You know Trap music is hitting a certain tipping point when NPR is addressing it, but we ain’t hating (besides, we love NPR). Capitalizing on the minimal awesome bassiness of the sound is enigmatic producer UZ, who prefers if very little is known about him — he’d rather speak through his tunes than his words. [...]

Scotland’s Lockah on Diplo’s Jeffrees Mad Decent sub-label fucks with the beat (mainly New Orleans Bounce and Trap music); his debut EP When U Stop Feeling Like a Weirdo & Become a Threat is in line for a post-dubstep take-over. Hailing from Aberdeen, Scotland (think cheap beer…) Lockah is part of the Tuff Wax scene responsible for artists like Yoin [...]

Although the first all new Scion to hit the US market since the tC way back in 2004, the iQ is hardly new. In fact, it’s been zipping through crowded cityscapes in Europe and Japan since 2008, the year it won Car Of the Year in the land of the rising sun. But it is [...]

Los Angeles via Brooklyn via Trinidad and Tobago MC Juakali has been lacing flows over bass-influenced tracks since his debut on Pinch’s Underwater Dancehall record in 2007. In that time the globetrotting lyricist has remained innovative across dub, reggae, dubstep, dancehall, bhangra, grime, electronic and experimental genres, always keeping the anchor of bass as the [...]

Is there a little guy in your life — son, nephew, cousin, godson, etc — whose life you’d like to fill with creativity and violence? Then you might want to look into lifelong LEGO gunsmith Martin Hüdepohl’s book, Badass LEGO Guns. First off, you’ll get the kid playing with LEGOs which anyone knows is a [...]

Nissan invited Lost In a Supermarket up to Vancouver to testdrive their brand spanking new Juke, and this is the results… Oh how I ponder your star-crossed fate, Nissan Juke. While I stare at your curious “crocodile” headlights, mounted high on your raised fenders and separated by feet of steel from your grill, I wonder [...]

God I love me some Amon Tobin, especially when the track’s video involves a home-invading voyeuristic robot. Although I’m not sure what took so long to make this new video (released last week), seeing as the track “Esther’s” comes from Tobin’s 2007 album, The Foley Room. But why look a gift horse in the mouth? [...]

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Not only am I a top-tier writer for LIAS, the greatest online magazine in the history of the printed word, but I’m also a corporate mercenary. I’m in the assassination game and my skills as an international man of mystery fetch top dollar. My last [...]