In celebration of this year’s Record Store Day, Pretty Lights — aka Derek Vincent Smith — released a limited edition double 10” vinyl set for his The Hidden Shades EP. The blissful and bass-ful sample-heavy collection featured four unreleased B-Sides and remixes from last year’s Grammy-nominated A Color Map of the Sun album — which we posted for […]
The new track from Bassnectar, with our girl Rye Rye on the vocals. Play, rinse, repeat. You want? Download it HERE. As-yet-unnamed full-length album coming June 24th.
For about 10 years between the late 90s and throughout the naughts, Winter Music Conference in Miami was pretty much the greatest place on god’s green Earth. Directly following SXSW, WMC was the electronic/dance/EDM equivalent, except with turquoise water, bikinis, late night Cuban food and gorgeous art deco hotels. Just the thought of it makes […]
One of our favorite labels at LIAS, Budapest’s Chi Recordings, collects their largest and most diverse compilation album to date and is giving it away to their fans. Aptly titled Allstars Uncovered, the 18 tracks were all carefully selected, nurtured, and mastered for your sonic pleasures — all for FREE. Alongside main label heads Fine […]
A new track by the illustrious VonStroke, Mr. Claude VonStroke that is. Although his upcoming album Urban Animal, his third studio LP, is notable for the new directions the Detroit-via-San Francisco-via-Los Angeles producer is exploring, “Dood” is quintessential VonStroke — meaning, expect bass, booty shanking rhythms and idiosyncratic beats. In other words, superb underground house. If […]
In our humble opinions, one of the most slept on emcees worthy of superstar status is Killer Mike. Sure the ATL rapper gets his share of shine, but not nearly enough. After last year’s R.A.P. Music, Killer Mike has once again teamed up with the great El-P for another album of socially scorching lyrics and […]
Supplement Facts label head Guy Gerber is a very busy man lately. Not only has he beginning his new weekly residence ‘Wisdom Of The Glove’ at the infamous Pacha in Ibiza, but the Spanish/Israeli producer/DJ has also found time to record an entire album while touring through nine countries in South America, Europe and Asia. […]
One half of Cool Kids — or rather ex-Cool Kid, we should say — Chuck Inglish is prepping the upcoming release of his album Convertibles with a free mixtape to keep the interwebs chatting. Inglish’s new Droptops mixtape came out a couple weeks ago but we missed it, and since Inglish is one of our […]