February 15, 2024
Interviews
Interviews
FRIKO - Interview

It’s a lot to ask nowadays, but we’d love for people to listen to the record as a whole since we made it with the intention of flowing like in full from start to finish.

February 13, 2024
Interviews
Interviews
KEVIN HOLLIDAY - Interview

I think more than anything, me making music came purely from expression. All growing up I was definitely not an artist or anything like that. It was more of a recent thing...

January 30, 2024
Interviews
Interviews
JEFF ROSENSTOCK - Interview

I wanted it to feel like acceptance. Saying acceptance makes it feel a bit stiff, when really the vibe is like, f*** yeah everybody, hell yeah, and if you can’t get down with this, f*** off...

January 12, 2024
Interviews
Interviews
EABS - Interview

Obviously, it is much easier to keep in touch, exchange files and information. But nothing compares to the real organic work. That’s where the magic begins and it’s impossible to achieve it through the synthetic connection. Especially when the music is spontaneous and interactive...

December 22, 2023
Interviews
Interviews
SIGNED.TRADE - Interview

The role that labels used to play pre-internet adoption had much more to do with building up an artist, and getting them to where they need to be to become superstars. Today, the artist builds themselves up on their own...

December 15, 2023
Etc.
Etc.
ASTRXL BEST OF (2023)

You thought we were done with just astrxl.awards this year? Nah we had to step that s*** up...

December 14, 2023
Interviews
Interviews
CUCO - Interview

You enter this wormhole, the room disappears and you're thrown into a bunch of patterns, and stuff like that. There wasn't a lot of color...

December 6, 2023
Events
Events
JEFF ROSENSTOCK - Hellmode Tour

The stage background was a sight to behold, being an American flag with the stripes changed with rainbow colors representing the pride flag. Where the stars would be, they were replaced with the numbers 666 and a ring of weed leaves...

December 6, 2023
Events
Events
SMALL CRUSH - Hellmode Tour

I knew that Jeff Rosenstock was going to have a good opener for his tour, so I decided to show up right as the doors opened. Small Crush was first to take stage...

RANDOM

CHRIS††† & 아버지 [FATHER] - Interview

Being a Tumblr scroller back when it was cool, I came across an archive of fm towns marty (a Japanese video game console)...

Interviews
Interviews
NILE RODGERS & CHIC - Red Rocks

Nile has credits on Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky,' Madonna's 'Like a Virgin,' and 'Let's Dance,' by David Bowie, which doesn't even scratch the surface of his thousands of credits...

Events
Events
OTAY:ONII - Interview

I drew two paintings, all of which were in an attempt to portray the scissors cutting through a flesh...

Interviews
Interviews
ÑBA LEATHER - Earl Sweatshirt, Boldy James, & The Alchemist

Headlining the event was non-other than Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future fame. Earl's evolution as an artist has been fascinating to view, and we believe his change in trajectory came with his 2018 release titled Some Rap Songs...

Events
Events
YEULE - Levitation

The live set echoed something out of a horror movie with Yeule’s various Junji Ito tattoos to LED backdrops looking like they surfaced from the gates of Hell...

Events
Events
ARMAND HAMMER - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

Their visual imagery on album art is some of my favourite in the underground scene, with 'Shrines' depicting an NYPD officer grappling down the side of a building in Harlem looking into a window at a 425-pound tiger...

Events
Events
BODY TYPE - Interview

We are four fully grown, real life human beings who like to make loud noises together and also share other common interests such as racing back to our day jobs the minute touring is over..

Interviews
Interviews
IDLES - Live

The intro to the set was one of my favorites I've ever seen and it is going to stick with me for months I am sure.

Events
Events
DEALERS OF GOD - Interview

I think we all assembled by sheer proximity, the sheer desire to partake in a lot of substances, needing one core activity to tie us all together...

Interviews
Interviews
S3RL - Interview

I’ve been lucky that I’ve always had more ideas for music than time to produce them all, so in the beginning, it was easy. I was releasing 15-20 tracks a year, and labels were eating them up...

Interviews
Interviews

SUB 4 FREE