Song of the Day: Kid Cudi, Best Coast, & Rostam Batmanglij

Three unlikely artists teamed up today, for a free download available at the Converse website. The summer anthem is appropriately named All Summer, and features Kid Cudi dropping rhymes, Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast singing the chorus, all to Rostam Batmanglij's (of Vampire Weekend) music/melody. As the title implies, the track is a whole lot of fun, so check it out, and if you dig it,  click the link and download it.

Song of the Day: Kid Cudi - 50 Ways to Make a Record

Sampling Paul Simon's classic, 50 Ways to Leave a Lover, Kid Cudi takes the smooth track, adds a subtle beat and a soft flow, and manages to make it fresh. Cudi and his crew seem to be pretty good at that though, as they take tracks from all sorts of genres, and manage to make them into legitimate hip-hop songs. The mixtape is full of great transformations , like The Prayer, which samples Band of Horses' The Funeral, and Save my Soul, which borrows from Gnarls Barkley. His debut album, not even a year old, was a great record, and he already has a follow up planned to be released this year.