The great Annie Mac drops by Life + Times to lend her ample musical talents to Jay-Z’s cultural website. The BBC Radio 1 DJ has always had her finger on the pulse of the underground, and this latest mix — her third for Life + Times — does nothing to dispel her well-earned rep. Tracks by Feadz, Q […]

The seventh episode of VICE’s Random Access Memories: Collaborators series is out, this time with DJ Falcon. The French producer has an especially interesting perspective of his android friends Daft Punk, as he grew up with them skateboarding and just causing all around havoc on the streets of Paris in the early 90s. The interview […]

So we’ve had Giorgio Moroder, Todd Edwards, Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams and now it’s time to hear from Panda Bear. The VICE crew’s fifth episode of their Random Access Memories: Collaborators series features the vocalist and key member of Animal Collective, who draws comparisons to his band’s early use of masks with Daft Punk’s, […]

After the first three episodes with Giorgio Moroder, Todd Edwards and Nile Rodgers, the VICE crew unveil the fourth episode of their Random Access Memories: Collaborators series. In the series, which highlights interviews with the exceptional artists that are working with Daft Punk on their upcoming Random Access Memories album, always shine a new light on […]

The boys from VICE have been busy, putting together yet another installment of their Random Access Memories: Collaborators series. Last week we saw Giorgio Moroder, earlier this week Todd Edwards, and today we get Episode 3 of the series — this time with legendary producer/guitarist Nile Rodgers. It’s all to build anticipation for one of […]

Lucky for us users of the world wide web we get to stumble across treasures like this: the BBC’s 2004 documentary Once Upon a Time in New York: The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk. As the title suggests, the one-hour documentary tells the story of how the squalid, crumbling streets of downtown New […]