In the past six months, The Golden Filter has gone from mystery band du jour to blog darlings to major player remixers (Cut Copy, Peter Bjorn & John)… and now to their biggest news yet: the Golden Filter will be opening for The Presets on their North American tour this Sping!! Wild! The Golden Filter [...]

Ready for another mixtape sunday/Tuesday? Everything in music tends to get slow around the holidays either due to lack of material or pure sloth. But now that the craziness is over, let’s start this party with a bang….. The Lillis Brothers are two guys from Athens, Greece who may be physically far from most of [...]

Mixtape Sunday on a Monday, short and sweet….here’s a champagne toast to a wonderful new year full of innovative and inspiring new music. Here are Tronik Youth’s musical predictions for what’s going to be big in 2008…. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tronik Youth – Best of 2008 Mixtape Another great mixtape from [...]

Wow a ‘Mixtape Sunday’ posted ON Sunday (as of 5:41 PST)!?! I was debating whether to post this special Italo edition as a ChristmasHannukahKwanzaa present or post it next week as the ‘champagne toast’ to start off the new year. It’s too good to hold to so let’s sample some real music….. Tronik Youth is [...]

Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about Mixtape Sundays and my deepest apologies if you’ve been fiending for some good chunks of music to sustain you through the work week. So enough jabber, let’s get to it… I’ll start off with a mixtape by Tronik Youth aka the man who can survive on four hours of [...]

So my apologies that our ‘Mixtape Sunday/Monday’ has been put off until Tuesday, but here’s a different mix for each remaining day of the work week! Here’s the latest mixtape from The Glass. You can always expect an excellent song selection from these guys…..Listen and learn. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Glass [...]

I thought Clash the Disco Kids were kidding when their Myspace profile said they were from Singapore, but they’re for real. They may be halfway around the world from most of us, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know good music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Clash The Disko Kids – You say [...]

Hope you guys had a great weekend. Us Americans are always looking for a reason to have a holiday, so we celebrated our ‘Labor Day’ this weekend…hence why ‘Mixtape Sunday’ that usually is posted on Monday has now been posted on Tuesday. Now it’s back to work, and here’s a few mixtapes we got this [...]

Oh, yet another installment of ‘Mixtape Sunday’ on a Monday. This week, we bring you two very different mixes. The first is ‘Fake Summer’ from the Art Directors in Ghent, Belgium. It’s definitely worth a download due to its gritty sound and unusual remix selection….not your typical blog fodder. They were super hesitant about posting [...]

Back this week with another edition of Mix Tape Sunday. Kinda have a lot for you all this week since we took last Sunday off. 1) First up is a mix by the Black Ghosts. Who doesn’t love the Black Ghosts? They’ve been a BIGSTEREO favorite for many, many months now. Their mix is a [...]

Ohmygoodness. So many mixes… so little time. 1) First up: Bald Eagle out of Chicago sent in the this one — Midwest taking over. He starts out with his very own Spektrum vs. Hollwood Holt edit. Hot. Notice the Spektrum vibe running through most of these mixes this week. Love it. [Audio clip: view full [...]

We gets lot of mix tape submissions. Lots and lots. It’s often hard to pick and choose which to post because it’s often like comparing apples and oranges. Like someone might have an excellent track list but their mixing skills suck or someone might be at the top of their game but their track list [...]