Tom Waits, Live in Akron, Ohio [Live]
This summer, Tom Waits will perform in 13 cities, including Knoxville and Mobile. These live MP3s from a show in Akron two years ago should satiate the spurned until Waits’ next outing, when he will tour the third ring of Saturn, the 400 block of 52nd Street in Leonard, North Dakota and the year 1956.

Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir, “Know How Theme” [Young MC Remix]
This sizzling, kinetic remix from Baltimore producers LaCrate and Samir is enough to revitalize Young MC’s whole career. He had flow! Who knew?

Raekwon feat. Ghostface, “Necro” [Advance Track]
Could someone please release Only Built 4 Cuban Links 2? Please? Can we send in some kind of hostage-negotiating team to Aftermath to bargain with Dr. Dre? Because if the rest of it sounds anything like this, it’s going to be the hip-hop record of the year — we’re just afraid that year is going to be 2067.

Alphabeat, “Digital Love” [Daft Punk Cover]
Danish group Alphabeat turn Daft Punk’s “Digital Love” into a charming bit of acoustic pop. Almost immediately thereafter, they received cease-and-desist from Kanye West, who furiously insists that he invented Daft Punk, and that he is coming off the road to decapitate all of them.

Papoose, “My Girl (To Remy)” [Mixtape Track]
Papoose, who has been the Next King of New York for going on 27 years now, asks wife-to-be Remy Ma, “Why would I need a handcuff key/when I got the key to your heart?” Here’s the answer: to break you out of prison.

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