While it’s clear we have a soft spot for all things indie, from experimental haze to dream pop to garage doo-wop, some of us here at LIAS have also been suckers for breakbeats since they used to call it hardcore (Google it, kids). Throughout its evolution, the boom bap always delivers to our hearts a […]

After forming during their high school years in Calgary, Alberta, the four best friends who make up BRAIDS moved their prairie Canadian behinds to the cosmopolitan wonderfulness of Montreal. Entrenching themselves in the city of poutin and painfully cute artsters, the foursome holed up in a dilapitaded house in a Hasidic neighborhood to craft the […]

As a pioneering producer of dubstep, Kode9 (aka Steve Goodman) has intricately explored the effects of sonic frequencies on human beings — used for positive results, his groundbreaking sub-bass tracks laid the foundation for the flourishing dubstep genre. But the doctor in Goodman (he has a PhD. in Philosophy from from the University of Warwick, […]