It only takes to third song in his  highly anticipated Owl Pharaoh mixtape for rapper/producer Travi$ Scott to begin hitting the heavyweight collabs. The seemingly everywhere 2 Chainz kicks off the festivities, and then several of the tape’s tracks gets visits from the likes of T.I., Theophilus London, Meek Mill, Wale, A$AP Ferg and Paul Wall, [...]

Bicoastal Los Angeles/New York producer/DJ and Fade to Mind label boss Kingdom drops this Vertical XL mix for LOGO in anticipation for his forthcoming Vertical XL EP. The EP is the Night Slugs regular’s 5th — “a personal body of work” made during his first years living in Los Angeles, molded with elements of grime, jungle [...]

DJ Food, who we’ve interviewed in these pages before (e.g. DJ Food Interview: Recording “The Search Engine”, Rolling Cigarettes with Herbaliser & Designing the Coolest Label Logo Ever), has put together a special mixtape in honor of Free Comicbook Day. We love us some DJ Food, who also did an amazing Tribute to the Beastie [...]

I guess when you get some classic hip-hop dropped on you in a day, you should balance it off with some brand new school shit to keep the palate fresh. Here’s Thunderbird Gerard‘s T.R.O.U.B.L.E. EP made available for free download. New on the world stage, Gerard has distinguished himself via his lyrical flows and EDM-leaning [...]

The Hood Internet’s latest mixtape dropped this morning, and as can be expected it’s packed to the cellophane with what one would dub party starting mashups. The Mixtape Volume Seven is what you wanna put on in that summer BBQ before the DJ’s get set up, or maybe what you wanna play when you’re trying to [...]

Two of Atlanta’s finest, Killer Mike and Big Boi, are launching a spring/summer tour starting this Tuesday, April 30th, at The Vogue in Indianapolis. To celebrate this Shoes For Running tour the ATL duo are dropping this mixtape of the same name, a compilation of all their tracks together. Which is apt, seeing as Big Boi [...]

Last year DJ Shadow released All Bases Covered, and this summer the man known to his mom as Josh Davis will be touring to support the album. The tour will hit everywhere from Red Rocks to the Shoreline Amphitheatre, and many points in between. To promote the album, the famed San Francisco producer hit up [...]

French electro label Ed Banger celebrates a full decade of existence this year, and during its 10-Year Anniversary Tour it will stop off in LA with their own stage at this year’s HARD SUMMER Festival. Los Angeles’ biggest summertime music festival, the sixth annual HARD SUMMER will take place Saturday, August 3 and Sunday, August 4 [...]