DJ OG Ron C just released Purple All Day — a chopped and screwed version of Girl Talk’s excellent All Day album (which we enthusiastically posted HERE). Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) linked up with the legendary Houston producer and gushed, “It’s an honor for OG Ron C to give my album the screwed and chopped […]

Mash-ups are fun pretty much no matter what. This rap-punk mash-up is no exception. Mixing the messages of rap — and the parties — with the parties — and message — of Punk, Max Tannone releases his newest genre animorphing, Mic Check 1234. Tannone, formerly known as Minty Fresh Beats, really understands the mash-up. “I chop up […]

Keyboardist Rostam Batmangilj of Vampire Weekend (and brilliant producer. See bands: The Very Best, Discovery, Boys Like Us, as well as his self-produced solo project, Rostam) has taken Carly Rae Jepsen’s ever so catchy “Call Me Maybe” and matched it up with singer, songwriter, philanthropist & Eurythmics icon Annie Lennox’s “Walking on Broken Glass”. The […]

This goes back a couple years, but since I was just turned onto it many of you out there may not know it either. In the great tradition of long form hip-hop inspired mash-up mixtapes like Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers, Wugazi: 13 Chambers and A Shaolin Jazz Tribute comes Bobb Deep: Queensbridge Meets Kingston, […]

Pittsburgh’s resident mashup king Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, is back with his fourth album today, All Day (remember his NYE Chicago Documentary?). Probably a good day for the release to take his mind off things, considering the ass whomping his beloved Steelers suffered last night at the hands of their rival Patriots. Although it’s […]

Much beloved Echo Park trio Mansions On The Moon released their Paradise Falls mixtape and boy does it live up to the hype. Having already collaborated with N*E*R*D, Willy Joy, Xaphoon Jones (Chiddy Bang, who are playing our party next Tuesday) and Diplo and DJ Benzi — who mixed the set — their heavily harmonized […]

Today PitchforkTV debuted their documentary covering Girl Talk’s much buzzed about New Year’s Eve concert in Chicago of this year. If you’ve ever seen Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) live, you know he’s one of the most energized, fist-in-the-air performers out there. The blood and sweat Pittsburgh’s favorite son pours into each show is undeniable, […]

“This is not a mashup album, this is an album about Wayne,” claims the producer of (500) Days of Weezy — a 15-song homage to the craziest man left in the rap game. From My Sick Uncle: “Weezy F. Baby might be staring at the same four walls for the next few months, but that […]