#1: Maps & Atlases
After spending the better part of the last two years recording their debut LP, Dave, Erin, Shiraz, and Chris found a home at Barsuk Records, who will release it this summer. For further studies: Barsuk // Myspace
#2: Bygones
After Zach and Nick finished up their respective albums this year, they decided to [...]
Join me in welcoming the newest member to Flying Lotus‘ imprint Brainfeeder: JEREMIAH JAE.
Hailing from Chicago’s own Young Black Preachers, you can be expecting Jae’s first album to drop on Brainfeeder by the end of the year. Hear a snippet below and peep a hallucinatory journey through chromatic etchings drowning in static in the video for “Police Ball [...]
Imagine Bruce Springsteen’s “Youngstown” expanded into a career. Now imagine that, instead of the Boss and his New Jersey origins, the auteur in question comes from a blue-collar background in Kent County, Michigan – a good long-term vantage point for the deterioration of American industry. With those images in mind, you probably have an [...]
Cosign Presents is back with Chicago’s most lovable DJ, Kid Color. Kyle Woods came out to Chicago from Cali with nothing but a keen taste for 70s disco and a dream of making the kids dance. And dance they did as Kyle painted the town with his high energy sets everywhere from Wicker Park’s sweaty [...]
Have an idea that you want to see realized but need that extra collaboration or motivation? Sign up and post your invention, business or art on the new innovative social network Original Projects. Project centers around helping young thinkers find others of the same ambition to help bring their dreams to reality, find a home [...]
Who decides what’s relevant in hip hop now? Why ask… hip hop hasn’t always been the artistic force that it once was in the golden age. But its a new game now, with a new aesthetic and new drive to stay relevant, innovative and still make a little money all at the same time. Enter [...]
Exclusive production shots from “Miral”, the new film by Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Basquiat) staring Willem Dafoe and Freida Pinte shot on location in Jerusalem. Here, we see 1st AD Sebastián Silva (Babel, Titanic) directing the extras on a controlled set in the heart of Jerusalem as Willem Dafoe (playing Eddie) [...]
Wah Do Dem, means “what they do” in the Kingston, Jamrock vernacular. Its the name of a new feature from young Brooklyn filmmakers Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner who decided to pack up a Panasonic HVX200 and some great actors when Ben won a raffle to take a luxury cruise over the beautiful island of [...]
Two front runners of digital production, Akai and Abelton have colabed to bring the first dedicated midi controller for Ableton Live, the unmatched production software for live performance. Designed by the same engineering team responsible for Akai’s iconic MPCs, the APC40 features a slew of fancy lit buttons (109) nobs (16) and faders (9) that [...]
Pioneering street artist Dash Snow has died on July 13 from a heroin overdose at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan. Read the New York Times’ obiturary here and photographer Ryan McGinley’s amazing account of life with Snow here.