THE HOOD vs CHICAGO (again)

Every Sunday in January, Chicago radio station Q101 dropped a NEW Hood Vs Chicago track during their Local 101 program. Big up to Jaime and Chris from the station for approaching us about this project, it was definitely fun to do some more Chi City tracks. Click the song titles to download or get them from drop.io.

1. The Prairie Cartel - Cracktown RMX (feat. Qualo)
2. Bot Control (Yea Big + Kid Static vs Hey Champ)
3. Who Gets A Tear In Your Eye (Pugs Atomz vs Pretty Good Dance Moves)
4. Bucktown RSVP / Chicago Equator (Vyle vs Radius / Shala featuring Yaw and Jameisha Trice vs Tortoise)



TONIGHT! We'll be at Sonotheque for our monthly installment of Information Superflyway, along with guest DJ sets from Hey Champ and Popstatic (of samurai.fm and the Pretty Good Dance Moves posse). Go!

KARDINAL OFFISHALL vs METRONOMY

ABX - The Dangerous End [direct] [drop.io]

BON IVER vs FRIENDLY FIRES & AEROPLANE

ABX - Lump Sum Of Paris [direct] [drop.io]

ZION I vs CARIBOU

DJ STV SLV - Barn Owl Juice [direct] [drop.io]

FREAK NASTY vs THE RAPTURE

ABX - I Need Da Dip [direct] [drop.io]

BONUS DIP: Hood-friendly, Vans-wearing, booty bounce boppin' Bay Area rap group The Pack dropped their own version of Da Dip on Wolfpack Musik Vol. 3: Screamin' Demons. If you want to hear that mixed with the same song by The Rapture, get it below.

The Pack Needs Da Dip (The Pack vs The Rapture) [direct] [drop.io]

JIM JONES vs LINDSTRØM

ABX - Where You Pop Champagne I Pop Too [direct] [drop.io]

WALE vs PARENTHETICAL GIRLS

ABX - A Song For Ice Cream Girls [direct] [drop.io]

VOTE HOOD: Go to The Deli Chicago to vote for your favorite Chicago based artist of 2008. Regardless of who your favorite is, vote for us. It only takes a minute, and Obama would want you to do it.

MORE '08 LISTS: Year-end love from Avant/Chicago, CreamTEAM, and Think Pink Radio. Also we've got two tracks on the Best of Bootie 2008 mix which you can download by clicking on the link. Bay Area, be sure to catch us at Bootie San Francisco this Saturday at DNA Lounge.

HAPPY HOOD YEAR

STV SLV's favorite ABX tracks of '08:
10: David Banner vs Fujiya & Miyagi - Get Like Pterodactyls
9: Britney Spears vs Department of Eagles - No One Womanizes Like You
8: Ludacris vs She & Him - Sentimental Mouths
7: Chromeo vs Rihanna - Don't Stop The Fancy Footwork
6: The-Dream vs Cut Copy - Light Falsetto Music
5: Public Enemy vs HEALTH - Bring The Tabloid Sores
4: Rick Ross vs Hercules & Love Affair - Blind Speed
3: The Cool Kids vs Frankie Knuckles - Your Love Iz What It Iz
2: Lykke Li vs Holy Ghost - I'm Good, I'm Ghost
1: Usher vs Los Campesinos! - The Year This Club Broke (My Heart)

ABX's favorite STV SLV tracks of '08:
10: Del The Funky Homosapien vs Justice - Workin' Valentine
9: The Hood Internet vs Tobacco & Aesop Rock - Dirt RMX
8: Webbie vs Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippy I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T
7: Kid Sister vs Walter Meego - Pro Nails Forever
6: Lil Wayne vs The Bloody - We Are From Venice (Lil Weezy Ana)
5: Estelle vs Ting Tings - Shut Up, American Boy
4: Spank Rock vs Burial - Bumpangel
3: Big Boi feat. Purple Ribbon All-Stars vs Ghislain Poirier - Blazin Kryptonite
2: Mic Terror vs Green Velvet - Juke And Pop
1: Birdman vs Sebastien Tellier - $100 Million Sportswear





In addition to being included on Current TV's Top 5 Mixtapes of 2008, Hood also got a couple of year-end nods over at Culture Bully. And Vimby really liked a bunch of the "reject" tracks we posted, which was cool — maybe we're being too hard on ourselves, or perhaps just getting paranoid from all the haters that hang out in our comments. HI HATERS

What else, what else... the Stereogum comment thread on Beyoncé vs Fleet Foxes was pretty awesome. Oh, and on Christmas, ABX's Survivor vs Glass Candy jam was on Simon Iddol's Vavá mix on Spain's RNE Radio 3 (click on "escúchalo" for the tracklist).

Happy new year and thanks for continuing to visit the Hood!