If you want to know what Diplo would play if he got really baked and got on the turntables at your house, all buzzed out and lazy like, now you know. Wait hold up Wes, stop bogarting the decks — and where in hell did I leave that vaporizer…? Did anyone else realize just how […]

Do you know where we’ll be this Friday night? Listen, if you have beef for any reason and want to find us to deliver some vengeance pain, just go to Avalon Hollywood where we’ll be getting sweaty and clinking glasses with the Dirtybird crew as label boss Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin (he of Ghettos & […]

Anybody who even moderately pays attention to music knows how difficult it is to survive as an independent label nowadays — the shit is brutal. What’s even harder is surviving when you’re uncompromising about your product, discriminating with your roster and meticulous about your craft. Such is the case with Los Angeles’ Stones Throw Records, […]

Toronto-based label Paper Bag Records is releasing another digital LP as part of their successful cover series, of which fans receive a free download. This cover LP spans twelve songs from David Bowie’s groundbreaking The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album, which happens to be celebrating its 40th anniversary […]

Los Angeles electronic producer and hip hop aficionado Nosaj Thing (Jason Chung) has made several exciting announcements in the past few days. Starting with the release of “Eclipise/Blue” — the first we’ve heard from him since his album Drift (released in 2009 via Alpha Pup Records) — a new track featuring Blonde Redhead singer Kazu […]

Bristol producer Eats Everything (Daniel Pearce) has released a remix of the iconic Sono track “Keep Control” in preparation and hype for his upcoming U.S. tour. Although the producer’s music fits under the umbrella of house, it’s not a limited soundscape. Pearce involves elements of jungle, breakbeats, UK bass and Detroit techno into his music […]

Pitchfork presents a new documentary in their series, this time focusing on Los Angeles’ own Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) or FlyLo — known for his trippy, tactile like electronic productions. Or the head honcho of Brainfeeder Records, depending on how in-tune you are. The documentary starts following FlyLo at Forecastle Festival in Kentucky where he […]

For those of you who don’t know, every Saturday of the summer MoMA PS1 presents ‘Warm Up’, an event series taking place at a sister site of MoMa in Long Island City, Queens. Each Saturday’s line-up is curated by a team of heavyweights within up-and-coming music labels such as True Panther Sounds, XL Recordings, Tri […]