So last week Hoodie Allen dropped the first track, “Cake Boy“ from his next mixtape Crew Cuts and it got kind of a mixed response cause it wasn’t like your traditional Hoodie cut with the switched up happy go lucky samples and fun sing along choruses. But it was showcasing Hoodie as a guy who can do more than rhyme witty wordplay over happy go lucky samples and sing along choruses. For those that were worried, thou shalt not fear cause HA has delivered. “Fame Is For Assholes” is back to familiar ground dropping names and wit waiting for all of us to figure it out and pick it up, with a feature from Chiddy Bang.

Chiddy Bang have just dropped their latest release Mind Your Manners. And it’s very good. Its a great taster for their upcoming LP Breakfast. Excited about that one. (oh and this one’s pretty good for summer too…)

Chiddy Bang - Mind Your Manners by Sound Aurora

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Here’s what we had to say music wise in May.

Joshua McClain

Foster The People (debut album Torches out now)

Gypsy & The Cat

Chiddy Bang (new mixtape Peanut Butter & Swelly out now)

Adele

Baths

Hoodie Allen

Walter Meego

Bran Van 3000

Teen Daze (new album Surfaces available August 9th)

The Weeknd

The Belle Brigade

The Temper Trap (fantastic remix of Love Lost by Keljet)

jj

Macklemore

Death Cab For Cutie (new album Codes and Keys out now, check out You Are A Tourist)

Theme Park

The Hood Internet (great mash up of Ratatat and Michael Jackson)

Alcoholic Faith Mission

St. Lucia

Bon Iver (tracks from their sophomore album Bon Iver)

The Antlers (check out our Daytrotter Sessions double shot)

Atmosphere

1,2,3

Chet Faker (amazing cover of Blackstreet’s No Diggity)

Little Tybee

Airbird (awesome remix/cover of Surfer Girl by The Beach Boys)

Echo & The Bunnymen

Theophilus London

Clock Opera (video for our favourite Belongings has been released)

Adrian Lux

Tracey Thorn

Barbara (definitely check out their amazing cover of Kid Cudi)

The Rosebuds (Woods is a must have)

Malbec

The Phoenix Foundation

The Civil Wars (amazing duo, fantastic album + awesome Billie Jean cover)

E-Dubble (First single I Changed My Mind available to download)

The National (Fake Empire special)

Francis & The Lights

The Naked and Famous

Matt & Kim

Bear Hands (Crime Pays needs to be in your ears)

The Shins (Sleeping Lessons special)

James Vincent McMorrow

Hope you enjoyed May. 

Back with a brand new mixtape for the summer, Chiddy Bang have just dropped the Peanut Butter & Swelly mixtape. Available to download from here at illroots.com. Its everything we expect from Chiddy Bang as always bringing the original and the samples to make a mixtape perfect for rocking this summer. There are some great collaborations on this including one with our favourites The Knocks on When You’ve Got Music and Heatwave with Mac Miller that we posted up a whiles back. Here’s a few tracks to wet your whistle for the mixtape…

15 When You’ve Got Music (Ft. The Kn by tnmuploads

02 The Whistle Song by tnmuploads

01 Cameras by tnmuploads

12 Dancing With The DJ [Remix] by tnmuploads

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Here’s another one for the summer, new from Chiddy Bang Heatwave feat. Mac Miller. Turn this up.

Chiddy Bang featuring Mac Miller - Heatwave by Hypetrak

We’re not really sure where we should put this artist, whether we feature them through Remix, Baby or disCover. It’s definitely in You Should Own This, so let’s take it from there. Chiddy Bang is an alternate hip hop group that made a name for themselves remixing and sampling bands such as Radiohead, MGMT, Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, The Naked and Famous and Tinie Tempah to name a few. Their mini-mixtape release Air Swell and (big) mixtape The Swelly Express cemented Chiddy Bang firmly in the music mainstream and as artists in their own right and caught the attention of UK record label Parlophone.

(UNRELEASED) by Chiddy Bang

Chiddy Bang x The Naked & Famous - “Young Blood” (Remix) by Pretty Much Amazing

and their remix of Ellie Goulding’s Under The Sheets

Under The Sheets (Ellie Goulding Remix)

Visit http://www.chiddy-bang.com for more info. Follow them on twitter http://www.twitter.com/chiddybang