One of favorite psychedelic soul acts, King Khan & the Shrines, is back uploading “Born to Die” for all to hear. Off of their upcoming album Idle No More out September 3rd (Merge Records), ”Born to Die” is classic King Khan at their purest. As Khan explains, the album’s opening track is “an apocalyptic ode to [...]

If you grew up in New England you might remember a show called Force Five. In it, each day a separate Japanese cartoon would play inspiring a bunch of Masshole kids to become wicked influenced by Giant Robots. These proto-anime shows included Gai King and Starvengers, but Mondays belonged to Planet Robot Danguard Ace. Well [...]

It’s been a long time since Ghostdini, aka Ghostface Killah aka Pretty Toney, put out his debut — the all time classic Ironman (which is being re-issued) — and now he’s coming back with his tenth studio album, Twelve Reasons to Die. Produced and composed by Adrian Young, Twelve Reasons to Die is a concept album based [...]

British producer and DJ Nic Fanciulli has just released this 1-hour mixtape to promote the upcoming Sonar North America Tour. Sonar, the famed Barcelona festival, is hitting the road for the first time ever this year and hits American soil this week as Sonar On Tour — featuring a line-up that includes Fanciulli, Die Antwoord, [...]

One of our favorite daily reading websites is without a doubt Grantland. Founded and helmed by Bill Simmons — author of Now I Can Die In Peace, The Book Of Basketball and a sports writer without equal — Grantland serves as the nexus of where sports collides with pop culture, and explodes in a fireworks [...]

At total opposite ends of the artistic spectrum in just about every way — visually, sonically, comically and in layers of subtlety — two of our favorite artists premiered videos this week: The Weeknd and Die Antwoord. Of course The Weeknd’s clip is a noir, brooding black and white video that matches the dark erotic [...]

Am I the only person out there who gets kind of annoyed by Lana Del Rey? She reminds of that girl at the party who’s definitely hot, but is not nearly as hot as she thinks she is. Her doe-eyed ingenue/sex kitten pouting and calculated smoldering looks feel like a perfume commercial stuck on pause. [...]

South Africa’s finest return with their latest video, a quick clip of the duo rapping over Mims’ “This Is Why I’m Hot” beat. Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er are offering up the acapella of the track over at their website to let bedroom producers make up their own remix. If you think you gots the skills, give [...]