What does your mind conjure up when thinking of the name Gin Joints & Young Ivy? Another T Pain, Drake, Lil Wayne clone? Well you’ll be dead wrong.

Sweden’s Gin Joints and Young Ivy combine to deliver one of the best slept on albums of 2009. The Conjugal Visit is everything true heads expect from a Hip Hop album. That quality Boom Bap mixed with Soul music so many Hip Hop fans around world love.

Recorded over three weeks in Luleå,Sweden while young Ivy was on holiday  from attending Dartmouth College. The album is quite impressive for two guys from Sweden. In era of autotune and talking over music rather true emceeing it’s refreshing (and sad) to hear people outside of the US bringing good  music to the masses.

1. Intro
2. Round Here
3. On Point
4. Faithful ft. DJ Hands
5. What feat. Planet Asia & Kashal-tee
6. Speak Truth
7. Tryin to Make It
8. The Conjugal Visit

Direct Download (71 MB)

Listen to Faithful ft DJ Hands HERE
Listen to The Conjugal Visit HERE

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Japan top Hip Hop producer DJ Honda released his new album H IV back in August and now a new video to go along the single “Let It Out” featuring Rakaa Iriescience from Dilated Peoples and Money Harm from The Product G & B.  As evidenced by this top notch joint DJ Honda is an expert when it comes to quality Hip Hop.

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Wow, talk about shocking! A industry produced mixtape that actually has mixing on it.

At first my expectations were pretty low considering  Duck Down’s 2008 mixtape “Hotline” but this collection of tunes from Duck Down artists is pretty golden. The only exception being Kidz In Hall’s “Flickin”. Why was that song included I don’t hazard a guess but “Mixed Emotions” and “No Love” by Team Facelift more than makeup for that minor stumble.

All in all with the likes of KRS One,DJ Revolution,Team Facelift, Ruste Juxx, Blue Scholars, Oh No, Torae, Sean Price and of course Buckshot himself this industry produced mixtape is far superior than most.

Now you have give a name and email address to receive the mixtape but not all is lost. You can use a fake name (say “John Doe” or  “Dick Hurtz”) and fake email address (yousuck at yahoo.com), which is what I did. So go ahead people use your favorite celebrity’s name or make one up and grab this mixtape.

Download Here (89 MB)

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Heavy rock kings Coalesce and everyone’s favorite space-rock Boston-ites Cave In are playing a FREE show sponsored by none other than Scion at the Knitting Factory this Thursday. This is an amazing line-up and one for rock fans not to miss.

RSVP here:  http://www.scion.com/metalshow/

If you haven’t heard of the bands, here are some clips of their music:

Coalesce - “A Digust For Details”

Cave In - “Inspire” (Live at Reading Festival 2003)

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Now I know we have alot MF Doom fanatics out there and this is especially for you. Fellow Blogger (and DJ) Pipomixes has produced a great mix of Doom joints for you all to enjoy. Personally I can feel Zev Love X way more than Doom but sadly Zev’s forever gone.

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Vinnie Paz from Jedi Mind Tricks unveils the first single from his upcoming solo album The Assassin’s Creed.  “Drag You To Hell”  produced by DJ Kwestion is not as rough and rugged as the usual tunes from Jedi Mind Tricks but it still has that Jedi flavor to it.

 

 Drag You To Hell - Vinnie Paz [4:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Here it is….some “new” La Coka Nostra music. Finally LCN fans have reason to rejoice.

This in the second collection of  LCN related projects released by Suburban Noize and like the other release (100 % Pure Coka) most of the material isn’t new nor even LCN songs but a collection of tracks from LCN members  released on other projects throughout the years. However at least we have six new LCN tunes to add to our collection. 6 out of 17 isn’t bad after all. As well as La Coka Nostra uploaded many tracks from their upcoming and long awaited album “A Brand You Can Trust” (in stores July 14th) on their myspace site:

www.myspace.com/lacokanostra

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 Bang Bang - La Coka Nostra ft. Snoop Dogg [2:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Can't Live Like This - La Coka Nostra [2:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Coke - Slaine ft. U God & Raekwon [3:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Alexisonfire is a Canadian-based hardcore punk band that has been fusing abrasive clashing guitarwork along with curiously catchy choruses for almost a decade now. Past albums such as “Watch Out!” and “Crisis” have received multiple Gold certifications in Canada and accolades such as “Band of the Year” from the renowned Juno Awards and SPIN.com in 2005. “Old Crows/Young Cardinals” is the band’s latest full-length offering and demonstrates the band at full-force with guitarist/vocalist Dallas Green (of solo City & Colour fame) concocting some of the best lyrical and musical content the band has seen yet.

Here’s the band’s first single from the album entitled, “Young Cardinals”. Even if you don’t dig the band’s music, you’ll probably sure as hell will be impressed by the fact that they shot their video beneath Niagara Falls. MP3’s to come!

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