Daft Punk Confirm Signing with Columbia
While it has been highly discussed as of late, Daft Punk today has officially confirmed its ties to Columbia Records via an understated update to its website visuals. The group today replaced their logo with an updated image that highlighted the icon...
Kanye West Takes Shots at the Grammys and “Suit & Tie”
While it was the Oscars that took center stage last night, Kanye West had a bone to pick with another prominent awards show. While performing “Clique” at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, the never bashful West went on a freestyle rant against...
Mass Appeal presents VideoPrint: BADBADNOTGOOD
As the Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD aims to release its third studio album BBNG3 during the course of 2013, the media-defined “hip-hop jazz band” links with perennial publication Mass Appeal to advance its introspective web series VideoPri...
i am OTHER: RiFF RaFF Gives a Tour of Miami’s Art Scene
With his collaborative self-titled Three Loco album pushing through the digital airwaves thanks in part to iTunes, Jody Christian aka RiFF RaFF gets featured on Pharrell Williams’ YouTube web series i am OTHER. In attendance for Miami’s a...
Tupac Shakur’s Mother to Release His “Entire Body of Work”
Tupac Shakur was a modern day Renaissance Man for the emerging hip-hop generation of the early ’90s. His warm heart and audacious personality had major impacts on many realms of art, from film to poetry, however it’s his music that contin...
Boys Noize – Going Live
Boys Noize has the art of the adrenaline rush down. For evidence, see his most recent session at House of Vans x Boiler Room in Berlin. The Hamburg-born artist has come a long way from playing behind other names to one of the most highly regarded ele...
Trinidad Jame$ – All Gold Everything (Live on Fallon)
For a while there, “All Gold Everything” was heard from every lowered Honda window this side of pop music, with Atlanta’s own Trinidad Jame$ experiencing a good measure of success off of the addictive single. So much success, in fac...
HYPETRAK TV: Justice – Without Expectations
During a recent performance in Austin, Texas, HYPETRAK TV recently had the opportunity to sit down with Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay – collectively known as electronic supergroup Justice. In a visual editorial coined “Without Expecta...
Tyler, the Creator Announces New Album ‘Wolf’
With the Grammy success of his corroborator Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt’s Doris and Gnossos announcements on BBC1, some may have wondered what exactly Tyler, the Creator had in store for 2013. As it turns out, the young rapper intends to re...
The Talks: A$AP Rocky
In many ways, the success of A$AP Rocky has signaled a changing of the guard in hip-hop. Stylish, multi-talented and fun-loving, Pretty Flacko recently sat down with The Talks for a conversation on music, the current generation, and a few of his favo...
Frank Ocean – Forrest Gump Grammy Performance
Although Justin Timberlake reclaimed his rightful position atop the music industry with his return to the stage last night at the Grammy Awards, the talented Frank Ocean left the Staples Center an accomplished artist having put the world on notice of...