Late last week, after tweeting about my intentions to pick up one of Fur Face Boy’s Series III shirts (specifically the FFB Fancy) I received a DM response with a coupon code good for 15% off my order. Using the code sent over by Fur Face Boy I bought a shirt and then waited for Monday to roll around for it to arrive.

Opening the package Monday afternoon I found the shirt I ordered along with a second shirt and a note written on the bottom of the PayPal receipt. What was this? Threw in an extra shirt for the hell of it? That’s good enough reason for me! When was the last time you bought something and were surprised with extras thrown in “for the hell of it?” Sans promotional items or stickers, it’s only happened to me once. Not that I don’t like stickers, the back of my laptop is covered in them and it’s recently been expanded to include the Fur Face Boy sticker that came with the shirts.

Support your local creatives, whether it be designers of clothing, producers of music, or owners of stores. Not only do you get away from the mundane commercial filth that fills stores and radio stations, but you get to build an actual relationship with the people behind the products.

Find Fur Face Boy’s clothing at Adikt, Centre, Good Records, and We Are 1976 if you’re in the area, or you can always order straight from the source at furfaceboy.com. Follow Fur Face Boy on Twitter, he’ll be the first to let you know when the new FFB lines are released.

P.S. I’ve been sick for a little over a week and been eating lots of soups and drinking lots of hot chocolate. The day I wore the new blue shirt I got Pho splattered all over the thing. It’ll be clean again soon once it meets with the washing machine. Thanks again for the great designs and the extra shirt Ha!

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I’ve shared some Sore Losers and KillaMC with you in the past and here comes another hard hitter from the Brain Gang, Tunk. Knowing the quality of most local artists I’ll admit I was skeptical as I downloaded the mixtape and prepared to listen to it for the first time, but any feeling of skepticism should have been wiped away by Tunk’s inclusion in the Brain Gang. That group is not capable of doing anything wrong.

Tunk – Intro

After unzipping Talk Of The Town and importing it to iTunes I hit play and started with the first track, the intro. At this point I’m already warming up. Delivery is great and production is solid, but there isn’t much going on yet. It is just the intro after all.

Tunk – This Is Me

Here comes “This Is Me,” the second track out of the 16 included on Talk Of The Town. All I needed to hear was the minute from 1:15 to 2:15 and I was sold. Although “This Is Me” isn’t my favorite track on the album, that is unarguably the best minute of hip hop on the mixtape and maybe even the best minute of hip hop the year is going to see.

Talk Of The Town continues showing strength through the remaining 14 tracks on the mixtape and is sprinkled with the familiar voices of Vincent Brown from Sore Losers and ThatKidThuro as well as some phone-in feedback from Tunk’s God Mom. The inclusion of feedback or skits on albums has been really hit or miss in the past, but I rarely find myself skipping the two feedback tracks since I can’t help but smile out of her show of support and opinions on the mixtape.

My top three tracks off of this mixtape are “Got Me Trippin’,” “You Don’t Work, You Don’t Eat,” and “Talk Of The Town.” The only way you’re going to get to listen to those is to go to Tunk’s bandcamp and listen or download the album there. You’ll want to do the latter, I’ve been listening to this mixtape every day for over a week.

New track from A.Dd+’s upcoming album When Pigs Fly. Check out the track below and get ready for the album’s release mid-May.

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Take a look at the designs here and you can also find their store on their main site UnkommonKolor.com.

Below is the Baxter shirt which I grabbed as soon as it went on sale. UNKO posted a teaser a couple of days ago and I had a feeling that’s who was on this shirt. Can’t pass up on Ninja Turtles nostalgia!

Damaged Good$ – The Great Escape. Track is from the album “$pread Love Not Germ$” which you can pick up on bandcamp for free. dmgeez.bandcamp.com

A.Dd+ – Po’ My Liqua. Track is from the album “The 808 Presents Power Of The Tongue.” Also on bandcamp for free. addplus.bandcamp.com

The White Panda – Shooting Superstars. The mashup kings are back and they’ve brought Eminem with them. Download the track and surf their website for all of their other five star chicks remixes. thewhitepanda.com

Sore Losers are playing at NX35 in Denton and are rumored to have an appearance at SXSW. They’re going to take over soon, so pay attention.

Big shout to Unkommon Kolor for the great work on the video. They’re spring line is coming soon so keep an eye out.

Anonymous [Twitter | MySpace] – The AnonymousCulture EPK from Dallas-area artist Anonymous landed in my inbox about a week back. My favorite track from the EPK is Summertime, but that doesn’t mean the other two aren’t great as well. Give them all a listen, check out a couple more of his tracks on his MySpace, and let him know what you think by @ing him on Twitter.

Anonymous – Groove

LehtMoJoe ft Anonymous – Move pt. 2

Anonymous – Summertime

Summertime & Play Around produced by Blue from Sore Losers. Blue has beats for sale on his Bandcamp page.