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If you're at a professional sporting event, it's an incredibly bad look to stay on your cell phone the whole time. Unfortunately, nobody told young Chicago retro-rap icons the Cool Kids. The kids hit up a Bulls/Warriors game at the United Center in director Three G's new "Big Talk" video, but they spend way too much of the video's runtime rapping into their iPhones. Derrick Rose is playing right behind you, Cool Kids!

At least the video is impeccably shot and their gear looks right. Let's just give them the benefit of the doubt and say they taped the whole video during garbage time. Watch the clip below, via Nah Right.

"Oil Money" is the all-star posse cut that closes out Freddie Gibbs' Str8 Killa EP. Alongside Gibbs, it features Bun B, Chip Tha Ripper, the Cool Kids' Chuck Inglish, and the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach. Auerbach doesn't show up in the video, directed by Dickford Dollas, but the other four guys are all on hand. The whole thing has an appealingly laid-back sunniness; it works as a fitting farewell to summer.

Watch the video below:

Artist: Freddie Gibbs
EP: Str8 Killa
Release Date: August 3
Label: Decon

Tracklist:

01 Str8 Killa No Filla [ft. Big Kill]
02 Rep 2 Tha Fullest [ft. Jay Rock]
03 National Anthem (Fuck The World)
04 The Coldest [ft. B.J. The Chicago Kid]
05 Personal OG
06 Live By the Game
07 Rock Bottom [ft. Bun B]
08 Oil Money [ft. Chuck Inglish, Chip Tha Ripper, Bun B & Dan Auerbach]

Notes: New EP from this Rising, mixtape-wrecking Indiana rapper. Features production from Block Beataz and DJ Burn One, among others, and appearances from Bun B, the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, and the Cool Kids' Chuck Inglish. Gibbs will also release the accompanying Str8 Killa No Filla mixtape for free download July 29, via XXL.

Media: Watch the video for "The Ghetto" here, hear "National Anthem (Fuck the World)" here, and "Oil Money" here.

Photo by Lauren Dukoff

King of the Beach, the new Cali punk album from Wavves, hits iTunes tomorrow, other digital stores July 13, and physical stores August 3, all via Fat Possum. And right now, the whole thing is streaming at this website. Have at it.

And speaking of Wavves, the Nathan Williams Experience will spend the next two months touring across Europe and North America, and we've got the dates below. Stagediving encouraged!

Wavves:

07-15 Cologne, Germany - Sonic Ballroom
07-16 Berlin, Germany - White Trash
07-17 Muenster, Germany - Gleis 22
07-18 Hamburg, Germany - Astratube
07-20 Ravenna, Italy - Beach Mini Festival
07-21 Paris, France - Fleche d'Or
07-23 London, England - Cargo
07-24 London, England - 1234 Festival
07-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
07-26 Leipzig, Germany - Sweat Club Leipzig
07-28 Copenhagen, Denmark - The Gun Club
07-29 Emmaboda, Sweden - Emmaboda Festival
07-31 Trondeim, Norway - Brukbar
08-06 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
08-07 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
08-12 San Diego, CA - Museum of Contemporary Art
08-13 Pomona, CA - The Glass House
08-14 Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan ^
08-16 Santa Barbara, CA...

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-- Riff-rock titans unite: On July 13, Hydra Head will release a split 12" single from Melvins and Isis, which should look awesome next to the previously announced Torche/Boris split 10" the label is releasing on the same day. Meanwhile, Melvins are supporting a bunch of dates on Isis' currently underway farewell tour.

-- Los Angeles pop weirdos Fol Chen will release their new album Part II: The New December July 6 via Asthmatic Kitty. Members of Liars guest. You can download the album track "In Ruins", as well as the Baths remix of the same track, from Forkcast.

-- Well Done Europe, the new album from London/Berlin pop pranksters the Chap, is already out in the continent that gave the album its title. And on July 6, Lo Recordings will release the LP in the U.S.

-- The 80/35 Festival comes to Western Gateway Park in downtown Des Moines, Iowa July 3-4. The fest's bill includes Modest Mouse, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, the Walkmen, the Cool Kids, Avi Buffalo, Zola Jesus, and Califone. Pitchfork contributor and proud Des Moines resident Marc Hogan is very, very amped.

Kevin Amato shoots the hottest new models in light of our Youth Issue



As Dazed & Confused's June issue is all about youthful vigour and beauty, Dazed Digital pick up a similar thread and honed in on the cool kids of New York. In conjunction with Kevin Amato's images we caught up a with the models to find out about their favourite hangouts and sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll...

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Last time we heard from Chicago hip-hop duo the Cool Kids was a year ago, when they dropped the Gone Fishing mixtape in anticipation of their official debut, When Fish Ride Bicycles. It's one year later, and there's still no release date in sight for When Fish Ride Bicycles. But they do have a new mixtape.

If you head over to the Cool Kids' website, you can grab their new mixtape, Tacklebox, right now (that's the quite-literal cover art above). The 15-track mixtape features an appearance from Bronx R&B singer and frequent Cool Kids collaborator Tennille, and was made in conjunction with the L.A.-based rap blog the Los Angeles Leakers (yes, you read that right).

Tracklist:

01 Fishing Lessons
02 Flying Kites
03 Freak City
04 So Neat
05 Going Camping
06 Volume II
07 Birthdays
08 Great Outdoors
09 Strawberry Girl
10 Systems
11 Good Afternoon
12 Parking Lot
13 Summer Nights ft. Tennille
14 Los Angeles Leakers Outro
15 Gettin' Flicked