Features Archive
Features posted in 2012
May
- Song of the week: Blawan – Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage
- Live broadcast: Xeno & Oaklander live at Public Assembly, Brooklyn
- Song of the week: Kuedo - Work, Live & Sleep In Collapsing Space (Laurel Halo remix) Kuedo [Planet Mu]
- Lone interview: "I had no idea about ecstasy. I just thought the music sounded insane.”
- The music and the making of Ekoplekz
- Live Broadcast: Shabazz Palaces live in New York
- Tha Crossroads: how Bone Thugs-n-Harmony imagined today's rap
- Santigold interview: "Things just started erupting."
April
- Azealia Banks's beefs, and what they say about rap's new generation
- Jessie Ware picks some flowers and reclaims pop
- Live broadcast: Peaking Lights and LXMP at Unsound Festival New York
- Actress interview: "It’s medicine - that’s what music is."
- The rise and rise of NTS Radio
- The 2.0Pac hologram was really, really weird
- Sun Araw and The Congos interview: "Life’s a trip but it’s heavy too."
- THEESatisfaction interview: "You can do whatever you want with language."
- How electronic dance music shapes and shifts our ideas of beauty
- The store at the heart of Austin's thrilling synth scene
- Live broadcast: Wilis Earl Beal live at Glasslands, Brooklyn
March
- Nina Kraviz interview: "It is all about human feelings."
- Anthony 'Shake' Shakir interview: "Every record I owned was an instrument."
- The startling artistic vision of Glasgow night Vitamins
- How Butterz shaped grime's late second flowering
- The British 'first-wave' of women in hip hop
- How to survive SXSW, by the online music press
- Cop Car Bonfire is the busker Grimes called "the coolest live show in Montreal"
- The story behind Grimes's 'Oblivion' video
- Quick catchup: Rory Phillips
February
- How Detroit techno changed the fabric of time forever
- Live broadcast: Ital live at 285 Kent, Brooklyn
- How 80s graffiti artist Futura 2000 invented the art of today's underground
- The Dummy Guide to Mexico's 3bal sound
- Jon Savage on Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92
- How araabMUZIK is bringing the hip hop battle DJ into the digital age
- Blondes interview: "Dancing is physical meditation."
January
- The strange, soggy sonic fictions of SpaceGhostPurrp
- Chairlift interview: "Harness that energy."
- Ital interview: "The world presses on you in really intense ways."
- Peaking Lights interview: "The infinite ways of writing music."
- The Dummy guide to the best new albums: January 2012
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