The great Modeselektor team up once again with Carhartt on a collection of gear for their latest tour in support of the recently released Monkeytown album (which we previewed here if you want a teaser). Beyond the hoodie, tshirt and varsity jacket above, Modeselektor (aka Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) mixed up an exclusive Cahartt […]

Wow, what a great god given gift on a pressurized Monday: the brilliant SBTRKT offers his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix for free this weekend. You’ll wanna hit play pretty much the second you see this, so very little else to say — just keep an ear out for his new track, “Runaway” which SBTRKT premiered […]

BBC Radio 1 is streaming the new mix that post-dubstep artist James Blake recorded for their Essential Mix series — you may remember we posted his “Lindisfarne” video as well as that James Drake Mashup Mixtape in the past couple months. Being his first time on The Essential Mix — one of the most consistent DJ/dance […]

Credited with elevating the art of the DJ to new levels, Oneman (aka Steve Bishop), is allegedly the only artist to appear on Mary Anne Hobbs’ Radio One show without ever releasing a produced record of his own. While that might imply weak production ability, it certainly underscores the UK DJ’s record selection talents and blending […]

The Dutch trio known worldwide as Kraak & Smaak dropped a new DJ mix for Annie Nightingale’s BBC Radio 1 show this past weekend, and were kind enough to upload it for all to enjoy. Originally broadcasted on July 1 for one of their earliest supporter’s shows, the 30-minute BBC Radio 1 mix for Ms. […]

There’s no shaking the undeniable catchiness of Manchester Orchestra, the Alpharetta, Georgia band whose elegiacal “Simple Math” has taken over college radio. At first listen one could brush it off as a very capably written indie pop song, and you wouldn’t be wrong. But at second and third listens the track becomes an earworm, and […]

For anyone living under a rock for the last 30 years, Henry Rollins was of course the former frontman for punk legends Black Flag, later going on to helm his own Lollapalooza era Rollins Band, as well as other solo efforts. Henry has also made several guest appearances on other artists’ (TOOL, Tommy Iommi, Les […]

It’s been a pretty big week for Boomboxes here at LIAS, but we’re all about giving big ups to the classics so why not keep it going. After seeing Max’s paintings you may be wondering where you can get your own vintage boombox — except make it a silver pendant and throw it on a […]