Happy New Year!

If you were like me this year you spent your musical finding hours on the internet. Not that record stores are non existent or anything but the internet is the place to be if you want to find HOT, NEW music. And while 2008 was the year of the Dope Boyz, 2009 was the year of Fact Magazine - for me at least. The Dope Boyz held their own but lost me on quality control. Fact on the other hand delivers stellar news, editorials, and their long running podcast series is the best you will find out.

With that said, I took the time to compile the songs I had in my iTunes from Fact's best of the year list and create a play list. This play list happened to play quite well and was the soundtrack to much of my holiday traveling. In conjunction with my top 10 albums of the year running over at the HQ I figured I might as well drop something off here to. Check out this folder and let me know what tunes I'm missing from Fact's list that I should have.

Also let me know what sites I should be checking for? I'm sure I'm missing one or two.

New Dam Funk Mixtape

I had the pleasure to sit down with this man back in September. He is making some truly awesome music for the new generation to get funky with! If you haven't been peeping his Toeachizown EP series or the full length that just dropped you might want to get on it. In case you need some convincing here is a new mixtape he just released for free with Clae - apparently a super fresh shoe company!

Peep the tracklist and then check out the mix!

Download it here.

Macklemore is Back!

Many thanks to OFS for hipping me to this! Macklemore was one of the first Seattle artists I ever heard and The Language of My World still gets play to this day. Glad to see he is making new music again! Enjoy the above video and peep out this other leak all about The Town.

Dam Funk/Animal Collective

While I continue to be consumed by the music coming from LA these days Dam Funk has struck an especially sensitive chord with the digger and lover of all thinks sytnthed to the funkiest in me! Not sure about Animal Collective, need to hear some more, but this remix is positivley great, even if Summer is coming to an end bang this for the final weeks we got!

And for all my PDX heads, be sure to check out The Fix (at the Someday Lounge) September 10th where he'll be playing!

Oh... did I mention the rumors of an interview over at the other TML... Stay tuned!

Weezy & The Roots?

This is why I love the Roots! They just join up with anyone and make 'em sound dope! I like me some Weezy, but this beat (sure it knocks!) is so lame. Good to see Questo and Thought supporting young dude - he needs more elders in his life.