The choice of Claro Intelecto’s “Beautiful Death” as the penultimate song on the last Mary Anne Hobbs show was intended to send a message that needn’t be explicitly articulated. The doyenne of dubstep is far too bright and self-aware to crow about how important she’s been to its ascent. Besides, she has plenty of others […]

A stream of Joker’s 45-minute “Ghetto Clang” mix has been circulating on the Internet, but you don’t want a stream, you want to be free to download the entire mix and get loaded. It is Friday and hopefully you ain’t got nothing to do.  And Joker’s electrocution G-funk is a measured and sane response to […]

Admittedly, I’m still not finished listening to the second week of Mary Anne Hobbs Vs. The Volcano, Or I Got Stranded in LA and All I Got Was This Lousy Podcast, but I suspect that like last week, it will go down as one of her finest shows of the year. Hobbs calls a mix […]

Let the record show that this is the only volcano that I fuck with.  Eyjafjallajokull, Krakatoa, and Joe Vs. can get the finger — what finger? The middle. As the LA Weekly reported earlier this week, Mary Anne Hobbs has decamped to the city of the Angels for the next month, to duck the travel […]

Shlohmo, the 20-year old beat scene wunderkind, who is crushing feelings in a bid to take the top spot among lanky LA Jews (deference, youngster, deference) stopped by Mary Anne Hobbs last Wednesday night to deliver a scorching 15-minute mix full of murky dubstep, twerked samples, air-sirens and Dilla homage, and “Sampson Simpson” samples from […]

Whether you’re a hip-hop head baffled why this blog focuses so much on bass music (hint: it’s due to house music maharajah DJ Pauly D) or whether you’re so cool that you haven’t listened to music with words since Bush knocked down the Twin Towers (Jadakiss is never wrong), Mary Anne Hobbs’ highlights of 2009 […]

Thanks to some bulgogi-bloating Korean BBQ on Wednesday night, I missed sets from 12th Planet and Mary Anne Hobbs at the Scion House Party at The Roxy. Such are the consequences of $16.99 all-you-can-eat dinners. Thankfully, the Fullerton Dubstep don dropped a blistering mix on Hobbs’ BBC 1XTRA show last Wednesday, full of rarely heard […]

The mutual admiration society between Daedelus and The Low End Theory always made sense. Since ’01, Alfred Darlington (he of the best chops since Ambrose Burnside), has aspired towards a futuristic blur of hip-hop, dance, and grimy, glitchy beats–the same combination favored at the Lincoln Heights hang-out. Last year, he dropped Live at Low End […]

Jneiro Jarel, perhaps best known to PoW readers as the dude behind the intermittently excellent Khujo Goodie collabo, Georgiavania, stepped to Mary Anne Hobbs ever-essential Radio One show last night and dropped this outstanding mix, featuring tracks from King Tubby, Burial, and The Bug. Plus, a plethora of remixes and original cuts recorded under his […]