How to Dress Well-The Wire exclusive mix

Everyone's favorite indie R&B'ers How to Dress Well have released an exclusive DJ mix on the website of the British music magazine The Wire. Go here to download or stream it. After a breakout 2010 that included the release of How To Dress Well's universally acclaimed first album Love Remains, Tom Krell has kept the momentum going releasing mixes like this and interesting covers and b-sides. It was only a matter of time before lo-fi indie was crossed with mainstream R&B, but How to Dress Well have executed such a combination better than any. Check out How to Dress Well's blog for more mp3s and random musings about Tom Krell's favorite music.

DOWNLOAD: How to Dress Well-Ready for the World
DOWNLOAD: How to Dress Well-I Wish (R. Kelly cover)

Track-list for How to Dress Well's The Wire mix after the jump

Heems (of Das Rascist)-Teenage Dream

Rapper Heems from the group Das Rascist has laid down a few verses over a slowed-down, manly-sounding Katy Perry loop from "Teenage Dream." After Das Rascist came out of nowhere with the 2008 novelty hit "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" they established themselves with two 2010 mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man both available for free download here. Das Rascist are a hard group to pin down due to their tongue and cheek style, exemplified by the song"hahahaha jk?" off Sit Down, Man that includes the chorus "were not joking, just joking, we are joking, just joking, were not joking." Heems' take on "Teenage Dream" is no exception. Whether you like their rapping style or not, Das Rascist have the Pitchfork Media stamp of approval so they will inevitably be mainstays around the blogsphere well into the foreseeable future.

DOWNLOAD: Das Racist-Combination Taco Bell and Pizza Hut (Wallpaper remix)
DOWNLOAD: Das Racist-hahahaha jk?
DOWNLOAD: Heems-Teenage Dream

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis-"My Oh My" video

Here's Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' video for their new Dave Niehaus inspired song "My Oh My." Though a lot of Macklemore's songs have a decidedly Seattle bent, Macklemore and Lewis make not only the best hip-hop but the best music coming out of Seattle. Lewis is a wizard on the production side of things and Macklemore is a passionate and unique MC. If you haven't checked them out yet highlights include the Red Hot Chili Peppers sampling "Otherside" and the party tune "Irish Celebration." Look for more in the near future from this team and check out their upcoming tour schedule here.

DOWNLOAD: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis-Irish Celebration
DOWNLOAD: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis-Otherside

Kanye West and Jay Z-H.A.M.

The first single off the Kanye and Jay-Z collaboration album Watch the Throne was released today on the albums' Facebook page. While the song is good the real winner is Kanye's co-producer Lex Luger. Luger has produced a few of 2010 best songs including Rick Ross' "Blowin Money Fast," Kanye's "See Me Now," and most of Waka Flocka's debut Flockaveli including beat of the year candidate "Hard in the Paint." Luger is only 19 years old but the creative freedom and exposure of working with Kanye seems to be rubbing off on him the right way. At this point the sky is the limit for Luger and the production on "H.A.M." doesn't disappoint.

H.A.M. official artwork:

jj-Kills mixtape

The weeded-out Swedish stoners bring their hazy vocals to more top 40 hip hop on their new Kills mixtape. Head over to their label site at Sincerely Yours to cop the whole mixtape or check out the "Empire State of Mind" sampling highlight "New Work" below.

DOWNLOAD: jj-New Work

Josh Groban on Kanye West

Josh Groban...great voice but not my cup of tea. Josh Groban singing Kanye West tweets...definitely my cup of tea. I wasn't sure if these were actual tweets but it appears that they are all straight from the most entertaining twitter on the planet http://twitter.com/#!/kanyewest. Speaking of Kanye, most of the preview links of his absolutely insane-looking, mind-boggling, model-killing "Monster" video have been taken down but the finished product appears to be almost done so look for that to drop soon.

DOWNLOAD: Mikey Chuck Rivers-Runaway (Kanye West cover)