After months of time and dedication, we - Kerowack and Ginsgood - have made the difficult decision to end BeatniksandBling.com. We would like to thank all of our fans who have encouraged us - through site visits as well as emails - to continue blogging over the last few months. We gurantee that this is not a final goodbye, but merely a moment of transition. In the future, the Beatniks' will continue to share the best in indie, hip hop and electronic and we hope you will continue to follow. Follow us on twitter @saeedbar and @mobarhoush.
Kid Cudi, Best Coast, & Rostam Batmanglij (of Vampre Weekend) teamed up to make a song for Converse. Click the link below to go to the Converse website to stream the song.
DC representative, Phil Ade, dropped his free album today. I've been waiting for this for a while so I'm really excited to listen to it. Download the zip file below.
So here's an extra special tape for July 4th weekend and the rest of the summer. DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mick Boogie put together some of their all time favorite summer jams. Check the 50-song-long tracklist after the jump. Download the tape below.
My friend DJ Mecc1 has been has been running a weekly hip hop podcast in which he mixes various genres of Hip Hop pretty nicely. This week he blends some 1920s European shiz with some Hip Hop featuring verses from Black Thought, Binary Star, Cannibal Ox, Yesuah Da Poed, and Wale Oyejide. The link below takes you to his website where you can download and stream the mix.
Here's a video of Chiddy Bang's "Sooner Or Later". The video was filmed by Chiddy himself in Nigeria. Make sure you watch it all the way through to get some funny moments of interview at the end.
Here's a remix of Janelle Monae's single off of The ArchAndroid. Bobby and Lu's flows are on point. Check out the video above. Download and stream the track below.
The Beatniks do not encourage illegal downloading. All songs on Beatniks and Bling are posted in order to introduce listeners to new artists. If you like what you hear, we encourage you to buy that artist’s CD and attend his/her shows. In addition, if you are an artist or own the copyrights to any songs and would like us to remove them from our site, we will happily do so. Just contact us. Likewise, we also encourage artists to contact us if they'd like to have their music posted onto the site. The Beatniks can be contacted at beatniksandbling@gmail.com
