The indie hip hop artist premieres his new album, Loss Leader Vol. 1, as a BitTorrent Bundle. Listen up. You might not have heard of Cassius. But you’ve heard him. He’s the GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter behind Bruno Mars’ “Just The Way You Are”; a single that’s sold over 12.5 million copies around the world. “I…
Amanda Palmer asks fans to decide how music is distributed. You can download the full talk, plus live performances, as a BitTorrent Bundle. Amanda Palmer taught us that musicians could make money on Twitter. She showed us that we could survive, and thrive, in the Kickstarter economy. She reminded us — more than 5 million…
The trio’s new album, A Thousand Faces: Act II, is now available as a BitTorrent Bundle. Download music and art. Mix the video from the record’s first single. And unlock the group’s live projection mapping tools. The Hero’s Journey™ begins here. Beats Antique is Zoe Jakes, Sidecar Tommy, and David Satori. They’re from Oakland. But…
The hip hop crew’s new mixtape debuts today on BitTorrent Bundle. In 1989, a little known group from New York released an album that would change the course of hip hop. De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising sounded like nothing else: spoken word, skit, and psychedelia; sampled exhaustively, sampled from life. 25 years…
The dark comedy, in theaters today, asks what you’d be willing to do for a dollar. We dare you to watch. I dare you. It’s a provocation that’s become not so: a weird common currency in a world where conversation is increasingly defined by escalation (i.e. this). What does daring do? And more importantly, where…
Featuring performances by RATKING, Kelela, Young Guru, and more. In just a few days, we’ll be headed down to Austin. Stop by Empire Garage on Monday, March 10th, for performances by Chromeo (DJ set), JayCeeOh, Tory Lanez, Kelela, Young Guru, Anamanaguchi, Addison Groove, Plastician, and Giraffage, plus a special guest (stay tuned). No RSVP. No…
The Drive In Theatre is already among the most listened-to music of 2014. The Jet Life crew hits the road, announcing an official curated SXSW event. Curren$y ended 2013 with a list of new projects under his belt, including three EPs, a full-length mixtape, and three feature-length film’s worth of video releases. He started 2014…
Cut/Copy’s new video, directed by Masa Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu, and Aramique Krauthamer, marks the start of a participatory 3D-printed narrative. Cut/Copy’s Free Your Mind is a Summer of Love record: rooted in the rise of 60s psychedelia; inspired by the birth of 80s rave. It’s about open-eyed, wild-eyed experimentation. And it reminds us of a…
What should the Internet sound like? Last Friday, De La Soul did hip hop fans everywhere a solid. To mark the group’s 25th anniversary, they made their entire catalog available for free download. Digital access historically has been an issue for the group. They have a place in the Library of Congress, but not in…
The New Orleans rapper’s BitTorrent Bundle features new music, video, art, and more. After over a month of hype: it’s here. Welcome to The Drive In Theatre. Curren$y’s new mixtape is hazy rap, brought into sharp focus; a lesson in hip hop, from one of the genre’s greatest professors. The 14-track tape features Action Bronson,…