By Andrew Adam Newman – NY Times

ON Hulu, the popular Web site that streams free television shows and other video, users have proved to be perfectly willing to watch short commercials, and a new site is betting that the same willingness will apply to downloading music.

FreeAllMusic.com, which began a test version for invited users on Dec. 22 and plans to open to the public in January, will allow users to download songs, which may be copied and shared — unencumbered, in other words, by digital rights management restrictions.

In return, instead of paying 99 cents a song as on iTunes, users must first watch a 15- to 30-second advertisement. [Read More]

Mixed by Yaz Higashiya @ SoleFood NYC 

01. Pismo – Fitting in
02. Mos Def – Another World ft. Talib Kweli (Ambivalence Remix) 
03. Aota With Skyscraper – Rythmysticism
04. Q-Tip – Higher
05. Jurassic 5 – One Two
06. Lyrics Born – Hello (remix)
07. Gorillaz – 19-2000
08. Speech – Yeah Yeah
09. Q-Ill – Tokion Jazz
10. Jamiroquai – Alright
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By Jon Caramanica – NY Times

“TIK TOK,” a zippy and salacious celebration of late nights and mornings-after by a new artist named Ke$ha, has spent the last few weeks zooming toward the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Along with “Rapture,” the 1981 hit by Blondie, it’s one of the most successful white-girl rap songs of all time.

Actually, that depends on who you ask.

“TiK ToK” is sung in the chorus and rapped in the verses, enhanced by Auto-Tune in a few places, in keeping with its electro-pop production. There are even a couple of ad-libs by Diddy, and a line that appears to be borrowed from Jermaine Dupri. [Read More]

By Christopher R. Weingarten – The Village Voice

If Spin was right to name “Your Hard Drive” the best album of 2000, we’d like to formally nominate “The Internet” as Most Unforgiving Asshole of the 2000s. As of ’09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating from the launch of their MySpace pages, thanks to the comically accelerated, DSL-enhanced hype cycle. Faster than you can tweet “Serena Maneesh,” entire genres of music are “discovered” by attention-starved writers; bloggers engage in hilarious slap-fights about who was there first; magazines feel pressured into writing clueless, hackazoid, late-pass trend pieces; bands get elevated to a critical mass of attention they can’t possibly handle; and the phenomenon is promptly abandoned once we find a newer, shinier toy to play with. [Read More]

By Alex Littlefield – Newyork Press

This fall, the 76-year-old artist released Between My Head and the Sky, her first album since 1973, with the Plastic Ono Band, and a release that marked her first time sharing the studio with her son, Sean Lennon. Additionally, 2009 saw Ono drag a pile of awards back to The Dakota, including a Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Venice Biennale, and the release of the Don’t Stop Me EP. If that wasn’t enough, in recent years, Ono has racked up five number-one dance singles. What were you doing all decade?

Alex Littlefield recently got Ono on the phone to see how she managed to make it through 2009 intact. [Read More]

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Mixed by DJMonchan

01. King Sunny Ade – Ja Fumi
02. Massak – B.L.A
03. Aphrodesia – Say What
04. Akoya Afrobeat Feat.Cedric I’m Brooks – Jeje L’aiye
05. Aphrodesia – Make Up Your Mind
06. Groove Collective – Buddha Head
07. Repercussions – Find Your Way
08. Shazz – Carry On
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10. Sk Radicals – Troubled Times?
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