Two of the more interesting personalities in our current cultural landscape sit down for an hour long interview for radio station WYNC in New York. The host of the Here’s The Thing show, Alec Baldwin somehow convinced the usually reticent Thom Yorke to wax loquacious about many a topic, including of course the long history of Radiohead […]


One of the more anticipated supergroups of recent memory, Atoms for Peace have offered their latest album up for free streaming. Set to release next Monday, the Nigel Godrich produced AMOK album will be put out by XL Recordings, and is sure to make many a music lover’s week. With a line-up that includes Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, […]


We’re all anticipating Los Angeles producer and main dude behind Brainfeeder records, Flying Lotus’ (or FlyLo), new album Until the Quiet Comes. The album is set to be released October 2nd in the U.S. via Warp (Oct. 1 in the UK) and will feature guest spots from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and singer/songwriter Erykah Badu to […]


11 May
The latest darkly anxious video from Berliners "Monkeytown" LP

It’s no secret we’re huge Modeselektor fans. Hell, they were one of our Top 5 Musical Performances From Coachella 2012, and we pretty much nerd out to all their bass-filled goodness. Here they’ve teamed up with frequent collaborator Thom Yorke for the latest video, “This”, plucked from their recent Monkeytown album. Director Andrew Jones for FutureDeluxe […]


20 Dec
Henry Rollins, The Weeknd, James Blake, Charlie Sheen, SBTRKT, DJ Mehdi, plenty of mixtapes & more

Time for the fourth edition of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series (after ART, BOOKS & STYLE), where we look back on the LIAS Year In Music. Frankly none of these lists are easy — we can trim each down to about 20 but then cutting them down to 10 means we gotta chop some […]


4 Aug
45 seconds of Berlin future bass loveliness

Normally we don’t post teasers of tracks, but we worship the almighty Modeselektor here so we are totally stoked that the Berlin future bassheads are blessing us with a small sample of their third LP (out September 20). Monkeytown sees the German producers (aka Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) teaming up with Thom Yorke on […]


8 Dec
In search of the most exciting sleeves of 2009

I’ve bought plenty of albums and singles for no other reason than the cover art caught my eye. It doesn’t always pay off sonically, but I do love the medium. If you too appreciate it, actually are a freak about it, Art Vinyl is probably already on your radar. They’re the folks behind those Play […]


Berlin’s Modeselektor and Ellen Allien are going on tour this summer, and if you like shaking your butt to soundwaves emanating from giant speakers, then you should mos def check them out. Modeselektor are among the best producers out there, making music so bass-filled and dark that you’d have to be a quadriplegic to not […]