To prep for his upcoming Sonar Festival gig, Flux Pavilion — known to his mum as Joshua Steele (or actually, Joshua Kierkegaard G. Steele) — has created this quick, half-hour mixtape. Filled with the sort of swelling, rap-laced dubstep the English producer and Circus Records co-founder is known for, the aptly named Sonar Mix 2014 just […]

I’m so ready for this! All of our friends here in Barcelona are begging for the weather to be great over this week and into the upcoming Sonar weekend. Why, you ask? Well it’s been unusually wet and cold here in BCN for this time of year — putting a bit of a damper on […]

British producer and DJ Nic Fanciulli has just released this 1-hour mixtape to promote the upcoming Sonar North America Tour. Sonar, the famed Barcelona festival, is hitting the road for the first time ever this year and hits American soil this week as Sonar On Tour — featuring a line-up that includes Fanciulli, Die Antwoord, […]

As we previewed a couple weeks back, LIAS correspondent Freddi C braves the wilds of Sonar Festival in Barcelona, and lives to tell the tale… Well, I’ve finally recovered from Sonar and already the weekend here is madness again. It sounds like I’m in the middle of a war zone — loud, and I mean […]

Whenever I visit a new city for the first time I’m always armed with my trusty Lonely Planet travel book. Come the second visit, having gotten all the classic sightseeing locations stricken off my must-see-in-my-lifetime list, I dump the guide books and make sure to Facebook people residing in that same city and get the […]

The most iconic Land Rover of all time, the spare bones Defender, is getting a modernized resurrection via two new concepts: the DC100 and DC100 Sport. Unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show (where else this week, really) these two concepts aren’t just whimsical blog fodder, they’re actually intended for eventual production heading into 2015. The […]