Admittedly, it’s only been out for only two weeks, but the A$AP Rocky tape has had surprising Ipod repeat power. It’s doesn’t need to be rocket science — some things just make for fun blunt cruise soundtracks. Jonah Bromwich’s points stay salient and I’ve chimed in my own praise. There is no need to hype […]

At the forefront of instrumental hip-hop and modern electronic music, Take has spent years helping forge a strong scene within his native Los Angeles, but also constantly evolving to avoid stasis. Before critics got misty-eyed over James Blake’s sweater set this winter, Take had already covered similar territory, manipulating and stretching his own vocals over […]

Nosaj Thing – MIS, Brasil 2010 (leg. português) from Cauê Ito on Vimeo. If you subscribe to the ideology that beats need raps to be fulfilled, you’ve probably already long ceased to read this blog, or are in the process of breaking away to download the latest MP3’s from Games, Tennis, Weekend, and Troubled Jai […]

Back like cooked Cav. Almost. I write this from several miles in the air, in front of a guy asking to borrow my copy of US Air magazine, next to a trio of teenagers flipping breathlessly through Life & Style. I have apparently not been keeping up with the Kardashians, but I know that Derek […]

We post a lot of mixes these days. Maybe you enjoy them, maybe you don’t. I can’t really tell. I’m not about to take a focus group survey — yes, there are blogs that do those things. But that’s less hip-hop than soy milk and yoga — then again, there is a night in Los […]

Let the record show that this is the only volcano that I fuck with.  Eyjafjallajokull, Krakatoa, and Joe Vs. can get the finger — what finger? The middle. As the LA Weekly reported earlier this week, Mary Anne Hobbs has decamped to the city of the Angels for the next month, to duck the travel […]

Take “Incredibright” from Alpha Pup on Vimeo. Aaron Frank has never climbed a mountain nor played an electric guitar. However it happened, Take had a right to be irate that Only Mountain leaked a month early. A driving force behind the underground LA beat scene for the last decade, Sweatson Klank’s debut not only evidences […]

It’s hour 36 and the the hyperbolic decompression from Friday night’s show continues.  By all accounts, the evening was a smashing success. Rah Al Milio’s mushroom fondue went over well, 5 0′ Clock Shadowboxers revived Blue Oyster Cult for the millenial generation, Nocando taught the bespectacled and be-blazered set how to freestyle, and The Holloys […]