MiaoMix Monday #1 [Electro]

Lost In The Sound presents you with the first MiaoMix, a mix of songs put together by your’s truly. This will be a new feature on the site that I’ll update once every one or two weeks depending on the response for this one. This mix will attempt to stray from Lost In The Sound’s normal vibes. This week’s playlist is mostly electronic dance music, with mostly some house music and dubstep. Listen to the mix below. (A zip file of the playlist may be available if demand is great enough.)

Tracklist:
Pretty Lights – “Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin”
Basic Physics – “Illmerican Dancer (Wolfgang Gartner // Avicii // Sofi)”
Paul Basic – “Daydream”
Avicii – “Penguin (Original Mix)”
Coldplay – “Every Teardrop is A Waterfall (Swedish House Mafia Remix)”
Daft Punk – “Aerodynamic (Specimen A & James D’ley Re-fix)”
Justice – “Civilization (LAZRtag Bootleg Mix)”
Zeds Dead – “Coffee Break”

BlakRoc 2 Details

Two years ago, blues-rock band The Black Keys released Blakroc, the rock rap album with rappers such as Mos Def, Raekwon and Ludacris. News of Blakroc 2 has just emerged and features include Talib Kweli, Curren$y, Wiz Khalifa, the Cool Kids, Jay Electronica, U-God, Jim Jones, OC, and Sean Price. Read more to watch the trailer for the album.

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Fucked Up and Wavves Tour

Fucked Up and Wavves will be co-headlining a tour this fall. While the two bands are very different in genre, both have had critically acclaimed albums recently with WavvesKing of the Beach and Fucked Up‘s David Comes to Life. Now Wavves will be releasing a new EP titled Life Sux on September 20, which has a track featuring co-headliners Fucked Up. Read more to see the tour dates.

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Vampire Weekend Settles Album Cover Dispute

joomplu:316Last year in January, Vampire Weekend released Contra. The album cover was a picture of model Ann Kirsten Kennis and she accused the band of using the photo without her permission. She sued the band, photographer and label for $2 million. The year-long case has finally been dismissed by a Los Angeles federal court, but now Vampire Weekend and XL Recordings are suing the photographer Tod Brody for misrepresenting the rights to the photo. To make things worse for Brody, his attorney’s have left him by himself in court for not paying his bills, so Brody has to represent himself in court. Good luck, man.

New Big K.R.I.T Mixtape

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