Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Das Racist - Sit Down, Man mixtape (ZIP file) Many of Das Racist's friends make appearances on their new 19-track mixtape which you can download for free above. The tracklist is below along with the video that contains the... more info

Stereogum — (The) Tony Castles are a Brooklyn-based trio who make gauzy dream pop. They’ve been around for a bit — members played in Effi Briest, Darlings, and Dinowalrus, and they’ve played shows with Suckers and Das Racist (one member makes a cameo in th... more info

Stereogum — Plenty more on this new Das Racist .zip later, surely, if our posts on the last mixtape and this one’s trailer/tracklist and everything else we know about Das Racist are any indication. For now though we finally conquered a sluggish download rate s... more info

Altsounds — New York's finest art rap trio, Das Racist (http://www.reverbnation.com/dasracist), is back with their new mixtape* Sit Down, Man* set to be released on September 14th (tomorrow!) and presented by Diplo, Mad Decent, Mishka and Greedhead Entertainment... more info

Stereogum — Back on the day the internet was ruled by DR’s funny Nintendo-NES mashup “Who’s That? Brooown!” video, which, much like Das Racist’s culture vulture/nature nurture pop-referential rap schemes, was perfectly calibrated for dominion over blog... more info

Stereogum — Our love for Das Racist’s dadaist dipthongs, pithy wit raps, and punched-up Amitabh Bachchan-referencing rhyme schemes conclusively established in a love letter to the Shut Up, Dude mixtape (and bowling also), news of its powered-by-Diplo sequel Si... more info

Topix — Jim Jones gives punk rock the gas face. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne. These are strange, wonderful times for hip-hop fans in New York. more info

DJmag — "Smoke weed every day." more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Between their BNM'd album, Big Echo, an upcoming tour with the Black Keys, and an adorably violent music video, it's safe to say the Berkeley-based Morning Benders are having a pretty good year so far. The band just revealed a previously unreleased j... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 05-25 New York, NY - Piano's !06-01 New York, NY - Piano's *06-07 Norfolk, VA - The Norva #^06-08 Richmond, VA - The National #^06-09 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle #^06-11 Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore Charlotte #^06-13 Miami, FL - Fillmore at Miami Be... more info