LIAS partner-in-crime (literally) and photographer/director extraordinaire Robert Kerian has just dropped this new video for Camoflaug3, “Fake DJ”. With vocals supplied by Robert English lambasting the terminal mass of pretend laptop DJs flooding the hipster scene, we gotta say we’re really feeling this track. It seems to put into words the inchoate hatred I feel […]


20 Jun
Art Correspondent Freddi C conquers Spain's ultimate artistic city

Whenever I visit a new city for the first time I’m always armed with my trusty Lonely Planet travel book. Come the second visit, having gotten all the classic sightseeing locations stricken off my must-see-in-my-lifetime list, I dump the guide books and make sure to Facebook people residing in that same city and get the […]


We’ve unfortunately seen them live, caught them at a festival assaulting the eardrums of the brainless & clueless, and avoided their residencies at Ed Hardy-filled clubs from New York to Las Vegas, Miami to Los Angeles; but how much money are they actually making from pretending to play stuff? Check out who made the Top […]


24 Jan
Clams Casino, KiD Cudi, Florence & the Machine, Plump DJs, Skrillex, Major Lazer & Iggy Azalea's "Pu$$y"

The latest installment of Diplo’s Blow Your Head mix series, which is done in collaboration with SiriusXM radio (Channel 52), dropped this week. The hour-long January edition features Cubic Zirconia, Clams Casino, KiD Cudi feat. Florence & the Machine, Skrillex, 12th Planet & Kill the Noise, Lil Wayne and Iggy Azalea’s “Pu$$y”. Get ‘er cooking… […]


6 May
Out today on Bang Gang 12s,81 records

The inimitable Bang Gang DJs return with an EP of Bumblebeez tracks recorded at their infamous house of debauchery, known affectionately as the Duxford in Paddington, Sydney. I was lucky enough to stay there a couple nights (Gus da Hoodrat was a very generous host) and I can honestly say I’m lucky to have made […]


I met the Sick Girls a little over 3 years ago when in Berlin covering its nascent Nu bass/Euro Crunk scene, and even back then the girls knew how to lay it down. Alexandra Droener and Johanna Grabsch first met as bookers at the now legendary WMF Club, but were bored of the stale sounds […]


29 Oct
Horror film-inspired spookiness to soundtrack your weekend

As they do every year, UK producers/DJs Evil Nine have sequestered themselves in the dark dungeons of their studio to put together another mixtape of horror-inspired tunes, just to get you into the Halloween spirit. Seeing as they don’t really celebrate Halloween in England, it’s nice to see our pasty-skinned progenitors embracing the best holiday […]


19 Jul
Los Angeles producer prepares to drop "Delusional Talens and Non-Silence" on Culprit

Kenneth James Gibson is one of Los Angeles’ most prolific house producers. Guy has more production aliases than you can shake a stick at, including Premature Wig, dubLoner, Reverse Commuter, Eight Frozen Modules and [a]ppendics.shuffle, and his work has graced some of the top labels in dance music today. Hallucination, Adjunct, Leftroom, Superfreq, Trapez and […]