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
I started out making hip-hop beats and sing a lullaby songs on those beats in my bedroom from 1999 to 2001 - I would say I am one of the first to make music in my bedroom...
El Perro del Mar is merely an extension of me that enables me to do and say the things which I find hard to express in daily life. I’ve been using the name since 2004 when I came across a stray dog on a Spanish beach...
Because of Flying Lotus’s nature I knew the visuals at this live show would be postmodern abominations...
You thought we were done with just astrxl.awards this year? Nah we had to step that s*** up...
The role that labels used to play pre-internet adoption had much more to do with building up an artist, and getting them to where they need to be to become superstars. Today, the artist builds themselves up on their own...
No matter what type of art you produce, you can learn from the past, and there may be aesthetics you cannot reproduce on modern digital software...
My day started a bit earlier for day two - I headed in and immediately went to the merch stand to grab my buddy a shirt...
Zguba is dead and buried, never to resurface with a full-fledged release...
This show was on a Monday as well which I thought was funny that it was one of the most lit crowds I’ve seen this year...
La Calandria is a performer of Puerto Rican ‘Jibaro’ music, which is a traditional style in Puerto Rico mostly from the countryside...