Have you gotten your fill of Whitney yet, or are you still mourning? If you still haven’t gotten enough of Ms Houston’s music to salve your grieving soul, you need to download New York radio station Hot 97 DJ Mister Cee’s Throwback at Noon set from yesterday, which was an hour-long homage to Whitney Houston […]

Seminal Finnish trip hop/downtempo/breakbeat outfit Pepe Deluxé just dropped their fourth longplay, Queen of the Wave, this week. They’ve come a long way since their 1999 debut Super Sound, their electronic output taking a deeper delve into live breaks and organ-led rhythms. To illustrate their influences and direction, Pepe Deluxé — aka Jari Salo and […]

Let your week start off right with a freshly minted mixtape from Lorin Ashton, the American maestro of bass otherwise known as Bassnectar. Things have all been coming up roses for Lorin lately, as his past Fall Tour 2011 sold out completely in 10-20k seat venues, selling more hard tickets than any other EDM artist […]

A-Trak returns with another episode of his Fool’s Gold Radio Series — the first of 2012. The January mix starts of tough with A-Trak & Zinc’s “Stingray”, a great nod to Zinc’s bingo beats breaks style. Showcasing DJ A-Trak’s peerless turtablism abilities, the set then moves on to a fantastic hour-long voyage through tracks by […]

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 […]

3D from the talented but-once-amazing Massive Attack (let’s be honest, they were better when they were a foursome… or rather, a whole collective) put together this 48-minute mixtape in support of the Occupy London movement. We’ll throw our support to the Occupy folks — they may not have all the answers, but at least they’re […]

I don’t know how this slipped through our greasy, lecherous fingers, but somehow it did. Oh well, at least we were here to catch our own folly. The brothers Dewaele, the mad sampling geniuses behind Soulwax and 2ManyDJs — who many credit with the proliferation of the mash-up — are back with another of their […]

Feeling a need to relive the 80s, but don’t want to subject yourself to the horror that is Footloose, 2.0? The iHome iPhone Boombox might be just what you’re looking for. Updated with new technology from the standard 20 D-battery monstrosities of yore, the iHome iPhone Boombox offers a sleek monotone design, SRS TruBass DSP, […]