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LITS Mix #1: Beginnings

By ⋅ May 12, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

LITS Mix is a weekly mix of five free songs curated by our ears with your ears in mind. With so much free music to listen to out there, we intend to showcase our favorite tunes in an easily digestible  manner, guiding you through the riff-raff to find the music. This week, we present the very first edition of our mix, featuring a set of chilled-out songs for you to relax to. Kick back and get lost in the sound.

MP3: LITS Mix #1: Beginnings

(0:00 to 1:58) Aphex Twin – “Avril 14th”
(1:58 to 5:19) Apparatjik – “Antlers”
(5:19 to 10:11) XV – “Pictures On My Wall”
(10:11 to 13:06) Washed Out – “Amor Fati (Clams Casino Remix)”
(13:06 to 16:20) Emerald Ruins – “Stay”

Video: XV – “U.F.C.”

By ⋅ October 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

XV, the kid with the green backpack, released a fresh set of visuals for one of his recent mixtape’s hardest-hitting songs, “U.F.C.”, which also features vocals from Kristina Rose. If you watched Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, you’ll definitely enjoy the Joker Thugs trailing along throughout the video, which was shot throughout Chicago by Rex Arrow Films.

Check it out below. Vizzy’s debut album should be out in 2012. Hold tight.

XV Releases New Mixtape ‘Zero Heroes’

By ⋅ April 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Kansas-based rapper XV dropped his newest project today, a mixtape titled Zero Heroes. The mixtape features production by Just Blaze, J. Cole, and Seven, as well as guest appearances by Pusha T, Donnis, Fall Out Boy‘s Patrick Stump and Kendrick Lamar. If you’re still not intrigued, let it be known that the Kingdom Hearts theme is sampled on Seven-produced “When We’re Done”. Download the mixtape for free here.

You can check out the tracklist below. The Warner Bros. signee is scheduled to release his label debut, The Kid With The Green Backpack, sometime this year.

Tracklist:
01. Wichita [Prod. By Just Blaze]
02. Heroes Eventually Die (Interlude)
03. When We’re Done [Prod. By Seven]
04. Smallville [Prod. By J. Cole]
05. That’s Just Me [Prod. By Swiff D]
06. Awesome (feat. Pusha T) [Prod. By Seven]
07. Pictures On My Wall [Prod. By Seven]
08. Textbook Stuff (feat. Kendrick Lamar) [Prod. By Seven]
09. All For Me (feat. CyHi Da Prynce, Vado & Erin Christine) [Prod. By Omen & Audio BLK]
10. U.F.C. (feat. Kristina Rose) [Prod. By Seven]
11. Foreign Exchange Student [Prod. By Miami Horror]
12. Swervin’ [Prod. By Seven]
13. Best Days Of Lives (feat. Donnis) [Prod. By The Awesome Sound]
14. Ending Credits (Interlude)
15. The Last Hero (feat. Patrick Stump) [Prod. By Seven]

New XV – “Words I Never Said (Freestyle)”

By ⋅ March 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

XV has taken to his Twitter account again, releasing a brand new freestyle. This time, XV goes in on Lupe Fiasco‘s “Words I Never Said” (without the Skylar Grey hook), the second single from Lasers, released via Atlantic Records today. I’ve heard numerous comparisons between XV and early Lupe, so it seems fitting for Vizzy to flip the single on the album’s release date. Download and stream below.

XV’s Warner Brothers debut The Kid With The Green Backpack is set to be released later this year.

Track: XV – “SmallVille (Prod. J. Cole)”

By ⋅ January 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Track: “SmallVille (Prod. J. Cole)”
Artist: XV
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Label: Warner Bros. Records and Roc Nation

Recent Warner Bros. signee XV dropped his latest track “SmallVille” a few days ago, collaborating with fellow rapper J. Cole. While Cole doesn’t grace us with a new verse, he crafts a superb track as producer, sampling The Smashing Pumpkins‘ “To Forgive”. Needless to say, XV goes in on the track, dropping clever line after clever line – “They’ll never steal my dreams like Leo DiCaprio.” – all while chronicling his relatively meteoric rise to fame. I haven’t watched the TV show Smallville, so I’m not entirely sure how the track relates, but Vizzy’s superhero references are smooth over J. Cole’s mellow, bass-heavy beat, taking the artistic liberty to add superhero inspired rhymes to the sampled chorus. Stream and download the song below.

“Smallville (Prod. J. Cole)” was released via Twitter; happy birthday to J. Cole! XV is expected to release his highly-anticipated album The Kid With The Green Backpack later this year.

Rating: 8.5/10

Travie McCoy Announces First Headlining North American Tour

By ⋅ January 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy has revealed dates for his upcoming “Sgt. Schlepper’s Who Needs Hearts Club Band Tour,” his first headlining tour of North America as a solo artist. The tour begins March 17 and will include Donnis, XV, Bad Rabbits and Bad Cards as guests.

General tickets will be up for sale on January 29th. Check out the dates below.

Tour Dates:

3-17 Toronto, ON – Opera House
3-18 Montreal, QC – Le National
3-19 Philadelphia, PA – TLA
3-20 Towson, MD – Recher Theatre
3-22 Boston, MA – Paradise
3-23 New York, NY – Gramercy
3-24 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s
3-25 Chicago, IL – Metro
3-26 Minneapolis, MN – Station 4
3-27 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
3-28 Denver, CO – Summit Theatre
3-30 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey
3-31 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
4-01 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
4-02 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
4-03 Seattle, WA – El Corazon


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