If you're in Atlanta you know Gucci Mane was recently released from jail. Gucci is Mad Decent's favorite rapper and to celebrate they've got another official Limited Edition T-shirt.
Read MoreEvery year Los Angeles based musical festival HARDfest gets better and better. Previous years they've had lineups that included Crookers and Justice to not be a name dropper.
Read MoreM.I.A, Gil Scott Heron & Mickey Avalon is the shit Marcus K. Dowling is digging this week aka avant garde musical water cooler discussion.
Read MoreThese are photos, courtesy of the squid & MFG from the Jan 31st party at Dance Right in Los Angeles featuring Diplo and Mad Decent.
Read MoreSouth Rakkas Crew’s new free album “The Stimulus Package” is another dope album from Mad Decent.
Read MoreThe most important lesson learned from the "Free Gucci: Best of the Cold War Mixtapes" release is the concept of "genre" is dead.
Read MoreIt was a night that met every expectation. That really comes off as something trite, but, when speaking of an event of the hype of My Crew Be Unruly, it bespeaks a success of the greatest magnitude. One one night, in one venue, 30 of the world’s finest DJs came together, unified by what was initially advertised as a love of club music and to honor the legacy of late Baltimore legend K-Swift (whose last gig ever was at last year’s inaugural event), but by the end of the evening, became so much more, a statement of the desire of the individual to take music, a gift to the universe unto itself, and shape, meld and mend it in such incredible ways as to pull the most pure and joyous of expressions from those who hear it.
Gun’s Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do is exactly what you’d expect from a project by frequent M.I.A. and Santigold collaborators, Diplo and Switch. Major Lazer, is a boastful showing of the producers’ inert dancehall influences. The project features the usual suspects in a Diplo and Switch project like Amanda Blank and Santigold, but also is completed with dancehall stars like Ricky Blaze, Mr. Lex, Prince Zimboo and more.
Major Lazer’s video for “Pon De Floor” was released online recently. The trippy video was directed by Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show fame). If there was an emoticon for “dumbfounded astonishment” I would use it right here. Check the video below. Read More
