May 24, 2013 A couple of years ago, the UK's grime scene was (thankfully) invaded by a handful of hungry up-and-coming MCs. While most of the top boy spitters in the game were off pleasing the overground with their pop efforts, something drastically had to be done...
May 24, 2013 Name: A K U A (pronounced ah-koo-ah)
Where She's From: Montreal, Canada
Genre: R&B, Soul
For Fans Of: Jessie Ware, Tawiah
Sounds Like: Ethereal soul for rainy days or nightswimming
The...
May 23, 2013 Words and Interview by Laura Studarus
It’s eve of Club 8’s eighth album release, Above the City, and Johan Angergård is contemplating his musical hero, Morrissey. Having just released his first...
May 23, 2013 When Douster arrived on the tropical bass scene in 2009 as a part of the Argentinian DJ collective/label ZZK, he was a student visiting Buenos Aires from France. He fell in love with the local electro...
May 23, 2013 Name: Tigerlight
Where She’s From: Helsinki via Berlin and London
When She Started: 2010
Genre: Soul, D&B, dubstep
For Fans Of: Ayah Marah, Alex Clare
Sounds Like: A muse for modern dubstep
The concept of dubstep without a vocalist was...
May 22, 2013
Words by Laura Studarus
Today is World Goth Day! (It is also Morrissey’s birthday; a fact that we have chosen to pretend is more than a happy coincidence.) A celebration of all things dark,...
May 22, 2013 Name: Ryan Hemsworth
Where He’s From: Nova Scotia, Canada
When He Started: 2009
Genre: Electronic-based hip-hop
For Fans Of: Clams Casino, Evian Christ
Sounds Like: Twilight electronica, swigged with a hip-hop-shaped codeine...
May 22, 2013 Every time a promising hip-hop talent prematurely retires, an angel loses its wings. Or something like that. Take Big Baby Gandhi, the Bangladeshi-American emcee and producer from Queens and esteemed...
"My Ride" is the new club banger from the third album from the trio The Bilz and Kashif. The smooth Montreal-based gents have fun showing off their whip appeal to the ladies flossing in the video.
A 90's alt pop revival is in full force and English indie pop band Veronica Falls isn't on the sidelines "Waiting for Something to Happen." Their latest single and paired video are more carefree than...
Bleached shows us the highs and lows (but mostly highs) of being California party girls in the video for "Next Stop." You could call Blondie a patron saint for sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin who give off her seductive allure and feisty pop punk...
Canadian musician K-OS released the double album BLack on BLonde this year. One half is rock. The other half is hip-hop. In this exclusive interview, he explains himself. Bonus Explanation: How his approach to music makes him the opposite of the Beastie...
Do you ever just make a series of bad decisions, leaving you in a lost, yet profound space? Emika translates that feeling into a drunken Tori Amos-like synthpop ode in “Searching.”
The effect of A K U A’s “Gravity” on you: expect to float along the current of the Montreal-based singer’s ethereal melodies.
The video for MONSTA's "Messiah" has lead singer Skaar wandering through a rural landscape where around every corner either a gospel revival or the devil himself might reside. His hopeful hymn rises rapturously above the group's surging dubstep.
Come along (and clap along) as Venezeulan singer-songwriter Ulises Hadjis travels through Japan in the video for his sunny, poppy tune “Aquella Ciudad.” ¡Buen viaje!
