The great Santigold returns with the first video from her sophomore album Master of My Make Believe. The track, “Big Mouth”, is produced by Switch (one half of Major Lazer with Diplo) and Buraka Som Sistema, which explains the big cosmopolitan beat. Master of My Make Believe is due out this spring on Downtown / […]

words by Aldo Davalos // photos by Ellei Johndro (Shadow Scene) On December 31st 1996, Los Angeles hosted one of the largest massive raves that the city had ever seen. Entitled Seventh Heaven, over 10,000 people from across the southland descended upon the Grand Olympic Auditorium to usher in the New Year. I remember this […]

Get ready for some grimey, limb-twitching music—Kuduro style. I have a feeling that the ghetto-funk DJ/producer team Buraka Som Sistema (Lil’ John, Riot, Conductor, and MC Kalaf) is about to go on blast when their debut long-player, Black Diamond (the title is a reference to the inherent corruption in the oil and diamond businesses, btw), […]