I.V.A.N.’s debut album Never Marry A Musician is an exploration of love and strife. It’s the story of falling hard, issuing warnings and breaking hearts. It’s also a tribute to the struggle of trying to balance passions with pocketbooks. Sonically [...]

I am a fan of musicians making a song their own. Some choose to repurpose an instrumental for a mixtape, but others opt to get a bit more interpretive. Here, Erin Paula and Summer Breeze fuse “What’s My Name,” “Say Ahh,” “Pretty Girl Rock” [...]

The Love Mixtape is a musical translation of the fog, pea coats and searching spirit so representative of The Jealous Guys’ native San Francisco. Group members Ayinde and BizYcasa are dropping The Love Mixtape on a day emblematic of cheesy romance, but [...]

Discussions about what constitutes a good man or a good woman run rampant these days. It keeps the blogosphere ablaze with viral arguments about what to look for and whether such a thing even exists. Unfortunately we often end up talking more about how [...]

This time around Los Rakas are claiming the street with “Kalle.” Whereas past videos have been more nuanced, this one seeks to capture the vibrant Afro-Latino street life of New York City. Shot primarily on the Brooklyn Bridge and in The Bronx, the PanaBaynian [...]

As the discussion about New Bay and Old Bay continues, I decided to give you a better representation of what moves the New Bay is making. Clap City 2 is a mixtape that Mike Dash-E and DJ Amen recently collaborated on featuring a plethora of young up [...]

For the uninitiated, iLL-Literacy is a creative cadre of artist activists who fuse funk, hip-hop, spoken word, campus organizing and viral know-how to challenge the status quo. They explain below:For us, that means rethinking how music is produced and [...]

This isn’t new music or particularly newsworthy, but we stumbled across this video the other day and think Mr. Tai Saki does an excellent 40 Water impression. He is more believable when talking than rapping, but it’s his laugh that is most spot on. 38thnotes [...]