We all have a car nut in our lives. Gear-brains. Petrolheads. You know the deal. Guys who like to strap on a helmet every Saturday morning and spend the first couple hours of the weekend slicing up asphalt on a beautiful mountain road. Dudes who walk straight to the car section at the bookstore, and […]
If I were a traveling DJ, I would indeed find it precarious figuring out how to transport my DJ items (namely the tracks on my laptop and vinyl) from the haven of my own home and/or lucrative record shop to whatever infernal, purgatorial or paradisiacal night spot I had been chosen to cast my sonic […]
Raise your hand if you were as bummed as I was to have to get out of bed too early and into an office. All of us? Okay, good. Luckily, White Light Mixes has released their latest mix featuring André Allen Anjos from the internet’s favorite DJ trio, RAC (Remix Artist Collective). The hour long […]
Justice are back with their latest big budget music video film for the track “New Lands”. The French electro pop duo chose the Spanish collective Canada to direct the clip, in a video that mixes Running Man, NFL, gladiators, Moto GP and video games into a swirling, high stakes showdown. I kind of preferred when […]
The once great Slum Village return with The Dirty Slums mixtape, their first piece of original music since Village Manifesto in 2010. After losing the legendary Jay Dilla (aka Dilla, aka Jay Donuts, aka Jay Dee) to blood disease, and then later original member Baatin, the Detroit rap heroes return to the plate for another […]
The psychedelic rabblerousers in Animal Collective have released a video of their time spent in the studio recording their breakthrough 2007 album Strawberry Jam. The time lapse video is a collection of footage, short clips taken once a minute for the entire time the band was in the studio. The resulting video, an idea first mustered […]
We were taken at first listen by the latest track from ANR (Awesome New Republic), the hurricane and natural disaster-inspired “It’s Around You” single. The University of Miami, School of Music duo — comprised of Brian Robertson (Keys, Vocals) and Michael-John Hanock (Vocals, Drums) — craft infinitely catchy songs built on synth riffs, swooning vocals and melodic […]
We caught one-half of LA based songwriting/production duo Massif a little while back opening for LCD Soundsystem, and we gotta say they’re hard to pin down categorically, drawing influence from such disparate sources as Tool, The Mars Volta, Aphex Twin, Animal Collective, Battles and just about everything in between. So we kept an eye out […]