The Streets Return with Tame Impala-assisted "Call My Phone Thinking I'm Doing Nothing Better" from None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive Mixtape (Island Records)

The Streets was a long-running musical project of English emcee and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner. Skinner was active as The Streets from 1994-2011 and released five full-length albums, one mixtape, an EP, and countless singles. However, following mass of amounts of critical and fan-acclaim, Mike Skinner suddenly decided to dissolve The Streets in 2011. It, then, fell to the wayside as one of his former projects, along with Grafiti and The Beats. Since the dissolution of The Streets, Skinner stayed relatively active, sporadically releasing music as The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light, The D.O.T. Tonga Balloon Gang, and, simply, as Mike Skinner. I can still remember diving around in my car, as a 16/17-year-old with my "little" sister (then, about 12-13) listening to The Streets' "Fit But You Know It," both of us expertly rhyming along every word is terrible faux-Cockney accents. A few years back, when I first created my Spotify account, I put together a fairly comprehensive, ever-evolving playlist featuring "Fit But You Know It," along with a bunch of other Streets stand-outs and Skinner-affiliated projects. Below, you'll see our 113-song Streets playlist, now titled Mike Skinner & The Streets (Mike Skinner Ltd.) to help you re-familiarize yourself.

To widespread surprise/bemusement, Mike Skinner quietly released two new tracks, "Burn Bridges" and "Sometimes I Hate My Friends More Than My Enemies," on streaming services in 2017, both credited to The Streets. The following year, Mike Skinner & The Streets went on two sold out UK tours, ushering in a full-fledged The Streets reunion; Skinner's current Streets line-up includes Kevin Mark Trail, Wayne Bennett, Robert Harvey (The Music, The D.O.T.) Cassell The Beatmaker, and, of course, Mike Skinner himself. Now, a few years later, Skinner has announced the first full-length Streets project since 2011's tandem releases, Cyberspace & Reds/Computers & Blues, fittingly titled None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive. Billed as an officially released "mixtape," the self-described "Rap duets album" boasts a feature on every track, including the likes of Tame Impala, IDLES, Oscar #Worldpeace, Rob Harvey, and Chris Lorenzo. According to a press release, None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive was originally planned as a TONGA/Tonga Balloon Gang project, however, "as night moved to day, and day moved to night, it... just didn't happen." Yesterday afternoon, along with the mixtape announcement, The Streets released the first music video/single from said project, "Call My Phone Thinking I'm Doing Nothing Better" featuring none other than Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker. None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive is now available for pre-order and will become widely available Friday, July 10, 2020 on Island Records/679.

"Let Me Shine for You:" Lindsay Lohan for Playboy (Winter 2011-12 Leak)

Lindsay Lohan essentially embodies exactly "What NOT to Do In Hollywood :" Fame, fortune, success... sex, drugs & Rock "N" Roll . Within a fairly short period of time, Lohan somehow managed to obtain a plentiful helping of POWER @ a very young age. This gradual rise-downfall was captured on film; Between 1998-2010, she portrayed a wide array of roles across the silver screen in movies including: Mean Girls, Bobby , Herbie Fully Loaded , Georgia Rule, Machete , and Freaky Friday . Between rapid-paced film shoots, Lindsay Lohan also found time to record 2 Pop Rock albums for Casablanca , Speak (2004) and A Litter More Personal-Raw (2005). Needless to say, Lindsay Lohan has gotten roped up in a lot of troubles and woes with the law over the last 3-5 years... a vicious cycle of drugs, arrest, court, rehab, "daddy issues," jail time [Repeat]. That's the pure basics of it - But Google that shit for additional info, if necessary. Towards the end of

[W]reckless, Topless American Youth: Lana del Rey - "Born 2 Die" (Britney Spears Birthday 30)

Lana del Rey [Lizzy Grant] effectively became 2011's "It Girl" with the release of her phenomenal debut single, "Video Games" (Stranger) . Like many struggling singer-songwriters, Grant has been signed, dropped, and significantly changed her public image since bursting onto the scene (2009). With that said, it can be assumed that Lana del Rey has collected just as many "haters" as she has avid supporters. To be perfectly honest, the only other artist I can think of that made this much commotion... garnered so much wide-spread buzz/hate and critical acclaim -- right out of the gates -- with just one track is Britney Spears . And maybe in this post- Mike musical era, that's the true synthesis of Pop Culture: Britney Lynn Spears . After months of repeated teasing and speculation, Lana del Rey 's major label debut, Born 2 Die will [finally] be released this coming Jan. 30-31, 2012. Pitchfork reports that it will feature "Off to The Ra

Liberty Bell Cracked In 1/2: Ween - "Freedom of '76" (Gene Ween's Final Send-Off)

Chocolate & Cheese (1994) was one of the first albums I bought with my own money. I was in some sort of BMG Music Club , where you'd buy 5 CD's and then get 10 for "FREE." It was all sent through mail order and you picked the titles from some special booklet. I'm almost positive that Chocolate & Cheese's side boob-baring album cover was what initially drew me in... mind you, I was 12-15 and the zany Ween logo/middle finger CD graphic really didn't hurt either. Honestly, I forget how I really felt about it @ the time, but a few years later, my older cousin Josh told me that Ween were this BIG college "jam band." CKY did some sort pf 93.3 radio takeover to promote their new album and played "Freedom of '76" late that night on air. Needless to say, I re-visited Chocolate & Cheese @ about 20-something this go 'round and I fucking loved it! Ween were really weird, yet talented... almost too talented. I can vaguel

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