Clams Casino and a coupla compilations

Clams Casino is this 23-year-old dude from New Jersey named Mike who makes rap beats, but is also signed to the same savvy Tri Angle Records that puts out Ooooo and Holy Other.  He is probably therefore the second or third coolest dude in New Jersey.  Clams Casino is putting out an EP, Rainforest, on Tri Angle on June 27th, but a couple songs have already been released.  With "Gorilla" you kind of get a sense of sizzurped confidence layered with like seasonal depression-type not-giving-a-fuck.  But it's actually more interesting than just that. 
"Gorilla" - Clams Casino
And read the Pitchfork interview with this guy, too.


Also there's this really nice and touching and heartfelt and everything else mix that Yojimbo Billions made with Lyfstyl for his wife, with all these love songs done up poignant and paced by his talented pals--Galapagos, Short Circles, and Corduroi, among many others.  It's all original and flowy and all the time you can think of how it's like a gift of love--I think it was a fifth wedding anniversary present, I learned from this superb Fader review--which kind of gives you a lightness that comes from appreciating the successes of love and creativity and stuff.
So check it out it's called "Mad Love in Crazy Times."


And lastly Get Off the Coast and 40 Ounce Clothing collaborated on a mix to commemorate people being able to buy these rad t-shirts and be Jheri's gang/ identify themselves as somebody you want to get to know probably.  I hope these t-shirts result in the formation of a thug-ass gang or crew or collective, maybe called Jheri's kids.  
The mix is called 40oz Taco and has a pretty much perfect blend of fun, bass/base, prurient R&B, and Mariah Carey, and a bunch of new shit that rules.  


I hope everyone is having a good summer so far.

Dope Valley Fuck

Crash Symbols and Get Off The Coast gifted the world with another mixtape Wednesday. Dope Valley Fuck is/could be the second installment in what might or might not be a series of superb Dope Fuck mixtapes (the first being the soon-to-be classic Dope Mountain Fuck), and features a veritable Spring bouquet of chipper & chilled out demos and new songs from the likes of Blackbird Blackbird, Foxes in Fiction, Cop Magnet, Pepepiano--and lots of others I mean the mix has 21 songs on it, and it's only choice songs on there you know. And you know what else: it really makes you appreciate what's going on in music and blogs and labels and everybody coming together right now. So, if you think you will want to think you know about cool music anytime soon, or if you feel like feeling pretty good, download this mixtape, and follow ya boys on Tumblr, probably, too.

And I want to point out just real quick--I just noticed--that the cover art for this mixtape kind of suggests some imagery of a place from which you can expect regular dispatches in the near future: Brazil. And I dunno what the dispatches will be like but I know that that's where they will be comin from. Viva!