Pittsburgh DJ/producer Kastle dropped a really interesting mix this week, one that heavily samples an interview by WNYC’s Radiolab with Ann Druyan. Druyan was interviewed about her NASA-driven love story with Carl Sagan and their role in the compilation of the Voyager Golden Record. “Toward the end of the summer of ‘77, NASA launched two spacecraft as […]

French techno producer, DJ and founder of Silent Steps Records, Octave, drops this mix to showcase his label’s healthy catalog. The 2-hour long mix is a deep exploration into minimal techno, so if you don’t like minimal you won’t like the mix. If you do, there’s plenty from the Silent Steps archive to get your […]

Not only can you sport MF Doom wherever you drag your bologna sandwich, but you can do it while bumping Operation: Doomsday, the box set which comes with it. So you may have to get your own thermos, but you’re better off with the 2 CD’s (complete with his debut album tracks, instrumentals and b-sides), […]

The first video from Spank Rock’s upcoming awesomely-titled album, Everything is Boring & Everyone is a Fucking Liar dropped today. The album comes out September 27 on Bad Blood Records, and this is the first single — “DTF DADT” which has a very bizarre storyline involving charades, 3D objects and bloody wine bashing. Twisted…

As we explained in our Revenge Of the Teddybears feature a couple weeks back, we’re big fans of the half-man, half-bear hybrid producers. Finally the Swedish trio release their first official video from their Devil’s Music album — for the single “Cho-Cha”, which features the vocal stylings of Cee-Lo and The B-52’s. The video stars […]

Following in the disco-infused indie rock of its Aussie compatriots Cut/Copy, Midnight Juggernauts and Empire of the Sun comes Strange Talk, who just released their self-titled debut EP on Neon Gold Records. The first single from the record, “Climbing Walls”, shimmers with all the swagger, melody, rhythm and background vocal textures that have made Australia […]

I’m not sure what they infuse their vodka with up in Sweden, but the tiny nation (population under 10 million) churns out more impossibly catchy hitmakers per capita than anywhere else on Earth. From the early days of Abba to the 90s pop dominance of Roxette, Cardigans and Ace of Bass onto the modern indie […]

Renault’s Megane R.S. Trophy is now the venerable French marque’s fastest car ever produced, establishing a blistering lap time at Nurburgring of 8 minutes 7.97 seconds — the record for a front-wheel drive car (eclipsing the record established by its predecessor, the Megane R.S., which clocked in at 8 minutes 17 secs). Unfortunately for all […]