KAIZO SLUMBER - Interview

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...

ALEPH - Interview

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...

36 - Interview

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...

CITIES AVIV - Interview

Peace simply is a gesture of love...

ADAM DOOLING - GOSPEL - Interview

Plus we're all having midlife crises and doing this was cheaper than buying a Miata or getting TRT therapy.‍..

S3RL - Interview

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
JPEGMAFIA - Round By Round, Blow By Blow

Given JPEGMAFIA's notoriety our expectations were high for his live performance...

May 1, 2022
Events
Events
ÑBA LEATHER - Earl Sweatshirt, Boldy James, & The Alchemist

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
DESERT SAND FEELS WARM AT NIGHT - Interview

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

ANTHONY1 - Interview

I think internet is the influence that has the most inspiration, saturation of information is something I love and try to replicate on my music...

Interviews
Interviews
LIL TJAY - Canada Tour

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...

Events
Events
TYLER THE CREATOR - Camp Flog Gnaw (2023)

Tyler’s stage set modeled that of a junkyard with stacked cars and a crane dangling over his automobile perch. The LED background was filled with different scenes depicting a constant evolution of set and setting...

Events
Events
LITTLE  BIG - USA Tour

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...

Events
Events
BYE2 - Interview

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...

Interviews
Interviews
CAT TEMPER - Interview

I took inspiration from the somewhat schizophrenic yet entertaining behavior of a few cats I've owned who purr for attention and then sink their teeth into you without reason or warning.

Interviews
Interviews
ETRAN DE L'AIR - Live

"The name Etran de L’Aïr translates to “the Stars of the Aïr,” the mountainous region of Northern Niger."

Live
Live
LIL UGLY MANE - Interview

Ugly Mane is a catch-all for whatever creative drainage leaks out of me. I think it's a dumb name that makes most people immediately write me off and not investigate what I do purely based on the preconception of how dumb the name is. I like that...

Interviews
Interviews
I CAN'T MEDITATE - Is An Absurd Statement and Here's Why

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...

Articles
Articles
ASTRXL BEST OF (2023)

You thought we were done with just astrxl.awards this year? Nah we had to step that s*** up...

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