Livin' Free - In God We Thrust

Livin' Free - In God We Thrust (Stray Frankz, 2011)

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Recorded along years back, this new Livin' Free release came out of nowhere last week on Stray Frankz, you can grab it for free off there and get their last tape through My Idea of Fun by clicking that first link in this paragraph. Check the opening track in this video I'm about to post.

Joe Versus The Volcano - Soul Glo

Joe Versus The Volcano - Soul Glo [single] (2011, Stray Frankz)

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Another new single from Joe Versus The Volcano, who I talked the world of on here last month. This one's also getting the Stray Frankz single treatment, as well as another killer Soul Train inspired video that I'll be throwing down there for you.

Catch and keep up at Joe's Tumblr, but first head down below and let it shine through.

February Fourteenth - My Stay, My Home

February Fourteenth - My Stay, My Home (2011, Stray Frankz)

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First release since 2009 from the team of Evan DiFlauro (The Sleepy Trees, ARC) and Kevin Horvath (The Sunflower Spectacle)

This is some of their best sounding stuff yet, you can download their two previous ep's from My Idea of Fun and watch this video of them performing "My Stay My Home" last Friday at the Fireman's.

Joe Versus the Volcano - Snowstorm From Static

Joe Stavish has been blowing me away for as long as I can remember. First, early last decade drumming in The Alan Smithee Project with Matt and Mike Miller and then year after year killin' it with A Brand New Jersey. Imagine my excitement when I found this brand new track on Stray Frankz last week, and a little research got me EVEN MORE excited when I found two videos he posted a few months ago. I'm gonna throw the track down below as well as those two videos, expect more as soon as yours truly gets his grubby hands on some.

Joe Versus the Volcano - Snowstorm From Static

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New Stuff from Troy Bugosh and Evan DiFlauro

While Troy Bugosh and Evan DiFlauro are still busy working on the brand new ARC album, they each put out new one-off recordings for Stray Frankz recently.

Bugosh with Missing Beats:

Missing Beats - 01 (2011, Stray Frankz)

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and Diflauro with Three Ideas

Evan Diflauro - Three Ideas from Evan DiFlauro (2011, Stray Frankz)

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Juicy Fruit

Curren$y - Pilot Talk 

(2010, BluRoc)

Read about it here, you can listen to some samples and pick it up on Amazon,  but i suppose you can buy it just about anywhere. 

This is Curren$y's third full length, his last release was the Smokee Robinson mixtape back in February. Pilot Talk is honestly better than I even hoped it would be.
 (link courtesy of 2dopeboyz)

This feels like it picks up right where the vibes of Wiz Khalifa's Kush and Orange Juice left off back in April,  and speaking of the Wiz, this came out on Friday:

Wiz Khalifa - Flight 420 Mixtape
(2010, TGILifestyle & Pitpanther01)

Download it at DatPiff 

I'm not sure of how official this is, but it is worth some of your attention for the exclusives. Dat New Khalifa seems to have a wealth of information along with free downloads of all 6 official Wiz Khalifa mixtapes. 

Things That Are Still Here 
 
This showed up on N E W K I D today, and it's definitely something I'd like to hear a lot more of. N E W K I D is Evan DiFlauro's blog, he's been in a fair amount of bands with releases on Stray Frankz and My Idea of Fun. 

  NYKDLN - In My Childhood 
(2010, My Idea of Fun)


Free Download at NYKDLN's Bandcamp

"...duck and dail for the latter half of bright morning walks."

Wise Blood -  `​+​`

 (2010)

Free download at Wise Blood's Bandcamp

This has definitely been making it's rounds the past couple days, but that's because it's really good! I guess this came out back in May and it's from Pittsburgh which is also cool. 

Cruise to this.