
For the second Halloween in a row, The Two. Fifteens have cooked up an exclusive mix for you RTD fiends out there. 2011 has been a dope year from them, getting some great looks from the likes of Benji B , Starkey and other major players, as well as putting out projects like The Commute Vol. 1 , as well as remix Nappy 's "This Is Anger" . They've got a grip of heat in [...]

For the second Halloween in a row, The Two. Fifteens have cooked up an exclusive mix for you RTD fiends out there. 2011 has been a dope year from them, getting some great looks from the likes of Benji B , Starkey and other major players, as well as putting out projects like The Commute Vol. 1 , as well as remix Nappy 's "This Is Anger" . They've got a grip of heat in [...]
The Magician is back this week with his new mixtape, the Fifteen! As usual, a clever and disco house oriented mix including some really fresh fish! Enjoy. Magic Tape Fifteen by TheMagician The Magician's new single "I Don't Know What To Do" feat. Jeppe (you can already listen to the original here) will be out [...]

Not just one but two things to download from The Two.Fifteens, ahead of the release of their new album Effective When Used After . We previously had The Two.Fifteens here . The brothers Abe and Andrew produce a mix of IDM and dunstep. First up, a track from the album. Bangin' On My Chest isn't King Kong tubthumper you might imagine. This is an electronic dub track. But not dubstep this time. Full of electronic squeals, spaces and imminent menace. This has the tension and simmering possibilities that my part of London feels right now. [...]

Download: The Two. Fifteens-The Commute Vol. 1 ( limelinx )( hulkshare )( mediafire )

New compilation of sick bass-fueled bangers from The Two. Fifteens . I've had a couple of these on deck, like "Tap Dance Massacre" , "I Shake. Now" and more, and it just has all of the shit I need. "Tap Dance Massacre" is straight dubfunk with a bit of those eerie Aphex Twin melodies creeping around, while in other spots, they bring the sick sublow fury to Nas & Damian Marley 's "As We Enter" . This is proper dub - they really melt a lot [...]

On May 25th, Rhymesayers will release the swan-song from by Twin Cities-based free jazz/hip-hop ensemble Face Candy , Waste Age Teen Land . The album is currently the last known project completed by the band's frontman, Michael "Eyedea" Larsen, prior his tragic passing in October of 2010. A largely improvised affair, the tracks on Waste Age Teen Land were culled from two-day studio session produced by Brian Johnson (Prince, Eyedea & Abilites) as well as a live set in front of an [...]

As you should know, The Two. Fifteens like to lace RTD with some sick mixes - primarily two tough mixes from the last couple of Halloweens. For this special 4/20 mix, they went in with a dub-wise mentality, not only dropping some of their own gems, but also throwing in tracks from Roy Ayers , DJ Quik , King Midas Sound , Black Chow and plenty more sick artists. You might wanna load up the finest in that special bong of yours take a proper [...]
The single is available now from iTunes http://soundcloud.com/thetwo_f ifteens http://thetwofifteens.tumblr.c om http://thetwofifteens.tumblr.c om http://twitter.com/TheTwoFifte ensFollowing the success of the release of their free EP late last year, The Two. Fifteens – previously known as production duo The Amps – are releasing the first single from their forthcoming album 'Effective When Used After',
The single is available now from iTunes http://soundcloud.com/thetwo_f ifteens http://thetwofifteens.tumblr.c om http://thetwofifteens.tumblr.c om http://twitter.com/TheTwoFifte ensFollowing the success of the release of their free EP late last year, The Two. Fifteens – previously known as production duo The Amps – are releasing the first single from their forthcoming album 'Effective When Used After',

The Two. Fifteens " Tap Dance Massacre ": After getting some good press with … , The Two. Fifteens are back with the first leak from their forthcoming album, Effective When Used After , which is set to drop in April 2011. And this is a great look at their next chapter. Combining a sick set of drums, they get all IDM in the dancehall, pairing some eerie notes alongside some Aphex-esque vibes. The skittering of the drums kind of feel like an interpolation on some of Savion Glover 's [...]

The Two. Fifteens " I Shake. Now ": It's been a minute since The Two. Fifteens dropped ... , and we told you that their Effective When Used After was on the way. Well, this is the first release from their forthcoming album, and it's heavy. Kicks off with a nice call-and-response bleep session, with a steady drum keeping this nice and tidy. Overall mood is ominous, but they keep some otherworldly funk and bounce within the proceedings, with what feels like just a tinge of the quirk to keep [...]
With South by Southwest the major deal this week for most music freaks, it is fitting, and not... Check out Indie Rock Cafe for more songs, artist and band profiles, playlists and videos.
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Allo Darlin' : "Dreaming" [mp3] other Allo Darlin' posts at Largehearted Boy Auld Lang Syne : "My First Soul" [mp3] from Midnight Folly other Auld Lang Syne posts at Largehearted Boy Brent Randall & His Pinecones : "Sage" [mp3] from [...]

Major props to Taylor Swift for swooping into Nashville's Sommet Center and seizing the Female Vocalist, Album Of The Year, Video Of The Year and Entertainer Of The Year categories at the Country Music Association Awards last night. This is probably the point where you insert a Kanye West joke, but let's just skip over that. "I will never forget this moment, because in this moment everything I have ever wanted has just happened to me," the teary-eyed 19-year-old said when she took to the stage after becoming the youngest artist to ever clinch the Entertainer Of The [...]

I've got a trash-strewn, vomit-smeared corner of my heart dedicated to that particular brand of sentimental sensationalism known as the rock book. While academics all over the world scramble to hang haphazard theory all over the world of pop culture, rock books are a simpler affair compared to their highfalutin cousins. They've got bold covers that promise sex, violence and insecurity, and the best of them, despite their generally exploitative nature, deliver high opera. I'm talking Please Kill Me and Cash ; mythic shit. Anyway, while us music writers have mined London and New York for every minor subplot [...]
Taylor Swift has released more of her teen angst filled music. The country musical supernova will debut the above video for " Fifteen " tonight on CMT . " Fifteen Swiftly Made Videos ," a 90 minute special, will feature the song fore its tv debut. All her previous vids will be shown in chronological order for those T.Squints fans. You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors It's the morning of your very first day And you say hi to your friends you ain't seen in a while [...]
More pop punk than you can shake a stick at. From the short-lived Sludgeworth to current stuff that borders on mall-punk, pop punk comes in many different flavors. Consider this a sampler platter. MP3 | MxPx - Punk Rawk Show from the 1995 album Teenage Politics MP3 | All Time Low - Dear Maria Count Me In from the 2007 album So [...]

I loved The Muppet Movie as a kid and re-watching it is still a magical experience. The funny thing is watching years later and seeing the bevy of celebrity cameos: Mel Brooks, Bob Hope, Steve Martin, Milton Berle, Madeline Kahn, Orson Welles(!), Richard Pryor, and more! All the cameos fly over your head as a kid except one: Big Bird! The real stars, of course, are the Muppets themselves who appear in a very meta-narrative with the Muppets gathering in a movie theatre to basically watch how the Muppets all came together and ended up in Hollywood. [...]

This week I give you Fifteen Fifteen was a band from the Bay Area of California fronted by Jeff Ott who is also well known for his time in the band Crimpshrine. Fifteen played political punk rock with messages of drug addiction, homelessness, environmental, and many other hot topics of the time as well as now. Most of the songs were a vehicle to tell stories of Jeff Ott's past and his battles he fought with addiction and the streets. Their sound is one that is dirty punk rock [...]