Anwar Sabreen does not approve your trite Disney references.  Ka is no longer a secret. He is Brownsville’s late bloom comeback story. He went from bowing out of the rat race gracefully, to crafting two critically acclaimed albums back to back. His YouTube channel had been transmogrified into a frigid project cul de sac via a […]

It’s either Anwar Sabreen or the papes Late nights often lead to impulse purchases. At least for me they do. There’s an allure to the late night internet crawl. This unreasonable combination of interests, desires, and sometimes taboos culminate into a purge-worthy browser history. It’s the digital condition. The “what you do in the dark…” […]

Art by Guus Krol 28HundredMedia is the army, better yet the navy My video production partner and I met Adrian Younge in a Midtown Manhattan hotel with a lobby that looked like it was decorated by Daft Punk and Don Draper’s lovechild. After failing to find a suitable interview spot in the public area of […]

Chris Danks is a member of Judy Greer’s framily Nick Hakim’s image is as unassuming as his music. You’ll find his presence on the Internet notably absent of any fanfare or branding, and his refusal to add text to nearly all of the visuals betrays a very comprehensive commitment to understatement, both visually, and sonically. […]

Thomas Johnson is hyper as a heart attack Chicago’s been in a predicament over the last few years. While the quality of its music is steadily on the rise, the quality of life of many of those making the music has been on a steep decline. Drill scene artists  like Chief Keef reflect the warzone […]

Dewey Decibel is freestyling right now over coffee and brunch This summer mix is a compilation of my top played tracks in my iTunes right now, an eclectic mixture of tracks that I have been banging on the regular. There is usually a track that comes along while I am grinding on some graphic design […]

Y’all don’t know Jake Ewald cause he steady dipping Jarren Benton is 32 years old without a rebrand or a label deal. He’s finishing a tour with Tech N9ne and Freddie Gibbs, prepping to play a show in New York with Ab-Soul and travelling to the Midwest for spot dates with label-mate Hopsin. Also, he […]

Sam Yurick like his guitars like his women: loud, scuffed, and turned up to 11 Punk has been up against it’s existential limit ever since the first kid said “punk’s not dead”, maybe even earlier, depends on which destructive appetites you value and to which ends. I’m going to skip the semantics and say the […]

Sam Yurick is post-Yeezus pre-Noise Trap One of my favorite movie motifs is in the Coen Brothers’ Fargo when a car’s “door ajar” chime punctuates and portends several deaths throughout the film. You can read it as the indifference of the universe made manifest, a corrolary to the way that best laid plans take on […]

Eamon Whalen gets more “ahhhhs” than inventors The solitary artist is largely a myth. That’s not to discount individual genius, but groups of people i.e movements and scenes, tend to push boundaries and shake balance far more significantly. This seems especially true of rap, where theres nary a new rapper that arrives without some kind […]