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 […]