In further support of Ariel Pink’s recently released “Put Your Number in My Phone” single comes the self-aware, slightly bizarre music video directed by Grant Singer. In a definite nod to the film Midnight Cowboy, Señor Pink — while clad in cowboy hat and fuzzy jacket — wheels his sickly friend through the mean streets of a […]

SBTRKT, Aaron Jerome’s frequently masked music-alias, is preparing the world for his Wonder Where We Land LP releasing one week from now through Young Turks.”The Light”, streaming here, features the soulful vocals of UK’s up and coming Denai Moore who will be appearing with SBTRKT throughout the UK leg of his tour. Moore will basically be taking over the role […]

Jennifer Lee, better known as bass queen Tokimonsta to you and I, has played the aisles of this Supermarket before. You’ll recognize the flavor in some ways — a little bit smooth, meticulously edited and always bass-y, but now with a little smooth electro-R&B-soul. Tokimonsta has been dropping the word about her upcoming Desiderium LP for a minute, and now […]

Flying Lotus has been around these parts a lot as of late, no doubt in anticipation of his hip-hop/jazz/leftfield bass fusion You’re Dead! album set to release October 7th. In part of the slow reveal of the album’s arrival, FlyLo treats us to “Never Catch Me” — a collaborative work with Compton’s own Kendrick Lamar. Never mind any recent […]

As you indubitably recall, Terry Guilliam has a new movie coming out: Zero Theorem (which we previously covered here). And apparently, although we’ll believe it when we see it, the upcoming film is reported to have all the weirdness needed to harken back to the brilliance of Brazil. Christopher Walz, who won our attention since Inglorious Bastards and Django Unchained, stars as a […]

Oscar-winning writer John Ridley — who has penned such acclaimed films as 12 Years a Slave, Three Kings, U-Turn and the cult classic Undercover Brother — has now revived rock-n-roll’s greatest guitar icon, Jimi Hendrix, in the upcomig directorial effort, Jimi: All Is by My Side. The challenge of filming the biopic of a musical hero with untouchable music […]

Los Angeles Production/DJ duo Classixx drops another goodie in our candy box this week. First off they’ve given us solid remixes that we come to time and time again. They’ve also helped us get down to business on Valentine’s Day with their Immaculate Selections mixtape (we certainly hope it got you some action last week). […]

2011 may have been a quiet year for Maya Arulpragasam, but the world pop star M.I.A. is looking to rebound in 2012 and make up for her 3rd album, /\/\ /\ Y /\, which was critically panned by many but beloved here at LIAS headquarters. Her first move is to release a single lifted from the […]