Last week etnies in collaboration with designer Eve Lowey and her Studio Chameleon Design Firm, and La Casa Del Camino Hotel held a media day to reveal etnies’ skateboarding themed room.Taking inspiration from their roots, the room reflects the brand’s dedication to skateboarding from the very first time you step into the room. The floor [...]

Buraka Som Sistema are the Portuguese dance act that is heavily credited throughout much of the world for helping to bring attention to the kuduro scene, a highly energetic, sample based, hybrid of hip-hop, electronic, and more traditional Angolan and Portuguese sounds. They are turning the Mayan Theatre into a raging dance party on November [...]

Stevie Stone – New Kid Comin’ The intro caught my attention, just a list of a few Gangster Rappers/Groups that I consider legendary. I was hoping that those names would foreshadow what were to come, not really. The bass is well pronounced throughout this album. Tech N9NE is featured on this album, listening to him [...]

Anjulie has a jazzy feel to it. The tempo is slow and calming. Most of the tracks, I can picture being played in a coffee house and open mic nights. Content matter has a lot to do with love, which may or may not be a good thing. Anjulie’s voice is unique, quite reminiscent of [...]

Deciding Where To Fall By: Tyler Ross If you were a part of something so influential, touching large numbers of lives, and you decided to turn your back on these influences, how would this affect your future?  For David Bazan (ex. Pedro The Lion) and his fans, that was the Christian religion.  Near the end [...]

Megaphone sends a message that could be shouted through a megaphone on the streets.  The lyrics are real and relatable. The cuts by DJ Platurn are impressive. I like that the flows are as quick as the beats. These artists compliment one another. Features from Zion I, Oh No and Gift Of Gab, complete the [...]

In a time where pop stars such as The Black Eyed Peas are looking to electronic music to find an edge and hip hop radio stations are finding themselves increasingly more open to featuring electro mixes and remixes (that may have never been there only a few years ago), it is easy to forget where [...]

Dubstep has become an increasingly popular form of electronic music in the US within the last year. With its roots deeply planted in the drum & bass scene (via the UK), the style and essence of this music is deeply reliant on pounding, driving bass as the main force that propels the songs. It is [...]

Hello my name is… Rita “no middle name” Jackson Aka… Rita J, Bino McFetridge, FlamingoFireMia, Italy Monroe, just to name a few. I was raised in… the south suburbs of Chicago The reason that you’re reading about me is… (job/company affiliations/whatnot) because I’m promoting my new album, “Artist Workshop”in stores now!! Shameless! I work for… [...]