This Saturday night just past, French producer STWO took over the Diplo & Friends show on BBC Radio 1 with a trap-inspired set that ranged from the chill-out to hip-hop to the proper dance off. Much like Parisian co-patriot DJ Snake, who dropped an Essential Mix earlier last month, his Diplo & Friends set is pure trap-aholic, ranging from the […]

Rick Ross returns to the street mix game with his latest offering of free music, The Black Bar Mitzvah mixtape. I guess he’s trying to say that like every Jewish 13-year-old boy Ross is finally becoming a man, which is an important step. The 18 track-long mixtape sees Ricky Rozay rap alongside a number of […]

Time for the fourth edition of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series (after ART, BOOKS & STYLE), where we look back on the LIAS Year In Music. Frankly none of these lists are easy — we can trim each down to about 20 but then cutting them down to 10 means we gotta chop some […]

The man behind “Purple Swag” drops a little aural appetizer for his upcoming major label debut. Reportedly signed for $3 mill, ASAP Rocky has been all over the map since, directing Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s latest video (whose XXX mixtape we posted this summer) and hitting on tour with Drake. Straight from Harlem, ASAP (“Always […]

BBC Radio 1 is streaming the new mix that post-dubstep artist James Blake recorded for their Essential Mix series — you may remember we posted his “Lindisfarne” video as well as that James Drake Mashup Mixtape in the past couple months. Being his first time on The Essential Mix — one of the most consistent DJ/dance […]

We were pretty floored when we caught James Blake over at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery last month, so we’re stoked with any mixtape that makes the post-dubstep artist a prime subject. Drake…? Not so much, but we ain’t haters either. Philly producers Bombé & Mr. Caribbean do a nice job of blending the otherwise disparate […]

Do you like your glitch? Do you like it with M.I.A., Paul Wall, La Roux and plenty of Nas thrown in? Then you should download The Glitch Mob’s latest mixtape, Drink the Sea Pt. II. Pick it HERE for free. As a bonus, they’re also giving away their Bad Wings vs. La Roux’s “In For […]

Let’s face it, Diplo made his name on the mixtape — first with his Hollertronixxx mixes with Low Budget back in the day, and then his gamechanging Piracy Funds Terrorism mixtape that put M.I.A. on the map back when she couldn’t even read a map. Then there was his superlative mix with Santogold, Top Ranking, […]