Diplo takes some time off of smoking weed and playing old records to lay down a solid two hour mix for his friends over at the BBC. The massive set features a litany of Diplo-endorsed players layered on top of a heaping roster of blog-beloved cutting edge artists: Danny Brown (get his mixtape HERE), Crookers, […]

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 […]

OFWGKTA star — and one-half of MellowHype — the man known as Hodgy Beats dropped a new untitled collection of beats this weekend. The rapper/producer’s EP credits production from Three Six Mafia’s Juicy J, The Alchemist, Thelonious Martin, Flying Lotus and more. Give a listen to 2 of the tracks below (“Lately” by Flying Lotus […]

Tomas Ekström is a designer and illustrator from Stockholm who works under the name Kallbrand, and his latest piece of work — the Ghost Lamp — is inspired by the classic ghost characters that made Pac-Man’s life hell. So if you’ve ever dreamed of lighting up your house with Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, this […]

Swedish House Mafia may be the current lords of mainstream dance music, but we certainly dig this video interpretation of their dancefloor anthem “Save the World”. How can you hate on a video where they make an army of pooches the heroes of the day? Directed by Jon Watts, the video was inspired by the […]

LIAS was just invited to Sicily to for a week of adventure, and damn did it surpass the bill of expectations. Sure it’s got all you’ve heard: copious crime (including being victimized by filthy pickpockets), culinary delicacies from sea to land to pasta to pastry, mafiosos running the government (mafiosos running everything, actually), thriving urban […]

The nation of Russia has undergone dramatic transformations in the past decade, and those metamorphoses have been starkly reflected in its infamous prisons. Home to the second highest prison population per capita in the world (after only USA, who also claims the dubious title of most overall prisoners), the Russian penal system is a sprawling, […]