London four-piece Rudimental stunned us this spring with their urban cowboy video for “Feel the Love,” the group’s soaring track with John Newman that just hit #1 on iTunes in the U...
“Chuch,” from Tree’s excellent Tree, whose Sunday School tape, utilizes an unexpected sample, but under Tree’s production hand, it feels of a piece with the rest of the record...
Watching the evolution of the physical presence of Juvenile from the “Ha” video to today is like watching the evolution of his music; the scenery’s changed and so have his clothes, ...
The first thing we noticed about this young lady were her long braids tied up on top, like Janet Jackson in the 90s, a sort of Poetic Justice braid comeback. She also told us her … read more &#...
And here’s something completely different from Balam Acab who apparently has abandoned nature sounds for the synthetic sounds of a dark and seedy club. Has the god of rainbows traded in water m...
Himanshu Suri directed the video for “Special Effects,” the first clip to go along with Respect the Fly Shit, the album he, Meyhem Lauren, Action Bronson, Tommy Mas, Harry Fraud and frien...
On a sticky summer evening in London I sat down for a pint with Ed Eke and Alice Davies, two thirds of Sunless ’97 (the third member is bassist Matthew McGough). Sunless is a world … read more ...
On the heels of yesterday’s collab with Big K.R.I.T. and Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y keeps up a steady flow of material from his upcoming album, The Stoned Immaculate. “Chasin Papers” fea...
The dudes of Brooklyn’s Wild Yaks spend a lot of time at the beach, which is awesome, but their music isn’t exactly sweet and breezy. Each member sings and plays loud, and though theyR...
UK DJ Sinden is super chameleonic with his songs, so we’re always psyched to see what similarly-minded, varied producers do when they remix them. L-Vis 1990, the dude who runs all-over-the-plac...
There is nothing wrong with a little controversy, and no other word is better in describing the nature of English electronic act Prodigy. The band was an unlikely mainstream act, embracing the things...
Brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence bka Disclosure share yet another ship-shape sparkler, co-starring guest vocalist Ria Ritchie. “Control” launches with the easily thrilling sound of bubble...
Akron/Family percussionist Dana Janssen’s uplifting, more poppy solo project, Dana Buoy, has its first video, directed by Sam Molleur and starring Janssen himself. Over a driving organ and roll...
The video for “Our Sorrows” finds Julia Holter at a porcelain basin for daily ablutions (because really, we’d rather not imagine her as a mortal being doing things at a regular sink...
Just a week after his odd attempt at classical music, Lil B has thankfully return to rapping, releasing the 32-track, 110-minute Water Is D.M.G. Part 1 mixtape—an acronym for drugs, money and gold te...
Singer Megan James slogs through a swamp of magenta lava bubbles and earthy compost in the Brewer-directed video for last year’s trunk-rattling fairy tale “Belispeak.” The track com...
Judging from MoMA PS1’s Warm Up lineup, we will once again be spending our summer Saturdays sweaty and stoked in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. This year we’ll be shaded (and the air will be …...
Jody Breeze has been a solo artist for several years, but previously he was best known as a member of Boyz N Da Hood, the group that helped launch careers for Young Jeezy and Gorilla … read mor...
Chicago’s GLC just released Cathedral, an 11-track mixtape entirely produced by the Blended Babies production team. Standout “Pimp You” oscillates between two tempos, switching from...
Take a trip through a night on the town with Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J in the video for “The Grinder” from Wiz’s Taylor Allderdice mixtape. His full-length, O.N.I.F.C., is out August ...
ngolaI have the great pleasure of writing this column from Luanda, Angola. I was here for the first time three years ago and managed to share a small bit of kuduro on this same website. … read ...
LA’s producer of the future Blood Diamonds—born Michael Tucker in Kansas City and a former resident of Vancouver, where he first linked up with Grimes—has at last prepped his first single of th...
Next week, the eclectic Baltimore producer Co La will release a new EP, Soft Power Memento. Standout track “Love Nest” opens with summery wafts of trumpet before bouncing the notes throug...
Harlem/Brooklyn team Smoke DZA and producer Harry Fraud created all the songs on DZA’s new album, Rugby Thompson, from scratch, eschewing back-and-forth emails for actual studio time together, ...
Kanye West is one of the few lucky souls that will never have to land a three-point shot at the buzzer yet still has the pleasure of designing his own Nikes. Though ‘Ye has been … read mo...
Matthew Dear is prepping his fourth album, Beams, for release on Ghostly at the end of the summer. The LP’s first single, “Her Fantasy,” opens surprisingly cheerily for the man behi...
In his new video for the gleefully sinister and confident jam “The Full Retard,” El-P rides around Brooklyn with a plushy character as gross as, but more bloodthirsty than, the ones in Me...
What’s so wonderful about Ron Morelli‘s L.I.E.S. record label is its strong emphasis on variations on a theme. That theme may be “homemade electronics” and the variations care...
Odd Future’s Lionel Boyce bka L-Boy, a former LA Weekly columnist and Loiter Squad star, announced today that Odd Future Records has signed California hardcore band Trash Talk. In an asterisk-r...
Big Boi and Theophilus London’s new collaboration, “She Said OK,” produced by Chris Carmouche and featuring Tre Luce is smooth, slightly psychedelic and packed with bawdy lyrics. On Monda...
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