12 Oct
Abel Tesfaye leaks his latest track of future R&B goodness

What is one of the most of played new artists at The Meadows continues to be The Weeknd, the Toronto crooner’s post-dubstep sound being something we cannot get off our playlists — his Thursday mixtape being a weekday standard. The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, recently leaked his latest track “Initiation” and it’s just more bassy […]


19 Aug
Toronto future R&B crooner drops second mix in trilogy

Highly secretive future R&B/slow-step crooner The Weeknd come through this fine morning with his new Thursday mixtape, the followup to the justifiably hyped House of Balloons which came out this past spring. Utilizing highly stylized user-created videos, the Toronto-based The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) has managed to keep a very low profile despite much scrutiny, […]


19 May
The latest EP in the Scion A/V series out today

Trouble & Bass was tapped by the Scion A/V series for their latest release — an EP compiling some of the label’s best acts [download the EP HERE]. We caught Trouble & Bass label founder Drop the Lime this past Tuesday at the “Check Your Ponytail!2″ party when he brought his brand new rockabilly-meets-dance live […]


29 Jul
Boats*Cars*Dollars*Girls*Helicopters*Jewellery*Skylines

I’ll just let Thomas Traum describe this work, aptly titled Boats*Cars*Dollars*Girls*Helicopters*Jewellery*Skylines: “[This is] a typology of rap videos and an attempt to construct the most generic Rap and R&B video out of many. Musical genres are always heavily codified and rap seems to be one of the most extreme ones, each video has similar if […]


25 Jun
Beantown's house maestros Soul Clap take us through their hood

If you’ve been to any house club in the past couple years worth a damn then chances are you’ve boogied down to Soul Clap. Elyte (Eli Goldstein) and Cnyce (Charles Levine) first came together under the tutelage of seminal Boston Jedi DJ Caril Mitro of the late Vinyl Connection records (RIP), who taught his young […]