indie and mainstream should not be a factor in your sound, it should just be an illusionary border. 
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Where Is My Mind Covers, 17 Track Collective

Stream the mix right here:

It includes Placebo, Nada Surf, Kings of Leon, and some other surprisingly people covering it! The first song is the original and as it goes down the list, your interest is expected to decline because the lyrics are pretty constant.

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Cover songs of "Where Is My Mind"

Most of today, I spent listening to cover songs of the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind". And after at least 25-30 covers, I think I found a good enough cover. Now I can't say any of these covers emulates the original enough to the point where I'd prefer the cover over the original. I'm going to go ahead and collect these covers and make an 8tracks playlist. Check out this cover by Paul Nagi, sounds very good!

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Cee-Lo Green's Fuck You

I'm sure everyone's heard this song at least once in the past week. It's a bit of a moody song. I don't like it at all even though Cee-Lo Green's vocals are amazing, the lyrical content isn't what I'm into these days. I mean, if I wanted to hear that many "fucks" in one song, I'd be listening to more rap music. Either the song's just a hype for Lady Killer or Cee-Lo was just bored, this definitely isn't Gnarls Barkley status at all.

What do you think?

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New Lupe Fiasco Track

Features a sound more like The Cool. 

"Go To Sleep" by Lupe Fiasco 

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