Interview

In the current state of hip-hop, there's without a doubt a demand for women who spit legitimate bars. The two biggest female names in hip-hop right now, Nick Minaj and Iggy Azalea, have trounced the stereotype of the female MC who only makes poppy music without substance or lyricism behind it...

A cloud of weed billows as Black Milk hits the stage with Nat Turner Band for their show in Portland, Oregon. The band begins playing and Black Milk marches up to the front of the stage, his maroon pants barely making the trip, exposing his boxer briefs...

Jack White has moved out of the garage, but this year has seen a healthy amount of disjointed, scuzzy, glammy basement rock to fill the void, from Black Bananas' Electric Brick Wall to Ty Segall's recent Manipulator. King Tuff's sprawling, immediate, and ridiculously fun third album, Black Moon Spell, is the latest entry into this field...

A body high is a pleasurable state when the body feels no pain and every bit of contact is magnified and exhilarating. This term is often used to describe the physical element of drug experiences. Creating music to capture the essence of that feeling can be a daunting task, but rapper Lucki Eck$ nailed it on his aptly titled Body High mixtape...

On a scorching day in Portland, Oregon, I met up with Inland Empire natives and HS87 members Price and Oktane, otherwise known as Audio Push. For some reason we chose to do the interview in their Mercedes Sprinter Van which was parked on one of the busiest streets in town...

Dan Boeckner is a frenzied maniac punching at his guitar and mashing a hand on his synth as sweat drips all over everything. That's the typical scenario when you see him performing with one of his many bands, and that was the scene for his latest band, Operators, during their recent opening set supporting Future Islands in Brooklyn...

No offense to Mike Will, but GustoNYC made it. If you've seen a buzzy new Tumblr flooding your feed, or some flashy MTV digital campaign, or a dope piece of graffiti in Brooklyn, there's a good chance multitasking artist Gusto had something to do with it...

While many may know Nashville as the holy land for country music, Dee Goodz is ready to show the masses that Ca$hville has a stake in that old Dirty South rap label, too. The rapper has built up his buzz in the region, collaborating with artists like Mac Miller and Casey Veggies, but instead of riding the wave of momentum in his hometown, Dee left his region altogether and headed for New York City

The Wytches may be from Britain, but the fast-rising trio delivers a sound that traverses time and territory pretty seamlessly. In one song you're liable to hear hints of '50s surf rock, '60s garage, '70s doom metal, '80s post punk, and '90s grunge, like it's coming out of some demented future version of a '50s tiki bar...

The masked members of GOAT claim to be "an ongoing multi-generational collective of musicians from the isolated Swedish locality of Korpilombolo." They insist that the material on their debut album World Music was actually just the latest iteration of a centuries-old tradition of music that has been passed down from generation to generation there (just like the masks), and this supposed