The third (and final) mixtape in our July 4th Summertime 3-Pack series comes courtesy of our past featured Aussies over at Vanishing Elephant who present Captain Franco’s second Hearts Collide mixtape. The Sydney DJ’s mix is some lovely vintage soul and funk, and can have many an application on your upcoming long weekend: either pop […]

You can tell right off the bat that Oakland’s Kreayshawn is gonna be a very polarizing artist. First off, she’s a white female rapper — that’s two strikes out the gate; you’re not gonna invite a lot of love from either hip hop purists or haters. Second, her look couldn’t be more painfully hipster if […]

Last night Jeremy Scott tweeted a preview of his new adidas Originals by Originals Fall/Winter 2011 line, and as can be expected there’s plenty of zaniness — mostly modeled by his LA muse, Charlotte Free. Say what you will, the man knows how to craft some attention getting gear. The Los Angeles-via-Missouri-via-Paris designer’s collection includes […]

With his usual ambition to stay on the cutting edge of global dance sounds, Diplo dips his toes in the latest much-buzzed movement with his official Moombahton 2k11 mixtape, utilizing many of the Moombahtonized tracks he’s been spinning out lately. The summertime jammy mix features the likes of DJ Shadow, Missy Elliot, MIA, Beastie Boys […]

This Friday night Ninja Tune artist, Low End Theory regular and Los Angeles IDM pioneer Daedulus and San Jose dubstep producer NiT GriT (check out his Soundcloud page for a nice taste) will be wobbling the grass dancefloor of the Hummingbird Nest Ranch mansion outside Los Angeles. We went out there for a photoshoot last […]

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 […]

Pretty Lights pretty much runs the game with the free download market, unleashing free full-length albums on people that are easily better than 90% of the for-pay fodder clogging up iTunes archives. The latest is a free download of his new remix for Radiohead’s “Everything in its Right Place” mashed up with Nirvana’s “All Apologies” […]

Thanks for all who entered our Need For Speed “SHIFT 2: UNLEASHED” GIVEAWAY! contest on Tuesday — our winner was announced yesterday via Twitter, see if it was you HERE. We got another SHIFT 2: UNLEASHED game at our secret headquarters (both PS3 and Xbox), so we’re gonna do pretty much the same contest again. […]