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
Onstage Krule presents a dichotomy of sorts with a strong baritone voice and indie rock aesthetic...
I don't know how I've gone this long without seeing Kendrick or Keem. I was supposed to photograph one of their shows back in Vancouver in 2022...
The live set echoed something out of a horror movie with Yeule’s various Junji Ito tattoos to LED backdrops looking like they surfaced from the gates of Hell...
Kaytranada is a Canadian DJ with a comprehensive history of producing funk + R&B-infused tracks. His breakout album titled 99.9% (released in 2016) garnered substantial recognition for fusing house / R&B / funk aesthetics...
It’s supposed to be a freeing genre so I don’t think a personal description would do it justice...
Rina Sawayama is a Japanese/British pop icon who made major waves in the music industry following her 2020 release titled, 'Sawayama.' The album was praised...
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...
One of the highlights of the show was an audience member who took off his shirt and threw his mixtape on stage...
You thought we were done with just astrxl.awards this year? Nah we had to step that s*** up...
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...