Unceremoniously and without warning, Skream shut down his scene-defining Stella Sessions radio show on Rinse FM this week, unleashing the new and improved “Skream & Benga Show” on the world. The results are a laugh out loud riot including shoutouts to Redtube, the (non) promotion of sex and violence, accusations of philandering and Skream claiming […]

It’s going to hit 27/80 degrees here in MTL today which surpasses the area of “unseasonable” to land in the vaunted realm of “holy fuck, that’s insane” so I’ll make this quick. If you’re in need of free musical sustenance of the mixed variety, I highly recommend Skilliam & Elijah’s recent contribution to FACT’s on […]

Ms. Fatbellybella commandeers the spaceship that is the Gilles Peterson show and steers it exactly the way you’d expect: a healthy dose of George Clinton, Madlib, Alice Coltrane, Jay Electronica, and material from the excellent New Amerykah Part II.  Additionally, she and Gilles discuss haikus, her early Baduizm days, balancing music with parental responsibilities, the […]

David Lee Roth once opined that music critics like Elvis Costello because they look like Elvis Costello. Perhaps that explains why the pale, skinny Dubstep massive has chosen badman DJ Skream as their avatar of choice (no Pandora), but it’s more likely that they’re drawn to the amazingly dark and forward-thinking beats that man’s been […]