“When TMT stops publishing, it feels like the whole music world stops.”
– nobody
Welcome back to Tiny Mix Tapes! We love you all.
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While we were gone:
• Lil B has granted Frank Ocean studio time with The BasedGod. Orange Flame mixtape?
• Legowelt surprise-dropped an ambient album on Bandcamp.
• The Pirate Bay was raided and taken offline by police. Piracy is officially over with!
• Drake re-released iLoveMakonnen’s brilliant self-titled EP on December 15 as… a totally different EP. Because that’s what he does. He ruins everything. (JK!)
• Dr. Dre was the top-earning musician of 2014 at $620 million, which made Beyoncé, top-earning artist #2, look like she was barely earning minimum wage at $115 million. But don’t worry. Thanks to the trickle-down theory, we’ll be seeing some of that $620 million trickling down from Dr. Dre’s jet made out of dollar bills.
• Lil Ugly Mane vaped it.
• Apple is now offering refunds on iTunes purchases, even if just because you think an album is shitty (think that’s how it works…).
• SXSW is facing lawsuits from the families of the victims of 2014’s tragic car crash. RIP.
• Picture Thom Yorke checking his spam box for the Bandcamp account confirmation email, his ponytail gently swaying in the air, causing dimples in the fabric of the spacetime continuum.
• A. G. Cook is 24 years old!
• NY producer Lil Jabba released a new EP 47 on Local Action.
• Fuck tha police!! In other news, the N.W.A. biopic has a trailer.
• Kanye West dropped a new track with Macca.
• The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney dislocated his shoulder, after, according to TMZ, “a humongous wave slammed him to the ocean floor.”
• Rap, always the most active genre in December, had a big month, with releases by Lil Herb, Katie Got Bandz, Chinx Drugz, Kevin Gates, Fabolous, Zuse, Gucci Mane, Rich the Kid, B.O.B., Mike Jones, etc.