A short survey of our publisher updates, including a new Android media player BitTorrent Bundle is an experiment in sustainable publishing: a new media format built for big ideas; a creative good that’s designed to become more valuable, each time it’s shared. We launched Bundle just over a year ago. More than 600 of Bundles have…
In this edition of Staff Picks: Great Expectations, a new mixtape that might just live up to its name. Irangeles (Iran X Los Angeles) lyricist Malkovich’s album was written around the world. And it sounds that way. Unlike a lot of hip hop, it’s defiantly anti-regional: not East Coast or West Coast; a sound that’s…
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle Publishers. In this edition of FDL: style is the king (kong), (obviously). The new BitTorrent Bundle from STONEDGIANT (Batsauce and MC Qwazaar) is a hip hop throwback to the tight songcraft of sixties pop, with eight original tracks…
In this edition of Staff Picks: an inside look at the Oscar-shortlisted film The Road Home, Rahul Gandotra’s exploration of identity and otherness in the Himalayas. A young boy of Indian descent escapes from a remote boarding school, plane ticket to London in hand. In running away, he learns he can’t run from everything; especially…
In this edition of FDL: Digital Evolution. 23 year-old London native Illectrix has a style based on synthesis: part funk, part electro, part glitch; all soul. From synthesis, to a step change. The artist’s new album, Digital Evolution, reflects a lot of work in the lab: sounds, ideas, and genres transformed into tactile, visceral electronic…
In this edition of Staff Picks: punk and rock and friendship; all, maybe, in equal measure. Download Radical Friends, February’s forty-track mixtape Bundle, courtesy of the fine people over at Tangled Talk Records. Consider it your crash course in UK hardcore, which feels about right for an end-of-Monday. Listen up: new music from Gnarwolves, The…
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers. In this edition of FDL: collection and redemption. Scrapper is the story of Hollis Wallace (Michael Beach, The Wire); a man who seeks out survival in scrap metal; selling what he finds to support his sick…
Boston, 1991. Three guys, two guitars, a set of drums. Guster’s brand of portable, stripped down acoustic songwriting proved to be just that: something shared, something that would become part of nineties dorm culture, and spread beyond it, too.
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers In this week’s Friday Download: A behind-the-scenes look at Robert Deniro’s and John Cusack’s controversial film, The Bag Man. Written and directed by David Grovic, the film is a quirky, postmodern noir about a criminal –…
In this edition of Staff Picks: saving Monday, one dubstep track at a time. At Dawn We Rage is a west coast electronic project with roots in metal, trance, and ambient sound. October’s 4-track EP, While the World Sleeps, is straight awesome heart-pounding bass. Give it a listen. You can grab the BitTorrent Bundle right…