Downloads: Kenan Bell, the Cool Kids offer mix tapes

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L.A. rapper Kenan Bell is currently rocking New York City – big gig on Tuesday at the Mercury Lounge – one week after releasing his first mix tape. Bell’s effort features eight songs, all remixes, originally offered by various blogs around the country, plus his take on XTC’s “Dear God.” Other artists he re-worked? Pink Floyd, Neil Diamond, Peter Bjorn & John, Lily Allen, Gang Gang Dance, Jose Gonzalez, Duran Duran and Jesse Colin Young. It’s available for free from his website (e-mail address required).

||| Download: “Good News: the Mixtape”

Chicago’s the Cool Kids are giving away a mix tape too – this one is an album’s worth of unreleased material produced by Atlanta DJ Don Cannon. It’s the lead-up to the duo’s forthcoming album “When Fish Ride Bicycles.”

||| Download: “Gone Fishing”