Music Videos
  1. M.I.A.’s got a lot going on right now: this video is a ridiculously catchy track with production by Danja (Timberlake, Britney, Madonna) and a tricked out drag race party in the desert for the clip – swagger for days.

    May 26, 2012
  2. LA’s ScHoolboy Q features a guest spot for A$AP Rocky and samples Lissie’s cover of Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” on this cut from Habits & Contradictions.

    May 24, 2012
  3. Zach Hill and MC Ride’s Death Grips dropped their mixtape/album Ex-Military last year and kinda blew everyone’s mind with their hardcore/hip-hop thing. Now signed to Epic, their new album, The Money Store is out to great reviews. The video for their new track is dizzying, the beat is downright funky.

    May 24, 2012
  4. Wiz Khalifa drops the first video from his Taylor Allderdice Mixtape. Seems Wiz has a lot on his mind but maybe that’s just the weed smoke. Watch him prep before performing for a crowd of thousands.

    May 23, 2012
  5. Flatbush Zombies – a killer name for the NYC duo, and “Thug Waffle” is pretty good too. These two show glimmers of everything from Gravediggaz to Wu to Smif-N-Wessun. It’s hot.

    May 22, 2012
  6. After Nicki Minaj appeared at the Teen Choice Awards there’s has been a lot of talk about her very young fan base who love her crazy makeup and wigs. Her new song featuring rapper 2 Chains, “Beez in the Trap,” is for the older set with Minaj in a bikini and dropping the F-bomb at least 20 times.

    May 21, 2012
  7. Portland’s synth pop favorites release another single from new album Kill For Love, “Into The Black.” Sound familiar? It’s an inspired cover of the Neil Young classic. Download the track free at Stereogum.

    May 17, 2012
  8. Big K.R.I.T (King Remembered In Time) drops a clip for the title track off his new mixtape, 4evaNaDay, in which he jumps into the illustrated world of the tape’s cover. iTunes has the deluxe version of 4evaNaDay available now and K.R.I.T.’s debut full-length, Live from the Underground, drops this month.

    May 14, 2012
  9. A quite impressive clip with more than 3,000 frames of hand painted, rotoscope animation. From this year’s “Mountaintops.”

    May 11, 2012
  10. The LA based Zig Zags debut single for Mexican Summer is some kind of heavy metal bedroom heaven, a la 1974. With a clip filled with old school found footage from god knows where, “Scavenger” blasts freeloaders and jerk stores who show up to parties empty handed.

    May 8, 2012