June 23, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
The first computer I ever had the chance of using was my family's HP Compaq DC7100 running Windows XP and that clean yet primitive UI design had a very big impact on me...
June 22, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
I had all these strange pieces of audio, from conversations w/ my friends, snippets of old medical films, warped acoustic noise, and chaotic synthesized recordings, and they all struck me a certain way...
June 18, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
Music is emotion. Whether happy or sad, it's just a way of helping you deal with them and set the record straight about yourself...
June 9, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
Plus we're all having midlife crises and doing this was cheaper than buying a Miata or getting TRT therapy...
June 8, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
I’ve been lucky that I’ve always had more ideas for music than time to produce them all, so in the beginning, it was easy. I was releasing 15-20 tracks a year, and labels were eating them up...
May 17, 2022
Events
Events
Given JPEGMAFIA's notoriety our expectations were high for his live performance...
May 1, 2022
Events
Events
Headlining the event was non-other than Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future fame. Earl's evolution as an artist has been fascinating to view, and we believe his change in trajectory came with his 2018 release titled Some Rap Songs...
April 10, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
夢の砂漠 explores a lot of feelings I’ve been having over the past year - mostly a lot of self-exploration and I wanted to convey this a long and ethereal album so that other people can travel through the ‘dream desert’ and explore all of these intense feelings themselves...
RANDOM
The concept for reverse nightmare tower was actually inspired by my friend who sent me an unpublished script/rough draft idea for a game/visual novel style thingy he was making...
I guess I was looking for different and fresh ways to write songs because I was a bit too used to writing in a specific way and wanted to shake things up...
The lead singers aesthetic was particularly unique with a short mohawk and large trench coat - seeming like a spirit guide on the astral planes...
This is easily the tallest performer we have ever photographed...
Little Big is no stranger to controversy with music videos depicting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un having an intimate relationship with a nuclear missile...
You thought we were done with just astrxl.awards this year? Nah we had to step that s*** up...
The most common critique people will say is 'I can't meditate,' even though they are. They are so caught up in their own egoic construct they will refuse to entertain ideas that lay below the surface...
I think we all assembled by sheer proximity, the sheer desire to partake in a lot of substances, needing one core activity to tie us all together...
This was one of Lil Tjay's first performances following his recovery from being shot seven times in an attempted robbery & his live show didn't disappoint...
Right now, the norm is for labels to make decisions based on data. And they've all got access to more data than ever before, so it turns into a science. They look at the trajectory of streaming numbers and social media followings, and they avoid artist development...